A Relatively Somber Reflection On the Campiness of Evil: Or, So This is Halloween,And What Have You Done,Another Year Over &c.

There certainly are things against someone who thinks that Halloween is the best of holidays: The fact that it was invented by greeting card companies (to ward off evil spirits);the vast amount of tooth decay and fattening that occurs amongst our otherwise healthy, fit youth; the worshipping of evil forces and of course the ritualistic killings.

But I think my reason for exalting Halloween outweighs those drawbacks: I get to hear Michael Jackson's Thriller played on the radio and that of course brings back to mind the happiest moments of my childhood career in television consumption:watching the video for Thriller.


I get to remember zombies dancing, and what is obviously Smucker's jelly coming out of the zombie's mouths and the immediate commercials for So You Want Your MTV.

Which accumulated in a feeling that horror didn't totally make one hundred percent sense.

Thriller might be one of my favorite televised moments in my childhood. It is nice to feel like there is something fundamentally choreographed and requiring make-up about horror.

It is a feeling which I wish I could get back.

Happy Halloween (the war is over).

FUN BONUS FACT ABOUT JUSTIN TO TIDE YOU OVER TILL NEXT MONDAY OR WHENEV.

When I used to watch the Thriller video as a kid, I would pop Reese's Pieces, so as to prevent myself from becoming afraid. In retrospect I see that this was a kind of cognitive mix up with a scene from E.T. But of that story and those horrors you will have to wait until next Halloween.