My family moved around a lot as we were growing up. Usually this was because of my father's ignoble sex crimes habit, but also because my mother really liked putting stuff in boxes and pushing heavy items up and down stairs. Eventually we wound up living with my grandmother Ethel in Schenectady, New York, a city most well known for Thomas Edison, pine trees, and, later, ignoble sex crimes.
Ethel was a funny old gal: smoked like a chimney, cursed like a sailor, and spoke with a thick German accent like der Fuhrer himself (she maintained this accent despite dozens of years in the United States, like those vulgar European actors in Hollywood). She smelled awful, like a mixture of pig's blood and latex paint, and lived her life in filth.
The one thing that Ethel revered and maintained was her life-like terrifying Dracula sculpture. It was about actual size (presuming Dracula is slightly shorter than you expect) and forever in a creepy pouncing state, frozen for the appreciation of all man kind in porcelain, painted with all the flair of a thrift store tea cup. It sat in the corner of the living room, which made for unusual glances when a delivery person would drop in and spot him about to attack.
I never asked much about it. I figured it was the lonely, homesick, Low German equivalent of those comical smoking Indian statues you see in red states. She trotted it out at Halloween and left it on her sad wooden stoop, saggy with putrid mold. She would sit out there with it -- warming beer, cigarette -- saying tense things to Trick or Treaters. She always asked them if they were scared. Of course they were: scared of her, but not her sad ornamental vampire. I guess it would have been scarier if it wasn't made of porcelain.
The image has stuck with me and I haven't been able to take a costumed Dracula seriously ever since. Read on for life-like terrifying Dracula sculpture's suggestions for this long, painful Halloween weekend!
Update: And also check out this insightful pie chart of sexy women's halloween costumes, though I would suggest Plus-Sized Witch is under represented in their sampling.
Thursday:
Iron Fork @ Miami Museum of Science: The best chefs in Miami and duke it out Food Network style. I'm not sure if we get a Japanese megalomaniac to preside over the affairs or not. Tickets were $20, but they're apparently sold out.
Friday:
{{photo:right:20925}}Night Of All Saints @ Circa 28: This is your free, downtown alternative to hating your life with the soulless wretched inhabitants of South Beach and Coconut Grove. DHM upstairs. Free Grey Goose cocktails 9-11pm. Miami Nights scoundrels running amok all over the place. Do it.
{{photo:20923}}Return to 1967 @ CIFO: Supermarket Creative, Gen Art, Gorillas, Miami Magazine, CiFo & Creative Mafia are excited to bring to you their second annual Halloween thing at the Cifo art space downtown. Theme: 1967. Featuring free 10 Cane cocktails. Tickets are $20.
Ludacris @ Mansion: Well, well, well, look what the black cat dragged in (ouch, that was really really bad): Ludacris. Along with Playmate Laura Croft.
{{photo:right:20924}}Chromeo @ Heathrow Lounge: It's a DJ set, but it's Chromeo. Hosted by Alexis Mincolla. Tickets are $20.
Aquabooty: The Legend of Hell House @ Design District: DJs Jask, Contra, Aramis, Thaisoul Music. I'd link you to a flyer or more information, but the Aquabooty site is still partying like its 1999 in terms of its outrageously bad Flash content.
Saturday:
Steve Lawler, Tiefschwartz and Audiofly @ Mansion: I'm not kidding, that's the line up. If I was to roll up a flyer and have sex with it those are good candidates.Tickets are only $20.
Confidential @ Nikki Beach: DJ Knowledge & Mr Mauricio. Free bottle to best costume. The best costume will probably involve a really slutty-dressed girl, which means she will soon after be drunk. Picture it.
xoxo
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