Happy Halloween

For Halloween this year I went to the West Hollywood Costume Carnival. The event was basically a ton of people taking up an entire street dressed in crazy costumes. I went with friends who were dressed as a construction worker, Paul Bunyan, Two-face, a butterfly, and a samurai dude from Kill Bill. I went as a pirate. Before we went to the carnival we decided to go to Ihop.We had to wait over an hour for our food, which was completely ridiculous. But, while we were waiting, something utterly unheard of happened. There was a long line for the men's bathroom and no line for the women's bathroom. Apparently men in drag don't know how to take a leak in women's clothing. Our food finally arrived after Paul Bunyan tracked down our waiter. Apparently we were seated in the lumberjack section of Ihop, as we ran into another Paul Bunyan, but with a smaller ax and a fake beard. But the other Bunyan was with Babe the blue ox.
On our way to the festivities we passed a group of pirates sitting in a bar. For some reason this did not seem odd or out of place. As we approached the center of activity, it quickly became apparent that West Hollywood is a largely gay community. I later learned that this is a well known fact, but I was not aware of this at the time. There were lots of drag queens and people who were just obviously gay. (We even saw two guys in assless pants.) One of the coolest costumes had to be the transvestite owl with enormous wings. The picture really doesn't do him/her justice. There were really too many crazy costumes to list them all. Below is a slide show of some of the highlights.