What Halloween?
I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday. What's not to love? You get to dress up as whatever you like and demand candy from people or you'll egg their house. Well there was never a whole lot of egging in NYC. Try hitting some ones 27th floor windows after they've given you dental floss and you're on the street. Doesn't work very well.
I've been in NZ for almost 7 months now and I've found the first thing that I don't like about this country. They don't celebrate Halloween here! The only indication I had that yesterday was Halloween was that the restaurant where I went for breakfast had a little glowing ghost. No theme candy in stores. No displays in shop windows or special sales. No people going to work with half-ass costumes. No kids Trick or Treating! NOTHING. The 31st of October was just a normal day. Disgusting.
I have a theory as to why this might be. In NZ and England for that matter, there is a thing call 'a fancy dress party.' If you want to see a great example of one watch the first 10 minutes of the new Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Fancy dress parties are really costume parties with a more sophisticated name. There's a theme, or not, people come in costume, and it's a normal party just with odd outfits. I went to a great fancy dress party were the theme was 'sexy.' People's interpretations of that ranged from lingerie, the little black dress or a perfectly tailored Armani suit (that guy looked fine). I went as a strumpet, complete with corset and feather in my hair. It was a fun party. The point is Halloween becomes rather pointless if during the entire year people are dressing up and going to parties. It's losses it's novelty.
Come On New Zealand! Halloween is an excuse to get dressed up silly and go to Work! Demand CANDY from total strangers, restaurants and stores. It’s culturally endorsed robbery. We must instill good morals into the next generation. Teach them to threaten people with destruction of property if they don’t get what they want. Embrace It! Oh, and have parade! Once a year all the weirdoes can walk proudly down the street, people will cheer for their costumes, not realizing that it’s not a costume. They always dress like that. Afterwards the participants can go home and dream of next Halloween and which of the neighborhood cats they’re going to eat next. Also it’s Spring down here and therefore NOT FREEZING. We can wear what ever we want!
I've been in NZ for almost 7 months now and I've found the first thing that I don't like about this country. They don't celebrate Halloween here! The only indication I had that yesterday was Halloween was that the restaurant where I went for breakfast had a little glowing ghost. No theme candy in stores. No displays in shop windows or special sales. No people going to work with half-ass costumes. No kids Trick or Treating! NOTHING. The 31st of October was just a normal day. Disgusting.
I have a theory as to why this might be. In NZ and England for that matter, there is a thing call 'a fancy dress party.' If you want to see a great example of one watch the first 10 minutes of the new Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Fancy dress parties are really costume parties with a more sophisticated name. There's a theme, or not, people come in costume, and it's a normal party just with odd outfits. I went to a great fancy dress party were the theme was 'sexy.' People's interpretations of that ranged from lingerie, the little black dress or a perfectly tailored Armani suit (that guy looked fine). I went as a strumpet, complete with corset and feather in my hair. It was a fun party. The point is Halloween becomes rather pointless if during the entire year people are dressing up and going to parties. It's losses it's novelty.
Come On New Zealand! Halloween is an excuse to get dressed up silly and go to Work! Demand CANDY from total strangers, restaurants and stores. It’s culturally endorsed robbery. We must instill good morals into the next generation. Teach them to threaten people with destruction of property if they don’t get what they want. Embrace It! Oh, and have parade! Once a year all the weirdoes can walk proudly down the street, people will cheer for their costumes, not realizing that it’s not a costume. They always dress like that. Afterwards the participants can go home and dream of next Halloween and which of the neighborhood cats they’re going to eat next. Also it’s Spring down here and therefore NOT FREEZING. We can wear what ever we want!