this is halloween, this is halloween...

another year has gone by and halloween is here again. i love halloween. besides being a great excuse to eat a bunch of candy, i like the whole process of putting together a costume. adrianne and i came up with the idea for our costume back in may when we took a peter pan bus home from maryland. after scouring the city for cheap costume parts over the past few weeks, we put everything together on thursday night. then last night the day finally came to show off our costumes. as you can see, harrison is a businessman, adrianne is tinkerbell and i'm peter pan. i think we did a pretty good job. we all went down to mark and sara*'s to watch a hell of a zombie movie. after that we all headed to the levee where we saw the channel 4 news team, american gladiators, and a set of dominoes all hanging out, drinking beers like it ain't no thing. like i said, i love halloween.

a dream come true

i finally own a pair of air jordans.

for as long as i can remember i have wanted to own a pair of these shoes. i watched michael jordan play, just to see a close-up of his shoes. i browsed through youtube and watched the old mars blackmon commercials. i have books dedicated to sneakers highlighting these hi-tops and i can identify by sight all 21 iterations of this signature sneaker. but for too long a lack of money and a wealth of thriftyness have keep me from getting them. that all ended with a whim, a sale and encouragement from the most consummate shopper i know.

so now, for the first time, i am the proud owner of a pair of air jordan 5s in silver, green bean and flint grey. they may only be my second favorite version of the shoe, my favorite is the jordan 11, but they're still f'in' rad and i love 'em.

empty subway train!

adrianne, harrison and i took the G last night for a short trip to southside williamsburg. much to our delight we had a whole train car to ourselves (almost). so, of course, we took the opportunity to use the car as our own personal jungle gym. we also had plenty of space to lounge for the remainder of our quick ride.

i guess the train was so empty because of the hour we took the train and the fact that the G is running with eight cars on weekends now. regardless, i have always liked the idea of having a car to myself because it seems impossible that in a city the size of New York and on a transit system as widely used as the MTA one would never be alone on a train. in a town where there's always someone around, it would be nice to have the time and space to yourself.

in reality, we weren't the only one's on the car. right before the doors closed an older lady walked on. but she sat at the very end so we were able to create the necessary illusion of having the train to ourselves. oh well. maybe another time.

who wants some candy?

the hightlight of saturday morning was suppose to be brunch. brunch was nice but the real jewel of that lovely day was economy candy on rivington and essex in the LES. adrianne and i first went in while walking around the neighborhood before brunch. the first thing you notice is the store smells exactly like the hollow plastic pumpkin filled with candy after a night of fleecing neighbors for their candy on halloween. after browsing through a selection of the world's candy, ranging from rich swiss chocolate to cheap candy dots, i bought some candy cigarettes, which i hadn't had since i was a kid, buying them for a quarter from hinkle's.

after brunch, we returned. adrianne said she saw a wonka bar. i've never had a wonka bar. the association with gene wilder's willy wonka was temptation enough for me to buy it. secretly, i was hoping for a golden ticket. alas, there was none. only a sugary chocolate bar with graham cracker pieces and "wonka" emblazoned in three inch letters across the face of the bar. the bar was too much to eat all at once, but i couldn't resist the bar sitting in my jacket pocket. i ate half, sitting on a curb in the sun. but after only a half an hour, and a stray shot of jager, i finished the bar. a smile on my face.

fright night

adrianne and i went upstate last weekend to attend the world renowned headless horseman haunted hayride and houses. that's right, i said houses, plural. there's three of those bad boys.

at first i was a little skeptical and cynical with the bad teenage actors trolling the grounds as witches and the undead. but once we started the hayride i was a believer. from the start there were all manner of goblins, zombies, and ghosts jumping out of the dark woods scaring the crap out of everyone on board. the appearance of the eponymous horseman was great. because of the cool temperatures and the low, bright full moon the first thing i saw was the clouds of breath from the black horse's nostrils. i was an awesome image. sorry i couldn't capture it, no cameras allowed.

after the hayride there was a path to follow through a cornfield. this stage started with what felt like 50 yards but was probably more like 10 in total darkness. the whole time adrianne is holding on to me for dear life.

after the maze we made our way through each of the houses, each one ratcheting up the screams. the final house was great because of the way the ghouls would distract us until one of their comrades would come up behind us and scare the living daylights out of our group. it was a great production.

the image above is after we completed our harrowing journey. see how close we are? nothing brings people closer than ghosts and goblins jumping out of dark shadows in the cool autumn night.

twins?

thanks to sara*'s latest web adventure, adrianne and i decided to match our visages against the online celebrity database at my heritage. strangely, the program determined that both adrianne and i resemble grace kelly, as you can see from the image above.

they say that if you spend enough time together you start to look like one another. if that's true, then i guess this is my future.

blue man group

why don't we just all wear blue?

i swear this was an accident.