October Surprise

It's all Hail-Wine week, Antoinette.

Well America it's that time of year again when things start to get scary! When darkness gets here earlier and earlier⛼. When crazy people do crazy things. Historically it's when fake news was believable, as when Orson Welles scared New Jersey and the rest of America worse than Big Boy Bob M and a wannabe actor/politician tripping over his Spartacus lines could🙊 with his realistic radio production of War of the Worlds🛸👽. It's the time of year when Tuesday's are Black and the stock market crashed📉, when the Perfect Storm ⛈occurred... fictionally killing Clooney and Marky Mark, and non-fictionally causing America to have to suffer through insufferable Sox ⚾️fans gloating...talk about a storm surge of bilge!🤮 And speaking of things that make you wanna spill your cookies, it's the time of year for political ads ad nauseam🤮🤮! Now I know the etymology of Covfefe!🤬It's also the time many are waiting for the traditional October surprise! No, I'm not talking about trickers and treaters👺, and little ones dressed up in their cutest🧜‍♀️ and scariest🧟‍♂️ costumes, like a princess🧚‍♀️(psst, if you want to combine the two go as Caitlyn J,🧚‍♂️🙈), or you can really scare someone and go as a civil war era statue!🗽😱 Btw, would it be appropriate, to appropriate an Elizabeth Warren mask if you were a fan, or would that be appropriation of 1/1024 of an indigenous Colombian and therefore inappropriate even though both native Americans🛶 and Colombians are named after wayward Italians appropriately enough?🤔 Well despite the fact that Italians sail ⛵crazier than they drive🚔, and maybe get heavy handed on their name game, they do provide the best reward for a trick, with the perfect treat and the best costume...Wine/wine drinker.🍷I believe Italians refer to it as amore❤🍾💋! I say it's time to turn the October surprise into a positive. It's time to recognize we are Americans first and foremost. So how about we surprise our neighbors across the street, across the aisle, across the country with a bottle or two of wine and a smile. No more nasty tricks, let's step our game up to tasty treats👅! Remember that we all want the same things in life more or less, we just differ on how best to get there.(hint:🍾 ) Acknowledge the sincerity and decency on both sides, lower the rhetoric, raise your glass of wine, and toast the greatest country🇺🇸, the most generous people, and the fact we have the luxury to sit around arguing about statues, Indian headdresses, late night comedy shows, Twitter posts, and news, real or fake.📰 Time to put your Twitter finger in the holster🖕, your mouse in the drawer🖱, and change to your inside voice🤫. Our American rivalries should be friendly, just pretend it's an international soccer game without the whine⚽️😭...and encourage good sportsmanship🤝...and the best way to do that is to break bread with your neighbor and uncork a friendly bottle of wine🍾. Now that's a communion we should all pray for...🥂🙏! Drink up America, and remember when you answer the door, treat your neighbor with respect and a glass of wine... if they're underage just give them that sugar high and let the teacher deal with the fallout, 😉! Remember, the only War we want is that dusty old album, so Why Can't We Be Friends? 

I seen ya around for a long long time
I really remember you when you drank my wine

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends...

The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends...