HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The "Groovy Ghoulies" rocked Saturday mornings in the early 1970s. The "Goovy Ghoulies" are also a post-punk band fromn California.

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Halloween is one of the Author's favorite holidays. As kids in rural Indiana, it meant trick-or-treating, pranks, cool candy and stuff at the local store, and juvenile mayhem.

Halloween also coincided with the end of mild fall weather and the beginning of cold weather. Football was over and basketball was starting.

As kids we tromped through leaf-strewn streets to load up with candy. When we were real little kids, we went with a babysitter who knew all of the best houses.

As we got older Halloween took on a little more mayhem. We spent one junior high Halloween in the grave yard. Nothing scary at all. Except our mid-term grades and our prospects for getting girls to sit with us at lunch.

HALLOWEEN IS A PAID HOLIDAY IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL!