Not That Side!

Head’s up fans-this is a bit of a dirty story to kick off with, so feel free to skip to the next paragraph. I know I don’t usually name-drop in these posts, but I think that that is what makes this story so special. I know most of you folks already heard it because I think I’ve told it over about 26 times in the past 4 days. Picture the scene, we are in a car o the way back from the L’chaim (engagement party/to life!). It was a cold rainy evening after an extremely long day of not eating. And as always Zloty was complaining about the walk from my house to the subway, “the walk from your house is so long, it’s even longer than Oceanside is from the highway”. Yitz, listening to this whining up in shotgun chimes in “yeah, it’s sooo long”. So me, with my quick comebacks responded accordingly. “you’re butt is so long”, to which Yitz replies…”not that side”. Thee ya go fans, was that dirty enough?
So on a different note (haha, funny every time), as we all know, this past weekend was Purim. This was our chance to dress up in costume and party the night away. Typically my Purim night is spent over at Yeshiva University-I’m all about the hock. This year since it fell out on a Motzash, we decided to spice things up a little. We kicked off the evening by going to see an outstanding yet uplifting off-off Broadway shpiel (skit). Next stop was a Purim party. When we saw there was no one there, we left (that’s a lie), and headed to YU. All I’m gonna say is I felt like a pork chop at a Bar Mitzvah. The boys’ side was all drunken high school punks and the girls’ side was even worse. It was super sweaty, girls dancing everywhere, guys with boobs trying to get in and a lot of screeching and hugging. So we headed back to the party which was super hopping at this point.
My take on Purim is that it is the cool thing to dress up. I personally, along with a dear gal pal, dressed up as a girl scout, probably the best costume I had seen all night. The funny part is, that most of the clothing I was wearing was actually my own clothing that had been worn at some point or other. While some costumes were clearly better than others, I feel that the following deserve honorable mention. Now this list only includes costumes that need an explanation. Without further ado, in no particular order-so no fighting, here’s the first list of March 2007:
1) The French kiss-it looked like a French person with a Hershey Kiss on their shirt. Clever.
2) Man going to the bathroom-guy walking around with a few magazines in his hand.
3) Victoria’s Secret Model-girl in all black, with sparkly eyelashes and larger than life black furry wings.
4) Traffic light-3 young ladies each wearing a different color and matching dot standing in traffic light formation.
5) Zloty-guy wearing a half zip argyle sweater from J Crew.
6) Clark Kent-guy with hair combed, shirt opened with a Superman tee underneath, and hair parted to the side.
7) White trash-dude in a trucker hat with a plaid button down.
8) The birthday party-girl wearing a table cloth with a piñata, balloons, goody bags and pin the tail on the donkey.
9) The albino Jamaican-guy wearing a ski cap with blonde dreadlocks attached.
10) A wall hanging-dude with a paper towel with slits in it on his back.
11) The final one is reserved for those in more obvious costumes. Shout to: Nikki Richie and Paris Hilton, Jesus and the wafer, the football player and Hatzolah boy, the pimp, and the Ninja Turtle.

Well done kids, well done!