Thousands of people mobbed Union Square for a Twitcher appearance/giveaway. Fewer than 500 showed up for a "Halloween in August" parade on the Lower East Side a week later. Which would you rather have seen?
The parade, sponsored by International Puppet Fringe NYC, honored Ralph Lee, the guy who organized the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in its early years. I guess that means I have Ralph, who died in May at 87, to thank for one of the happiest nights of my life: in 1981, I dressed up as a Rock Lobster and David, after studding a plastic jack o'lantern with safety pins, became a Punkin' Rocker. We joined the Village revelers shortly after a car full of frat boys yelled "Stick him in a pot of boiling water" as they drove past. If only I had pictures!
I won't make too much of the fact that the skeleton shook may hand even though I'm on the cusp of septugenerianism.
I was enjoying the parade vibe so much that I ran around the Rivington Street corner and shot it again from behind a tree.
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