candy and ghosts day

[postrodent]

For the first time evar, I'm playing the role of the grown-up householder this holiday, and giving away candy. I think I'm trying to buy karma, as well as trying on one of the more trivial and easy adult responsibilities. I think the reason that I've never done this before is principally that I've never previously been willing to let strangers peer

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[bossgoji]

Halloween really is the best holiday, isn't it? It's about spooky shit, cute witches, and giving chocolate to total strangers. What's not to love?

[postrodent]

Yep. And sexy witches are, in however small a way, a link with the pagan fertility rites and ideas of feminine power that Christianity tried -- but could not totally succeed -- in erasing. :)

[bossgoji]

Damn right. As far as I'm concerned, witches and demons are involved with ALL the best holidays. Shit, it's not like Christmas is REALLY when Jesus was born. ALL HAIL MITHRA, GOD OF LIGHT. :3

[postrodent]

It's nice that I'm currently living in a house that's younger than I am -- it's easier to maintain than the century-old piles of crap that I lived in on the East Coast. The fault wasn't all theirs, but I lived in some fairly junky places.

[bgm_099]

'Cuz being a strange man giving random children candy -always- buys you extra karma, it does. ;)
When are you coming over? I wanna talk to you, and show you Minion! :)

[postrodent]

This is the _one_ day you can get away with this. And I wonder how much of a future it has. You grew up, I think, in a different climate than I did -- I think I can remember the very first wave of hysteria about people putting nasty shit in the candy. Which, of course, has always been much more myth than reality, but we're a panicky culture these days.

I'm coming over... Tuesday, I think. Look forward to it.

[bgm_099]

Well, my parents still checked every single piece of candy that I brought home, up until about the point that I realized razor blades don't fall into any known food category. After that, the places I lived wouldn't allow people over a certain age to go trick-or-treating.
Tuesday is awesome. What do you wanna do?

[sphecide]

I got some candy but forgot to turn the outdoor light on so nobody came. I don't usually eat candy, but I do now.

[postrodent]

Dissolve it in some water maybe? :) I may store my leftovers for the next Hallowe'en. It's not like ultra-processed American commercial candy can go bad. The chocolate will have bloom... big fucking deal. :)

[anaisdjuna]

I finally break down and buy some candy this year and no one shows up. Thankfully, I got candy I won't eat: gummy halloween faces. Per your suggestion, maybe I'll keep them around to put in tea for when I run out of sugar.

I saw Steampunk costumes on display at the local supermarket.

[postrodent]

I saw some really weird and appalling gummy stuff today at Walgreens, so I guess that's the theme this year.

I think we can say steampunk is done now. I'll say straight up, I never imagined that it would get so big when I was reading some of the original source material in the early nineties -- arguably it blew up bigger than cyberpunk itself, or perhaps it's simply present in less ambiguous forms in the culture. Anyway, now perhaps we can move on to something else. I'd like to see biopunk get its moment, if anyone's listening. Architecture is already playing with biomorphism, and screwing around with the technologies of life is one reasonable path towards getting ourselves out of the present mess and into the next one. Let's make garage gene hacking sexy. The hardware is just about there...

[ladyperegrine]

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