LACMA Costume Ball - Extending Halloween one more day

for the first time this year, Ben and I attended the Costume Ball at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ben wore his Harry Perry costume, likely making him the only person since Steve Martin in LA Story to skate through the museum. in contrast to the WeHo parade, the costumes at LACMA were way more cerebral and way less naked..with one exception.

a few art inspired costumes...


Yves Klein and his model


our friend jeff as vincent


pablo y painting

and some of the best of the rest...


Kenley and Tim make it work!


heath ledger RIP


our friend dana as kat von d


1.21 jigowatts!


weekend at bernies

i made the LA Weekly slideshow of best costumes! here's the link

http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/view/178829/22

Halloween Highlights 2008

as always, the west hollywood parade did not disappoint! there were a whole buncha sarah palins (who?) and loads of heath ledger-as joker-as nurses, and plenty of your generic drag queens, thong-wearers and boobie-barers. here is a smattering of my favorite shots.

i went as ANGELYNE - she's an LA icon famous for 1.driving a pink corvette and 2. having billboards of herself posted around town. she's been at it since the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

ben went as HARRY PERRY - he's an LA icon famous for 1. rollerblading around venice playing an electric guitar and 2. posing for photos with tourists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Perry

now...without further ado....photos!!!


our group - we had 25 friends turn out to our annual halloween pre-party


austin powers...cryogenically frozen since 1997!


best palin? you betcha!


best joker.


shoes. shoes. shoes. omigod shoes. betch.


lindsay lohan and samantha ronson.


asian borat.


hot mess.


his purple majesty (in yellow)






anton chigurh made an appearance.


any 'america's best dance crew' fans?


ben as harry perry.


another angelyne! he even had the corvette!

i am Obama

this weekend ben and i took part in a local photographer's tribute to barack obama
UPDATED PIC #s as of 11/6 pm - as of this moment we are pictures 60 (ben) and 61 (both of us), 103 (me)

also two friends of mine took part - #3 is natalie and #123 is mollie!

http://www.maartendeboerphotography.com/iamobama/

the second best day of the year

clearly, halloween is the best day of the year. the second best day of the year is the sunday before halloween, that's when the Long Beach Dog Parade takes place. this year over 600 dogs strutted their stuff in the parade. here are a few highlights:









not technically a dog but still top-notch couture

what does Obama have in common with fabric strips?

a whole heckofalot at the Marinello Spa Academy - where they wax your legs with the little spoons that come with ice cream sundaes (look in the bottom left corner) and they let McCain supporters go crazy with the label maker.

Visiting the house of Jackie Treehorn

i am a HUGE fan of The Big Lebowski. i am also a huge fan of mid-century design and architecture. so i was simply jazzed to see, while perusing gossip site D-Listed a few weeks ago, that the Armand Hammer Museum in LA was offering a tour of the John Lautner-designed 'Sheats/Goldstein Residence' on October 12.

in The Big Lebowski, Jackie Treehorn (known pornographer and producer of Logjammin') lives in the Sheats/Goldstein residence. the movie makes it look like it's in malibu - which it is not. but other than that, it looks EXACLTY like in the film. lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

here are some pics. and proud i am of all of them.


the man in this photo is Jim Goldstein - he lives in Treehorn's house.


the Dude sat here

an ever newer adventure in hair removal

i'm pretty much broke (thanks to THAT ONE, i guess) and that lends itself to creative thinking in the hair removal department. shaving, which is free, is not an option.

therefore, i just made an appointment for a full leg and underarm wax at the Marinello Spa Academy on fairfax. even if they're students, they have to be AT LEAST as good as the lady in the back room of the nail salon, right?

OCTOBER 20 - POST-MARINELLO VISIT. I WAS WRONG. OH SO VERY WRONG. I LONG FOR THE BACK ROOM OF THE NAIL SALON. (See new post above).