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Happy Halloween!

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It's a Halloween Hump Day! We will have more details about the Halloween Parade and other events in the city later, but we thought we'd point you to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown videos on Youtube (part 1, 2, 3), in case you missed ABC's airing last night. You can also get it on DVD, and there's also the book It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic.

Halloween originated as a pagan holiday but has now turned into a celebration when kids overdose in candy, some confuse costume with wearing as little as possible and stores mark it as the eve of starting their Christmas advertising. So maybe it is still quite pagan.

Are you dressing up for Halloween today? Are you headed to work as a diaper-wearing-astronaut- in-love or is that one the docket for this evening?

Photograph of dog dressed as Snoopy as the Red Baron during the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade by dietrich on Flickr

More Halloween pics after the jump.

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Photograph by isaiaht on Flickr
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Photograph by isaiaht on Flickr
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Photography by ~Raymond on Flickr
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Photograph by tud5000 on Flickr
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  • Dude69

    My position is the same as before, people who dress up their pets should be arrested and fined for animal abuse.

  • samsamsam

    Please someone call the SPCA

  • JRod5417

    Is that a real dog in the last photo? He looks scared.

  • smitty

    what gang symbol is that? Vagitarians?

    I'm serious, I don't know.

  • jibbly
  • Peter

    Courtesy of Roissy in DC, the best costume ever.

  • MT

    I have a technical halloween question. Somewhere along the line I was taught that Halloween came about because tomorrow is All Saint's Day and people get dressed up today to scare away evil spirits so the saints can and souls on All Soul's Day can walk the earth freely or something. Did I totally make that up or is it really a thing?

  • zodak

    i can't tell you how sad it makes me to see kids that young make gang signs whenever a camera is pointed at them.

  • JMH

    Pickles is right. Even so, though, it's a cute costume.

  • pickles

    for the record, snoopy was not the red baron, he fought the red baron.

    http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/images/snoopy.gif

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