Once again this Halloween, I joined some friends I used to work with on building floats for the Little Five Points Halloween Parade. This year’s parade was last Saturday and we won The Cup this year! With the theme “Lost At Sea” we had two floats: the SS Excess pirate ship and cannibal island with the Witchdoctor’s Rib Shack. On the ground we had land sharks on motorcycles and sea serpents of different kinds circling our floats. And the weather was perfect — the rain held off until the next day and it was gloriously sunny and warm all day.
Sunday night I sat at home watching a bizarre animated film called Mad Monster Party with voices from Phyllis Diller and Boris Karloff, among others.
Now I have one more Halloween Party to look forward to this Friday and a Day of the Dead Murder Mystery party for the float krew on Saturday.
Wheeeeeeeee!
From: Chantelle
Subject: Weeeeee are the Champions, weeee are the Champions . . .
Date: Oct 27, 2003 4:18 PM
Hail to the great Grateful Gluttons!!
Ahhh, what delightful chaos, what sweet insanity this has been. I love you freaks.
Pirate and Cannibal hats off to Greg and Joel's brilliant building skills and the boatload of time they gave; the S.S. Excess is rumored to be permanently docking on top of the Yacht!!! The Grateful Gluttons add to the skyline of L5P!!! Woooo Hoooooo!
Horray for the Witchdoctor's wacked-out waitresses!! Did you touch the tongue? Naaasty.
Goooooo circling sharks! And the Little Sea Monster Who Could!!
And the dancing Sea Demons! Rock on Cannibal Island Band!! How about our cool-as-hell trophy!? Did you know the rat has an opal eyeball?
I could go on and on, but let me just say that Hunter Thompson was talking about you “When,” he mumbled, “the going gets weird, the weird go pro.”
It is so fun playing with you. Let’s do it again!
The End is near.
Dearly beloveds, our Day of the Dead Party is this Saturday after dark at Chez A.
Come in costume or mourning or Glutton T. Kindly bring beverages.
We'll raise the dead one more time.
Love,
Chantelle
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