Trick or Treating: Coming to a Parking Lot Near You

Here, sweetie, let me give you a nice candy, and maybe, oh I don’t know… some DEATH?

 

 

Blogfighter Renee:  A timely post if nothing else, done by us, your concerned citizen Blogfighters.  There is a definite slant to this editorial post.  It’s easy to tell what side we’re taking with this, but as in any arguement, there is another side and we recognize this, and respect this and invite you to join in the discussion.  You’ll find this a friendly place. While this might not be happening everywhere, it most certainly is evident here in the Midwest where we are located.  Oh my heavens, Blogfight, get to it already…

We are referring to the systematic smoothing of the formerly jagged and edgy Halloween.  What was once a nationwide spit-in-the-face of stranger danger! YES!  Sugary coated chocolate laden!  People I don’t know!  Dark!  Kids on the loose!  Traffic?  What?  You  made it yourself?  It’s unwrapped?  WHO CARES! OMG Candy!!!  free-for-all, is turning into something entirely different.  Halloween has become a watery,  regulated, shuffled and messed with affair lately.  For example, in my own town, Trick-Or-Treat night (or Beggar’s Night as it’s sometimes referred) has never been on the actual evening of Halloween.  I’m not sure why, disassociation?  

Along those lines, we notice what some might see as fear mongering.  The emphasis is Avoiding Danger and sequestering children in the name of safety.  More and more churches in particular are inviting their worshipers and families to something called “Trick-Or-Trunk Nights” that are promoted as “A Safe and Fun (and safe) Alternative to  (the incredibly dangerous, and not to mention sinful) Trick-Or-Treating (which Jesus hates, by the way, and ps: it will KILL your children) !  Everyone Welcome!   These events are held in the church parking lot, and are done tailgate-style where everyone can wander (safely) around collecting candy and socializing with like minded parishoners.  Don’t dress as the devil, kids!

Heck, this year with daylight savings pushed back, almost the entire duration of Trick-Or-Treating will be in broad daylight. 

Isn’t this getting carried away?  Has anyone really had a bad experience with Trick-Or-Treat?  Not someone’s Aunt’s neighbor, but YOU.  Personally.  We’ve heard the rumors out there, the urban legends of razors in apples, and LSD laced Snickers, but none of that appears to have actually happened to the best of what we can find out.

We are prepared to stand corrected, slap helmets on our current and future children if they happen along, and brick everyone indoors forever – just let us know what you think.  Is this holiday a throwaway, and doomed to disappear in the near future?  Aren’t you sad about what seems to be happening?  Or, is it bittersweet and overall, positive?    

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Oh, and for what it’s worth, happy Halloween from Blogfight.

20th Commenter Contest

Hi again from your blogfighters.  We have come to another 20th comment, and then some.  What?  You don’t know?  Comments are always appreciated and if you check the sidebar, you’ll see information about the 20th comment giveaway.  For every 20 comments, one of those people will be selected to receive a goodie bag, or box that is.  Please check back to see the winner announcement, and comment NOW to get in on the next one which will be coming up soon.  More blogfights going up shortly too!

For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow!

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So let that be a lesson to you all to get involved, send your friends over here and win something for yourself.  We’ll keep this promotion going indefinitely.  If you send us a fight, you’re entered into the next drawing automatically too!

Is It Live, Or Is It…Good?

MODERATOR RENEE:  OK so we’re back from a much needed vacation after our fifth post.  Yay 5!   About 15 days into our “Five Posts Holiday Extravaganza” we were informed (over cocktails) that people weren’t likely to be hooked on us at this point.  Why? We are! And that they wouldn’t be checking in regularly yet all on their own especially if there were no new posts being posted.  Why?  We would!  And that we were jackasses.  Why?  Yes!  Probably.  At about the 20th day into holiday, the vodka ran out so we’re back.  Actually we knew the site needed some tweaking and we just wanted to work on it a little more and polish it up, as they say.  Plus the vodka ran out.  So how can we help you help yourselves?  Right.  A new fight.  Read on and see if you agree with a potential sterotype in the making…

Yay!! This better get me dinner after.

 John K. from Chicago writes:  I was reading some magazine (Esquire, I think) and a woman wrote in about seeing rock concerts.  She made a sweeping claim that the majority of women aren’t into live music (as in, they wouldn’t buy a cd of a live concert).  AND…if they’re at a concert and the band messes with their hit song  (for instance, plays it reggae-style when it’s not played that way on the radio), WOMEN in particular get spectacularly PISSED OFF about it. 

