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I fucking love Halloween. I love it. I like New Years, enjoy Christmas, and don't completely hate Easter, but I absolutely love Halloween.

Halloween is the one holiday without this "love thy fellow man" bullshit.
It's the one holiday that can never "sell out", or become "too commercial."
It's one of the few holidays that doesn't have prayer, or special services.
Unlike Thanksgiving or Columbus day, it doesn't venerate the historical rape of an innocent group of people.
Unlike President's day or Kwanzaa, it's a holiday people actually participate in.

It had candy, booze, dress up...

What's not to like? Putting on fake lashes and getting drunk on badly made mixed drinks served in plastic skeleton goblets with dry ice in the bottom? Dressing hapless children in embarrassing/macabre homemade outfits and having them collect candy from strangers? Community center haunted houses and Vincent Price marathons? Wearing fairy wings to the office?

How about the day after, when the stores try to clear their supply of neon wigs and black eyeliner? (A girl can never have enough black eyeliner.)

It sucks that the US doesn't take carnival seriously. It really sucks that the one thing we have like it, Mardi Gras, may never be the same. What's left is DragonCon, local bacchanals, and Halloween.

Oh, and after this week, it'll also be my anniversary.