Halloween Costume of the Year

Halloween Costume of the Year

Seen at the Skytrain Halloween Party on the Broadway Station platform, about which more later…but definitely the best costume out there. More than one group of tourists wanted to get their picture taken with him, although the men generally steered clear of him and pretended he didn’t exist…as they walked slowly by, turning beet red. I told him not to gesticulate too much, for then he lumped up and looked like he was going as “And this is your poontang on HPV”.

Second best was the fellow who dressed as The Son of Man, by Rene Magritte. Apparently, the party was full of art majors, because everyone got it, unlike the time I went as the Empire State Building. You’da thought the airplane deely bobbers and the monkey around my neck would have given it away, but no. Next time I hold the Barbie Doll too.

Magritte

your weekend Cthulhu update

  1. that Cthulhu tee is $39!!! so it’s not going to be in my dresser drawers any time soon, alas.
  2. My friend Lorenzo is firmly of the opinion that the blow that did the most damage was the cry “It’s an old lady!”
  3. there was a third thing, but I can’t remember it and have only four minutes and thirty seconds left on this computer. But it was funny. Really
  4. Check the Cthulhu tag or read Archie’s blog to satiate your demented Cthulhu desires.

Barbara Hodgson’s the memory festival

Barbara Hodgson’s Vancouver box

Passed along by Shebeen Club member Monique Trottier

Memory Festival Launch Party

Remembrance Day: Sunday, November 11, 2007

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

 

Listel

1300 Robson Street, Vancouver

 

 

Free admission

 

The Memory Festival is a free-floating series of public events focussed on public and private memory, and the questions that surround acts of memory and forgetting.

 

Vancouver book designer and writer Barbara Hodgson is appearing with slides from her new book Trading in Memories, http://www.tradinginmemories.com

 

Trading in Memories is Barbara Hodgson’s collage of souvenirs and travel stories from around the world about lost and found art picked up off the street, treasures discovered at flea markets and documents uncovered from between the pages of other finds.

 

 

Other special guests presenting readings, slide shows, exhibits

and salubrious conversation include:

 

Stephen Osborne, writer

Faith Moosang, artist

John Paskievich, photographer

Dan Francis, historian

Mary Schendlinger, writer

Goran Basaric, photographer

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, artist

Sandra Shields, writer

Jamie Long, playwright,

Craig Hall, actor

David Campion, photographer

Katherine McManus, university administrator

Anne Grant, photographer

 

Festival homepage:

http://www.geist.com/memoryfestival