Word: halloweening
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...Century City, Calif., on the fashionable west side of Los Angeles, monthly parkers at 1999 Avenue of the Stars get twice-a-year doughnuts and coffee and an annual Halloween pumpkin-carving contest. At another garage, in downtown L.A., parkers can have their shoes shined while they go shopping, and if they are tenants in the building, their shoes can be picked up at the office and returned there...
...large number of the Church’s followers have associated it with a Christian festival—regardless of history or the masses of proclaimed non-Christians who exchange presents and have a tree on Dec. 25—there should also be protests against any Halloween parties (which even the name will tell you has been associated by the church with the subsequent All Saints’ Day). Similarly, the Star of David or the menorah seen in many houses has much more explicit religious overtones (the trees do not have crosses, at least), yet there...
...decorated tree is “exclusive” of all non-Pagans, as it comes from a pre-Christian Roman tradition (the Romans used green trees lit with candles in their winter Saturnalia festival). The simple fact that many of the stricter Christian sects ban Christmas trees (and Halloween and any other non-Christian assimilation) should be enough to prove this point. Most of the other things associated with Christmas can be traced to 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia—the yule log, carolers, the 12 days of Christmas, etc.—and all made reappearances...
Jenn has big hair. Her curly mane, in fact, connotes her entire ebullient presence. Striding down the street, hair billowing behind her, breasts leading the way, Jenn is all woman. She’s so much woman that she, unfailingly, plays a sequin-wearing Diva (Diana Ross) for Halloween...
Take the government department’s annual Halloween party. The room is full of political scientists exercising their Harvard-groomed competitive streaks in an attempt to win the most creative costume contest. In the corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli...