Aha, it's Halloween! That other holiday that only Americans really celebrate. Last year in France, I saw a few kids out trick or treating, but most of the students and the general population didn't care. Another happy example of cultural grafting that doesn't take. At least it's rather easier to explain the rationale behind Halloween: candy is delicious. There's none of this jive history about settlers in funny hats and the natives they displaced and inconvenienced.
Not a lot of visible festivities around, unfortunately. Perhaps that's because Halloween falls in the middle of the week, but personally, I'm all for taking advantage of a day when I can wear ridiculous clothes to work. Bring on the costumes! Bring on the candy corn! How can you dislike a holiday that involves carving pumpkins (mine features Mulder and Scully, or did before it began to slump in on itself) and unabashedly pagan ritual? Halloween's got history, and it isn't all death and destruction (well, lots of death, but mostly not on purpose).
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