Halloween happens to be one of my favorite holidays. Val doesn't understand it. Upon recent observations and discussion, we've decided it probably is much bigger in the Midwest than in California. Whatever it is, I've always looked forward to it. I think maybe it's because people let their guard down and deem to look like idiots sans alcohol. Ok, some alcohol. (For the last time, Valerie is NOT a boozer, guys.) She totally is.
So I thought I'd share some pics because I rarely say what's going on with us but we are having an awesome time in New York and hope to stay here for some time. We've got an awesome apartment, live in the most beautiful neighborhood in Brooklyn blocks away from Prospect Park which is the most fantastic city park imaginable, and now with so many friends moving here, it just keeps getting better. We were the SuperFans from SNL fame. I was Bill Swerski, Valerie was Pat Arnold (Mike Myers), and our friend Aaron was Todd O'Conner (Chris Farley). Annie Howington (pictured above) was playing Valerie's dialect coach so she could properly employ the Chicago accent. She also ruined her future daughter with cigar smoke. Her baby most likely be named Marge now and work in a toll booth.
We hung out in the West Village which hosts a huge parade mostly populated by transvestites. We figured since Valerie was already going as a man, we should probably get her to her people. She's wearing about ten scarves and sweaters beneath that sweatshirt. Besides the one guy who called her Mario, most people got we were the Superfans and everyone kept yelling "Da Bears!" at us all night. Luckily, we left before the stabbing happened in the park we were at. Or unluckily. I bet they couldn't have shivved Val through her homemade fat suit. 
i like this post. i like the departure from writing just to know what is happening in the day-to-day. very swell.
ReplyDeletegreat pics. did val bring a half digested pork chop along to hack up at random?
writing is so much of what I'm thinking about these days, it's hard to justify talking about anything else. I should post more of my goings on. It's funny, my mission journals are the same way. They say nothing about what I'm doing from day to day.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Val did not. Our friend Aaron was playing the Chris Farley character and he did hold some meat products all through the night.
Val spent most of the night trying to perfect her Chicago accent.
Oh, James, it's not that I don't care about Halloween, I totally do. It's just that while you and Aaron looked like Superfans, I looked like either Mario or Luigi, which is more difficult to be excited about.
ReplyDeleteY'all are too funny. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you had great fun.
Halloween isn't the same down south either. There isn't as much 'buzz' as there was when we grew up in the mitten. No one I know ever heard of Devil's Night either. Blasphemy I say!