This year Halloween conveniently landed on a Saturday, which was booming news to a city that loves to play dress up. The thing I love most every year is the challenge in coming up with a unique get up for the festivities. Dressing like a total slut and calling your self a sexy-whatever on Halloween is by far over. Get creative people! Seriously.
Our initial plan for Halloween was to dress in drag. I would be David Bowie and Sherrie would be Prince. As usual, we procrastinated, so we ended up dressing in what was accessible at the moment. Sherrie and Maggine were condom fairies, from boxes of left over condoms and tulle, and I was Vampire Beetlejuice. We had no big plans for Halloween, but we knew that we wanted to show off our costumes and get ride of condoms so we went out anyway. First we stopped at a house party in the Excelsior that a friend from college was throwing. We passed out condoms to a crowd who was already wasted, grabbed the left over liquor lying around and left for the SoMA.
Vampire Beetlejuice and her Condom Fairies
We promote safe sex!
Our destination was DNA lounge. After we found parking and started walking, we were distracted by the abundance of freaks in the streets and decided to pass out condoms instead. There were enough people out that we were convinced that the clubs would be lame to even get in to. At this point, the liquor had already started to kick in nicely and our pass-out turned into a stuff-it-in-their-pockets-and-costumes-while-having-short-conversations-on-the-way. Everyone was so happy to get free condoms that I'm sure we saved some lives that night!
We somehow ended up outside Holy Cow and found out that there wasn't a cover so me and the fairies walked in and had another drink to tie us over. The place was so crowded, but we took advantage of the volume and passed out more condoms to the people inside. I was actually surprised the bouncer let us in with our huge brown paper bags!
We left Holy Cow soon after to go to Butter for some bar food. I've been to Butter once before, and what makes this place awesome is that they sell tall cans, 40's and fried twinkies on top of their already cheap drinks and killer bar food. We had mini corn dogs and more liquor. At this point of the night, everyone was feeling good.
Last call was approaching so we left to pick up Jean-Michel downtown. On the way back home we decided to take the long way so that we could pass out more condoms. I remember complaining how early SF sleeps compared to NY, and then smiling. At this point of the night with more liquor in our system, we instead threw condoms at pedestrians while screaming "safe sex" at them. I'm surprised we didn't get pulled over by the cops from all the litter and screaming we were doing. At the same time, it felt good...to get rid of all those condoms and know that more than half of the people that got them would be using them!
I really wish I was able to catch more footage of my Halloween. It's too bad we didn't have a photographer following us around that night...sike! It was fucking awesome the way it was.
We stayed with my aunt and uncle, whose apartment is right across the NYSE. This is the view from their balcony.
The huge Christmas tree at Seaport, not far from my aunt and uncle's place. Arieson loved this tree (and trees), and I fell in love with Seaport. It's such a cute little village, and it was especially beautiful at night.
The subway stop outside my aunt and uncle's building.
In between our building and the NYSE building. Little man in a big city.
On our way back to California
