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Started noticing decorations and ads popping up this weekend....six weeks before Halloween.

Anyone else think the true meaning behind these festive days and holidays gets a bit lost when marketing is done so far in advance? Especially Thanksgiving and Christmas here in the US.

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Black and white photo of a 2-2.5 meter tall Halloween skeleton taken in a small indoor shopping mall in 4x3 landscape format.

The skeleton is pictured from the pelvis up with both arms outstretched to its front, as if to say "I'm coming to get you". Glowing hearts are centered in its dark, deep-set eye sockets.

The background consists of framing architecture intersecting vertically at the right third of the frame, creating four sections of 15-45 degree triangles opening to the left. From bottom to top:

1. Deep shadows from the top half of the storefronts. Decorative string lights run horizontally across the frame.

2. A single light colored load bearing support beam, two white plank siding runners, and three dark gain plank siding runners.

3. Six two-paned rectangular windows on the left, and two rectangular two-paned rectangular windows on the right.

4. Dark colored grained wood planks decorate the mall's roof. The left architectural framing line starts at the top left third of the photo.

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Lunch date with wife at our favorite pizza restaurant.

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Black and white photo of a dimly lit backroom arcade in portrait format.

A single Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy pinball machine dominates the scene, filling over 75% of the photo from the right side. The vertical face displays the five main characters from the first film. Clockwise from top: Star Lord, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Rocket Racoon, and Drax, with Star Lord and Gamora emphasized with larger figures. Below the characters is a large rectangular display showing the current high score, titled "GGRAND CHAMPION LWL 3,205,930,170", and decorated with multiple overlapping light colored hexagons.

The top of the playing tables glows with reflections of the vertical table face. Inside the top half of the table numerous bubble lights inside the table, three pinball chutes on right and left, a small rocket racoon figure, and a large brain split in half are visible. The lower half of the table is blurred out of focus due to depth of field.

In the background right of the pinball machine, an outside window flares with glow from sunlight outside the room. Two chairs and a portion of a small dining table at the middle right edge.

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