Visiting All Hollows Eve...

Not sure if I ever blogged about this before, but here's what Wikipedia has to say:  "Halloween, Hallowe'en, less commonly as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. In popular culture, the day has become a celebration of horror, being associated with the macabre and supernatural. One theory holds that many Halloween traditions were influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, which are believed to have pagan roots. Some go further and suggest that Samhain may have been Christianized as All Hallow's Day, along with its eve, by the early Church. Other academics believe Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, being the vigil of All Hallow's Day. Celebrated in Scotland and Ireland for centuries, Scottish and Irish immigrants took many Halloween customs to North America in the 19th century, and then through American influence various Halloween customs spread to other countries by the late 20th and early 21st century."

So all the former reverence for saints and martyrs is now an opportunity to sell cheap plastic decorations, bizarre costumes, and scam your neighbors for free candy. That likely fits in with most American holidays. Saw on a cycle blog that they even sell plastic ghouls riding fake motorcycles. 

Now that's not a scary image, I think, but here's one:

Looks like me heading home on the Hot Springs Road after a long, hard ride.

Then there's the politicians costumes; tRump dressing up as a garbage man or a McDonalds worker, dispensing fries to fake customers. 

Apparently he was barely able to climb into the truck. Of course the garbage wasn't in the back of the truck, it's what he says in his rally speeches. As for Kamala, she seems to be wearing a lot of pants suits these days, but that didn't work out so well for Hillary. Maybe she needs to adopt a more low-key, Tim Walz farmer style outfit?

Anyway, the real trick or treat will come on election day when all this political hype finally ends and we can either celebrate or drown our sorrows in too many vodka tonics.