Trunk Fest = The New Halloween

This is where I make one of those statements about how, when I was a kid, Halloween was so much fun. Ton's 'O Kids walking around, streets filled with ET's and Luke Skywalker's, and an occasional Goonie. (see me)

But that would be the predictable, run of the mill way to start a post. Oh wait.

This year, and quite honestly, the past couple of years, the streets have been empty. Sad, but true. This is the part where I tell you that when I was a kid, things were simpler and people actually enjoyed going outside and interacting with the community. Not anymore. And who can blame them?

It's a New Age. I have more friends online than I do in the real world. Add all the things kids can do these days, video games, DVD's, the interweb and enter kids who really just don't care about walking around outside and getting free candy.

Again with the "enter", The Trunk Fest.

Leave it to the marketing genius' at your local church to come up with another way to get your address and try and pimp out there Jesus to you. And to be quite honest, I applaud them for it.

Instead of Halloween, it's Harvest Time, and instead of going house to house, you get a bunch of people to park in your parking lot, and hand out candy from their trunks. GENIUS.

Meanwhile, you have concessions, a stage where the Jesus is being rocked, and presto, Super Jesus Harvest Festival disguised as the New Halloween. Again, Genius.

My two older boys remember "the days" of going house to house, but my 4 year old, he's a child of the New Age Trunk Fest.

"House to house? Dudes, when you guys were little, I bet you had VCR's!!! Queers!" - says the little Latino kid disguised as a coconut.