Boo!
I love Halloween.
I mean, think of it: what other holiday exists solely for the purposes of visiting your neighbors and getting candy from them? On what other holiday can you go door-to-door asking for chocolate and stand a chance of getting it? On what other holiday can you dress up as a Princess, a Cowboy, or a Power Ranger and not receive strange looks? Halloween rocks!
I think the reason I love Halloween so much, aside from the candy & costumes aspect, is that it's a holiday meant exclusively for children and those who remain young at heart. It's about using your imagination and stretching the bounds of reality for a night. It's playing dress-up outside your bedroom. It's all about gleeful revelry, despite its macabre beginnings. It's not about sorcery, necromancy, or the devil - it's about staggering home with a few friends, chilled to the bone, struggling under the weight of a pillowcase full of assorted confectionary. Get real, people. It's about fun.
Some of my best memories are of going trick-or-treating with the Sarahs on Halloween. Both of my best friends were named Sara(h) from 7th to 10th grade. We'd go trick-or-treating in their neighborhoods, because I lived in a slum. It was a lovely house on the inside, but it was in the middle of a slum. Dad got caught in an "urban renewal" trap. The renewal never really took place, but the place remained very, um, urban. Anyhoo, the Sarahs both lived in relatively posh neighborhoods, so there was candy galore.
We'd eat ourselves sick of sugar, crash into bed sometime in the wee hours after scouring Friday Night Videos for a glimpse of Duran Duran, and wake up cold and cranky for school the next day.
None of us turned out to be devil-worshippers - well, I didn't, and Sarah didn't, but I can't vouch for Sara, as I haven't heard from her since 1987. She probably didn't. Probably. But I digress. The point is, all we did, and all the vast majority of kids do, is have harmless fun. Loads of it. Sure, we gave the dentists something to do for the month afterwards, but they've got to make a living, too.
There's a school in Puyallup, Oregon that's banned Halloween. Another school in Newton, Massachusetts has done it, too. Fuckers.
It's a slippery fucking slope to Dullsville, people, and we're sliding down it.
I mean, think of it: what other holiday exists solely for the purposes of visiting your neighbors and getting candy from them? On what other holiday can you go door-to-door asking for chocolate and stand a chance of getting it? On what other holiday can you dress up as a Princess, a Cowboy, or a Power Ranger and not receive strange looks? Halloween rocks!
I think the reason I love Halloween so much, aside from the candy & costumes aspect, is that it's a holiday meant exclusively for children and those who remain young at heart. It's about using your imagination and stretching the bounds of reality for a night. It's playing dress-up outside your bedroom. It's all about gleeful revelry, despite its macabre beginnings. It's not about sorcery, necromancy, or the devil - it's about staggering home with a few friends, chilled to the bone, struggling under the weight of a pillowcase full of assorted confectionary. Get real, people. It's about fun.
Some of my best memories are of going trick-or-treating with the Sarahs on Halloween. Both of my best friends were named Sara(h) from 7th to 10th grade. We'd go trick-or-treating in their neighborhoods, because I lived in a slum. It was a lovely house on the inside, but it was in the middle of a slum. Dad got caught in an "urban renewal" trap. The renewal never really took place, but the place remained very, um, urban. Anyhoo, the Sarahs both lived in relatively posh neighborhoods, so there was candy galore.
We'd eat ourselves sick of sugar, crash into bed sometime in the wee hours after scouring Friday Night Videos for a glimpse of Duran Duran, and wake up cold and cranky for school the next day.
None of us turned out to be devil-worshippers - well, I didn't, and Sarah didn't, but I can't vouch for Sara, as I haven't heard from her since 1987. She probably didn't. Probably. But I digress. The point is, all we did, and all the vast majority of kids do, is have harmless fun. Loads of it. Sure, we gave the dentists something to do for the month afterwards, but they've got to make a living, too.
There's a school in Puyallup, Oregon that's banned Halloween. Another school in Newton, Massachusetts has done it, too. Fuckers.
It's a slippery fucking slope to Dullsville, people, and we're sliding down it.
posted by Peevish McSnark at
10:42 PM
4 Comments:
You see, the British have never really done Hallowe'en that much and it's only just taking off here (pushed of course by the retail giants selling costumes and other such shit). We tend to reserve the best parties for Bonfire Night, which occurs on the 5th of November. This is the night when we set fire to things (unfortunately, we're not allowed to burn down out neighbours' houses) and have lots of fireworks displays. The whole thing is accompanied by lovely winter food and third degree burns.
I think I met lie in wait for the trick or treaters tomorrow evening. We have a very dark from garden and I'll be able to hide round the corner from the front door and jump out at them when their backs are turned.
By
Sniffy, At
4:45 AM
Why would they ban Halloween??
By
portuguesa nova, At
9:14 AM
We love Halloween. We don't go all nuts like some people (and we love going by their places) do but we sure enjoy it.
What a bunch of twats banning Halloween. A few idiots ruin for everyone else.
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pissoff, At
9:24 AM
THis year, the crackpots are from both ends of the political spectrum. The wacko right wingers want to ban it because, predictably, it's about the devil. Bullshit, I say.
The one that made me goggle, though, was the Oregon school that wanted to ban it because little girls dressing up as witches with green faces and pointed warty noses as disrespectful to Wiccans. So, not to offend any stray Wiccans lurking about, they've gone and banned the holiday.
Yes, nobheads.
By
Peevish McSnark, At
3:47 PM
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