Journey to the Lost City of Atlantis

Have you ever heard the story that since most of the citizens of San Francisco are transplants from all over the world, and because they're all so different, but all so in tune with the location, that they're all the reincarnated souls of the lost citizens of Atlantis?

I went on a 6-day trip to San Francisco this past November. I was traveling with my good friend Charles, who had yet to visit SF, the new home of three of our closest friends, Mike, Dawn and Kristine. He'd asked me to schedule a trip at the same time as him, and that sounded like a fun ol' reunion type thing, so I did.

Charles was finishing up a business trip in Charlotte, North Carolina on the day we were to fly out of Chicago. His flight was coming into O'hare. Somehow in the excitement of getting ready for the trip, I neglected to double-check our airport of origin in our flight to San Francisco. It was Midway. Oops.

I sent the itinerary to Charles, but he denies it. But I have the e-paper trail to prove it. But anyway, what's done is done. Here's Charles being annoyed as we wait for the shuttle bus from O'hare to Midway.

After arriving at Midway, we started our vacation as quickly as possible.

We were waiting standby. Fortunately the next available flight was the same day and not terribly late, but we were afforded the opportunity of drinking in one of the world's more "ugly" airports for a good few hours.


Once we were on our flight, relaxed, Charles fell asleep while I enjoyed a delicious Coors Light (Frontier Airlines is based out of Denver and Colorado, I believe is home to Coors) and Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.

After a stop in the slightly better-looking airport in Denver, we were on our way again and before we knew it, we were found ourselves floating above San Francisco.

Bret's Halloween/Birthday Party

My friend Bret has a party every year.

That's him. He's a photographer and an all-around pretty nice guy.

I'm just gonna say right now that there's a NSFW (Not Safe For Work) image below. Continue at your own risk.

This year I totally didn't feel like driving up to his party, but I did. At the last minute I put just SPIDER from MILK SPIDER CLOWN SHOE on. People seemed to think it was enough of a costume.

Joey and his boyfriend were little red and the wolf as grandma.

Mark and his boyfriend were cowboys.

David was a sailor and Hannah (a palindrome! - And an awesome tattooist!) was Rosie the Riveter.

Joey kept showing off that he wasn't wearing underwear underneath grandma's housecoat, so I couldn't resist taking a picture.

Mark carved an amazing pumpkin (he lives downstairs from Bret).

Pickles

The other night, my ex found a dog. She's a female pit bull mix. Mix cuz she's a bit longer than the typical pit bull. She's really cute and affectionate and gives kisses. She was found with no tags or collar and we scanned her for a chip and she doesn't have one. A vet tech who lives near my ex told him that she's recently had her nails clipped and her teeth professionally cleaned, so someone was caring for her. It's been five days now. I posted finder her on craigslist and on fidofinder.com with no returns. We also put up posters around the neighborhood.

Anyway, I've named her Pickles. I'd been thinking of getting a second dog for a little while anyway, and if I did, I was going to name him/her Pickles, so looks like that's what might happen.

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Leslie and the Lys performed at Funky Buddha on Halloween and it was a crazy blast.

I was accompanied by best gal pals Rachel, Liz and Lil' John.




Ran into all sorts of fun freaks.


Radiohead was there!


And the lovely and talented Teena Angst!

I kept taking pictures of this straight guy who was supposed to be wolverine. It was a total cop-out costume because I saw him at the last Leslie show and his hair/facial hair always looks like that. He was really cute.

Of course, I was MILK SPIDER CLOWN SHOE again.

Oh yeah, and then Leslie.




While Leslie made her costume change, her impersonator took over the show. She was great.

And then her crazy halloween style costume!