November 3rd -- HOW can it be November 3rd already, people? That's the tricky thing about Halloween: it's the emblematic October holiday, but as it comes on the 31st it always unceremoniously dumps you right into winter. And the displays of Xmas decorations and wrapping paper in the same aisle of CVS as the Halloween candy do not help with this. Sigh.

But on a brighter note, a fantastic time was had by all at The Halloween Switcheroo on Friday night -- even Steve Bartman was redeemed! Amid ghostly lights and your garden variety battery-operated vampire bat, we had a host of hilarious transformations: Hamlet became The Center of the Universe! A hockey player turned into a deviled egg! James Bond became an old-school 70's Charlie's Angel! Lance the "Pulp Fiction" Drug Dealer became Billie Holiday! Add in a mountain of candy -- total insanity! Especially with that last duo, it was one wild, unexpected, altogether memorable weekend...