Apparently there’s a vocal contingent of Australians who want nothing to do with Halloween. Not because they consider it satanic, or because children might be injured by nutjobs hiding razor blades in their candy, but because . . . it’s American!!! Del Rey author John Birmingham took on those objectors in Blunt Instrument, his blog on the Brisbane National Times website. Here’s a juicy excerpt:
[A reader] demanded to know ‘When did we become Ausmerica? I don’t remember moving to the U.S. Why are we so desperate to become a clone of the U.S.? I can see very little about that country that would be worth emulating. There will be no skeletons or buckets of lollies at my house on the weekend.’
What a bunch of narcs. I pity their poor children, forced to stay at home wearing bush hats with corks on little strings dangling from them while watching The Best of Paul Hogan on VHS–and that grudgingly because, you know, it’s a Japanese invention, the VHS, and Uncle Wally never forgave them for what they done to his mate Perce up the Kokoda Track, which is a track, not a trail, like those useless Americans say.
