Howie's Halloween Hints
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the infamous Castro Halloween street party. Like years past, the event was marked with hordes of people jammed onto Market street. I also attended some parties in and around the street party. My costume last night consisted of a large red box with red cups on the front and a box hat with a cup on that as well, I was a giant red Lego block. The ride into the Castro aboard the 22 Fillmore bus was especially amusing. My box was so wide I had difficulty exiting the bus. On the street I got lots of attention, shouts of "Legoman!" and "leggo my eggo" occured about every 30 seconds. Inside the parties however I found my box to rather constraining. I would have to find an out of the way alcove and park myself there for long durations of time. Dancing was out of the question. Back out on the street I was well suited for the environment, inside the party, inept. One major advantage to the box was the ability to urinate in public whilst avoiding detection. So a word to the wise this Halloween season when outside be bold, large and easily recognizeable. Indoors, go for subtleties and smaller costumes. Finally, masks are just plain freaky, leave those to the serial killers.
