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Happy Halloween, everyone.

Halloween's always been an interesting holiday for me. I used to be totally into it as a kid. When I was really young, my parents would go all-out to make these elaborate costumes for me. On year (Kindergarten, maybe?) I was Luke Skywalker from Jedi. It was awesome, my parents made this brilliantly cool costume for me. I really need to digitize those pictures. . .they even made me little boots out of vinyl.

Somewhere along the line, though. . .probably at IMSA. . .I kinda just fell out of the practice of getting dressed up.

Freshman year at Carleton I was in the big orchestra concert on Halloween and the best I could come up with for that was to borrow Holger's hockey mask. Yeah, I was kinda lame. Junior year I dressed up as a lightsaber-wielding Silent Bob; that kicked ass. Hassett and I got in this great lightsaber duel on the steps of the Chapel. It must have been some sight to see Qui-Gon Jinn get impaled by Silent Bob.

Nena's worse than me. She's never really been into Halloween, at all. She has her reasons, all of which are really good ones. Though, not Phobe Cates in Gremlins good, but good nonetheless.

So while I'm remotely thinking of what to be should I get invited to a Halloween party. . .Nena's not even thinking that far ahead. Which, of course, meant that we'd get invited to a party and I'd have to come up with costumes for both of us using my cardinal rules of halloween costume design.

1) Use your personality/body type to your advantage
2) Use what you have around the house to the best of your abilities
3) Finish off the costume cheaply buying finishing but reusable touches
4) Don't try to outcute yourself
5) Pretend there's a fifth reason cuz things always look better in threes or fives.

True to form, Lilyblack, Alabama_Grrrl and Ulli were having a Halloween party and Ulli decided to throw a monkey wrench in my plans by not letting me go as Silent Bob. Cuz, yknow. . .I was that last year (again) and she didn't want to let me recycle my costume.

Right, so I scrambled to come up with something for both of us. I was pretty easy. . .I hadn't been Jake Blues before and I *finally* own a black suit that isn't made of cashmere. . .so that was kind of a no-brainer. Nena, though. . .there were thoughts of making her Elwood, but that'd just be too weird.

Then, it dawned on me. . .what's the best thing EVER? PIRATES!!!! Yup, Nena the Siren Wench made her smashing debut last night. . .yknow, I may have to keep that costume together. . .

The party was cool and I think Nena's starting to come around on this whole Halloween thing. So yeah, I guess it was a good night. . .and a lame story. Oh well. . .all these entries can't be brilliant. As for the rest of the weekend, Will needs some work done on him so we're taking him out to Topeka for that and I have a shitton of grading to do and the KJHK Election Night Special to get ready for. That's right, kidz, I'm doing 5 hours of election night coverage on KJ. Everyone should listen in. . .it'll be brilliant, yo.

In other news. . .if you're interested in seeing the new Eminem video about voting against Bush. . .you can download/see it here.

And the new Social Distortion album? It's brilliant, yo.