Avast there, ahoy there, avast there, me hearties

[vovat]

Another day, another post nobody will care about.

So, as I'm sure you all know, yesterday was Halloween. The night before the actual day, bethje and I watched Halloween: Resurrection. It was pretty good, although I thought the new design for Michael Myers wasn't expressionless enough, or something like that. You could actually kind of see his eyes, and maybe it was just me, but it seemed like you could sometimes see a hint of expression in them. I mean, part of the point of Michael is that you can't see his face at all, so the new look didn't work as well as the old one. Maybe I'm just seeing things that aren't really there, though.

For the actual Halloween, Beth, her dog Dewey, and I all dressed up as pirates and went trick-or-treating. I know we're kind of old for that, and I don't really care about the candy anyway. I rarely even eat much of it. I love dressing up, though, and I don't know of anywhere that adults can dress up and do stuff for Halloween. I guess some people go to parties, but I'm not a party person, and it's not like I ever get invited to them anyway.

My pirate costume was largely thrown together, but I don't think it was much worse than the store-bought pirate costumes (although Beth did have a store-bought costume, and I did like it). I had a parrot for my shoulder, but it wouldn't stay in position, and was kind of uncomfortable to wear. Not that a real parrot WOULD be comfortable to have on your arm, but at least it would probably stay upright. I was actually thinking of being a pirate last year, and I bought an eyepatch, and, after I decided to be a doctor instead, I left the eyepatch in the trunk of my car for some time. Unfortunately, though, I took it out sometime in between then and now, and I left it at home, which I'm kind of annoyed about. I'm not sure I'm ever going to get any use out of that thing. Oh, well.

After trick-or-treating, Beth and I went out to eat at Bennigan's, and then came back to Beth's house and watched some Halloween things that she had on tape, including an episode of NewsRadio and a History Channel special called The Haunted History of Halloween. The special had a definite slant to it, presenting the many historical attempts to curb Halloween celebrations in a negative light. It's a slant I can agree with, though, so I have no problem with that.

So, I guess today is All Saints' Day, not that I celebrate that or anything, and tomorrow is Election Day. Since I've already voted, I guess I won't exactly be celebrating that either. I am anxious about it, though. I guess we'll finally find out whether the American people are stupid enough to vote for Bush, or he'll have to resort to cheating again. Either way, I don't hold out much hope. I guess we'll find out for sure soon, though, unless they have weeks of recounts again, which wouldn't exactly surprise me. It's annoying that the polls are so close, not only because I fail to see why anyone but the filthy rich would want to see four more years of Bush, but also because, if Bush were clearly losing in the polls, I think he would have less of a chance of stealing the election again, since it would look really suspicious. As it is, though, if Bush doesn't win fair and square (or as fair and square as it's possible to get with the electoral college in place), a few "lost" votes will probably be all it takes for Dubya to get another term. I hope I'll turn out to be wrong, though.

Comments

[tisok.livejournal.com]

the really weird thing is that (according to at least some polls), kerry's ahead among many rich people and dubya's ahead among middle class people.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

That's pretty weird. I mean, there are plenty of reasons why rich people, including the ones who stand to benefit from Bush's tax cuts, would be against him. I think privacy rights might be even more of a concern for the rich than for the poor, and Bush and Ashcroft don't appear to think much of the idea of privacy. Then there's the whole religion issue. I'm sure not all rich people share Bush's religion, and everything that entails. As for the middle class supporting Bush, well, I'm sure a lot of them buy the "Kerry is a flip-flopper who's going to let the terrorists kill us all!" nonsense. So I can see why some classes of people might be voting the opposite of the way they usually do. Overall, though, I'd suspect that the poll probably isn't that accurate.

I'd be kind of interested to know who's getting support from different sorts of people, grouped differently than by income level. For instance, do very many atheists support Bush?