Whether you call it Halloween or All Hallows' Eve or Samhain or the Day of the Dead or whatever, the holiday which falls on October 31st every year stands out among its ilk. While all the other holidays are content to be a pile of happy, giddy, cheerful festivities packed with gift-giving and gluttonous amounts of eating and boozing, Halloween over there stands alone as the sole holiday devoted to the darker side of the world, and all the death and monstrosities and things in the shadowy corners of the world and everything else that comes with that.

And that, I suppose, is why I like Halloween more than I like Christmas...a sacriligious opinion in the eyes of many, sure, but there you have it. It's the holiday which takes all the leprechauns and angels and reindeer and turkeys and fluffy bunnies from all the other holidays, and it brutally carves them all to pieces with a fiery chainsaw. Gotta love it.

So, if you haven't done so already, get out there and give the Devil his due...and by "Devil" I mean "packs of costumed little kids," and by "due" I mean "candy." Or maybe I don't mean that.

A groovy Halloween to all, and to all a good night!

Okay, Halloween has left me bushed, and I'm off for bed. Photos of my costume and my candy-giving display in the morning!

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I envy you sometimes. You guys get the 'full' effect of joyious Halloween. I got three trick or treaters and they were mostly dressed up as fairies. Or Dora the Explorer *shudders*

Anyway, hope you had a good one