The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74268   Message #1296122
Posted By: Sam L
13-Oct-04 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Halloween ridiculous?
I think the difference between something that's spoiled by commercialism and something that isn't may be a fine line--if you try to run too far in the other direction you hit it again. The anti-commercial commercial. Like the over-priced back-to-basics trends. Maybe if commercialism can pervert things, you can also pervert commercialism into something healthy, if you just face it down, sort and pick. Lots of good things could be commercial if you weren't taking them right.
   Kids I grew up with used to call music they didn't like "commercial" although all the music we bought was commercial, strictly speaking. I'm not sure about the pot we called "commercial Colombian"--what the hell did that mean? Not Colombian but we call it that and you pay more for it and we tell you we're ripping you off because of... um, truth-in-advertising laws? It was the weed version of "fresh-frozen" I guess.

There's a man on our street who gives out books every year--pretty cool. The only halloween vandalism I did was on some older jackass kids. They almost caught me. And I had a lot of masks and stuff, so sometimes I'd go back again to houses with the best candy. And I sometimes claim I was involved in lifting and turning a VW sideways inside a garage. Alas, I only heard about it.