October 31, 2001

Halloween Model Party

Usually I know well in advance what I'm going to be for Halloween. Okay, I'm totally lying. Every year Halloween comes around and I'm totally unprepared...but at last minute, genius will strike and I'll whip up something interesting out of the blue. This year was different: In the wake of the WTC incident, Halloween snuck up on us and caught us still somber.

A few days earlier we had been invited to Grant's bass player's party whose roommate happens to be a Dutch supermodel. So on the afternoon of the 31st, Josh and I set out on our lunch break to find costumes. Good costumes. We'd decided that if there were going to be hot girls around, we would need to disguise ourselves enough so that maybe they'd all think that underneath our costumes we were handsome enough to be talking to them.

After wandering the store forever, I came across the "moustache section," and suddenly inspiration struck. I would go as...

**Magnum Motherfucking P.I.**! (P.I. = Pimped Investigator, bee-eye-atch!) This shot was taken at my place right before we left for the party. I chose to pose in front of the Hawaiian mural that covers that back wall of our Tikki Living Room.

josh — Growing despondent after almost 2 hours in the costume store, Josh finally gave up on coming up with a really creative inexpensive costume and instead opted to drop some serious pocket lettuce on the Official Star Wars™ **Princess Leia** costume. Here we see him striking a "frightened Leia" pose in my apt's front room. (and yes, that is a giant metal slide in the background. Don't ask.)

vin — Vin was going to wear a suit and tie with horns and tell everyone he was a "Handsome Devil" which we thought would be pretty smooth. But in typical Vin fashion, he decided last minute to instead dress up as **"A Chef."** (Huh?) We told him that **"A Chef"** wasn't a very good costume. So here he decided he was going to go as "The Angry Chef." (Now that's more like it!)

When he got to the party, most people there gave him weird looks as if they were wondering who the guy was who got off of work from the restaurant and came right to the party without putting on a costume. Needless to say, Vin didn't stay at the party very long.

josh, vin — With our costumes in full-effect, it was time to head out!

me, viola h — Me with Viola as a Fembot. (Sweet Jesus.) You know, I would normally think that any girl who dressed up in an Austin Powers-related costume in the year 2001 was corny. But for some reason, I thought Viola pulled it off.

grant, me, nina — Grant, dressed up as Pan (the horny god of Baccanalia, appropriately enough) and Nina dressed up as a wood-nymph (they were supposed to be from a Midnight Summer's Dream).

grant, josh, nina, vin — Josh, Nina, Grant and Vin. Note how Vin's chef costume has already disapeared at this point.

grant, nina, viola h — Nina, Grant and Viola. Grant's horns came off because he was so fervently making out with Nina...see how she's missing make up and he's got white shit all over his face? Where's her hand anyway? Jesus!

Magnum on the dance floor showing off his moooooves!

viola h — With the exception of Viola, whose name and likeness I won't likely ever forget, I couldn't tell you the rest of these people's names if my life depended on it.

daniella van graas, grant — Grant displays his furry nipples for Stephanie in her supermodel-dressed-up-as-hooker costume.

josh, nina — Princess Josh and Ice Nina!

We're just three edgy cops from the late 70s / early 80s getting ready to hand crime a party-fueled smackdown!

frank, grant, nina — Grant, Frank and Nina. Frank took one of those "fake butt" things, cut out eye holes, glued wig-hair all over it, attached a strap-on dildo, and transformed his entire head into a giant cockn'balls. I'm not really sure what the Star Trek shirt had to do with anything...

fatty, me — Dave and I repraZent on the law enforcement tip, yo.