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Seasons changin'...
Aug. 25th, 2005 01:34 amThe weather was cool enough to allow me to wear long sleeves again, and the attic fans went off around seven thirty in the evening, instead of at some wierd hour at night.
The back to school stuff has been out for a month now. I can remember when the pens and pencils didn't start showing up on the front end displays in the store, until two weeks before Sept. 1st. I seem to remember Ray Bradbury, in "Dandelion Wine" saying that summer ends as soon as the pens and pencils show up in the store windows. If that's the case, summer's been over since the last week of July.
And now the Fall/Halloween candy is showing up: at this point, it's just the "Harvest Mix" Hershey's Minatures and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in orange and gold foil/wrappers, but the marshmallow ghosts and York Peppermint Batties will be showing up soon, as well as the spooky yard decor in Wal-Mart. Question: Why call it "Harvest Mix"? Is that just to be generically autumnal or is it a concession to the Fundie Christians who yell that "HALLOWE'EN IZ TEH DEV0L!!!1111" ? Or is it just a marketing ploy? On the same note, I've been meaning to ask this question of my pagan/Wiccan friends/readers: Are there any pagans/Wiccans who object to Hallowe'en for "trivializing" one of your holidays (ie. like the Christians who whine about the "commercialization" of Christmas)? I'm well aware of Hallowe'en's roots in Samhain (And for that matter, the pagan origins of some Christmas and Easter traditions, too).
The back to school stuff has been out for a month now. I can remember when the pens and pencils didn't start showing up on the front end displays in the store, until two weeks before Sept. 1st. I seem to remember Ray Bradbury, in "Dandelion Wine" saying that summer ends as soon as the pens and pencils show up in the store windows. If that's the case, summer's been over since the last week of July.
And now the Fall/Halloween candy is showing up: at this point, it's just the "Harvest Mix" Hershey's Minatures and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in orange and gold foil/wrappers, but the marshmallow ghosts and York Peppermint Batties will be showing up soon, as well as the spooky yard decor in Wal-Mart. Question: Why call it "Harvest Mix"? Is that just to be generically autumnal or is it a concession to the Fundie Christians who yell that "HALLOWE'EN IZ TEH DEV0L!!!1111" ? Or is it just a marketing ploy? On the same note, I've been meaning to ask this question of my pagan/Wiccan friends/readers: Are there any pagans/Wiccans who object to Hallowe'en for "trivializing" one of your holidays (ie. like the Christians who whine about the "commercialization" of Christmas)? I'm well aware of Hallowe'en's roots in Samhain (And for that matter, the pagan origins of some Christmas and Easter traditions, too).
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