Feeling Thankful Friday : JB & Halloween
Alrighty then, I've confessed this before. I'm a complete scaredy-cat. Horror movies - NO WAY! Playing that awful Nightmare boardgame - NEVER! But dressing up as a blood-spattered CSI victim...? OMG YES! Halloween and the associated candy corn and costumes totally rock my year, particularly in that awful no-public-holiday wasteland between the Ekka and Christmas. I need something to look forward to.
I'm Australian. Absolutely, positively 100% true blue Australian. There is not a mention in the family tree of anyone coming from anywhere other than the rather staid and quiet UK Motherland, but even those ones were quite a few generations back. Interestingly too, my British relatives were indeed very staid and solid - not an ounce of 'let-your-hair-down fun' between them. So why is it then, that I have such a fascination with the very US-influenced holiday of Halloween? And is it ok that I do?
Reading the excellent pro-Halloween rant by everyone's favourite grumblebum John Birmingham, describing the killjoys who demand that Halloween is un-Australian (that word gets thrown around a lot, doesn't it?) got me all excited about the opportunity to both rant and dress up!
I am thankful today that I live in a city where I get the opportunity to read witty and cynical columnists and authors every day (Birmo is clearly my fave!), and where a sweet seaside suburb is holding a rockin' Halloween Street Party. I'm also thankful that I have managed to pull together a kickass Quinn-from-Glee costume at such short notice!
Go now. Read JB's Blunt Instrument. Hire a trashy costume, find a kid to take trick-or-treating, and enjoy Halloween, in all its gory glory!
Posted by Katy Potaty CUPCAKE LADY at Friday, October 29, 2010 6:46 AM 
Categories: Halloween, feeling thankful Friday
Categories: Halloween, feeling thankful Friday
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