Folsom

( Not entirely worksafe pics behind cut )

prickvixen and I did throw-together costumes. Hers from stuff she had laying around and mine ran < $10 yet somehow we were the belles of the ball. We couldn't get more than about five feet without being asked for a photo. A major improvement over the last time I went to Folsom. I wasn't shiny then. I had long brown hair and my 'throw together' costume was to wear my motorcycle leathers. Oooh.. Gee. That's HOT... NOT.

Anyhow... Much thanks to Ashy for inspiring my costume. She said she was going to do something medical themed and due to the short planning period and work and stuff, I hadn't come up with anything good. Trips to the thrift stores had also proved unfruitful in inspiring me, so I decided to play off her doctor look and be a patient. (This seemed way better than my fallback idea which was a black vinyl mini-dress and platform boots)

I'm really glad I went ahead and followed that. Everyone wears black. It's so uninspired. Especially an off-the-rack dress and boots. Sure, that look is sexy but being patient was exotic. Far far better.

Now I just need to figure out a costume for Silicon next weekend and maybe decompression if I go.

Then I have to figure out a costume for the OddBall. Oy.

The downside of the Folsom street fair experience was that in my haste to be clever and pack only a minimalist purse, I forgot to pack my credit card so we had no money or food. On the positive side, I didn't spend any money that way. The other negative was definitely the traffic. Ugh. There was some bloody football game. We drove up in costume of course, so we got oogled by the sports fans. They acted like they'd never seen a woman wrapped in ace bandages before. Hmph!

Will have to hunt around on flickr in a few days and see if any photos of us spring up.

Missed

It seems like I missed just about everyone at Folsom yesterday.
qdot, m_tiger, foxgrrl, Sister Gina Tonic, Will, Sleazy Dave, and probably a bunch of other people.

Did at least see smashwolf though and he seemed to be having a good time. :) I also saw some camels that I thought might have been at Symbiosis. They waved me over and offered me a sip off their hump. Woo. Scoring free booze off of clubbers. That made the afternoon much more... wobbly. :)

Heh. The other person we 'met' came as part of a lesson. The lesson being, "If you look really fabulous at something like this. Don't find a relatively quiet spot and stop moving and rest posed unless you want to have strange guys come over and put the moves on you and cop a feel." O_O The strange thing is that it wasn't really upsetting just kind of... not interesting. Why can't I ever get groped by exotic creatures who have some style? *sigh*

Ohwell.

Halloweme

Halloween Meme

centauress sacrifices inaki's cutlery

circuit_four creates an unholy monstrosity from centauress, paka and prickvixen

ff00ff shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and dip

foxgrrl TPs lediva

inaki puts fake eyeballs in your socks

kategod summons the undead armies of ff00ff to steal your candy

ladycelticwolf swoops on foxgrrl and drains their gerbils

lediva calls centauress to let them know the psycho killer's in the mood for chicken

paka buries circuit_four at the crossroads with a cutlery through their heart

plucky carves ladycelticwolf's effigy in the medium of Bank Manager's lunchbox

postrodent runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by prickvixen, wielding a sharpened sock

prickvixen puts real eyeballs in your pumpkin

queenofstripes TPs your candy

schlake dresses up as paka

shatterstripes gives you a toothbrush

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