A.M. Moscoso
October 31st.2024
Happy Halloween
from my home
and the best dog in the world
Mr. Hamish Macbeth
Hamish Macbeth
October 31st 2023
By A.M. Moscoso
Hamish MacbethThere are two guys who ride my train that support Trump.
Their conversations, loud enough for all of us to ‘enjoy’ always start off with them sounding ‘reasonable’ lighthearted and dare I say ‘personable’.
For example, they talked about people showing up to Vice President’s Harris’ rally in Austin, actually the one they were referring to was in Houston but I digress. Some people there booed and they said, why show up at a rally just to do that? It’s a rally, they agreed with each other. What’s the point in making a scene?
Then they went down the rabbit hole, like they always do.
First they discussed the city of Seattle being shut down because of protesters over the weekend ( that NEVER happened ). They claimed that King County ( where Seattle is located ) should take a lesson from Pierce County ( where Tacoma is located ) because they claim that Pierce County ” Cops ” use helicopters to chase down protesters who ‘make trouble ‘ and try to escape law enforcement by car or on foot.
No. No. No. It has never happened.
Then one guy says to his friend that he knows a ” Security Guy ” that works at protests and he told him that if you get someone face down on the ground and stomp on the base of their spine, they ‘ ain’t running nowhere, they can’t move. ‘
” You can do whatever you want to them ” he laughed as he continued. ” You know what I would do? I’d rip their ears off. I’ve always wanted to rip someone’s ears off. ”
His friend joined him in a round of laughter. ” It’s not like they use them ” he added.
This Halloween I tried to write stories about monsters and evil twisted souls. I wasn’t as productive as I wanted to be.
It was hard because reality had me beat before I could get a single word down.
Photo: Terry Preshaw
Photographer Unknown:
White Supremacists/Trump Supporters WA state
Trump supporter threatening a protester
For Fandangos One Word Challenge: PERSONABLE
Photo A.M. Moscoso
New Orleans Halloween
Every Election year here in the USA, we are treated to the totally false narrative that there is a ” War on Christmas. ”
The HUMONGOUS LIE is that you are not allowed to say, ” Merry Christmas “, that you can’t jingle your bells, that you can’t ho ho ho.
Of course that is all Hogwash and Poppycock.
There was only ever one outright war on a holiday- there was a war on Halloween waged by the Christians and guess what- the Pagans lost.
Halloween 2015
Photo A.M. Moscoso
The Halloween that we celebrate and that I do dearly and truly love bears no resemblance to Samhain. Regardless, there are people who celebrate Samhain and those festivals are pretty awesome, but the sad truth is once the Festival of the Dead was sanitized, the flavor and the spirit of that celebration were lost. It was stamped out, it is no more.
Jamie Wyeth ” Warm Halloween “
That being said, some Christian sects won’t say the ” H ” word. They call it Harvest this or Fall that and if they throw a party and invite you, there is a dress code. You can’t dress up as Devils or Witches, I’m not sure where they fall on Vampires and Zombies. However, I used to work in a Halloween shop and we used to sell halos and angel’s wings and clown costumes and cowboys to customers attending, ” Family Fall Festival Night ” or whatever the heck they called it. So you know, you could wear a costume as long as it was ‘family friendly’ and didn’t hint at S-E-X.
I’ve been to those Family Festivals too, I’m not sure why it is, but at the pot lucks, they always served Nachos with the works and it was always pretty tasty. Plus it was fun. No kidding. Also, most of those festivals played the same games as the ones at the darker versions of their party- which I found curious.
In the end this new version of Halloween, and it wears many masks ( which is fitting, when you think about it ). Celebrating it in the way you chose to really does speak to the spirit of the holiday.
But it would be fitting, on this night, to take a moment to spare a thought and light a candle to the long gone Ghost of Halloween.
Artist Unknown
I never drink….
Wine.