Happy Halloween

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

It's supposed to be the eleven spookiest places in the world. They didn't mention my house at Thanksgiving.

Eleven Spookiest Places

[Drunk Monk]

I just revamped my Jedi costume from last year and won $40 in the office contest. Our senior graphic artist Patrick came as Substance D from A Scanner Darkly and took 2nd. Our token gay guy came as Marie Antoinette using just a fan and a paper mask. He won. Beaten at dress up by the gay dude. :oops:

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

They get more practice and they have better taste. At least you get to be Married. Hmmm...

What did everyone get up to on Halloween? Anything well and truly "pagan"?

Being a boring nerd (and Miss B. being outta town on bidness) I decided to go fencing. Yeah, I know. It is more fun to hit people than to be hit, however. Getting back on the strip after more than 10 years off has been a lesson in humility. And my knees hurt.

The dirty tricks and nasty in-fighting came back fast; it is all of the pretty stuff that I can't do any longer. Yet.

-PPFY(ZY)

[Drunk Monk]

...ppfy went our for halloween as a fencer?
mt065

[The Queen]

What did everyone get up to on Halloween? Anything well and truly "pagan"?

Not so much. We walked up and down Front Street in Lahaina with Ken and his bride-to-be watching the semi-interesting costumes. It was advertised as something Mardi-Gras like but you know, really, not so much. Saw a few unattractive butts in ass-less chaps. Had a heck of a time finding a drink and when we did, they unfortunately came courtesy of a waiter who was one of the dimmest bulbs I've seen in a long time! (He was dressed kind of like a cross between and Indian and the boy from the movie 'Blue Lagoon' with the phrase "Chief Sucking Cock" written on his back -- we debated as to whether this was done with or without his knowledge.)

We'll have to get something truly pagan together for next year.

[Drunk Monk]

T and DM walked the neighborhood in search of treats. It was just us. Not a lot of our neighborhood was playing. About every fourth house had lights and the other trick'o'treaters were sparse. The scariest thing we saw was a pumpkin carved with a starbucks logo. Nice carving job.

DM might add that LBBP's neighborhood was hopping with little suburban haunted houses and tons of costumed kids. DM might add that, but DM wasn't there. Nope. That couldn't have been DM dumping a body at LBBP's place. DM has an alibi. He was out t'o't-ing. DM has no idea where that body came from. :twisted:

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

A Friend will help you move
A good friend will help you move a body!

[Drunk Monk]

So I was feeling a little regretful bailing out on my usual RM Halloween run of EDM shows, but getting back to the Cruz and just relaxing while doling out candy sounded fine. I get home and am immediately informed that T and I are to go to the wharf to meet one of her school friends and go trick-o-treatin. Ok, cool, no prob, sounded kinda touristy but ok. The wharf was pretty touristy and word was that the action was all downtown where the streets were blocked off and was said to be a total freakshow. We met T's friends and got to the end of the wharf for a spectacular sunset - glowing pink skies and the ocean glittering like milk. The anchovy run is still on so the sea lions were braying, the pelicans were diving and the seals were having some crazy ocean orgy, like a dozen of them slip sliding over each other in about a 10 foot radius. But then...thar be whales. I saw my first whale breach. In fact, I saw three breaches, including a double breach, two whales at once in perfect coordination, plus a glorious tale slap. What a Halloween treat.

Turns out that T's friend's brother had a friend who lived on Seabright only two blocks from our bungalow, so we hopped in the car and headed over there with that family. They had a raging party going on. Their yard was fully decorated with gravestones, skeletons, hopping spiders and fog machines, and they had a big projection screen on their roof showing the original Godzilla, or more accurately Gojira, not the Raymond Burr U.S. re-edit, the original. Ghostbusters was showing on TV inside the house. And that house was spectacular, totally rebuilt by our neighbors over the last dozen years into a cozy hobbit hole. Very impressive. I don't know how many kids there were (or how many adults for that matter) as we were all in costume. We actually lost a kid, who was returned to us by a thoughtful trick-o-treater behind us. I didn't even know that kid was with us. Turns out his parents had just dropped him off at the party and no one was really watching him as we were all too focused on our own kids. He had called his parents on his cell, but we got it all sorted. I was handed a tall glass of red wine, which kept getting magically refilled, and told we were headed to Ocean View, which is the San Lorenzo river side of Seabright, about a half dozen blocks away.

Ocean View has some of the nicest homes in Seabright. All of the homes that border the water are pretty nice. The Ocean View street homes are grand mansions and that neighborhood totally went for it with massive-scale yard decorations. The 'hood's most beautiful homes gone goth. It was crazy with costumed families. Several houses had projection screens showing movies - T laughed so hard seeing the blind man scene from Young Frankenstein - she's never seen that flick but it's on the queue now. T & her classmate ran into a few seniors who were really drunk, which they both thought was hilarious.

It was awesome, but next year, I gotta get downtown for the freakshow.

[cranefly]

I dressed up as Envy and sat in a pitchblack living room wondering what DM was up to.

There were knocks at the door, which I ignored -- though I was tempted once when a lady said, "Dude, I'm twerkin'. Sure you don't wanna answer?"

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

i worked.

[Drunk Monk]

I was miffed because the graphic crew bailed on getting costumed up. They've been on a winning streak for several years because TC gives out cash prizes (usually $100 for first). I could have totally won with the Karate Kid shower costume but didn't pull it together.