Friday night I participated in the kick-off event for Movember, a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for prostate cancer. Obviously, I cannot grow a mustache, but I am fully supporting my friends who can!
Check out the Mustache T-shirts!
On Saturday I started at 10 Park for a scary supper. There was roasted cauliflower (brains) with cheese sauce (puke), roasted kale (troll's beard), chickpea dumplings with green peppers (spider bodies and legs), rice (maggots), tea (pee), and water (tears). The other guest and I brought dessert. She made huge cupcakes with white icing (oxen eyeballs with cataracts), and I brought a gluten-free super-chocolaty beet cake (dried, curdled blood). It was delicious and utterly creepy!
Brains with Puke, Troll's Beard, Spider Bodies, and Tears
A Headless Bernard!
Isabel's Pumpkin
Emily the Mad Hatter taking a photo of Emily the Pixelated Image
This Halloween I went out with a group dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland. I was the Mad Hatter! My friend Marykate and I went to the Fine Arts Party at my favorite music venue, George's. The costumes were amazing! The crowd I was around takes Halloween very seriously. The emphasis was more on creative, home-made stuff (the local Salvation Army gets a lot of business). My friend with really long dreds put wire in them and he was Pippy Longstocking, there were '70s retro dancers , there was an alligator bride, a triceratops, beetlejuice, a furbie, miss piggy, guys in drag as old ladies, a character from Life Aquatic, and an EXCELLENT Frida Kahlo that was actually a man in drag (but he looked just like her!).
The White Rabbit, Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts!
A Furbie, the White Rabbit, a Cop, Kermit, the Queen of Hearts, Alice, the Mad Hatter, a Geisha, and Miss Piggy
At George's there were awesome bands and dancing until 2:00 am...the final act was one guy with SPECTACULAR dance music that used 3D video of retro Grinch cartoons with 3D glasses, glitter, strobe lights, balloons, confetti falling from the ceiling, and audience participation. He even had one of those multi-colored parachutes from elementary school. He spread it out in the crowd, had us shake it, then we all got underneath and danced completely packed as he passed the microphone around to the crowd. It was so fun! On Sunday night I went to 10 Park again for a viewing of Paranormal Activity. I got so creeped out I ended up sleeping over!
