My Favorite Holiday
It's October now, the days are getting shorter, the weather cooling off, and the halcyon days we Texans live for are right around the corner....ah the two weeks in Fall and Spring when the weather is absolutely perfect. Cerulean skies, dry air and a crisp temperature. Perfect weather for lounging at a picnic table, laughing, talking with old and dear friends, and of course, drinking beer in the back yard of the Lone Star Bar!
Along with the mild temperatures fall brings, it also brings my favorite holiday. Halloween. What a marvelous holiday! Situated between Labor Day, depressing because it marks the official end of Summer, and Christmas, depressing to most, as it involves the time you have to spend with people, related to you by DNA, but with whom you have little or nothing in common, or worse yet, can't stand to be around. If I could lay down and go to sleep on the day before Thanksgiving and wake up on New Year's eve, I would. But, I have issues, and that's a rant for another day on another blog.
Halloween is the best holiday for a number of reasons...first, the weather is usually great, heheh (trust me, in Texas that's a big deal), second, you can get out of your skin for a few hours and be somebody else. You can disguise yourself so completely that even your best friends don't know who you are, or you can get acquainted with your inner clown. You can be Marilyn Monroe for a night or Marilyn Manson. Click here for a great website full of cool Halloween history
I love Halloween because it's amusing to watch the closeted transexuals come out for the night....you know those "manly men" who wear old, worn jeans, flannel and cowboy boots 364 days of the year, but on Halloween out comes Roxanne! The queen in all her glory! Yes boys and girls, the manly man wears a dress, and loves every minute of it! They toddle around on borrowed high heels, smeared with mascara and lipstick and they think we think it's a costume....riiiiiight.
The Lone Star Bar has a great Halloween Party every year on the day, no matter what day it falls (no Saturday night parties for us unless if FALLS on Saturday), and this year is no exception. There will be a band and the obligatory costume contest, and in spite of the fact that this place is out in the boonies, it's usually a pretty well attended event.
I'll be there with bells on, and you may get your palm read by a gypsy woman, but only if you cross her palm with silver....
Along with the mild temperatures fall brings, it also brings my favorite holiday. Halloween. What a marvelous holiday! Situated between Labor Day, depressing because it marks the official end of Summer, and Christmas, depressing to most, as it involves the time you have to spend with people, related to you by DNA, but with whom you have little or nothing in common, or worse yet, can't stand to be around. If I could lay down and go to sleep on the day before Thanksgiving and wake up on New Year's eve, I would. But, I have issues, and that's a rant for another day on another blog.
Halloween is the best holiday for a number of reasons...first, the weather is usually great, heheh (trust me, in Texas that's a big deal), second, you can get out of your skin for a few hours and be somebody else. You can disguise yourself so completely that even your best friends don't know who you are, or you can get acquainted with your inner clown. You can be Marilyn Monroe for a night or Marilyn Manson. Click here for a great website full of cool Halloween history
I love Halloween because it's amusing to watch the closeted transexuals come out for the night....you know those "manly men" who wear old, worn jeans, flannel and cowboy boots 364 days of the year, but on Halloween out comes Roxanne! The queen in all her glory! Yes boys and girls, the manly man wears a dress, and loves every minute of it! They toddle around on borrowed high heels, smeared with mascara and lipstick and they think we think it's a costume....riiiiiight.
The Lone Star Bar has a great Halloween Party every year on the day, no matter what day it falls (no Saturday night parties for us unless if FALLS on Saturday), and this year is no exception. There will be a band and the obligatory costume contest, and in spite of the fact that this place is out in the boonies, it's usually a pretty well attended event.
I'll be there with bells on, and you may get your palm read by a gypsy woman, but only if you cross her palm with silver....
posted by Duchess Of Austin at 4:11 PM
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