The California coast lit up this morning with the warm embrace of a sunrise so spectacular – in all it’s purply/pink/yellow glory – that the morning news didn’t stop showing shots of it until 7am, when the broadcast switched over to Good Morning America. In related news: I need more sleep. Oh, and TGIF. Time creaks slowly towards sweet, sweet, weekend.
Do you have Halloween plans? I certainly don’t, but honestly I never really try anyway. Not for Halloween. It’s too costly. It’s too time consuming, and I can’t ever drag myself out to the shops or justify the gigantic expenditures for costumes I won’t wear more than once; the general costume selection out there makes any thoughtful effort an enormous pain in my ass. If I want anything good, I will be collecting items from store to store, sewing at home, and hoping the whole thing doesn’t fall off the moment I step out the door. Likewise, disappointment sets in every time I’m invited to a party – I think it’s going to be some evening soiree with exquisitely detailed and realistic zombies, harlequins and 18th century Antoinettes – it is never as imagined; it’s just a kegger, with clowns. Last year, my hubby and I wound up in a grungy bar in the middle of some skanky part of Santa Monica, dressed as a nun and a priest. Everyone kept bowing and asking us to bless them the whole time. Those were seriously the ONLY costumes that wouldn’t require extra parts, so we bought them last minute. It is why I’m lame on Halloween. I’m the one who locks my door and turns off the lights. Then again, I never went trick or treating growing up. I don’t know why it’s exciting to go from door to door collecting candy for hours in the cold (first snow in Colorado is on Halloween). But you, I hope YOU have a good thing going tomorrow.
Be safe out there this holiday weekend. If Auroras emergence this morning has any prophecies in it, it’s that the witchy weather has vanished, and the only thing terrifying about this weekend will be the copious amounts of sugar (and possible alcohol) consumed, and more Lady Gaga’s than I’d like to see in my lifetime.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Shot taken up Runyon Canyon, 8am.
NO SAINTS IN L.A. 
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