Halloween – Cheescake

Photograph by Dirk Olbertz.

After nearly 30 years of ambivalence towards Halloween I’m finally starting to like it.

Imagine stores decorated in orange and black, bursting with pumpkins and masks; brownstones covered with fake cobwebs, their windows populated by ghosts and grinning jack-o’-lanterns; Saturday night—the city full of teens, twenty and thirty somethings in fancy dress; and this evening, no doubt, the streets full of little trick or treaters.

I mean, come on. Who couldn’t like that? It’s pure, unadulterated fun. It’s Mardi Gras. It’s carnival.

It’s also, funnily enough, two years to the day since I arrived in New York.

Halloween Links:
Halloween prank spooks reporter in Frankenstein’s castle (via Sofie).
Links to background on the prank here and here.