Trick or Treat NYC
I didn't know this city was so into Halloween. There's a costume shop down the street from my office, and Thursday and Friday there was a line stretching around the block just to get into the store. Crazy.

The costume
Old homecoming dress + cheap horns = devil with a blue dress on. Thanks for the idea, Paul.

The Parade
The crowds at the annual Village Halloween Parade were overwhelming. The parade itself was sort of underwhelming. There were some really awesome skeleton puppets and stuff at the beginning, but most of the parade was just regular people in costume. Some pretty elaborate (a stop light that lit up). Some pretty standard (school girls and vampires, etc.).

The parade had something to learn from the Midwest. No one was throwing candy. Metal pumpkin buttons (couldn't someone poke an eye out?) and the occassional bag of potato chips, but no candy. One guy standing near us was actually throwing candy to the parade. So wrong.

A word of advice to my male readers
When dancing with a girl you just met, don't start spanking her. Chicks don't dig that.