1. District Spooktacular Halloween's a-comin', kids. Pay your respects to the District's haunts before donning a ridiculous costume and trying to blend in with the local trick-or-treating crowd (ages 4-12) by attending one of these Halloween-appropriate walking tours. Wednesday, Oct. 26: The Most Haunted Houses, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28 - Monday, Oct. 31: Capitol Hauntings in Lafayette Square, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30: The Spooks and Curse of Lafayette Square, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tickets cost $10 - $15, depending on the tour. Also check out the Decatur House Ghost Hunt on Thursday, Oct. 27. For more information, visit www.culturaltourismdc.org.
2. Pastafarianism Cries for Intelligent Design to become part of public school science curriculum have prompted alternative theologians to write letters demanding consideration of their own creation theories. Enter the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, proponents of the farcical Pastafarian religious sect - named thus for their central beliefs that a) The universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster who touched the vast nothingness with His "noodly appendage;" and b) Global warming is caused by a worldwide shortage of pirates. A delightful and hilarious collection of graphics, information and merchandise, as well as a complete overview of their beliefs, is available at www.venganza.org. Don't miss the copies of letters sent to various state school boards, including the informative "Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates" graph.
3. Vegas Sinking into the midterm blues? Hop online and snatch a ticket to Sin City. It's the land of all-you-can-eat buffets, copious magazines advertising prostitution, ridiculous amounts of indoor smoking and bountiful gambling/walking around with open containers of alcohol (for those 21 and up only, of course). Who can deny the allure of a Main Street where Excalibur (a giant castle) and Luxor (a Sphinx-bedecked black pyramid with sideways INclinators, not EScalators) are mere blocks from the white tigers and water volcano of the Mirage and the fighting pirate ships of Treasure Island? They even have a gosh darn monorail. It's like Disney World for grown ups.
4. Cross Dressing All right, fellas. How many among you have never wished you could don a piece of sleek women's garb? Who among you have never tried in vain to imagine the feeling of a miniskirt tenderly hugging your upper thighs? Who amongst you, gentlemen, has never imagined your burly face masked behind a thin cake of blush and mascara? If these questions linger, but the fear (unfounded, certainly) of being found out by your less accepting peers persists, come to the Rocky Horror Picture Show 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday night in Ward One to see how some of your more brazen schoolmates have managed this fantasy.
5. Huge Snow Globes Anyone else interested in pooling money to buy the $149.99 eight-foot-tall plastic snow globe on sale at Safeway? It has Frosty the Snowman AND Santa Claus inside of it, and would make the perfect addition to any dorm room or floor lounge. If fifteen people get together it's only a little more than $10 each! That's pretty affordable. The Scene will give a prize to the first group who gets one, and can prove it. Start planning now.
-Compiled by The Scene staff.
