R.I.P. Halloween

Between worried mothers keeping their children home, and those of us that actually remember how to trick or treat are growing out of it, I haven't been feeling very fulfilled the last couple of Halloweens. Hardcore kids in Olympia used to get super amped on the holiday, and practice for months before hand to have a cover-band show with costumes, singing, dancing, moshing and all sorts of good times had. Everyone I've asked this year about it has straight up said it isn't worth doing because no one would come and no one has the money to put it on.
I spent all the money I had on getting together 'Fright Nights' to get some sort of fun tradition going and maybe try to re-wake the child in any one of our friends to smile and dress up and act goofy with me and eat candy till we puke.
Seems no one is really up to the task of having a good time and being fun this year because our Fright Night attendance has been dwindling. Not only that but I have twice been the only person who dresses up, bought pumpkins, made food, picked out movie after movie...only to be unappreciated and overlooked.
LAST Halloween was my first one living in the city so I got our apartment (Apt. #138 w/ Corey) all dressed up, I even put the international sign for 'knock on my fucking door and get some goddamn candy' out (any Halloween decoration will do, just stick one out there on the door and you should have youngsters lining up the block....)

....but low and behold I did not get ONE trick or treater the entire night. I even had told the little girl that lived below us to come trick or treat my house and that I had bought lots of candy. Even bribing them doesn't work! Parents either take their kids to some school function where they walk around a safe, closed in, trick or treating environment with all their teachers and friends or they just go trick or treat at their relatives houses.
When I was a kid, I would team up with a group of my friends and walk around Carolyn Beach and Steamboat Island till we had blisters, and try to hit every house with a light on. That's part of the fun of it! Yeah we usually had an adult escort who would wait on the street or by the car if it was too cold, but it was so awesome seeing everyones house decorations, costumes, getting mad when old people gave you apples or toothbrushes.

Halloween is dead, or has at last had all the spirit sucked out of it..

The only thing I've seen lately that gave me a small chance of hope was the movie 'Trick R Treat.' I'd like to thank writer/director Michael Dougherty for that one. Great movie that is basically just like someone puked up Halloween all over it. Soooooo good. I am a total dork I know, and that is why next Thursday I'll be the only one dressed up as a werewolf carving a pumpkin.