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Blessed Be Halloween, America's Only Honest Holiday
Ken Layne · 10/31/13 10:06AMHalloween digs itself out of the chilly autumn ground for a few weeks each year, too weird and primal for governments or religions to claim. It is an ancient pagan harvest festival and a leering plastic skeleton in a front-yard cemetery of styrofoam tombstones. It is candy and liquor, sex and death, and the only "moral lesson" of Halloween is a sneering threat from a child in the night: Give me mine or you'll get yours, mister. It is the only honest American holiday.
This Dog Loves Playing in a Pile of Leaves More Than You Love Anything
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/23/13 02:47PMIt's officially fall again, and that can only mean three things: Everything tastes like pumpkin; monster-themed breakfast cereals are back on the shelves; and no freshly raked pile of leaves is safe from sneak attacks.
How Much Would It Take To Get You To Eat a 'White Chocolate Peppermint' Pringle?
Kate Bennert · 10/11/12 09:47PMPringles, a potato-based snack that does not actually self-identify as a "potato chip," has recently announced that they will be introducing new "holiday flavors" to the Pringle family. The new flavors? "Pumpkin Pie Spice," "Cinnamon and Sugar," and "White Chocolate Peppermint." Why? God only knows.
'Snowtober' Kills Three, Leaves Millions Without Power
Max Read · 10/30/11 10:06AMA nor'easter hit the, uh, Northeast yesterday, like, October 29 yesterday, dropping as many as 19 inches of snow on a region stretching from Pennsylvania through New England in what was for most places a record-breakingly early snowstorm. Three people died overnight—an 84-year-old man was killed by a falling tree, a 20-year-old man accidentally touched a downed power line, and a third person was killed in a Connecticut traffic accident—and at least 2.3 million people were left without power.