2 halloween things

thing one: I walk down the street every year and have this same thought: Are you dressed like a hipster for Halloween or are you actually a hipster?

thing two:

Seen while walking home from class.

A girl in a girl-in-a-very-short-dress-that-maybe-has-a-boa-which-makes-it-a-costume costume chases after a gaggle of Elvii on the corner of 17th and Valencia. She catches up with them and then tries to do the hip-gyrating Elvis thing while yelling "Elvis! Elvis! Let me be! Keep your pelvis far from me!"

She then falls on the ground and sprawls out in a rather indecent manner.

One Elvis says, "I'm seeing one too many pelvises right now."

best thing overheard on the bus yesterday

The scene, the back of the #45 bus. Our players, a young boy, about 5, and his dad, a dirty hippie type.

Boy: (says something I don't hear)
Dad: Do you want to go to your mom's house?
Boy: No.
Dad: Then don't talk to me that way.

pause

Dad: Do you want Justin to be your dad?
Boy: No.
Dad: Then don't talk to me that way.

photo post

Gotta post a few from the trip:







Gratuitous I-obviously-took-this-myself shot:

quote of the night

(This was Saturday, but I'm reporting it now.)

At Scotty's birthday, there was crazy karaoke. Toward the end of the night I sang the awesome and forever-long "I Would Do Anything for Love (but I won't do that)" by Meatloaf. Granted, I can't wholly credit my own performance for the reaction, since the crowd had been duly warmed up by fantastic renditions of Bon Jovi, Journey, Neil Diamond, Michael Jackson, et al, but I will say that only the Meatloaf inspired shirtless ecstatic dancing among several partygoers, one of whom was the birthday boy himself. Awesome. As the bar closed and we were leaving, one guy remarked, "The Meatloaf was the best song of the night." And I said, "Yeah, the shirtlessness made me feel pretty good." Then, one of the guys who had been shirtless and was walking ahead of me turned around and said, in quotable style:

It's the apex of human emotion, to get naked.