Halloween preparations are really coming together

Fond Memory - Halloween Costume 2005 - Bird Flu

halloween is on a friday this year, which means a lot less halloween - usually if it's on a weekday, people have parties the weekend before and that extends the halloween festivities. in order to get the most halloween for our buck, ben and i got tickets to the LACMA masquerade ball on november 1st. sure it's $42 each, but $84 is a small price to pay for a second halloween!

the west hollywood drag races and pet costume contest are in direct conflict with the long beach howl-o-ween doggie dressup parade! what are revelers to do, choose? that's on october 26th, the sunday before.

we did a lot of good costume component gathering this weekend. here are a few items purchased:

rad rad wig for me
pink tight tank top
black bejewled elastic belt
white ralph lauren lounge pants
white bathrobe
toy electric guitar


i'm VERY excited that we decided what to be. please come to our house on actual halloween night to assemble before the annual strut up and down santa monica blvd. only my favey day of the year.

Birthday Sluts of the Week

Longwillows' Marriage (1)
Ugly Bloggy (1)
my sister Kim (29*)








*according to her facebook profile.

Viva gets it and gives it when she visits LA

The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica is having some trouble with their neon sign. In the meantime, Viva and I will take naughty photos.

no..wait!!!

as i was uploading McLovin's personalized license plate a FLY buzzed by! he is dead now, and the 45th of his kind to perish.

seen in LA yesterday

addendum

make that 44 dead black nasty fly corpses

reproving Spontaneous Generation

we all know from 7th grade science class that the idea of spontaneous generation -- like trash turning into mice or rotting meat turning into maggots, was disproved in around the 1600s. duh. rotting meat doesn't turn into maggots - maggots lay their eggs in rotting meat and then the new maggots emerge from it.

but how, then, do you explain this, Francisco Redi?

ben is out of town at a wedding so he was not here to share this morning's experience with me.

there has been a singular fly buzzing around our apartment since thursday. last night, after seeing an AMAZING one-woman show (thank you marta!) called 'Wong Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' (if you live in LA - go see it. it's friday through sunday nights this weekend through october 5th.) I got home, had some golden grahams, saw the fly buzzing, and went to bed.

this morning i walked into the kitchen and was greeted by a SWARM of flies. no joke it was a SWARM. they were on every surface in the kitchen, in the sink, on the stove, on the windows, one was even INSIDE my coffee pot, one was INSIDE the bag of 2 marzipans i bought last night (hooray leonidas for bringing back the marzipans!). everywhere. they were in the dining room, they were in the living room but mostly in the kitchen.

being a problem solver, i started spraying the whole house with some roach killer we had left over from our days on fairfax. but they just kept living. by the time i returned from rite-aid with some actual "flying insect" killer, about a third of them had succumbed to the roach juice. i doused the apartment in fly killer, went to change the laundry, and when i came back at least 3/4 of them were dead and twitching. after one more spraying, i am happy to say i have collected 39 dead black nasty fly corpses.

F you, flies! but where did you come from? will you be back?



my hero