Halloween

No Brasil não há a cultura Halloween. Mesmo. As pessoas tem é uma idéia meio vaga de que é dia de se vestir de bruxa, monstro, frankenstein e coisa e tal. Hum...
Linko aqui a estoria, a origem do Halloween.



"The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.
The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas."

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Born to be wild

Yeah, vai rolar o encontro de motociclistas em Novembro. Vou tocar com o Bubble Gum. É, faz um tempão que não canto. Vai ser bom. Tô na gana, saca? Com sede. Sempre curti a cultura on the road, if you know what I mean. No repertório não poderá faltar a clássica Route 66. Yeah!

Elas

Acabo de voltar de Campinas, onde mora Lia.
A conheci na Italia. Sorte minha.
Sua influência em minha vida me torna sempre uma pessoa melhor.
Não vou descrever nem salientar todas as qualidades e nuances dessa mina. Eu já sei.
Eu tenho grandes amigas. Não sei como me sentiria sem elas. Desamparada certamente. Tenho maior orgulho de ter essas puta pessoas como minhas amigas, e saber que elas gostam de mim me dá um conforto enorme. Eu gosto delas pra caralho também.
Nós não precisamos escrever e-mails, telefonar, mandar cartões de feliz aniversário. O lance é mais embaixo. São poucas minha amigas e acho melhor assim. Tudo na verdade rola se existe admiração. E somente se fortalece se rola um aprendizado mútuo e a porra da admiração. E não poderia ser diferente, certo?
Esse tópico tá ficando meio piegas, por isso meninas, vou enfiar o pé na jaca e dizer: Amo vocês!!