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Just got off the phone with the Redrumette.  I spent Saturday fixing a dog door.  She spent Saturday in San Francisco at the DNA Lounge mash-up party,  Mash-ups, where people in mixed-metaphor costumes dance to two songs mashed together by a DJ.   The line stretched for three blocks,  but the clever lass and cohort had bought online and jumped that other line.   The winner of the costume contest (remember, two themes mashed together) was a guy who was a transformer.   Little short of concept points, but blew them away on execution.   Just a weird techno guy standing up, but when he hunkered down on the floor, he transformed into an amazingly realistic police car.   Second place was won by an Asian woman who was Lil\' Kim Jong Il in a minidress that would make the real Lil\' Kim blush.. and the whole red-star military cap.  Her group scored a fourth with Mr. T  Party,  who did a credible bling/muscles/mohawk Mr. T. carrying a "I Pity the Fool Who Raises My Taxes" sign.

That was Saturday.  Halloween was spent doing one of those high-end Bay Area treasure hunts that required them to trick or treat their way around Berkeley.  Three CS advanced degrees and a neuroscientist and they couldn\'t even place.  Waaaay off their usual game.  But they do 8-10 a year so there\'s always the one put on by Google employees.  Fiendishly complex, I hear.  We have  "Wetback Wednesdays" at a local bar.

I could be wrong.  Maybe it\'s just because Redrumette and cohort are young..  But maybe not.  Here in N. Alabama, the hottest thing going is the corn maze with recorded screams and spooky music playing from loudspeakers and the farmer\'s teenage son jumping out at odd times and brandishing a baseball bat covered in stage blood.  

I wonder if the DNA Lounge has franchise opportunities.

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Just got off the phone with the Redrumette.  I spent Saturday fixing a dog door.  She spent Saturday in San Francisco at the DNA Lounge mash-up party,  Mash-ups, where people in mixed-metaphor costumes dance to two songs mashed together by a DJ.   The line stretched for three blocks,  but the clever lass and cohort had bought online and jumped that other line.   The winner of the costume contest (remember, two themes mashed together) was a guy who was a transformer.   Little short of concept points, but blew them away on execution.   Just a weird techno guy standing up, but when he hunkered down on the floor, he transformed into an amazingly realistic police car.   Second place was won by an Asian woman who was Lil\' Kim Jong Il in a minidress that would make the real Lil\' Kim blush.. and the whole red-star military cap.  Her group scored a fourth with Mr. T  Party,  who did a credible bling/muscles/mohawk Mr. T. carrying a "I Pity the Fool Who Raises My Taxes" sign.

That was Saturday.  Halloween was spent doing one of those high-end Bay Area treasure hunts that required them to trick or treat their way around Berkeley.  Three CS advanced degrees and a neuroscientist and they couldn\'t even place.  Waaaay off their usual game.  But they do 8-10 a year so there\'s always the one put on by Google employees.  Fiendishly complex, I hear.  We have  "Wetback Wednesdays" at a local bar.

I could be wrong.  Maybe it\'s just because Redrumette and cohort are young..  But maybe not.  Here in N. Alabama, the hottest thing going is the corn maze with recorded screams and spooky music playing from loudspeakers and the farmer\'s teenage son jumping out at odd times and brandishing a baseball bat covered in stage blood.  

I wonder if the DNA Lounge has franchise opportunities.