I've been a fan of Halloween for a while. A few years ago I decided that it's maybe my favorite major holiday. Which is saying a lot because, well, I don't think much about holidays. Anyway, I've always liked Halloween because it's got a better holiday spirit than the the holidays that focus primarily on people buying stuff all day long. Halloween is purely about having fun. You get to dress up, you get to go to parties, you get to eat candy. I mean, really, during what other holiday do you have women going "hmmmm, should I be the naughty nurse, the trashy ho, or the Playboy bunny?" And no one gets freaked about it. There's no stress because the inlaws are coming to down. No one has a meltdown if the ham gets a little over cooked. Don't like the Halloween punch? Too bad, here, have a candy eyeball. Good times.
But over the last few years, I've noticed a prolifration of some pretty over-the-top Halloween displays in my neighborhood. Each year is bigger, creepier, or just down-right more distrubing. And since I've been running more this year, I've probably had a better opportuntity to scope them out. There is clearly some rivalries going on here. It used to be the big Christmas light displays, but now we're well into the zone of the Grizwald Halloween. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.