Halloween Will Be Here Soon

Ready to go out tonight ….

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The last time I went trick or treating was in 1960 and I was 13. I went with a buddy of mine named Wilbur. We went as bums. In other words we didn't have costumes, just put on our oldest rattiest clothes. I was about 5 foot 8 and Wilbur was maybe an inch shorter. Needless to say we got turned away a lot and got scolded for being too old at most of the houses we went to.
 
Spent Halloween in downtown San Francisco amid skyscraper buildings mostly at or near a Front Street party zone with a band stage near popular bars. Spent time walking downtown dirty streets for the first time post COVID-19 noticing how much it has changed for worse due to homelessness and a loss of thousands of office workers. Many cafe's and restaurants dim and empty or nearly so. Overall personally, last weekend was far more fun than this holiday though a still worthwhile time. Note, was not in a costume nor had a camera for photos.

In the cool dim temps, a weak soul R&B band was up first at 3pm, then a RAP DJ, then an RAP/R&B band, and a House EDM DJ by 8:30pm. Crowds got large after dark as young city residents looking for fun slowly arrived on a working person's evening. I was able to dance some a bit with the RAP/R&B band as those young folks spread out enough in front of the stage to do so. A few of those dancers actually knew how to dance. But mainly spent a couple hours latest afternoon a couple blocks away but in visual sight from that on busy foot and transportation traffic of Market Street.

But not so with House EDM DJs that was my first ever experience with that new genre. Very popular with a broad ethnic mix young demographic that packed around the stage like sardines, much too close to actually dance to more than popping up and down with arms raised which they did enthusiastically while singing mystery to me words to apparently familiar to them mono tone beat songs I've never heard. To this person, the EDM music was rather disappointing, boring, though its fans seemed to thrive maybe as many use methylene-dioxy-meth-amphetamine.

Outside the core crowd crush zone, almost no one was dancing but rather milling around in a large crowd drinking beer, hanging out, and looking at plenty of people in all manner of costumes. Elaborate well designed Halloween costumes have been huge for such party'ers in The City for years.

Left about 9:30pm, walked a mile down Market Street versus taking easy street cars, took bus line #19 to where my Forester was safely parked in an upscale neighborhood, then reached home about 11:30pm. Seemed to have fallen asleep on a couch quickly with lights on as I awoke at 4am wondering how what when and then awoke again at 8:30am as apparently got some solid sleep for this first November day of Friday, aka dia del muertos.
 

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