{"id":541,"date":"2005-10-25T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2005-10-25T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T18:44:00","slug":"541","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The right Halloween<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s the season when people celebrate Halloween for all reasons, even the bloggers of “The Cotillion,” a sort of “Carnival of . . .” for social conservative female bloggers.<\/p>\n

They have assembled a tasty selection of vintage artistic and cinematic images<\/a> and an analysis of the Salem witch trials to serve their causes of trashing the “mainstream media,” the lifestyle left, and even Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n

OK, I’m with them on the Tom Cruise part. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker’s<\/a> critique of Katherine Hepburn<\/a> at the start of the latter’s career, “He runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”<\/p>\n

Hurray for Piglet<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

Tag: Halloween<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bloomberg News columnist Amity Shlaes reacts against its \"paganism.\" She is pleased to see the violence of \"Mischief Night\" fading but continues, \" Unmask Halloween, however, and you\u2019ll also find some disconcerting features. Christmas and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11003,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11003","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":2},"title":"Happy Halloween","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Halloween, dear readers. This day finds me still coping with the 16.5 inches (41 cm) of snow that fell this week, working simultaneously on two journals (a new Pomegranate is coming!) and preparing to start a book-editing project. And my own stuff too, of course. 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(Link good until Nov. 3; then check the \"Toons\" page.)Tag: Halloween","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1246,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1246","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":4},"title":"Organizing Halloween Ritual","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I said that I was not going to post any more Halloween items. I take that back. Here is one more. One decision we've made is to rebuff curious friends who ask to join our Halloween rituals. It seems like half the people I know want to be pagan on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Halloween\"","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=halloween"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6787,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6787","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":5},"title":"The Myth of Halloween Sadism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Myth in the popular sense, that is to say, an urban legend, says sociologist Joel Best, who has been studying the razor-blade-in-the-apple and similar stories for decades. 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