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.
What a treat that was, I’d never heard of that prank before. Just shared with my co-workers for a good Halloween diversion. Thanks!