Happy Freakin’ Halloween
My Halloween gift to myself is LAZINESS!!! Therefore, my halloween gift to you is COOL LINKS!!!
Okay, I know it’s a bit late for this, but keep it in mind for next year (you’ll be glad you did). Want a surefire way to take some of the fun out of Halloween for your kids and encourage a thorough TP-ing of your house and car? Here’s one way (though I’m sure you can come up with plenty more on your own)! First, only let your kids participate in halloween if they dress as biblical characters. Second, only let them carve a jack-o-lantern if it depicts a cheesy religious scene or emblem. No cool, scary faces, like those heathen kids are carving into theirs. We’ll be having none of that.
Or, if you’re not super lame, but are in fact awesome, you could do something like THIS (amazing).
Hey, did you know you are being beamed with Cosmic Rays? Well you are. Probably right now. In fact, according to astronomers, you’re being hit by cosmic energy particles all the time. Don’t believe me? Check this out. (Thanks to Steven L. Cloud for the link).
On a final and more serious note, I recommend everyone check out this excellent post by Tim Boucher of Pop Occulture. It’s an insightful take on halloween costumes and the personas we wear like costumes, all the time. I couldn’t agree more with his perspective, and I think reflecting on the roles we play in ordinary life is more than just an interesting intellectual exercise. The realization, if you take it far enough, can, if you want it to, free you up to be much more playful with the roles you play, to ‘try on’ different personas and possibly discover new facets to yourself that maybe you didn’t allow yourself to acknowledge as ‘you’ before, because you were stuck within the boundaries of a particular, narrow sense of identity. Stretching outside of these arbitrary boundaries and learning that you’re still yourself, in fact more so, when you do this, can be very freeing. I say this from personal experience. Maybe that sort of thing isn’t your cup of tea, but I think everyone can benefit from any increase in self-awareness, however small, and awareness that our limitations are usually, if not always, self-imposed. Because that means they can be self-unimposed. Just thoughts.
So, in closing, happy Halloween every day. I wonder who or what I’ll be tomorrow?… Perhaps a sexy uncanny valley… (what)?
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