:: Life on Planet Dan-E ::

:: Sunday, November 02, 2003 ::

:: Halloween in South Beach ::

Halloweeen this year was certainly a fascinating experience. The school had its annual costume party on Friday with the only requirement being "wear a costume." Being an art school one might expect the students to dress up with either really creative/unusual or elaborate costumes and it didn't disappoint. There were cheerleaders, an 80s prom queen, divas, witches, hula/belly dancers, etc. The women had pretty good costumes as well. There was a cop, a firefighter, a few cowgirls, Uma Thurman's character from "Kill Bill," a Bjork impressionist in her infamous "swan" dress, and one girl dressed as "Lt. Dangle" from the Comedy Central show "Reno 911." I went simple and dressed as "The Edge" from U2, same as last year. Not nearly as cool as the other costumes there but I received a few comments on how appropriate it was for me.

I don't know if this is something to be necessarily proud of but I attended and survived my first gay party without getting my salad tossed or anything. But our crowd being the way they are the moment the school party ran out of beer they were discussing on where to continue the evening. There's this one gay photographer in our quarter who told everyone about a party and a few people went along, not exactly knowing that we (men and women) were being invited to what was supposed to be a party exclusively for homosexual males.

If I may digress for a moment, have I mentioned that South Beach is crawling with gay guys? It's probably second in population density only to Frisco. Which is fine, they're generally harmless. I mean, at least there are a lot of hot women here to balance things out for us hetero guys. You take the good with the bad right? ;)

Now getting back on track, I tend to be more tolerant-minded than most so I didn't feel that uncomfortable there, and the hosts did provide plentiful free booze. Mostly I just stood around talking to the rest of the guys and gals in our group. I will say this: that night there were no bigger flames in the country than the ones on that corner of South Beach, San Diego wildfires included.

:: Miscellaneous Ramblings by Dan-E at 6:03 PM [+] :: | 0 comments
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