Lame.

Somehow we managed to make Halloween fucking lame. Neighborhood after neighborhood, no porch lights, no kids running the streets, no toilet papering…nothing.

I appreciate the people who go all out to put on displays and 10ft skeletons and turn their houses into haunted houses and the like. I love the imagination and creativity

But to have everyone gather on one street and not every house is handing out candy and following a line and waiting like you’re at Disney waiting for some great payoff … ruined. The family in front of you has 20 impatient and unruly kids already hopped up on sugar, dad is smoking, mom is yelling at three of them, there’s a dog in a stroller barking at everyone…what’s fun about that??

Now that I am part of the arts non-profit world, there’s a huge missed opportunity here for my new community. I am going to make sure that next Halloween isn’t as lame as this one.

Thank god it’s over. Fuck Thanksgiving and bring on Christmas.