everyday is halloween

this scary season is like no other we have known.  the pandemic raging still, an election that is the most consequential of my five decades on this blue speck hanging in space, racial injustices, ever widening economic disparity etc etc.  this list can treble without breaking a sweat.  & yet, still, i posted the dylan thomas 'poem in october' below because i love it & i love thomas' voice & the poem & the poet reminds me that this month of october is the best month of the year.  this scary season is changed by all that challenges us right now but yet halloween remains ripe in my heart.  i'll go on doing my usual 'everyday is halloween' countdown by posting halloween themed videos & movie reviews.  i might even repeat myself & review a film i've already written about, or publish a video that is an annual staple of mine in my love of all things halloween.  i won't publish every night.  but consider this annual tradition of mine a morale booster.  the shit is thick out there.  & getting even thicker.  the scares we face are real & terrifying as hell.  still, we must remind ourselves why we are worth the fight against all the bad out there.  pleasure can also be an ethical good.  aesthetics too.  so hang on to your hats boils & ghouls.  it's about to get - pleasurably - scary.  

boo