| Halloween has to be one of the most disappointing annual events once one transitions past the "your too old to be trick or treating" stage in life. For the past several years I have just ignored the Halloween season in an attempt to avoid getting reminded of how cool Halloween used to be. In a since Halloween was a huge power trip. Being young and eligible for trick or treating gave us the power to get total strangers to decorate there yards as scary as they could, carve pumpkins, sometime dress up themselves and give us candy. It sounds silly when you break it down but thats the way it works. But when you lose that youth, usually around the time you really start to appreciate the power you have its taken away by none other than the people that seems to blindly serve you. It is for this reason I decided to not sulk over the lost privileges of my youth and take Halloween back. I thought long and hard, nearly taking up all of my Friday afternoon 15 minute break. I simply put some of my normal year round past times together with the overly abundant trademarks of this season, pumpkins. The formula was simple. 4X4 + Guns + Pumpkins = Gourd Carnage. I named my new Halloween event Night of The Pumpkin Destruction. Below are links to a few graining low quality video clips of the first annual Night of the Pumpkin Destruction. |
| I went out of my way this year to do the typical suburbanite Halloween house setup. Pumpkins on the front steps, some carved others o'natural, Autumn style lights, glowing plastic skull and a few carefully placed candles. Compared to most any Halloween setup I can recall it was extremely pita full, but luckily all of my neighbors pussed out and didn't do any decorating. All in all it was worth the effort. I got a hand full of trick or treaters (most of them piling out of cars and vans, no doubt on their way back from some swinging Halloween neighborhoods). |
| Halloween 2005 |
