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[trinityvixen]

Reading a poll about TV, I just remembered having a dream last night about watching commercials for the CW's Thursday night. (Yes, it was that exciting.) Somehow, they wedged another show inbetween Smallville and Supernatural. I was annoyed by this as it meant having to watch Supernatural at 10, which wouldn't give me much time to write my Smallville review for Pink Raygun (since I'd almost certainly squander the hour between shows on nothing) before I would need to sleep.

I realize, now, that dream-me wanted to watch Supernatural. This is why I know it was a nightmare.

(I'm kidding. At least I know why I dreamt about Supernatural. If you go to this thread at TWoP, there's a bunch of "motivational" posters, and the Supernatural fangirls outnumber all the other fangirls combined, I swear. I've been flipping through the archive--holy JESUS there are 1000 pages (literally!)--for the past few days now.)

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Hey, what all costumes did people see last night? I saw a shark at 34th street, Maleficent at 42nd street and rode all the way to 125th on the A with a Jedi. All were actually stellar costumes (especially the Jedi, but I'm biased; also, people who are Star Wars geeks are like mad prepared for Halloween 365 days of the year anyway).

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ETA: WE HAVE HEAT ON IN THE APARTMENT. Of course, we have heat on a day when it's really not all that bad to do without, but I'll be happy to have it tomorrow, looks like.

Comments

[shell524.livejournal.com]

There's been a big push, in Texas at least, for "safe" trick-or-treating venues in the form of trick-or-treating at malls, shopping strips, etc.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely a good idea. The controlled environment is easier on the parents, and there's a limit to what the kids can take home. I think that's a good thing since, otherwise, there're plenty who'd just trick-or-treat until they had more candy than should eat in a full year, let alone in the scant week or so they would do.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Oh, the kids are still walking around with their parents, so it's not as if the kids are in danger, no matter where they go (outside of Baghdad). Besides, I'm not sure I like the coercive element in practice.

On the other hand, kids were walking up to me while I was in the store, looking at videos, yelling "trick or treat!" and holding their bags open for candy. I, of course, had nothing to give them, and their parents rushed in and whisked them away, but it was cute nevertheless.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They just need a few years to catch onto the whole thing.

As for the stores, in addition to good will, something like a video store could only benefit for bringing in parents, who'd happily rent a few titles while the kids made the candy circuit.