Halloween....

Today is Halloween. I will not observe Halloween on Saturday because of this whole "you can't have it on Sunday because it is a pagan holiday" christian right winged bullshit. Yesterday on an errands escapade with my wacky professor friend, I learned that Halloween is, in actuality, a christian holiday. First off, let's disect the word. Hallow= Holy. Secondly, Halloween is actually "All Hallow's Eve." In the great tradition of the church, an eve was assigned to All Saint's Day and was supposed to represent the night in which all of the ghouls and goblins came out and partied before all of the church celebrated and rejoiced for the saints. So all of this "let's not let our kids celebrate Halloween and dress up in their costumes for school because it's a pagan holiday" is, again, bullshit. If little Tommy wants to go to social studies as a Power Ranger so be it!

Halloween is huge in Athens. It is actually one of the best nights of the year here. It is a night of utter debatuary in a land of misfit adults that refuse to grow up. The Halloween costumes here are insanley creative, border line offensive, and more often than not, hysterical. In the time honored tradition of dressing up, I will costume myself into a Roadie for Journey this Hallows Eve. The outfit comes complete with fake chest hair, a wife beater tank top, a bushy moustache, tigh rolled jeans, and a satin Journey tour jacket given to me by an ex-boyfriend as a joke. While the boyfriend didn't last long (a blessing in disguise, actually) the jacket remains and tonight I think he may regret having let that baby go.