Comments | adrienne_j: Hallowe'en and Humbug

adrienne_j

Hallowe'en and Humbug

Oct 29, 2007 16:21

The annual Silver Snail Hallowe'en party was on Saturday night, so of course we went, and fun was had by all. Pictures available on my husband's flickr account, here. The wee Thor won for best Snail Staff costume, while Dr. Strange (not pictured) took home the best non-staff costume. Graig didn't win anything for his awesome Phantom Stranger ( Read more... )

hallowe'en, christmas commercialism

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Imperfect.... lightning_rider October 30 2007, 12:03:53 UTC

First- thank you for the link for the pics ( ... )

Re: Imperfect.... kon_el333 November 1 2007, 17:10:53 UTC

D, don't let the Coulter lady get to you. Lots of radicals wish the world was "just like them". And by definition, Christians are going to consider Jews "wrong" because that's the basic difference between the two. Christians say Jesus is the Messiah, Jews say he wasn't. They can't BOTH be right, can they? Muslims are in the same boat. They think they are right and the Christians and Jews aren't. People so closed-minded just aren't worth listening to.

8 Crazy Nights is about xmas??? But I thought Hannuka is what the whole title refers to? Doesn't Sandler call Hannuka 8 Crazy Nights in his Hannuka Song?

Clearing things up lightning_rider November 7 2007, 00:48:17 UTC

First the reason Coulter 'gets' to me is NOT because she calls me names... I can deal with that... what bothers me is that WHILE she was telling a (jewish) interviewer that jews were imperfect- she was a) prolly being paid to be on the show and b) promoting her new book. What bothers me is that Coulter makes WAYYY more money then me, my best friend and his gf put together. THAT'S what ticks me off- is that she makes money spewing this hate.

As for 8 Crazy Nights- I go by the colors- like the fact that Sandler's character wears red and green- NOT blue and white... and what I was told by a friend who did see it. I stayed away from it- esp. as the whole theme of the movie- a humbug gets the holiday spirit is very x-masy.

faithfan October 31 2007, 05:10:33 UTC

Ye made a great Black Mary

kon_el333 November 1 2007, 17:09:18 UTC

Yes, you looked terrific as Black Mary. I need a better costume for next year. I felt pretty self-conscious at the party.

Um, I heard a neat commercial on the radio this morning that touched on this whole x-mas intruding on Halloween's time issue. I hadn't heard it til today, and based on the script it was cleverly-timed to start playing today. The guy in the commercial was saying someone dressed as Santa appeared at his door this morning, and his reaction was "You're either late for Hallowe'en or you're early for Christmas". Turns out the guy really was Santa and the commercial was about getting your Christmas shopping started because (while the vendor was acknowledging it's awfully early) they have some great deals right now! I enjoyed it because it acknowledged Halloween and obviously had waited until AFTER Halloween to air and acknowledged her early it was to talk about xmas. Well-done!

lightning_rider November 3 2007, 02:40:44 UTC

Did you wear the same Superman outfit as you did last year?
;-)

I mean it looks good- but store bought. That said I was 'this close' to buying a store bought flash outfit as I found one at a local comic store.
However my bank account said NYET! I didn't have enough money and I'd bought a few piratical things last month for the costume...

Oh and since I forgot to say it. Yeah Adj as Evil Mary *thumbs UP* thanked her for the link but forgot to say it was nifty.
Although she has to work on Graig as he REALLY should've gone as Adam.
;-)

Seen it lightning_rider November 7 2007, 03:15:28 UTC

Just wanted you to know that I saw at least two x-mas commericals today( same network- different spots) and I saw in a hardware store two X-mas decorations... which I'm pretty sure they're trying to sell.

Ya know when I was a kid- x-mas started the day AFTER our thanksgiving. The Macy's parade had Santa at the END of the Parade- sort of to remind people that AFTER they stuff their faces on Turkey, X-mas was just arround the corner.

And FYI- Dec 4th is the start of Hannuka

Re: Seen it adrienne_j November 7 2007, 14:48:52 UTC

Wow, is Hannuka early this year? I thought it usually fell more towards Christmas? How is it determined when it falls?

Yeah, the Thanksgiving thing makes sense for you guys. The rule in our house is Jet's has to celebrate his dad's birthday first (Dec. 9), and then we can start thinking about Christmas. I want it to be at least Dec. before we get into the whole thing

Ah... the JEWISH Calendar... lightning_rider November 7 2007, 22:21:10 UTC

Hannuha is determined by the JEWISH calendar.
;-)

The Jewish calendar pre-dates the julian calendar(roman calendar) by a couple of thousand of years. As such it is a LUNAR calendar, as opposed to a Solar calendar... as solar calendars require a bit more understanding of the Earth and the Sun( i.e. the solar year) . So the lunar cycles fall short of the solar cycles( as you might be aware) so the Jewish calender ends up occasionally having leap MONTHS... because while hannuka ends up drifting arround December( I think once the last night was new years), without leap months it would end up in like July at some point. So we have leap months to keep the harvest holiday (sukkot) in the fall.

so to the JEWISH calendar- hannuka happens at the same time every year- but since *I* use the gregorian calander( same as you...), I have to check every year when the jewish holidays occur as they 'drift'.