LET YOUR FREAK FLY
Halloween Is Not Synonymous With ‘Heidi Klum’
By Elizabeth C.
SO HEIDI KLUM HAS CANCELED HER ANNUAL SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWEEN PARTY. The model-turned-TV host blamed it on the freak Sandy that blew into her town. “Canceling my Halloween party…postponing to a haunted Christmas,” she tweeted along with a snap of herself in soggy New York. “Hope you & your loved ones are safe after the storm.”
It’s good news as far as I’m concerned: now there’s more chance for the other recordbreaking 169,999,999 of you celebrating this year to be fabulous — or freaky. Or psychotic. Or villainous. Or darling. Or whatever alter ego you don during this autumnal holiday. Without even trying, the stunning and oh-so game Klum always made the rest of us look bad. Her absence can only be good for the mere mortals and undead celebrating this year.
And fright night is serious business: consumers will spend an “unprecedented $8 billion on Halloween this year,” $2.4 billion of it on candy alone, according to retail trade groups.
But Americans don’t have the corner on the market: the holiday is celebrated in countries across the globe, and virtually every Halloween tradition is an import -“borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries,” according to Wikipedia. Of course it took American enterprise to blow it up into the commercial jolly-good-time into which its evolved. But here’s a tip for really creeping out in the spirit of the holiday: remember the dead.
