Revolutionary Rants

I am just off for an interview, so this is just a brief post. Only a few weeks ago I was complaining about how Christmas is beginning to be led up to in mind October, but at the moment I am being annoyed by another trans-Atlantic annoyance.

No, not George Bush Jr (although that is annoying, but currently very amusing - finger’s crossed for the fall of Cheney!): Hallowe’en.

What has happened to the occasional showing of ‘The Wicker Man’ and a possible quick apple bob?! Now, Hallowe’en is like Valentine’s Day - a month long marketing spend-feast… The poor old Pagans must be very annoyed as well; imagine the out cry if the West decided to make a jokey replica or, say (another current festival of a more ‘minor’ religion) Diwali? We seem to forget in all the Satanic images of goats skulls and fires that Paganism was and is a religion. Oh well, that’s besides the point; what really pisses me off is the fact that because America goes overboard with flipping Hallowe’en, now we do!

I remember as a kid Hallowe’en being a small thing and the big celebration being November the 5th - now we have fireworks going off from October 5th! Why?!

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