Or just before Halloween, anyway.

(an aside, before we get started, I did wear my PVP Fez to work on Friday, everyone was amused, and Dave was jealous.)


We went to Ace and Jess’s Halloween Party, and I must add, her food was spookier than the stuff I served. We had a good time, Don brought his PS2, and we looked through about 5 games, and then most people decided to bring out Ace’s dreamcast and play it for the rest of the night. heh. Carlo sure schooled them all in some of the fighting games. Before we left he showed off Quake3DC with the mouse.

It suited the rest of us not playing games, as we watched some anime, and talked about Japan and manga and online comics. I had a good time there, got in some more fez time.


The Monday before Halloween, I got to see the Utena Movie woo!That was way cool, Though Ace, who hasn’t finished the series looked seriously bewildered.


Ok,ok. Halloween was a blast!


We watched Rocky Horror on VH1, handed out candy to a few kids that came to our door, and then hit the road for a night of insanity.


Carlo and Nancy(from work) and Doug and I went back down to the karaoke kid for Halloween. We went in our Renn. faire costumes, and Nancy, who actually met us there wore her’s too. We both bought our leather bodices from Pendragon Costumes though her’s has the Celtic knot frontpiece and mine is the roses. Paul was there too, basically dressed like Bon Jovi, with his hair teased way out and a shiny bandana on.


It’s usually pretty quiet on Tuesday nights at the KK, but Halloween was hoppin, there were angels and devils, and singing and drinking, and about 3 different groups of people looked at Nancy and I (or our collective cleavage) and decided we were German beer maidens or something. heh. (the best of those 3 groups were the 5 army guys in camo and face paint).


Carlo and Doug and Paul got a good number of songs in, though I couldn’t make a decision of what to sing before the books were taken away. I still got to sing along with all the songs.


But it was really crazy, 2 of the usual bartenders(women) were in costume, and drunk most of the night, dancing on the bar, dancing on chairs, pulling people into the tiny dancing area in front of the tiny stage. The japanese bartendress, Kyoko is small in stature, but really sweet, she was dancing all over, pulled me from my chair and was twirling me around with her small hands that were surprisingly strong. A fairy and her friend fell off the six foot stage after a good deal of swaying, and landed at our feet, and halfway under our table. I think a small fight broke out at the other end of the bar.


It was just wild. Well, wild for this place anyway. I’m so glad I got to go out in costume on Halloween, it’s really cool to be dressed up in strange clothing, and look around and see that it looks like the rest of the world has lost their minds too, or at the very least is visiting the place you like to stay in. Nuns and chef’s crossing the street in stoplights, fairy’s and demons drinking and singing together, people from that 70’s show and other in schoolgirl costumes. It’s just wonderful, it feels like everyone has ended up at the same party, and it’s happening everywhere all at once.


I’m not sure I could stay home.