Getting creepy with Edgar Allan Poe

On the Denver Westword's Show and Tell blog, Jeff Otte has some creative suggestions for celebrating the 202nd birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. It's a day late, but there's never a bad time for, as Otte puts it, celebrating Poe's unusually weird life by "weirding out your friends and co-workers."

5. Creeping
In Tell-Tale Heart, perhaps the most famous of Poe's stories, the narrator spends all night slowly creeping toward his neighbor, who is lying asleep in his bed, intent upon murdering him. Today, try spending a couple of hours creeping toward the guy in the cubicle next to you on your rolly chair. If he says anything, shine a penlight in his vulture eye.

Since so many of these focus on office life, it might be fitting to pitch it to your co-workers as a team-building exercise and enlist them in a group creep to harass your employer:

3. Nevermore
Go to your boss's office and tap at the door (if it's open, figure out a way to close it in advance). Just keep tap, tap, tapping at his chamber door if he tells you to come in until he actually has to get up from his desk and come answer it. When he does, stare at him for a minute, and then say, "Nevermore."

Alternately, you could find a place to perch and just say "Nevermore" to everyone who walks by.