[Trivial Psychic]

I think a large part of it has to do with the nonsense going on in the world these days. If it's not the overly PC nature of things today, with everyone screaming fake outrage and offense to everything, it's the sheer psychosis being reported to us every day from the news media. Be it racist cops, the violence in Mexico or Syria, or another murderous shooting spree somewhere by some seriously coddled and demented individual (who's suddenly discovering that he's not an individual snowflake like society has raised them to be, and that the world that honestly doesn't give a flying **** about their problems,) this tends to be all I ever see in the news as of late. In an era of seemingly endless and personal access, it's caused a great deal of us to become simply paranoid to just go out and enjoy ourselves. When I was a child, we worried about razor blades in our chocolate bars. Now, having become a father this past year, I have to worry about some insecure, coddled, asshole who's feeling unnoticed going out there to try and make a name for himself with a gun, and there might be another idiot out there looking to emulate them and do the same thing...

It would not surprise me, that within the next twenty years if Halloween were to become a holiday like Columbus or Labor Day. Something recognized on the calendar, but not really celebrated because people are either too busy, or too paranoid to be bothered with it. And not to get all anti-establishment or anti-capitalist, but the fact that there is already Christmas stuff put out in stores weeks before Halloween is proof enough that Halloween is fading away, and it's really about getting that Christmas money from you that retailers hope for.

For me personally, I love this time of year, as it's always been my favorite holiday...the one time of year where I can pull my Jason costume out of the closet and take some pics with the kids around the block or mall, but I don't even bother with it anymore...I now wait until the comic con that usually takes place the week after Halloween here in Tucson to dress up...