halloween is coming up.
do they celebrate halloween everywhere?
am i ignorant?
is it a u.s-only holiday like thanksgiving or presidents day?
halloween is, without question, the best day of the year in nyc. the weather's usually just starting to get cold.
everyone dresses up(even bus drivers and subway station clerks and the guys making
sandwiches in the deli). and the halloween parade is invariably awesome.
for the last 10 years i've wanted to be corky st. claire for halloween. and for the last 10 years
i've failed in putting my corky st. claire costume together(mainly because it requires a goatee).
perhaps this year i'll be able to get the yellow sweater vest and the bad toupee and the depressing
goatee and finally be able to be corky st. claire for halloween.
oh, when i was in l.a a few days ago i saw that trashy lingerie(for which you need a $1 membership
in order to enter. i got mine in 1992)had a very ambitious halloween window.
ambitious and scary. here's their window.
only 3 weeks to halloween.
oh, you know what would be a REALLY scary halloween costume?
president palin.
you could have one hand on the button and the other hand leading your pet dinosaur down the street.
moby
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I'm also looking foward to halloween :)
trashy lingerie
love that place. i got my wig for nocturnal there last year!
i can knit you a sweater vest if you really want to be corky
but i don't remember him wearing a yellow one.
stuart smalley did. i used to have the same beige l.l. bean jacket that he used to wear.
if you do go as him, we would all love to see a pic.
but won't you be in seattle on halloween night?
Unfortunately, no,
we in Spain don't celebrate Halloween...
Unfourtunately, yes.
Yes, we do celebrate Holloween (unfourtunately), but our national tradition is November 1st: ^Dia de Muertos^ . It is a very special celebration, actually it was considered as an intangible heritage of humanity by the UNESCO
(Monterrey, Mexico)
ooh yeah
we do have Halloween in Poland. though, definitely not celebrated at the same scale as in us. we've got also a holiday on 1st November - Day of the Dead. it is much more rooted into our tradition and religion. A Beautiful, dense, melancholic holiday. But Halloween as for a party is great.
The holiday of the 1st
The holiday of the 1st november is only put on that date for letting the people have another more christian holiday (it's a christian replacement like most of the christian holidays, it are conventions between native ideas and christian ideas), but halloween is actually a celtic/gallic feast so you can situate it in Western Europe. We lost it during the years and then it came back from the us. But it's wrong to think we celebrate a holiday of the us by celebrating halloween, they are celebrating a typical before medieval holiday of us.
vegan candy predicament
mo,
unfortunately, there aren't too many vegan candies to hand out to my more informed, progressive-minded and cerebral trick-o-treaters.
don't you just hate the requisite disclaimer: "product made on the same equipment shared by dairy, meat, oil, chemicals, toxic waste, steroids, sun tan lotion, beef tallow, sewer water, etc, etc, etc"
lol
Gee, I wonder what (or who) made you all of a sudden post, for the first time ever, your very first non anti-obama rant, after weeks and weeks of spamming, especially, when the topic has been up here for two days? So transparent. But nice to see you´ve finally stopped being a rude jerk to ¨Mo¨ and learned your lesson of sticking to the topic Moby has given. Good boy. Your welcome, Moby.
san francisco...
...it is the most celebrated hollowday in SF. leave it to the city of undesirables to turn death and spirit into an exotic and erotic masquerade affair.
watcher of soul
haunted house display window
imagine how frightening the window to the oval office will look if the GOP wins this one... now that's scary!! ;)
<3
haha, here in México I have double fun: first at Halloween on October the 31th and then at Día de Muertos on November the 2nd!
x_x yesss
although, back in elementary school the teachers used to tell us that celebrating halloween was a bad thing... that Día de Muertos should be enough for us. Haha, well, I say: dammit I'll take 'em both.
oh an also, one year my brother dressed and make-up-ed me as Darth Maul. People kept asking me: what are you?? the devil????
cool
It's an ancient Irish festival.
It's called "Oíche Shamhna", in Irish. It's been a traditional Celtic autumn feast that we've been celebrating here for thousands of years. There's millennia of mythology behind it, much of which can be overlooked today, it's far, far deeper and darker than people think. It genuinely is a Pagan feast of the dead, from well before Christianity. If you're interested, it's worth reading up more on it - google the Irish spelling... We were brought up on old Irish myths, they really are fascinating, and many are based on real happenings...
-Fergal
how many babies fit in a tire
No halloween here on France either, I don't even know when is it.
by the way, viva la waiting for guffman! i made an account only to say that that would be a kick ass costume!
Halloween, I miss it here!
Halloween is becoming popular here in Germany, but the tradition of Halloween...All Hallow's Day...is not a part of Germany's history like it is in the states. Everyone doesn't just automatically do it...to get the candies ready to hand out to the kids..having the light on and dressing up. There are huge Halloween parties, though..freak nights..like the one at the Rosengarten or Halloween at Frankensteins Castle. I miss Halloween from nearby NYC....J-
Apparently it isn't. My
Apparently it isn't. My friend in South Africa was AMAZED that we have a holiday where you go around and "beg" for candy at people's doors in costumes. I was like.. that's just half the fun of Halloween. It's much more fun as an adult.
I could be Sarah Palin this year! Thanks for the idea. :D All nerdy liberal girls like myself now have a truly terrifying costume! I have the hair and the glasses [although mine are more the Tina Fey style].. I think I'll go as Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.
Oh and now she's calling Obama a terrorist by association! Wow, she learns fast.
This costume is getting scarier by the minute.
I wish the Obama camp would start talking about the Keating Five.
In Denmark we have
In Denmark we have "fastelavn" in February. It's for kids, hardly any adults dress up. Started hundreds of years ago with a tradition to bang a wood barrel with a live cat inside, and whoever banged the barrel so much that it broke, won.
We still beat a barrel, but now there's candy inside.
Halloween is making it's debut here in Denmark these years. Just 6-7 years people thought it was a silly, money spending weird tradition, but now it's kind of normal to dress up and go to a party.
Halloween...
is unfortunately not celebrated here in Spain much to the disappointment of me and my son. The best costume I saw last year was someone as Larry Craig on the toilet complete with a full stall built around him and he was trying to pass people notes underneath, haha.