The Wicker Man
31 October 2005 @ 10:00
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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?! |
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. 
re Fireworks: because we can… they keep trying to ban them so celebrate the fact we can still choose to singe our eyebrows and that due to the plot being foiled we still have a ‘Roman Catholic’ population in this country (how long would they have lasted if the plotters actually had managed to blow up parliament and its surroundings?)
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