Holler Wienie!

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We are approaching my favorite holiday.

STILL FUNNY!

Yes. Halloween is my favorite holiday. Beats all the others with a pumpkin-flavored 2x4 into a pool of fake blood and fake vampire fangs.

This morning, I got an advance on my favorite holiday. The Pre-K program in town came Trick or Treating. The street was packed with goblins, ghouls, witches, superheroes, fairies and all other kinds of costumed wonders.

I like it. A lot.

Some people object to Halloween, calling it satanic, evil and a whole buncha other negative descriptions.

ShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshupShupshup.

K THKS

Did I mention I like Halloween? I do. A lot.

I love seeing the kids dressed as something from their imagination, be it SpiderMan, Thor, a witch or the slasher guy from any of the horror movies.

Because imagination leads to knowledge

I spose that's what I like the most. Watching kids use their imagination.

Imagination rules.

Kids who have a vibrant imagination have an equally active mind. Kids with active minds can become adults with equally active minds.

You will find people who use their brain are also successful. Those who do not use their brain become Halloween haters.

Halloween is meant to be fun and end with a massive sugar overdose. OK, for diabetics, that can actually be dangerous, but for the most part a sugar OD results in a kid that walks across the ceiling for a while and suddenly stops, collapses and sleeps for 12 hours.

Halloween is also, to my thinking, the only holiday which only requires fun. It's also largely for kids. Adults can get into it (to wit - an annual Halloween Bash for adults), but it's still for kids.

Works for me.

Christmas, by today's standards, means gifts and seeing distance relatives and arg arg arg. And commercialism.

Thanksgiving requires waaaaay too much cooking.

Easter comes close to Halloween in the fun department, but egg hunts don't last as long as walking for two hours through a neighborhood knocking on doors. And you don't get to dress up however you really want to for Easter. A vampire at Easter just ain't fitting in.

4th of July is OK, especially since it has fireworks, but the costumes are still missing.

I will admit a partiality to St. Swithen's Day, he being the patron saint of people who kill armadillos to death, but that's not really a recognized holiday.

I'm sure you can think of other holidays, Robert E. Lee day comes to mind, but they aren't really holidays. They are more an excuse for some people to take the day off from work.