Holidaze The tragedy of what Halloween has become is indeed haunting. I remember as a child the excitement surrounding the impending spooky holiday. I would sit for hours drawing pictures of haunted houses, the scariest witches I could possibly imagine, and varying jack O' laterns. My family would decorate the house and my brother would turn the garage into a hellish haunted house, being the entrepeneur he is, he charged the neighborhood children which they gladly paid to piss their pants in horror. At school, we'd have Halloween Carnivals and the ever dorkish Costume Parade. The whole neighborhood would become a spookier version of itself, the meticuously manicured lawns now coverd with hay and ghoulish graveyards. Halloween night was magical, we put on our costumes and go house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood, trick or treating, some time was spent trying to avoid the egg warfare that apparently young adolescent men find to be a stimulating tradition along with smashing pumpkins (sigh). On returning home with the booty, the bartering started, only to have negoiations halted by my mother would dump all the candy into one bowl and insist we share.
Halloween 2002 I didn't have one Trick or Treater knock on my door, last year at least I had handful, this year nada, zip, zero. Not that I don't know where they all went, they now go to the malls for their candy. It's a sad spectacle of candy mongers in one huge line that remsembles a stampede. I expect to her the familiar MOOOOOoooo, but I hear only the Twick O Tweats. I see parents with newborns in strollers with their damn shopping bags open for candy. Some parents don't even let their kids dress up...just get the damn candy ya brat. It's so sad and empty, there is no celebration of the holiday in schools as not to offend anyone, cause God knows Satan is involved somehow and bringing Satan into the picture would bring religious connotations, and that won't do at all. I mean they want to delete GOD from the Pledge of Allegiance for christs sake..(hehe). But our good ol' government won't let that happen.......so I say to our Government, intervene with the holidays as well. Bring the magic back!!! Being politcally correct is raping the imaginations of the children, just stick the brats in front of the boob tube (v-chip, included) and let them developed their creativity that way? Ack!!! Anyhoo, we ran out of candy 15 minutes into the event because they actually started coming about an hour early for the expected goodies. I didn't mind as I needed help setting the Christmas marketing....yes Christmas.......again..shoot me. The time will pass swiftly and I think Thanksgiving is in there somewhere, but it's Santa's time to shine and the same people that came to the mall for candy, will come for the their gifts, god willing they will put some thought into what they buy, but I doubt it. Just buy a bunch of crap and disperse it. The magic in our lives slips away by the minute thanks to the help of pedophiles, rapists, murderers, politics, terrorists, work, the bills, the rent..etc. we're cutting out the fun, the magic, the spiritual...and if I'm correct all of the forthcoming holidays are built on spiritual significance christian and pagan. I am in a Hollowdaze and damn if it don't suck.