Sunday, October 31, 2010

Bathroom Monologue: “What is Halloween in The States?” –Interviewer from EU PS Blog

Halloween just is. It is one of those rare holidays, like Christmas, that illuminates the entire month with its colors and festivities. It’s decorations for your locker, office and front door. It is free candy to people who are young enough for one night, but it’s also terrible pranks for people who are terrible enough on another night. It is movie theatres bubbling up with scary and spooky films, and television chasing after with serial killer marathons. It is a childish grin carved into a pumpkin with a candle for a brain, but it is also the sexiest witch you have ever seen. It is toilet paper mummies and $10,000 designer costumes. It is a myriad of externals, many commercial and many personal, all desperately trying to get something out of yourself that you are not supposed to have and that, even in a post-ironic society, you’re normally not allowed to express. It is the night when a disfigured girl becomes Dora the Explorer and looks like every other kid behind her plastic mask. It is the week when the people who have irrationally and faithfully adored the shadowy story finally feel like they’ve come home. It is a place as much as it is a time, and it makes no sense, and I’m very glad we’ve got it in stock.

5 comments:

  1. You summed up Halloween very well in this one. I enjoyed reading this.

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  2. I went through a too-sophisticated-for-Halloween phase, now mercifully behind me. It's a loopy, multifaceted holiday, and I'm also glad we have it around.

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  3. Halloween is a fantastic holiday filled with cheer & fright. What gets better than that?

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  4. A wonderful love-note for one of my favorite holidays. It's been a great October of your spooky writings and I think this is a great way to wrap up the month. But please, keep writing the spooky stories! They're so great!

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  5. I've been feeling a slightly out of the Halloween spirit the last few years. After reading this, I really wish I had just *one more week* of October. Alas, I'll just have to bookmark this and revisit it next year.

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