Halloween decorations

America’s National Malaise

leeduigon(patty)October 31, 2023

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Very few of them were this impressive.

This subject came up in my interview before I could raise it myself:

Where are the Halloween decorations?

Every Halloween, we take a ride around town to enjoy the decorations. This year’s crop looked kind of skimpy. Oh, a few houses did it up, a few of the displays were big and gaudy. But by comparison with some years ago–yeah, it was skimpy.The interviewer noticed it, and so have I.

I first noticed it in the closing years of the Obama regime; but two years into Donald Trump’s term, it was back in all its glory. Then along comes Biden–and lot of the houses don’t have even so much as a pumpkin on the doorstep.

The same applies to Christmas decorations.

Is it just the crummy state of our economy, or something deeper? I say the cause is a national malaise, a kind of cultural depression, that settles over the country whenever it’s under (and I do mean under) Democrats. It’s depressing to be governed by people who think the country stinks and you’re not so hot, either. And their nooze media hammer it home every day. We not only don’t have the extra money to spend on decorations; a lot of us don’t have the heart for it.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! What’s not to love? Inflation, war, schools exhorting kids to go transgender, non-existent national borders, anybody can come in–ask Israel how that turns out–FBI “investigating” parents who object to their local school boards’ shenanigans… and we’re told we never had it so good!

I pray we can hold out long enough to get these people out of office.

Got Your Giant Skeleton?

leeduigon(patty)November 1, 2022

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This, we are told, was the hottest thing, this Halloween–a 12-foot-high scary skeleton.

One of these costs up to $700, but you can get one for just under $500. Of course, if I ever spent that kind of money on Halloween decorations, I could never respect myself again.

Still, the first one we saw yesterday was an eye-popper. Then it turned out there were half a dozen more on the same street, and more around the corner. So much for novelty. How embarassing!–to spend 700 smackers on one of these things and wind up surrounded by the $499 models that look just like it.

Well, fun’s fun and it’s your money, dude. You could’ve donated it to Democrats. That’d be worse. Three cheers for giant skeletons.

Our Halloween Ride

leeduigon(patty)October 31, 2021

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We like to ride around town on Halloween, looking at the decorations on people’s homes. I don’t have high hopes for this year’s cruise, because it’s been raining like mad all week and who wants to set up decorations in a driving rain? But the overall mood of the country is hardly what you’d call upbeat.

These witches, like the ones pictured above, seem pretty popular this year. All we have is a plastic pumpkin dangling from a tree. It does a bang-up job of scaring off hobbits: haven’t seen one all year.

If it turns out to be an exciting ride after all, I’ll give yiz an update.

A Halloween Gimmick

leeduigon(patty)October 10, 2021

We share a foyer with the apartment next door, whose tenants have chosen to celebrate Halloween by setting up these little figurines in the foyer. They are activated by motion sensors; so every time someone opens or closes the door, or moves in anyway, these figurines flash lights and chant “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!” Then they cackle maniacally, like Alexa on a bender.

After about the 50th repetition of this, it gets somewhat annoying. And we’ve got 21 days of it to look forward to.

Somewhere out there, in all probability, is someone who has been driven mad by these very figurines. We don’t even get that many trick-or-treaters. The only way to get them here is to forget to buy candy for them.

I’ve always enjoyed Halloween, but this is adding a burden to it.

Halloween, 2020: Not Up to Snuff

leeduigon(patty)October 30, 2020

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People were happier last year. They had more fun.

We’ve just come back from our annual drive around our town to gawk at Halloween decorations; but there isn’t much to see this year. Even the side streets that had really spiffy decorations last year could only mount a half-hearted effort for 2020.

Why is that?

Well, for one thing, we have an election looming up that will land us very badly in the soup if the Far Left Crazy wins. Ghosts and monsters can’t compete with Democrats when it comes to scaring people. And for another, too many of us lost a terrible amount of money–and morale–when Our Experts decided we could beat COVID-19 by shutting down the national economy. The virus is still here, but a lot of small businesses aren’t. And the Dems are talking about shutting down again. Our misery really turns them on, big-time.

This is the year that the locusts have eaten down to the ground. The year “mandates” replaced laws. We lost big chunks of our freedom and are wondering if we’ll ever get it back.

Putting up all that goofy Halloween stuff around your house–it’s fun! It brightens things up. We’ve just had seven straight days of rain, we could use some brightening up.

But normalcy is never coming back until the Left is beaten down to dust.

No Nooze is Good Nooze

leeduigon(patty)October 29, 2019

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Well, I tried to collect nooze today; but as you can see by the results, there’s not much going. The behind-closed-doors, no formal vote, no Republicans allowed, bogus Democrat pseudo “impeachment” circus is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Do these slimy partisan hacks really, truly, believe they can actually remove a president by this technique? No defense, no cross-examination: you’d think it was a Canadian “human rights” tribunal.

Americans need to get much madder at all this than they are.

Anyway, the day being drab and rainy, Patty and I went on our annual Halloween tour, cruising all over town to look at people’s Halloween decorations. Harmless fun. My favorite was somebody’s giant ghost in ratty robes with a rotting pumpkin for a head: squirrels had added their own unique touches to it.

I enjoy a scare that turns out to be totally imaginary, nothin’ to it–as opposed to the kind of scares you get in the nooze: stuff that doesn’t just go away. I’ll trade them in for ghosts and goblins any day. The Mummy can’t hurt you, but Democrats can.

So we’re back, we had a nice time, and I’m looking forward to seeing the trick-or-treaters make their rounds on Thursday: always brings back pleasant memories.