Kill Bill was an awesome movie.  Both volumes.  Tarantino has great style, and some great commentary.  I have yet to speak to anyone who didn’t find the superman analogy at the end of Vol. 2 awe-inspiring.  I’d also like to add that Bill and The Bride had a super screwed up relationship.

That’s not what’s important, though, the reason I bring it up is this: The Bride is so cool I dressed as her for Halloween.  I had a few ideas, but in the end I devoted myself to a yellow jumpsuit and a shiny sword.  Really, does it get any better?

Since I was in San Francisco over the Halloween weekend, getting ready to move out there, I got to meet up with Rhoulette and Katscratch, who are both local to the area, and we partied together (Rhoulette is the coolest Poison Ivy ever, by the way).  Stormy, who writes The Hook-Up on Penny Arcade, was hosting a party at his place, so of course the three of us decided to crash it.

It was a lot of fun to get to hang out with other gaming addicts and have conversations that consisted entirely of Red vs. Blue quotes without bewildered looks from uneducated bystanders.  Robert Khoo, also from Penny Arcade, was there, and kindly schooled me in Soul Calibur II and Halo before the party really heated up.  Don’t ever play him in those games, or in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.  Don’t even turn the console on.  He doesn’t play around.  Someone snapped a picture during the education process, but my demonic scowl is not a sight to be seen by the innocent.  I’d still like to thank him, though, since I started to get much better towards the end of the lesson.  Then other people showed up.

Seanbaby from EGM arrived as his charming self with multi-colored hair and a thundercats shirt, and I punched him repeatedly.  He’s a kickboxer! He can take it!  The Bride has to kick someone’s butt before the night’s over!

After mock-sparring with him, and with a friend of mine who dressed as the Cardboard Tube Samaurai, we moved to the giant annual party at the Castro.  I’ve never seen a celebration of that scale before.  While The Bride should always be brave and ready to kick butt, I was a little awestruck and didn’t practice my deadly arts on any of the Crazy 88’s who were in attendance.  I should have.  It would have been fun.

Just the same, the night was great.  Since my Halloweens have traditionally consisted of doing nothing, it’s pretty much my favorite one ever.  And there’s nothing like celebrating it with my friends.  That pretty much made the experience, I think.

- Jinx

Everybody was kung fu fighting, those cats were fast as lightning