2005-10-31

DEATH!

The dining hall was gussied up for the holiday today. With dim lights, spooky music and sound effects playing in the background, and fog machines, the cafeteria exuded the Halloween spirit. Over the course of dinner, a projector appeared. Excitement mounted for a scary movie to be screened on the wall. Oh, it's scary all right: footage of torture on the part of the U.S. government meant to incite anger for a protest on Wednesday. In the Halloween context, however, it plays as a sort of slasher film with the overlying music and lighting effects, and is actually extremely distasteful.

I love it.

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