Many thanks to my lovely hostess and other friends, online and off, who made my Halloween trip to NYC so much fun! In various social combinations, we rocked the parade, the flea markets, lower Broadway's shopping hotspots, and more tasty dining venues than you can shake a stick at, if you could even lift your arm to shake a stick after eating all that food, you glutton, you. Yum! Also, hurrah to the Fung Wah Bus for getting me there and back in, well, relative safety, anyway, and for half the price of Greyhound.
Look here for The Leisure Agency's official report, complete with pictures, on the Halloween Parade, to be posted tomorrow. What fun! I heart getting dressed up and prancing before an audience, although I sure am glad I'm not famous and have to put up with it every day. Especially since I was wearing a sign with my character's name on it, and realized just how distracting it is to have people shouting your name every few feet. Almost as distracting as the hecklers, who were mostly there to hit on cute girls, it would seem. Here is the standard heckle I received: "Hey, baby, what do you do when I wind you up?" Jeeze! A girl throws on a pink wig and some false eyelashes, sticks a big fake key out of her back, and suddenly she can't take ten steps without comment. What's the world coming to?
I cannot let pass without mention the sheer fabulousness of the movie Pootie Tang, a hilarious blaxploitation/ghetto redemption/kung fu/western/superhero movie which was inexplicably ignored at the box office. Best of all, it's about The Man and how he keeps us down! Thanks to Captain Glitter Biscuit for bringing it to my attention. Sepatown!
Posted by hilatron at November 5, 2002 05:48 PM