Festivites

Halloween Critical Mass was yet again one crazy costume parade on wheels. We broke off the route in time to meet up with Mitch for a late diner at Clarke's. You probably know, I love Halloween with a vengeance. And in Chicago, it's like stepping in to some surreal NyQuil induced dream. Last night was a trip. Especially from the vantage point of a bike. From early in the evening peddling south through Rogers Park, where I saw a young woman in a beautiful, fluffy and elaborate princess costume walking by herself, frowning and pulling long drags off a cigarette...to the large bunny and half dozen Sarah Palins biking en mass...to the creepy Joker (doing the exact Heath Ledger makeup and faces) stalking around in the diner while we ate. I kept amusing myself by thinking: What if this is just how every day life was?...What if people always dressed up as animals and slinky Snow Whites and on a regular basis, enormous groups of people took over the streets with their bikes, and played loud music outside, and billions of kids walked around outside eating out of bags of candy? I don't know, it seems a little nuts, but I think it might be fun.