Apologia pro vita

Ryan

History 101

10/31/2020

Jack Skellington AKA “MR. Pumpkin King”

Apologia pro vita, vita est muerte es vita

To the faithful departed and all those who were lost somewhere along the path of life and have entered into the world beyond our own I say, Blessings. May he that watches over the dead have mercy on your souls and may you find eternal rest. “All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” (Ecclesiastes 3:20) “Wither shall I go from thy spirit? Or wither shall I flea from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there, if I make my bed in hell, Behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” (Psalm 139:1-10) Greeting to all whose eyes may behold or eyelids try to read the words of this haunted and blessed, this cursed but prophetic, this living but dead manuscript. Isn’t it a pleasure to find form and understanding in this most cursed time of life that we profoundly live in? What are the virtues? How does one acquire them? What are the means? Its profound to seek truth even if it is only a muse from beyond that’s tangible truth for a few exceedingly forsaken who sit around refusing domestication. What you seek is seeking you and the truth lies somewhere between here and the sacred silence of sleep. We set off on a very real holiday that’s not fiction at all. The one where the heathen can shine like their true selves and not have to worry so much. Where a trick is a treat and decoration of evil spirits and lurking ghost’s are. Where a nightmare is a floating place of peace and an uncanny valley for those fond of foolishness and praise folly. The time is now. And the nightmare is here/Happy Halloween.

“No” Stuttered the pumpkin king as he stumbled around in the tall spire of which was a laboratory of haunted goodness. “This is all wrong. There’s nothing more suspicious than frogs breath.” In walks a quirky looking sally with a disjointed neck. “Jack I think you ought to get some rest. It’s merely moments before twilight and the mummy’s are waiting for you and nobody’s seen the zombies for day’s. Some aliens were messing with Bill Murray and now the only one left to fight the horde is me you and whoever else we can scrounge up.”

“Sally” Jack asked thoughtfully. “DO you think the jolly red man will help us kill zombies?”

Sally replied ecstatically. “Oh Jack! I thought you’d never ask! Let me get my cross bow.”

Playing on the radio somewhere in the background is a sonic song echoing through the landscape that seems to be reclaimed by nature. The lyrics are profound and apparently it’s the theme song.

“There’s a cup of coffee waiting round every corner, someday we wake up and find the corners gone.”(Sturgil Simpson, “The dead don’t die, 2019,” The dead don’t die” Focus features with bill Murray and Kylo ren)

“Sally” asks jack politely. “Do the dead die?”

Sally seems to know the answer to the question. “Jack it’s the theme song.”

“Sally when we rid this apocalypse of the gouhlish we will have a parade. Giant balloons will be flying down macy’s window in a profound display of Halloween towns hypothetical resentment for me/”

“One disgruntled kraken at high noon, they sell popcorn beer and balloons.” Replied sally. (Aseop rock, none shall pass. 2010)

“I see dead people” Jack said gazing into the horizon. (The sixth sense, Bruce willis, haley joel osment)

“Im just a girl, standing in front of a skeleton, saying there is no unexpected zombie on the mini map.” Sally said playing off the profound despair of there predicament.

In the 2002 game red faction 2 produced by volition and published by THQ, there is a gun In it called the rail gun in which displayed enemy’s in the form of a mini-map-esque type inferred camera on the optics of the weapon. The weapons were manufactured on a base on mars using nano technology. Jason Statham so famously voiced “shrike” the vehicle expert of the guerilla faction.

Sally has a similar apparatus on her cross-bow. One to detect zombies lurking anywhere in Halloween town. And with her and jack they set off on there mission to find sati-claws and help fend off their impending doom in the form of a zombie apocalypse. End scene 1.

Today is October/31 and we have a great thing to do. Firstly we have an amazing holiday of Halloween where we can celebrate the dead. Death being a sore thing to experience and many people know that keen pain and grief that comes from loss. But some may argue that death actually does a disservice to culture although In other cultures the people have harnessed traditions to worship their dead. It was published in a science journal about some of the more grotesque burial practices used when there was an epidemic. And there was a certain fear that the body count would become too large and they buried the dead face down in order to give glory to god. Or something close to that as I come to understand. Anyway, this year Halloween falls on a blue moon and well see a crazy full moon. So don’t be surprised if the crazy’s come out to play. Who knows maybe well even get to see a full moon. Actually, “Every time a full moon is on Halloween its actually always a blue moon.” (IFl science, 2020, Rare blue full moon will light up the sky on Halloween.) But although the stage is set for a fantastic holiday I cant help but be concerned about the impending zombie’s we may have to contend with. Hey, its been a crazy year, who knows what else we may have to face. People born on October,31 inculed but are not limited too Christopher Columbus, john candy, and rob Schneider.

So what are you doing this Halloween? Going to a costume party? Taking your children trick or treating? Fighting off zombies? All I can say is that I love this holiday!