"Vote for me instead, I stand for a Happy Halloween holiday and clean sheets!

Amidst all this global financial turmoil, decoupling won't save you anymore, when America goes down we all do, so vote for me, and be scary yourself instead of being scared by stock markets plunging and soaring and by the way, the global stock market lost 48% of it's value in 08 and who cares anyway because it is more fun to be scary than scared, I promise you that.

Ps. White sheets are the new black,"proclaimed the Brooklyn Third Street Ghostie.

He's got a point!

Happy Halloween folks,whoever and whatever you decide to vote for!

Sorry New Yorkers who own this hear retail establishment, you bunch of dopes, do I have to be the only one to spell it out, Babies and Polar Bears don't get a vote, you are wasting your time!

Hope, spells the Obama poster.

Hope you vote that is. Forget about skeletons and unicorns and Big Cats, just whatever you do -remember to VOTE!

"God Save the Queen. Jesus Loves You."

What else is the message here? Beats me. A ghoulish halloween type photograph with a message, if someone knows what please pass it on.

"SP, pretty cool costume if you ask me. If you behave you may even end up like me, in a cool photography exhibit in Silverstein gallery in Chelsea," said the sexy horsey lady whilst reading her lines and puffing on a fag.

I guess horsey ladies are in for the fall, trust me to start a new trend!

But there was only one unicorn or was I pegasus, I had glow in the dark wings and a horn that kept falling off so I guess I was both at once!

Here I am trying hard to scare folk.

In summary, planes of all shapes and sizes and wild cats won the look of the night.

With oil prices going down and Amelia Ernhardt's field nearby, aviation was another big theme of the night. These three goons all copied each other. Personally when I make a costume I fly solo but that is blue blood for you.

Here we have the American Footballer, another more local wild beast, sported by Miss Jen Upchurch, a well known artist and performer, who helped create the art for Decom 08.

I found my own fourlegged friend, Ziggy the Zebra.

Note my fibre optic wings change color, thanks to Britelite!

Arjuna the Tantra Warrior was another cuddly furry Big Cat also with a handmade costume, as you can see the Beasts stick together.

Here I am with Claudinsky, AKA Smooches, AKA Foxy Brown, AKA Hot Chocolate on the last email, she looked yummy enough to eat with her French tablecloth dress and glow in the dark hair piece.

Many of you are fans of Claudinsky after her Bahamas Christmas blog appearance last year. Connie was a fierce silver dragon, yes mythical beasts were all the rage that's for sure.Reid finally got costume fever and now he is hooked like the rest of us, I knew he would succumb eventually!

I hung out with a very charming Dennis the Dinosaur, we both agreed our wild beasts costumes were first class! Nobody seemed to be scared of us though which was a tad disappointing. I did not spot Obama or McCain at the party, big mistake as they could have got some good campaigning in with the Burners, an important voting community.

Jack Roman the photographer went all out as MadMax 4. Very manly and tribal, with make up by Sandrine of course! This was a top favorite of the night.

I could chit chat with those skellys all day but I had the northeast Burning Man Decom party to get to.

Which one is me?

My dad said he recognized the legs but almost nobody guessed it was me. The SP Unicorn makes her debut! Accompanied by the Big Cat. Wild beasts prefer to travel together.

"Hey SP, over here! Come photograph us! Leave that grumpy old codger to grumble into his beer. Just because he is in a snootier part of Brooklyn than us. So what! We are the skeletons of Third Street in Brooklyn and we want to be immortalised in your blog too. We have cobwebs and one of us, mini skelly over there, is hanging on the ghallows, yikes, who is creepier and cooler than us, no one!

We love the Halloween blogs most of all, as every year you always write funny stories about us, way better than stories about doggies, or your failed romances and efforts to save the world that no one cares about anyway, least of all us! We thought you would have been happy with the Equinox skeleton if you had given him a chance instead of being so rude to him." (last year's blog)

Thanks a bunch, guys. That Equinox skeleton was a jerk, not for me.

"I think I'll have another sip of my beer", said the Brooklyn Brownstone Skeleton. "Damn, it is warm. Urgh! I can't drink this junk, I'll poison myslef. Ah, bbbbbrrrrrrrrr......The night's are fair drawing in, and I hear it is going to rain tomorrow,just my luck. How long am I expected to sit out here on my tod,looking like a total dope. I could do with one of those Obama t-shirts, I am freezing my bones off out here.

