Happy Hallowe'en

Yes, technically, the word "Hallowe'en" has an apostrophe in it.  I spelled it that way one time when I worked in Korea, and all my coworkers thought I had made a typo.  I guess they can be forgiven for not knowing, since all my coworkers were either Korean or British, and they don't celebrate Hallowe'en the way we loudmouth, holiday-creating North Americans do.

Anyway, as you know from a few of the pictures in a few of my older posts, I went to the Choijin Lama Temple Museum.  It remains one of my favourite sights in Ulaanbaatar, even now that I've been here for awhile.  I think it's a definite must-see.  Anyway, in the big temple, on the ceiling, there are these wild paintings of blood and gore and viscera.  I was like, "Whoa!".  Then I snuck a picture.  Most of my pictures of the bloody, gory viscera paintings are either dark, blurry, or both because you have to pay an extra 5000 Tugrugs to take pictures inside the museum, and I'm cheap as fuck, so any pictures I took, I had to sneak (shhh, don't tell, k?).  Anyway, on my way out of the temple, I noticed that this is called the "temple of mercy"... wtf?  If that is the Mongol idea of mercy, I'd hate to see what they conceive of as torture.  Anyway, happy Hallowe'en!  I hope everyone gets some really good goodies today!