OPERATION FIRE BELLOWS Welcome indeed! Little Italy! Fortune and glory! No, I'm not giving you any money. Mental note: get October 15-November 7 off for next year (adjusted to Farmer's Almanac predictions, of course) camping cutes Halloween came to Julie's house I knew it The fire dancing happened, and attracted neighbors the more complex and cumbersome your costume, the more rapt attention you command when you take up the fire-poi Not far thereafter, I was off to Rochester for Operation Fire Bellows. The only conciliation I made to old-style traveling was to wear a lot of clothes and not use the heater Victor and I bunted in what was left of Friday by taking in a bizarre movie. Darkness-Impaired Notes from a Screening of Beowulf (spoilers SPOILERS) Party King Why do the characters look like disquieting versions of the actors Beowulf=white trash? was Unferth gay in poem horses and dogs taken wholesale from Shrek Depiction of Danish girls eerily accurate You can't just come out of nowhere and be the king of Denmark and take his wife this whole movie is a fucking CUTSCENE Dragon: protect your pulsating, in-case-of-emergency-break-glass heart from unkillable retiree father Why does Beowulf Grendel his own arm?? son of Hrothgar : Grendel :: son of Beowulf : Christianity :: son of Wiglaf : internet? This cat ("John") is a bastard and deserved a little hampering by one of those novelties you can buy in a mall kiosk N.B. the "Whales and Dolphins" VHS Settlers of motherfucking Catan! Victor gave eerie prophecy that this would happen I owed a great deal of beginner's luck to half a Black Box, which bestows acute trading acumen and the lust for adventure needed to colonize distant strands "Secret" Korean restaurant has gotten a bit of a facelift and is damned amazing. Beware: they don't care if the barbecue gets on your clothes I love you so much Christyanity that I have given you one of the keys to the kingdom irt surviving Rochester At the Old Toad, our party took to impersonating types of British Islanders. After making quits with an hour of impersonating a Londoner with what must have been either extremely naive or extremely forbearing Rochester girls, these French Canadian girls immediately leaned over and were like, "Come on, seriously?" They were the belles of the ball Some dudes got into a fight outside of "Vinyl" and this is the only picture of that I feel legally comfortable to share Mark and Mr. N install a doorjamb under Victor's guidance A dream home for Mark (needs some work) OPERATION FIRE BELLOWS STATUS: SUCCESS return to Xtyanity