'Ween Scrooge

[talktooloose]

For a theatre fag, I'm horribly uninterested in Hallowe'en. I suspect its popularity is a counter to our culture's neurotic fear of mortality. Frankly, death and I are... well, not friends but we do go to a lot of the same cocktail parties. So, I don't really have any desire to be drawn into the festivities.

We will turn out the lights and hide from the children. Aren't we mature?

Does Hallowe'en have a scrooge?

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I LOVE hallows eve

[codystrum.livejournal.com]

Amazing that we diverge on this point. But then, Halloween here is done so well and so much like the druid festival it is supposed to be. To me it is a night to celebrate death. sex (which is always about death to me) and embrace it as a part of life. (If that makes sense) I'm not talking about the assholes with the fireworks or the commercialized candy fest either. I'm talking about Vancouver Commercial Drive's Night of the Lost Soul's:

Check out:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/stepnco/diary2/hallow04/Hallow2.html

Tonight Sadako will go out prowling around the SkyTrain, make an appearance on Speaker's Corner (crawl into the TV lense) and then she will go to the gay bar and scare all the Asian boys who frequent there. After that she will transform and drag her hair over to the Naked Hell party. Who knows what boys she may suck the life out of tonight.

To me this holiday is the High Holidays of the Year.