Halloween is for suckers....

Yeah I can admit it... that's 100% pure bitterness talking. I like Halloween. October 31st was the Celtic New Year and the last day of summer. The darkness that falls between evening on October 31st and morning on November 1st was considered a time when all laws of space and time were suspended and the spirits of those recently departed could return to earth and possess the souls of the living. People would extinguish their fires and dress up in different costumes, roaming the neighborhood being destructive and loud in order to frighten away the spirits. Just to be on the safe side, those suspected of being possessed were burned at the stake. Yeah, because you can never be too cautious.

So why the bitterness? Well, Halloween is usually one my favorite days. I carve pumpkins and turnips (which are hard to carve because they're solid) while drinking lots of wine and watching Halloween and Halloween H2O. Because of that no drinking new years resolution that seemed like a really good idea at the time, the wine is conspicuously absent from this year's celebration. Oh, and there's no celebration, because I've got a couple of important deadlines this week. So yeah, there's a little bitterness creeping in. It's okay though, I'll make up for it next year with lots of partying and craziness. In the meantime, have a Happy Halloween and eat lots of candy...

This is my friend Matt, who was recently invited to a party in the woods somewhere in rural Illinois. Because he was sitting around a campfire in the middle of nowhere he thought of the Blair Witch Project and took this picture. So this is the closest thing I have to a Halloween picture (you know, because the Blair Witch Project was scary and so is Halloween). Enjoy suckas...