I hope you all had a very happy Halloween, my little buckeroos and buckerettes. I certainly did - which is one of the reasons I didn’t get around to posting yesterday. While I missed most of the parade, I did catch the tail end as I was arriving in Manhattan to have pre-club drinks with Chris and Al and a couple of his friends - the one night of the year I can walk down 14th St in a corset without being reminded that it’s either a little early (or a little late) for Halloween. We stopped in at the 10th St Lounge for a bit until it got too crowded, then headed to the Halloween Sundown thing at Flamingo, which was actually much better than I expected. Flamingo always reminds me a little bit of the Pyramid (in a good way). Last night the music was a little older and a little gother than it usually is - which was fine with me - and there was a healthy dose of the stuff that was overplayed when I first moved to NYC but that has generally disappeared since then. Although I didn’t participate in the costume contest, there was a surprisingly convincing Trinity and an adorable Leeloo among the usual Evil Clowns and Evil Brides.

At some point - this is where my memory of things gets a little fuzzy around the edges - we moved to the Masquerade thing at Likwed, which was okay. The music was good, but I find the whole cybergoth thing a little tiresome, especially when it’s packed into a space that’s actually smaller than Flamingo (not counting the smoking room). We all got drunk and tired and sore enough to head out and into various cabs eventually, and I still haven’t completely freed myself of all that infernal eyeliner, but on the whole it was one of my better Halloweens.