Halloween 2010

[Revolte]

What are your plans for halloween this year? If any at all.

I wanted to trick or treating this year, but I'm sure everyone I know would rather have another dramatic party ending with everyone being angry at each other, like thanksgiving but with friends. With that being said I probably won't do anything, I don't know what people would think if I went trick or treating alone, might end up bad, or at the very least awkward.

P.S. if anyone wants to come down to california, and go trick or treating with me, I will bake you a cake!

[The Comedian]

I'm probably going to take my two girls trick or treating in the neighborhood. Then, later, I'll eat some of their candy and then hide about half of it in the basement for later -- otherwise they'd eat waaayy too much of it and/or bug me about it for months. But somehow, when it's gone, then it's gone.

My little girl (3) is probably going to be a duck and my older one is thinking about being a cowgirl.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

My son is getting too old for trick or treating, but he/we still enjoy setting up a few halloween props in the fornt yard. The highlight each year is our traditional hay stuffed geist. The geist will hang around until New Year when it will meet it's maker at my sister's home.
This is last years "Mozartgeist":

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1328.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1341.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1361.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1367.jpg


I have an uneasy feeling that "HandelBach geist" will be haunting us this year.


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[Revolte]

My son is getting too old for trick or treating, but he/we still enjoy setting up a few halloween props in the fornt yard. The highlight each year is our traditional hay stuffed geist. The geist will hang around until New Year when it will meet it's maker at my sister's home.
This is last years "Mozartgeist":

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1328.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1341.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1361.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1367.jpg


I have an uneasy feeling that "HandelBach geist" will be haunting us this year.


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No one is too old to trick or treat, I miss the hell out of it. Last year I got drunk with a bunch of people I didn't like after getting into a campground for free (we didn't really brake in, we just, went through the gate, but it was open) and a bunch of fights broke out and people where crying and braking up, it was awful.

HOWEVER, setting stuff on fire is just as good!

[JuniperWoolf]

For the drunken halloween party night, I'm going to dress up as Natalie Portman in The Black Swan:

http://calitreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Black-Swan-movie-poster.jpg

Cool, eh?

Then, for the actual Samhain night, I'm doing the whole bonfire thing. There's a difference between Halloween (drunken dress-up party) and Samhain (night of the dead). I do both, usually. Halloween's not as fun as Christmas/Yule, though (another one where I do both).

[Lokasenna]

I'm not a fan, I'm afraid. The entire festival is nothing more than an annual excuse to flog overpriced tat to the populace. Any children coming round here and demanding sweets off me will be threatened with a hosepipe. I mean, if I gave candy to kids any other time of the year, I'd be arrested - but suddenly it's okay because Hallmark says so? I thouroughly approve of traditions, but the true meaning of All Hallow's Eve has long since been lost in the maelstrom of consumerism: a festival that was once so rich in soul has become soulless.

So, I made the decision a few years ago to celebrate Walpurgisnacht instead, where due respect is paid to the infernal powers of the otherworld, and I don't have to buy anything, or deal with children. Meet up on the moors in the evening, make a bonfire, share a drinky or twelve, and tell ghost stories - traditional, great fun, and (in my opinion) so much purer.

[Scheherazade]

I don't know what people would think if I went trick or treating alone, might end up bad, or at the very least awkward.
I thouroughly approve of traditions, but the true meaning of All Hallow's Eve has long since been lost in the maelstrom of consumerism: a festival that was once so rich in soul has become soulless.You can always put your feelings into a poem and take part in our Halloween Poetry Contest! (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56502)

:smilewinkgrin:

[Lokasenna]

You can always put your feelings into a poem and take part in our Halloween Poetry Contest! (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56502)

:smilewinkgrin:

Already working on it!:D

[Lulim]

(...) HOWEVER, setting stuff on fire is just as good!
You might like it in Hamburg or Berlin:

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/erneut-b/1930470/2.jpg?format=format1

http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00539/schira_7_HA_Hamburg_539908c.jpg

They are burning down cars every other night -- AND it isn't restricted to Halloween's.

[OrphanPip]

Personally, I don't really celebrate holidays anymore, beyond dinner with family sometimes.

I'm pretty cheap too, so giving candy away is out of the question.

On another note, it's Canadian Thanksgiving today, so happy Thanksgiving to the other Canadians. I had brunch with my parents and will be avoiding my extended family like the plague for the rest of the day.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I'm not a fan, I'm afraid. The entire festival is nothing more than an annual excuse to flog overpriced tat to the populace. Any children coming round here and demanding sweets off me will be threatened with a hosepipe. I mean, if I gave candy to kids any other time of the year, I'd be arrested - but suddenly it's okay because Hallmark says so? I thouroughly approve of traditions, but the true meaning of All Hallow's Eve has long since been lost in the maelstrom of consumerism: a festival that was once so rich in soul has become soulless.

So, I made the decision a few years ago to celebrate Walpurgisnacht instead, where due respect is paid to the infernal powers of the otherworld, and I don't have to buy anything, or deal with children. Meet up on the moors in the evening, make a bonfire, share a drinky or twelve, and tell ghost stories - traditional, great fun, and (in my opinion) so much purer.

:smilielol5: You said it first! You can throw penny-for-the-guy into equation too; a bunch of kids hanging outside shops, terrorising everyone and begging for money "for the guy" - I really hate that. Humbug to all this time of year, I say, it's the worst time of year. Roll on spring.

[greengreen]

it is definately my favorite time of the year. all the good scary shows come on and the and the pumpkins come out. what isn't there to like?

[Hurricane]

I was supposed to run the Marine Corps Marathon again, but instead I'm dancing in my school's Halloween concert, which is out of character in so many ways.

Also, my school has a semi-official Halloween celebration. Mostly it consists of getting to eat in the dining hall in costume and the freshmen giving out candy to upper-class. I plan to dress as my roommate.

[JuniperWoolf]

So, I made the decision a few years ago to celebrate Walpurgisnacht instead, where due respect is paid to the infernal powers of the otherworld, and I don't have to buy anything, or deal with children. Meet up on the moors in the evening, make a bonfire, share a drinky or twelve, and tell ghost stories - traditional, great fun, and (in my opinion) so much purer.

:nod: That sounds a lot like what I do.

[iRead]

I plan on a hyper, dramatic, plain crazy sleepover with two friends. One piece of candy and we all become terrifying insane demons of girls. What else would we do on Halloween?
I'm making my own costume. Purple robe with golden embroiderings. Was going to make a blue one - but purple is much more awesome.
I live in California and I would like cake.

[SilentMute]

My mom and I are going to watch Beat the Devil with Humphrey Bogart. Then we are going to try co-play with Tombraider: Guardian of Light.

@Lokasenna and Neely--in the words of Charlie Brown, just because other people have lost the point of the holiday is no reason to turn against it. The whole point of holidays is that you get to do things you don't get to do normally. If I went out in a costume at any other time of year, I'm weird. On Halloween, I can do so. Men can crossdress without getting beaten up. You can give candy or even take pictures of children without being arrested. You can lie in bed and be totally lazy, and it is okay...for that one day.