Quite at the last hour before the festivities
around Gastown, I got the impulse to go out. I had the brilliant idea that I
would take a big brown paper bag, illustrate it with my coloured inks and
pencils and make it into a mask. Well try finding a big brown paper bag these
days. Used to be everywhere at all grocers etc. So I went home, now even more
determined, and used 8 sheets of white paper out of my printer and began my
Mickyangelello effort. By the time I was finished I had a tight fitting
gruesome thing over my head and the closest I can come to describing it is to
compare it to Heath Ledger's Joker in Batman. All raggedy and bloody-faced. I
completed this look by wearing my Peruvian jacket zipped right up to the mask
and crowned it all with my fedora. Off I skulked to the Blarney Stone where
they don't charge me the ticket fee nor allow me to wait in line (my dancing is
still appreciated).
When asked what was I?
I started by answering "A bedbug" and swept my right palm down my
left sleeve and asked in return, "Would you like to dance?" Well that
wasn't working out too well, so my later reply was "A Bug" and then I
got some dance action while having to re-jig my mask so the eye slits would
realign themselves to my eyeballs; and eventually through my more dishevelled
eye-slits managed to skulk home again with a few hilarious Boo! memories.
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