And Now, Philebrity’s Five Rules Of Nature Regarding Halloween In Philadelphia
1. If you don’t have a costume now, give up already.
2. Someone is having a party at the RUBA — you may not know the host, but you damn well know everybody else.
3. No matter what day Halloween actually falls on, white people in Fairmount had it two days earlier. No, seriously.
4. And like a straggly remainder in a grade school math problem, Mischief Night always, always carries over.
5. Somewhere, right now, as we speak, a Drexel, Penn or Temple kid is considering blackface.
