The Wily Filipino

Halloween.

And how about them White Stripes? Aren't you tired of the White Stripes? Don't you wish they'd just... disappear? I mean, what self-respecting rock 'n roll band doesn't even a bass player?

Madeline and I obviously look nothing like Jack and Meg White (we're not even real fans of their music), but the costumes were easy. Alas, I had no time to make a big red guitar out of cardboard, my hair's all wrong, and when my crimson pants arrived, they looked like something an old golfer would wear. (This pair, of course, is what I should be wearing.)

Izzy isn't going as a junior White Stripe, but as a baby snow leopard. Then we're taking her "trick-or-treating" (in quotation marks, since she won't get to eat any candy) for the first time, probably up to Seacliff and Robin Williams's house.