All Souls’ Day is actually Nov 2, the day after All Saints’
oh yeah, thanks.
Yeah, there’s a guy in our neighborhood whose lawn is covered with (plastic) rotting, severed, bloody human limbs. WTF??
Some people aren’t religious, but are spiritual.
Yes, I’ve seen a lawn similarly decorated, including a bloody headless and limbless human torso nailed to a fence, near here. It’s going too far, in my opinion.
Suburban sky burial?
I think the “women’s sexy costume” thing is somewhat overdone at this point.
e.g. I just searched for “women’s vampire costume” and the vast majority are the same, or less, revealing than typical party clothes IMO.
Cosplay is much more sexualized, but that’s a whole different topic.
It’s not so much that the outfits are particularly more revealing, it’s that most costumes for women are specifically “sexy____”. There doesn’t seem to be a normal version.
That, and certain people will act totally out of character for themselves.
What, you don’t remember the days when there were real severed heads and body parts displayed for children to see, and it wasn’t even Halloween? Man, time have changed.
Yes, some things are too intense for four-year olds. Our culture is in a phase of testing those limits again.
We live in an age where I’ve seen “fuck” on t-shirts and a bumper sticker “I like MILFs”, but then there are “can’t say gay” laws.
That’s what I think is an exaggeration. e.g. I’ve just searched for various women’s costumes: witch, vampire, spider, skeleton*
For all of these, the first page of google results are about 2/3rds just representing the thing and pretty conservative IMO. The remaining 1/3 I guess are sexualized to one degree or another but presumably they exist because some women choose to wear that, and that’s fine of course. But clearly there are plenty of non-sexy options.
* Interestingly, I also did a generic search for “Women’s Halloween costume” and that came back with the highest proportion of sex-ish outfits. Go figure.
So give them bad reviews.
Well, I try not to give reviews to stuff I havent actually owned and tested.
Finger-wagging in a Wall St. Journal op-ed today, calling out Halloween as an “industrial cartoon death cult”.
“Forgive my Puritan sensibility, but I find the whole spectacle ugly and offensive and vaguely sinister. What sort of “holiday” deliberately terrifies children with images of murder and ruin and treats torture and death as a joke?”
Won’t someone think of the children? 
Actually, most kids have a relaxed view of scary Halloween stuff compared to pearl-clutching hyper-religious adults.
At a brewery last night. For just a second I forgot about Halloween.