[DIGEST] Gimme some candy

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In the least surprising news of the week, I like Halloween. No, I don’t eat many sweets, and no I don’t like dressing up, and no, I don’t particularly enjoy random people coming to my house, but there’s something about those three things in concert with each other that I do like. Maybe it’s the fact that everyone agrees for one night that you can be weird and it’s okay.

Every other day of the year we’re encouraged to conform, but on Halloween we are told to let our freak flags fly, and that doing so will be rewarded with candy. That’s kind of cool.

To celebrate the spooky season, I’ve been reading this very cool book on cemeteries called Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville, and I learned some neat facts.

Did you know, for instance, that cemeteries have a long history of doubling as urban parks, and that Central Park took its inspiration from somebody saying “Well, maybe we do the whole graveyard thing but without the dead people?” 

It kind of takes a bit of the fun out of that story abo…