Halloween decorations infuriate me.

I don't mind the pumpkin, the occasional styrofoam tombstone, or even the odd bat hanging off the porch, but lately it's worse than Kissmoose. Who came up with the blow up lawn ornaments of ginormous size? They need to be shot. The Kissmoose ones are bad enough, but no one needs an 8-foot Vampire on their yard that lights up. Really. Any real vampire would be simply mortified. There's halloween *tinsel*. It's like all of the decorations are the same, only instead of Santa, it's Dracula. Intead of Reindeer, it's spiders. Instead of snowmen, it's carved pumpkins. Lighting up and dangling and glowing in the dark. The Halloween decorations are also slightly more expensive than the Kissmoose decorations too. You can really only tastefully leave them up for about 2 weeks. Kissmoose, you get 6 weeks. Put them on Dead Bird Day, and you can take them down whenever it thaws in January. Or just staple them in and leave them all year round. Use an orange lighting scheme and you can use the same lights for Halloween AND Kissmoose.

Maybe I'm infuriated by the money wasted on this useless stuff. The Goth in me adores it, but it's just getting terribly cheesey and altogether too chibi. That's Japanese and kinda sorta translates to Cute, but infers more of the Cult of Cute. Goth should not be Cute. Halloween should not be rendered harmless. The veil is thin, and we all have a chance to face the evil of the world and of our own natures. Warning: Political analogy. I suppose it's apt in this Double Plus Ungood Country that we have become that Halloween should become Cute. What is scarier after all than thinking you could love and trust someone who could turn to be using you and hurting you? The face of Evil smiles just as warmly as any loved one. And that perhaps is the true horror of Halloween.  ¶ 7:11 PM