[Kzyxtalk] Do they even know it's Halloween.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Do they even know it's Halloween.

/"Last Halloween I asked my nephew, do you know why you wear a costume, 
and you know what he said? To have fun and get candy. He didn't know 
it's to protect his virgin spirit from the wretched dead who roam the 
earth one night a year to steal souls. I hate to say it, times have 
changed, and for some people the emphasis is not on frightening away 
demons. But frightening away demons is the reason for the season. Here's 
something chilling: a recent poll of American fifth graders found that 
sixty-three percent could identify the cartoon character Jack 
Skellington, but only fourteen percent could identify Alghul, the ghoul 
that dwells in burial grounds. That is appalling, kids being more 
familiar with a fictional cartoon than with a real ghoul. When I was a 
child our whole family would go down to the public square and we'd get 
around that ceremonial mound and we would go sunwise and anti-sunwise, 
it was a family thing to do. In the town that I live in, we don't even 
erect an altar anymore to torture animals as a warning to the spectral 
realm. Because someone complained about the howling!"

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2023-10-27) eight-hour-long 
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg 
(CA) and KNYO.org:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0564

I'm happy to read your writing on the radio. Just email it to me and 
that's all you have to do.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to worthwhile items I set aside for you 
while gathering the show together, such as:

The true meaning of Halloween. We've forgotten, and that's a shame. Is 
Halloween over-commercialized? Yes. (Rerun.))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0McggLIYmnE

"In fact it is the time when Satan impregnates his bride."
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/10/24/entirely-justified/

A mom commercial for orange juice.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/10/mom-commercial.html

And Kazui Nihonmatsu's /X from Outer Space./ A cautionary tale. (90 min.)
https://archive.org/details/the-x-from-outer-space

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com