hmm. halloween. as much as it saddens me in light of last year’s excellent halloween party, with decorations and costumes to beat the band and hundreds of people stopping by our grand old robot house, this year was a zero on the halloween scale. i didn’t have a costume. i didn’t even have a costume idea. i kept putting it off til it was too late, then, well, it was too late. you know what i did on halloween? i played video games at my friends’ place, then watched a crappy movie with my roommate and some other kids back here. i blame the fact that it was raining for the first time in months, thus zapping any motivation and spoiling my half-formed plan to go out to west hollywood and take in the freak show. ah well, these things happen. i told myself at the time that the past two weekends were so great, i shouldn’t expect a third in a row to be on that level. i was more or less okay with that.

then, surprise, it’s saturday and what do i end up doing. spencer was going to come up and chill with us, but instead spencer comes up, and we meet up with a friend of ours, mike, whose coworkers have organized a bar tour of hollywood via double decker london busses (yes, for real). so a hundred people on two busses, drinking heavily between and during (there were coolers on each floor of each bus) bus jaunts from one to another bar, and shouting at passersby and generally just having a great, belligerent, somewhat frat-guy seeming time. but i can’t say that it wasn’t a lot of fun, couldn’t say that i wasn’t stinking drunk, and won’t say i wouldn’t do it again. sometimes you have to be a jackass i think just to get it out of your system.

so that was a brilliant night after all and how about that, another good weekend. today it was gorgeous outside and we had breakfast at my favorite restaurant (doughboy’s on 3rd) and even got free dessert from the cool ass waiter named harley. then i went on a bike ride and watched amores perros with josh which was too long and really kinda boring, to be honest. now i’m sitting here relaxing and it’s sunday night and i’m happy.

happy and listening to desaparecidos actually, which for some reason i missed the bus on last year until a coworker of all people loaned me a copy of their cd. that’s some good shit, so try a taste with greater omaha if you’re like me and were just too dumb to get into them back when they were news. so there’s your pay day song. i’m off.