I'm so...

Bored with the USA.

As if wall-to-wall coverage of an election in a country in which I don't even get to vote wasn't enough (aren't there rules about this? I don't even think there's this much coverage of a UK general election), we also had the trick or treaters round last night.

When I was young, we celebrated Samhain in more traditional ways, a kind of house party with bobbing apples, and fun and games. Going round houses begging for sweets wasn't part of it. Truth be told, that part of the tradition was celebrated in the form of "Penny for the Guy", or later on, as carol singing. The problem these days is that we get trick or treat AND penny for the guy AND carol singing. What bugs me about halloween is that it's just another Hallmark holiday, a commercial interlude, and nothing to do with our traditions of bonfires and commemorating the dark half of the year.

As for the US election, the amount of coverage might be bearable if it wasn't so fucking repetitive. We don't get depth or breadth, we get the same 5 sentences 60,000 times a day.