It Has To Be You™: November 2019

Well, I missed out on posting this in October, but the biggest Halloween celebration for me happened post-Halloween on November 2nd in Provincetown. This was my second annual visit, thanks to my awesome friend who co-owns a house there.

If you've never been part of a parade before, Halloween in Provincetown is a must, and you can wear any type of costume, wave just about any flag, and few people will look twice. Well, actually, they might look at you a lot, and take your picture, too.

The town is brimming with characters... and character. The fun and excitement are definitely contagious. Fortunately, the Weather Goddesses had mercy on our costumes this year. It didn't rain. No wind. All fun. (Cool temperatures, though).

Let those skeletons out of the closet...

In addition to every type of costume you can imagine, houses and businesses were decorated with many clever Halloween details, including an abundance of skeletons.

Guess he chopped up more than just the grass.

He even mows (and glows) at night.

At this same house...

"I'm dying to relax."

Let's go shopping...

The antiques here are really really OLD.

Dudes, wanna dance?

Is my make-up running? Is my hair dreadful?

Some of the waiters in this town have been serving for a long time...

And, they'll serve just about anyone...

Don't look now but there are zombies everywhere...

And a few nightmares before Christmas...

Hmmph! Let those sharks just try and find me here.

Let the parade commence...

Since you're dying to know, my costume this year was a fairly specific 1980s mashup of the punk band Plasmatics and the movie Liquid Sky.

Add feather boa for warmth...

More pattern, please...

These boots were made for stompin'...

I pretty-painted my face. Unfortunately, last year's cheap CVS makeup kit didn't have any green, purple or pink left, so I had to go with blue, red, and silver instead...

Checkmates...

My friend wore a most unusual "Abominable Snow Woman" costume...

HBO was in town filming people in their costumes, possibly for a promo, for a show called Mrs. Fletcher. Naturally, me and the Abominable Snow Woman wanted a piece of the action...

My absolute fave pic from the whole weekend.

Here are a few of my favorite costumed paraders, spotted throughout the night doing various naughty-scary things...

Two creepy clowns - RUN!

Hail to the bloody Pig People.

Swine Before Swine.

This unicorn was actually smoking a cigarette,
which made me think he wasn't for real.

Tippi Hedren's crazy great aunt?

All those skeletons I saw were dead, but these "bushes" were very much alive.

I did see someone with a shrunken head a la the film Beetlejuice, as well as this shrunken Pilgrim Monument in someone's yard the next day...

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Back at home, I did some Halloween decorating, as I do every year. This time I put up a third black tree, this one on top of my new bedroom console.