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.