Halloween and (Black and Orange) Magic
“Not pagan Samhain celebrations or the like,” to quote Chiropteran, “but bright-orange, screaming-pumpkin, Trick-or-Treating Halloween.” It’s all about doing magic with the wild, pop mystery explosion that Halloween has become. The Universal Monsters (Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, Mummy) as the spirits of the North, South, East, and West; invocations of Jack Skellington; Jack-o-lanterns as the undead spirit servants we all carve every year to protect our homes from evil.
Halloween and Black (and Orange) Magick
Chiropteran – Well, yesterday was October 1st, the official opening day (by my reckoning) of the Halloween season.
This year, as part of my overarching goal to get my magickal butt in gear, I’ve decided to do a nightly meditation/devotion/working to hammer my Halloween Magick system into shape.
(I don’t know if anyone’s interested in the particulars, but here goes anyway,…
Father Threatens Daughter With Immortal Robot Brain
For Halloween, humor writer Hank Hyena offers a real-life story called “Hey Kids, Don’t Forget to Take My Brain Out of the Freezer!”
He threatens to have himself cryogenically frozen, telling his young daughters then he can “boss them around forever.” (”I only have enough money for the iced brain, unless I spend your college fund.”)
He suggests he could use the brain to control a new robot body, but his nine-year-old remained skeptical of his next prediction. (”People can’t make robots smarter than us. And if they did, the robots would kill us.”) But it ends when the geek dad asks, “Just don’t forget me, okay? Don’t forget to get my brain out of the freezer.”
They pinky-promise, and give him a hug.
Protests Against ‘Illegal Alien’ Costumes Have Driven Up Their Sales
Meredith Woerner writes on io9.com:
Immigrant rights activists are asking all Halloween retailers to stop supplying this controversial illegal alien costume — but the drama only seems to be improving their hype.
This adult Halloween costume shows an alien in a prison suit, holding a green card. Get it???!!!! The second illegal alien hat has a dark mustache and baseball cap over space alien features. And you can tell our space friends are pissed.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles explained that it had been receiving many complaints about the costume:
Jorge-Mario Cabrera, the director of communications for CHIRLA, said he initially thought the costume was a stab at harmless satire. But when he saw the Green Card, he realized it was an swipe at illegal immigrants.
Even though the costumes have…
