We usually go to my wife’s Photographic Society Halloween party every year, and were getting ready with costumes. But they decided to actually hold the party on Halloween evening. (Usually it’s a week earlier).
That’s no good – we want to be at home giving out the candy and greeting the kids. So it’s no go, this year. I might put something on. We usually drag the SoloStove out front and start a roaring fire, complete with Fire Color Crystals to turn it the appropriate blue-green-purple.
I see that there have been threads asking if Halloween has penetrated into European culture, or elsewhere in the world. Last year I was in Germany on business. There was one small section of a huge toy store that had Halloween stuff (Americans may have lost places like KayBee Toy and Toys R Us to internet and Big Box Stores, but they’re alive and well in Germany, like bookstores). I assume American expatriates and kids watching American movies have tried out trick-or-treating. I wonder how well that goes over in a country where not everyone participates.
Anyway, I also saw some Halloween stuff in an “Adult” store, among the sex toys and videos. You know how American costumiers are always pushing things like “Sexy Mario Brothers” or “Sexy Gumby” and the like? This store had what I can only describe as “Sexy Disemboweled Lady”.