So it got me interested to see if this sweeping claim had any truth to it.  I’ve conducted two informal surveys – first, my sister May who said “NOT TRUE” to both claims (she can be reactive though, sorry May), BUT the ladies at work (both of them) say “OMG!!!  SO TOTALLY TRUE”!!  As a man, I’m confused and naturally want to think along whatever lines result in me getting more sex.

So I’m turning it over to blogfight.  If I have a ladyperson over, what do I throw in the cd player?  In summary, do women like a “produced” sound over live?   And, while they might dig a concert experience, do they hate their favorite music being messed with by the band, or do they appreciate a different twist on it? 

MODERATOR RENEE:  Let’s get real here.  Search your souls, ladies.  And mens – you can search your lady’s soul (careful – it tickles) and vote whatever she thinks here.  The fate of the music industry is, well, not really going to be affected.  At all.   But we’re curious.  By the way we have to admit John, Katie and I both own NO live music recordings, and we HATE when bands experiment with our favorite song.  We put our lighters right away when they do that stuff.  Egads!  We’re (gulp) predictable!  Pass the vodka.

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In Stankness and in Health…

 

Erika from Sunrise, CA writes, “My fiance is a great guy, very polite and considerate and all kinds of good catch material.  The issue is his eating of the garlic.  He loves garlic and when he cooks (yes, he cooks REALLY well!) he puts it in everything – at least it seems like it!  I don’t get to eat with him all the time as we don’t live together yet so I’m forever dealing with the garlic breath issue.  In his defense, he doesn’t always know when we will be seeing each other and I often just pop in unexpectedly so he can’t really plan NOT to eat it all the time, but sometimes he can.  And he doesn’t.  Do I have a right to tell him not to eat it?”

Chris Responds, “I am Italian and so garlicky food kinda goes with the territory here.  I say we’re going to be married and we’ll probably both be eating the same things every night so it will be a non-issue soon enough. But for now, maybe can you let me eat what I want?  If it really REALLY is THAT bad (I don’t think it’s that bad. I brush my teeth after I eat) I will try to cut down, but…really?  I’m totally writing in something about her getting ready too long or something.  Soon. ” 

BLOGFIGHTER RENEE:  WILL THE BELOVED BULB DIVIDE THIS UNION BEFORE IT EVEN BEGINS?  WILL CHRIS BE “PRESSED” TO GIVE UP GARLIC FOR GOOD?  IS ERIKA CAUSING A “STINK” FOR NO GOOD REASON?  OH, THERE IS SO MUCH MORE PUNNING TO BE DONE HERE BUT, ALAS…I MUST DEFER TO THE POLL.  VOTE NOW FOR THE WINNER OF THE GARLIC WARS.  POLLS ARE OPEN FOR 30 DAYS FROM POSTING.

Journey to the Center of the Roll, or Welcome to Blogfight

Welcome to BlogFight.  This is how things are done around here…

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SAMPLE FIGHT #1 (or #2 (tee hee)):  Dirk and Teyna Fight Over Toilet Paper

DIRK SAYS:  “My mother always taught me that everything has a place and when it comes to my toilet paper, I likes it neat and tidy.  The paper should always come off the back of the roll and rest along the wall, you know, the right way.  Apparantly something’s going on when Teyna’s in there that makes the situation so frantic, that she has no time to “find” the paper in the back of the roll.  No.  She must be able to make a haphazard swipe of the arm in the general direction of the toilet paper roll and come up with an end or all is lost. ”

TEYNA SAYS:  “Let’s not even start on his mother.  There are issues there.  Anyhoo, the tp needs to hang off the front.  When I go in there, it’s all business.  I’m not in there for leisure, as Dirk most certainly is (side note: he’s wound so tight it’s amazing he even needs to poop at all, but whatever).  As a woman I speak for all women when I say we use the TP twice as much as men do so please defer.  Get it over with as soon as possible and get back to the world outside the potty.  Let it hang where people can reach it most easily.  Oh, and go to any hotel and see how they do it – off the front, baby (and folded into that triangle too!).  That’s all.”

MODERATOR:  Let’s settle this once and for all…Is it over or under?   Or perhaps this is really about mother issues, but that’s another fight. 

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