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www.speakeasy.net/~demiurge/samhain.html

A sackful of brilliant points.

It is here celebrated as All Saints' Day, the candles are already flickerin' on our relatives' graves and from tomorrow on we can start tippin'. Simple and traditional way to erase several days from our life.

The youth will go to pubs or discoteques to drink some colourful xit, pretending to be official Hallo'ween drinks.

To me it's yet
another activity
of youth co-opted
by the not so
youthful.

To me
it's my anniversary.

Happy Anniversary, Snitty!

Passing out candy to the poor kids that come to my neighborhood and are dropped off in front of our house. The rule is they have to at least attempt a costume and xould be under 16.

Its one of the few "Hallmark Holidays" that I actually celebrate.

We have our own traditions. A little bit of witchy stuff and the annual screening of Rocky Horror.

We get lots of trick or treaters in our 'hood. We always give out full-size candy, not those little one bite "fun size" things. We've also never been TP'd or egged by the local hooligans.

I miss it all working nights. Sigh. . .