SP, will you tell the dopey owners of this brownstone that I have more important things to do than sit in a deckchair in the middle of winter outside their stoop all night so they can impress their friends and be the funniest house on the block at my expense. Pathetic."

Gosh, these skeletons are quite a grumpy lot. You would think he might enjoy relaxing in a deck chair, sipping a cold beer, watching the world go by and being photographed by famous Scottish Princesses like me.






The SP

I just can't wait to see what you are going to be this year, Miss Space Princess. Don't think the skeleton community forgot last years costume, we loved it!

I have a front row seat to see if you come up with anything decent for this year. And I have a cold beer. And I am not going anywhere anytime soon.

It took us a whole year to get over the way you insulted many of our skeleton friends last year. One poor chap from the Thailand Cafe on 5th Street and Second Avenue, we recall, you refused to take as your halloween date although he was perfectly gentlemanly and extremely good looking and witty and charming, if a tad on the thin and bony side, but nothing that a good pasta and ice cream could not easily remedy.

Long time blog readers will remember the Halloween post from last year, but if you want to see that sad tale of the skeleton who I rejected please go to the October 07 post, then you will see why this Skeleton is still a bit off with me, even though a full year has passed.

They say skeletons hold grudges a long time, mostly because they have nothing better to do with their time.

I just made that up but it is probably true.

Forget about all this politics and global credit crunch I have a costume to create.

So I trooped off to my favorite Halloween Adventure store on 12th Street only to see the political candidates were there first! Posing as Halloween costumes! Ridiculous, could they not just be happy being t-shirts, was that not enough, oh no, they have to be costumes as well. Talk about vain and self obsessed these three make me look like an angel. And where is the Biden mask, pray? Poor thing is too boring and did not make it to mask stature. And where is the Scottish Princess mask? Just because I am not running for President , they skip my mask. Bloody cheek! This town should wake up to it's real celebrity, moi!

I decided to stop by Jivamukti Yoga Center on Broadway and 13th Street to eat some of Jeanine's delicious healthy tomato soup at the cafe and have a break from t-shirt shopping.

Sadly I could not escape the t-shirt phenomenan even in the tranquility of a yoga center!

Carlos was sporting his own t-shirt. Sharon and David for President 2008!

Sharon Gannon and David Life are vegan and environmently highly conscious and they run Jivamukti and they have a huge following including me. They would be great presidents and probably blow the Bill Hillary thing out hte window.

I want this t-shirt! You see you find what you are looking for when you least expect to find it! The universe always provides, now I wonder if they have my wee size.... well weeish, ok medium then. Maybe Large Minus.

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Boring not quirky or witty, 2 out of 10.

So far I have not been swayed by any of these shirts.

Enough of all this. It is Halloween time and I have to work on my costume so I am not trying to find it half an hour before the parade like last year.

I will keep my eyes peeled for the perfect shirt in the meantime.

I tried to find a Brunettes for Obama but he was out or had none.

However this tshirt campaign concerns me. Blondes are supposed to be beautiful but dopey. Therefore dopey blondes like Barak so if you vote for him , you are a dope too. This may backfire this one.

Now I must concede many dog owners like their animals to be haute couture as many of you know from earlier blogs of mine, this concept has potential.

Bark for Barak, a doggy warmer t-shirt.

This I like. The owners can buy the shirt for their dogs and have a one up on their friends by showing that not only are they Barak supporters but their dogs are too.

Animals don't get a vote either, someone should tell this numpty t-shirt dopey seller that polar bears and baby seals are

a) an endangered species themselves therefore more likely to be too busy trying to save themselves than vote for the future president

b) like the SP they can't actually vote and this chap is wasting good cotton trying to persuade the animals to vote or wear his shirts

c) animals have no money to buy t-shirts and if they did have cash they would probably buy hamburgers instead.

Not bad but too obvious for me. I prefer a more subtle, cleverer type of message on my shirt.

I can't even vote just because I am not a citizen. Disgraceful, royalty should automatically get two votes I say.