Halloween in Taipei 2008

We left the house at 10 pm and headed to Jack's place.

Jack was a friendly Taiwanese cop who loves beetle nuts & Red Bull







Dorion was the Housing Bubbles... though he lost his bubble maker at the onset of the evening.







Noah, as you can see, was a cowboy.







Chen and her boyfriend. Chen called herself "the Revenge of the Obasans", and her boyfriend was a hippie.



From Jack's, we headed out to Paris Night Club. People stared and pointed at us along the way. Brian, the only "normally-dressed" person in the bunch, nodded at the observers and explained in Chinese, "Happy Halloween".

These are some of the famous people we partied with:





















Here are some creative ones:



Clown on Vacation
Sean, founder of the Urban Nomad Film Festival, deserves a vacation too.





We weren't quite sure what they were. I think they were angel and devil in disguise. That's why the angel girl was in black, where as the devil girl was in white.
Others thought they were the evil swans.
Regardless, the two girls were really cute together.





Dorion, as mentioned earlier, was the housing bubbles.
Sharon was the piggy bank lady. She also works in a bank in real life.






Your Mama, featured by Mr. Ryan O'Malley.







Ryan O'Malley as himself & a friend (I forgot to ask his name... Then again, it was 5 in the morning... I probably wouldn't have remembered it even if he'd told me).




Elaine & Drew
Drew's original costume was a "Tai-ke", working class cigarette-smoking, beetle-nut-chewing Taiwanese man who often dresses in a white wife beater, an obnoxiously colorful shirt, pants, and flip-flops.





This was Drew's second look - an otaku





The happiest and proudest person that night was, of course, no one else but...

The Devil









This Taiwanese kid immediately dropped to his knees and started bowing as soon as he saw The Devil. He was ecstatically happy when we asked him to take a picture with The Devil.



This Halloween Taipei 2008 report is brought to you by


Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky the Good Guy Doll







and his Bride, Tiffany








We were gonna be the Chess King and Queen. We even got the costumes reserved until we changed our minds in the late afternoon of October 30th. Bill and I finally got everything for our costumes in the morning of the 31st.





Though not 100% perfect, we were very happy and had a lot of fun as psychotic serial killers.