Post Halloween

Well I survived the weekend. It was tough and I think my liver kind of hates me but I'll give him a rest and hopefully he will forgive me. I saw some really cool costumes this year, I wish I had pictures to show you guys but I don't really know where they are. Once they go up online I'll update the post for you guys.

Many laughs were had, some of the best moments last night were when I saw Lord Voldamort, the dark lord, getting trashed then singing and dancing to a queen song (perfect youtube material, there is a video on some phone), when this person came into the party and my friend and I couldn't tell if it was a girl or a guy and it turned out to be a girl dressed as a guy dressed as a girl (tranny hooker), pre gaming with some cute m&ms, drawing tattoos on my friend who was an inmate, scaring people in my gorilla suit, fighting my friend who was ike from Super Smash Bros, freestyling in the plaza with some randoms and having people cheering (there's a video of this somewhere, I remember some chick filming with her phone, no idea who it was though), seeing a kid be all like "fuck the police" to a cop who he thought was just a guy in costume, it was a great night.

I'm guessing most if not all of you have never been to Arcata during halloween. Everybody who lives there all meet up at the plaza and it rages. Here is a picture of half of the plaza last night.

Scare People

If you haven't done it today then get on it. This is the only day that you can scare the shit out of people and have it be socially acceptable.

A Little Halloween History

Hey, I woke up this morning not feeling to gravy but enough to hop on here and shoot you guys a post. I was going to just say happy halloween and drop a song or something but who really wants to read that. I've seen to many of those so far. So I did a little research and found out how we got halloween.

Ok so halloween has been traced back to the celtic people. They had a festival on Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced sah-win) to symbolize the end of summer. In this festival they light giant bonfires to represent the sun to aid their druids (celtic priests who carried out rituals in open air) in the fight against the dark powers. They believed Samhain was the time when the division between the two worlds became thin so hostile supernatural forces were able to venture into our world and wander around as ghosts. Because of these dark forces many of the Celtic people would dress in masks to ward off these spirits. And through the telephone game of time we ended up with a holiday where toddlers go trick or treating, kids go toilet papering, teens and adults dress in skimpy outfits and party, and old people give out candy.

Side note - I found out that the word bonfire came from the words "bone fire" which means that these Celtic people would put sacrificed animals bones into the fire to set ablaze, sometimes human.

Ok so now you know, your wearing that costume tonight to ward off spirits that wander around on this day. Now have a great day/night and be safe. I'll be posting some hangover cures later for you people that don't give a fuck its sunday, its halloween!

After a blood fight, Before a zombie party