I have always loved Halloween. I am going on my twelfth year of a display in my yard. I redesign it new every year, and it takes about two weeks to build. I spend the whole year planning it. Halloween is only second to Giftmas in advertising dollars, and the number of professional haunted Halloween attractions is increasing across the country. Some attractions are now open year round.
The public spends millions of dollars on Halloween goodies, attractions, and apparel yearly. Google Halloween attractions, popularity, and just about any other subject with Halloween in the title, and get back hundreds of links on the subject. I have seen hundreds of DIY Halloween projects as well.
Unfortunately, the whole trick or treating thing has suffered ever since the urban legends about razor blades, needles, and other foreign objects being placed in candy and apples. Here is a good place to catch up on all the legends, and the few recorded cases of nutjobs trying to ruin a great holiday.
The fucking media has to keep people scared, and what better way than to broadcast that crazy people will put sharp objects in candy or fruit, or that pedophiles and child murderers lurk on every street corner in America. The media should stick to what they are good at, following celebrities and politicians, reporting the scores of sporting events, misdiagnosing the weather and just leave my beloved holiday alone.
And don’t even get me started on the churches and their Hallelujah Celebrations because they mistakenly assume the pagan origins of Halloween have something to do with the Christian anti-hero Satan. If they want to have church celebrations on Halloween, fine, I don’t care, but don’t spew this nonsense about how it’s fucking Satan’s birthday.