What can I say about Halloween that hasn’t been said before? I could give a philosophical or theological lecture on the religious or pagan influences on this October holiday. I could take the medical route and spew hundreds of true tho mind numbing facts on the damage to the heart when given a good shock [...]

Happy Halloween, confiends and confaustians. You know, after all the build-up this week, what we should exactly do today has been kind of a sticky wicket, to quote Vincent Price… apparently. I was going to write a ghost story, but what I started ended up as a weird Grimm’s Faerie Tales meets Antiques Roadshow meets [...]

Twas the day before Halloween, and…nobody really cared. Of all the major “holiday season” holidays, Halloween is the only one celebrated on only one day. Hell, not even a whole day, just one NIGHT. What kind of bullcrap is that?! Christmas is your standard two-day affair, and according to my work schedule, Thanksgiving gets an [...]

Halloween is, perhaps, the best party holiday of them all. The Fourth of July has barbecues and explosives, sure, but it has to be spent with neighbors and family. The same problem plagues Christmas, which is not only a primarily familial celebration but also falls at the end of a three-and-a-half month build up which, [...]

Well, it’s fall. Autumn. The air is chill, the leaves are dying and the holidays approach like an unfettered juggernaut of cheer and eggnog and various stages of also unfettered drunkenness. But most of all, the fall season means the return of feasting. Halloween candy, Thanksgiving turkeys, Christmas… turkeys… So while the turkeys hide in [...]