Halloween

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Do you guys like Halloween?

Not really. Kids throwing eggs at your window if you don't give them sweets. No thanks. I prefer bonfire night (Nov 5th). Lots of sparkly fireworks going on to look at.

I don't like kids. Need I elaborate?

I do not like Halloween, I love Halloween.

I love halloween and October, the spooky month

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Halloween has always been a disappointment for me when I was a young adult. I was never able to put together a good costume, they were always improvised and never looked right, or I didn't have one. And it was a time when you were supposed to have fun and go to parties, and I never seemed to manage that either.

When I was little I had some good costumes that my mother made, but I didn't live in the US so there was no trick or treating.

Now I just turn off my porch light and there are no trick or treaters who come to my house.

I prefer Oktoberfest over Halloween. I don't care for fireworks. I don't like the idea of ignorant teens running rampant through all parts of the city setting off fireworks in pathways. I don't like the idea of little 7 year old kids setting off roman candles in darkened parks.

I like Halloween. Candy, watching little kids running around in silly costumes, putting up decorations... it's always an interesting time of year. I've always enjoyed the style of ghosts and giant spiders and things.

(That being said, the costumes I've had have always been things like a lamp or a blade of grass...I've never liked doing what other people do)

Yes, I enjoy Halloween every year. It is one of the rare times where I can be myself in my laboratory without being questioned. My office is a treasure trove of goodies for the season. There are thousands of dollars worth of decorations in there. I also have signed horror movie items on display. Unfortunately I do not get to do the Halloween decorating contest because the organizers feel have an unfair advantage over others. Oh well...

I really like Halloween. Not the gory slasher stuff many adults seem to be into, but I do like getting to use my creativity to make decorations and costumes, and I enjoy all the dark fantasy stuff surrounding it. And the candy.

But it's not as fun anymore because I never get invited to costume parties, and if I had my own party I don't anyone who'd actually come to it, and I'm too old to go trick or treating. Of course, I can can just buy Halloween candy now instead of going around collecting it, but it's not the same.

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Am a well known Halloweenie...in my better days ...had been collecting gothic decor and lifesized animatronics
since my 18 th year of life..52 year collection , did not get sold ..but donated to the persons , i knew that have that flair for that style of decor....roughly a 7000.00 dollars worth. display .. had a larger longer 70 foot drive to torture and drive back , all but the most determined Halloweenies , crossing a small culvert on drive way, where upon looking down in the culvert animitronic legs kick up and down.. sound of the endless loop tape playing of a growling dog cracking and chewing bones,in a green cast of light from inside the culvert. passing the full sized dancing skeleton,with swords moving up and down as his jaw jacks up and down to a old zz-Top song,and hips swing....along the way up the driveway was sets of evil looking eyes in the short hedge to the left, while several shorts staked smaller skulls in a row along the right side ,commence to laughing moving their jaws
, and telling you to go back.! al the while the individually lit tombstones..flicker in the background of the yard.
most escorted by parents...then 10 stars up to the enclosed patio privacy area. 60x 40ft. and onto a turn and one more stair .to the 12 x50 porch area , where the cauldron full of candy drapedin a semi circle of old used red crushed velvet curtains , past the Boris Karloff death mask mirror..
And the Gargoyle wall mount candles sticks ..and back ground of eerie music in the aire, inbetween screams from children responding to unexpected animatronics sounds.Suspended damaged skeletons hanging by manacles as you go up the first set of stairs . With remains of skeletons in various rated of decay as to walk through.The life size human head in a grabber cage, hanging from the first tree you pass...( took two months for
a slightly aged Aspie woman to run electrical cords ...and set up grave stone and pumpkin props) ...Only putting out animatronics the very day of """" ALL HALLOS EVE""""" . When I needed to hire security, had to stop . . But am aware that at least on of the people the props went to , has set up her own yard of horror .

For those who want to kick start Halloween, Svengoolie will be showing Son of Frankenstein and another horror movie tomorrow night on the MeTV channel. He is out of Chicago and has been going at it for 45 years. Son of Frankenstein is one of the best early Frankenstein movies in my opinion. Igor (Bela) steals the show in that one.

I wouldn't ban it if I had the power to, but I'm not really a fan. We barely used to do Halloween in England when I was young, but at least what we did was nothing like so stereotyped as the modern version which seems to have crept in from the USA, with its orange Wal-Mart pumpkins and other baubles that look the same every year. We used to get an ordinary pumpkin or turnip and hollow it out and carve out the face ourselves, and stick a candle in it. We didn't buy a mass-produced ready made Halloween pumpkin. In the UK an ordinary pumpkin isn't taxed, because a civilised society doesn't tax food.

I get bored with things that just get repeated ad nauseam without change, and I hate the way it's become a commercialised thing, an excuse to sell disposable trash. There's probably some folks out there who put a bit of originality and artistic merit into the thing without lining the pockets of big business, in which case I'd probably be OK with that. And one thing I like about even the mainstream version is that certain religionist control freaks want to stop it because they think it's heresy to have anything to do with ghouls and ghosts, so doing Halloween annoys them. It's not sinful or terribly immoral, it's just somewhat commercialised, tacky, and aesthetically bankrupt. Just my personal opinion of course. I allow there's something in the idea that when everybody performs the same ritual, even if the ritual is arbitrary and stupid, then it fosters group cohesion. And I rather like skeletons.