Halloween Treats
So, you have opted not to visit my ghastly Presets
of Horror, eh? Too frightening, too intense, my little ones? Oh, you've
been there, and you're hoping his doesn't suck,
as well, huh? Well, fine.
This year, my boy decided he
was -- gulp -- too old for Halloween. Too old to dress up as Mr.
Freeze or President Clinton or Xena or even Federal Reserve chief Alan
Greenspan (my personal favorite, for that straight-from-work-to-doorstep
look). Too old to strain his tender adolescent pancreas with a massive
juggernaut of sugar, chocolate, and caramel? Too old to deface car paint
with drying egg, harass suburban householders with repeated doorbell compression,
or festoon the neighborhood maples with Charmin?
And maybe we're all too old for rainbows and Easter egg hunts and
all-you-can-eat BBQ ribs on Thursday night? I sincerely hope not. For if
indeed we have lost our sense of wonder and misdemeanor-level adventurousness,
then what of the major candy manufacturers who depend on the crucial Halloween
marketing season to stabilize unpredictable sales related to romantic rejection,
unemployment, and all-night college cramming.
In this year of apocalyptic millennial fear, high-tech horror effects,
and general socio-economic angst, let's all dress up in our Darth Maul
costumes, rent I Know What You Did Last Summer, stock the candy
pail by the front door, and wait in the dark for the little rug muskrats
to come up the front walk. As they run in terror from your grease-painted,
demonic countenance, rejoice in that warm holiday feeling.
Now, here's some treats to get the night off to a gripping start:
Download treat.zip, and by the way...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Kidding.