yours truly circa halloween '03, as neo-soul pikachu, the righteous pokemon. i sure wasn't able to mask that triple chin though...

i have a confession to make...i'm not really big on halloween.

see? usually when i tell people that, it's responded with wide appalled eyes like "how could you not be into halloween???? you get to dress up! and eat candy!"

it's nothing personal to halloween, per say. i'm just not into days designated by the higher forces for you to be able to do things that wouldn't usually be socially acceptable. it's like the smoking room at airports...or the noon-to-1pm slot on college campuses where students are allowed to protest without disturbing classes. "you're not allowed to do this anywhere else, but here...we've made a space for you to all crowd into and get it over with."

but before you slap the "bah humbug" stamp on my forehead, let me just say. i think that people should be able to feel free to dress up everyday...that's basically the world i live in anyway--i want to be captain planet today because it's...well, because it's tuesday, dammit! imagine how much funner it would be to walk to the market if there was even the slight possibility of passing by dora the explorer at any given moment. or how many gangfights would stop if, in the middle of all the chaos, a car drove by...a batmobile car.

anyway, not to rain on your charade, i need to make it clear that i also don't have any problems with people dressing up for halloween (or any other day), just people who look at me all sour each year when i don't walk into the building with a hockey mask and a pumpkin.

for the few of you who feel me on this, i would like to offer this little trinket--think of it as a candy apple with a razor-sharp excuse to not dress up for halloween tucked inside--it's the official righteous spoken word extraordinare's excuse to not dress up for halloween. here it is:

yeah, yenno, brotha/sista/king/queen/godd, i'm just sayin'...i feel as children of the light put here in the middle of this babylonian empire, we're always wearing a mask, yennowhati'msayin? like, we're never really ourselves in the first place. so instead, for halloween, i'm going to take the opportunity to be myself. mmmmmm yes, revolution. nah'm sayin? wassup with halloween anyway? i'm all about solideen.

there it is. works every time. you're welcome.


ps: not to be completely utterly hypocritical, but come celebrate halloween with ill-lit!