what a weekend! friday night we went to mel’s diner on sunset (not a bad place, but not return-worthy because the prices weren’t worth the portions) with mike’s two friends from out of town and about five of us besides. our waitress was named snake — it said so right on her nametag. she was young and thin and kind of intimidating and a feisty one too! she scolded one of mike’s friends for not finishing his vegetables, and made fun of dominic for ordering a reuben without saurkraut (which makes it not really a reuben anymore, really, so he deserved it i think). we tipped her well for abusing us. mike even invited her to our halloween party but she declined. then we dropped by my buddy spencer’s posh apartment for his party for his roommate mike’s 21st birthday party. they had an erotic cake shaped like a pair of large beautiful breasts. they were entrancing, and i don’t think anyone wanted to eat it because they were so beautiful. it’s hard to imagine the craftsmanship required to make a cake like that.
last night was our big halloween bash and it went extrememly well. we spent about three hours putting up black plastic tarp from home depot over all the walls and the ceiling, then we painted scary skulls and bats and evil messages over part of the walls with black light paint (yes, we had black lights too). so the place looked very halloween, and it was great. i award us best atmosphere at a party award. my skull and crossbones carved pumpkin was the best too.
a lot of the costumes were really great too. some weren’t so great (one guy without a costume couldn’t even come up with a better excuse than “i’m a . . . a guy.”), but i was impressed overall. we had a few devils, a couple hugh hefners, three pimps (some more convincing than others) but really good ones i thought were a genetic engineer (my roommate who had a fake arm in his sleeve of a labcoat, and reached his real hand out between the buttons to shake hands or grab things producing a very cool third arm effect), one of our bearded friends in a nun’s habit, a statue of liberty with ben franklin (or maybe thomas jefferson) date, one guy with an authentic orange prison jumpsuit he got from a dad of a friend of a friend (i suggested a real child molestor might have worn that outfit at one point, and he looked sort of disturbed), a couple as shaggy and daphne from scooby doo that couldn’t have been more dead on, a superman, a michael jackson, a guy as steve-o from SLC punk, one “neopolitan” — that would be dominic wearing brown pants, a white vest, and a pink shirt and tie, a very subtle but charming “costume” — and my somewhat biased favorite, a sexy and very accurate tinkerbell. of course, mine tops all of them and the picture which i’ll scan in a few days will prove it, i hope. we’ll see how the photos turn out.
the party was great even if the mess was ungodly, and the extra hour was spent rocking the place from 1am to 2am all over again. a damn fine evening, overall. if only a sunday of cleaning, laundry and homework could be just as fun.