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Halloween is over for another year, but it will linger on in yards, and alleys for at least one complete garbage pickup cycle. Halloween "week" already rivals the Christmas "season" in terms of consumer spending, and I think only Christmas produces more trash. With the possible exception of reindeer poo, Xmas has nothing on Halloween's wet, slimy, pumpkin debris. On the good side, Halloween may be one of the most biodegradable holidays --  the bulk of the trash, even including costumes, is candy, pumpkins, and cardboard fireworks casings,

When the orange, and black things start popping up all over the place, that can only mean two things, okay, maybe three things -- The B.C. Lions, our Canadian Football League team, are in season; Halloween is just around the corner, and, more ominously, the Christmas season is coming.

Halloween's cool, but, It seems that no sooner do Halloween decorations come out -- and fireworks stores pop up like poisonous mushrooms -- than people start talking about the Christmas holidays. Look, even I'm doing it! Gahhh! It's not the Christmas lights (which some people never take down), or the fake holiday cheer, or the over-commercialization, which bothers me, it's how all the bad stuff gets rolled together, and triple-distilled as Christmas songs -- evil little audio slices of Christmas cake, forever re-gifted. I just have to be strong, is all. Click the images to enlarge.