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By The Observer Thickly muscled Fletcher Soccer goaltender, Eric Davis (MALD '01), and Mike Clayton (MALD ’01), the husky former professional basketball player in Georgia (the one just west of Azerbaijan), mosey about Blakeley Hall in drag. Arturo Ramos (MALD '01) is dressed as some sort of red bug he claims is a Mexican superhero. Larry Dixon (MALD '01) looks even more hoboesque than usual. Kevin Huyler (MALD '01) balances a large plastic tub on his head and also dons women's clothing. The cast of The Blair Witch Project shuffles by, and I think I recognize David Delaney (MALD '01) carrying the camcorder. I lift my can of Bud Lite and notice that someone has taped dozens of leaves to my own clothing. At this moment I remember: I'm at the Fletcher Hhalloween Bash '99, and the culprit is me.
I love Fletcher Halloween parties, I remember, as Paul Hazell (MALD '01) struts by in full pimp garb with Edith Cheung (MALD '01) and Ivana Vico draped on his arms as "employees." Where else can you walk around with a large plastic facsimile of a human ass hanging around your neck and engage in erudite discourse? I sip my watery refreshment, and note that Jim Potts (MALD '01) is dressed as Austin Powers, and Lynn Swarz (MALD '01) has squeezed into a real fake leopard-motif kitten outfit. Meow. Chamsai Menasveta (MALD '00) and Nedjma Koval (Ph.D. candidate and last year's "Best Costume"winner) arrive fashionably late. Their faces painted, they don compelling sandwich boards that sport a 3D Ace of Clubs and a pretty decent Matisse knock-off, respectively. Alex Kraus (MALD '00) and Ulrik Ahnfeldt-Mollerup (MALD '01), following the same Central European muse, have wrapped themselves in what appears to be gauze. Alex, someone explains, is the English Patient. He is still alive, it seems, after last year's arrival in the very same costume. Closer inspection verifies Ulrik's garb to be rapidly decomposing toilet paper. He explains his outfit doubly "A Failed Attempt of Making the Michelin Man" and "The Worst Costume Ever." He may be right.
The newly handicapped-accessible Blakeley lounge (some 40 percent smaller than its wheelchair-liftless antecedent) seems to be handling the onslaught well. Holly Holberg commands that I guess her guise. She too wears a garbage bag, but its leaves have apparently shed and she wears sunglasses and leans on a cane. Is she Imke in Retirement in Sun City, Arizona? No. A Blind Date. Elaine French (MALD '01), a dragonfly, untangles her coat hanger antennae from a tangle of faux spider webs near the egress. The Big Dig walks by; the Spice Girls' starting five, Martina Klisovich, Kelly Morgan, Marlies Bull, Mariana Lenkova and Aida Mengitsu (MALDs '00), follow.
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