True, Halloween has grown around the world significantly in recent years and has gone from a purely children’s event to one enjoyed by all ages.

But… most cities didn’t have half a million people show up.

But what do I know, my electronic monitor goes off if I cross the border of WeHo and gives me a nasty zap. Oh to see the vast wide world outside of the gay ghetto. Oh to experience life like real people.

But, alas, here I am trapped by my conformity to stereotypes, licking my lips saying “whooah”.

With the Cher option, isn’t there a risk you’ll be lost in the crowd?

On an episode of Will and Grace, Will’s best friend Jack is obsessed with Cher and mimics her trademark “whoaah” sound. He runs into Cher in a restaurant, thinks she’s a drag queen and corrects her pronunciation of the whoaah.

By Cher-ala-Jack I meant that I’d try to copy the social myth of Cher rather than go for accuracy.

I don’t get the reference, what is a “Cher-ala-Jack “whoooa”"?

I know. Scary.

He likes to think he’s paying homage) or that it’s just a joke and that other people should either lighten up or shut up.

Interesting that you’d bring up insensitive or tasteless ethnic costuming, even for just this one day.

There was an article in Salon about slutty costumes for women. As if this one day is supposed to bring out the sex bomb in every woman, who otherwise wouldn’t dare any other time of the year.
So spot on about what’s appropriate for kids to be exposed to on this day.

Personally, I’ve spent enough of my professional life playing dress up, that Halloween as a means of doing so for fun is anti climatic.
The best Halloween season I had was in Massachusetts.

Me and three friends took the T from Boston, out to Salem for the day and checked out the witch trial history. Spent hours at a 400 year old cemetery that posted manner of death along with the ages and birth and death dates of the dead.
There was a custom house that had the most interesting manifests of the goods that were inventoried there, including black slaves.

It’ll be Dia de los Muertos on Wednesday. Hmmm…

So tonight I’m Cher. Half-Breed. Long hair, Indian headdress. My own skin.

I plan on touching my tongue to my upper lip, tossing my hair, and giving my best Cher-ala-Jack “whoooah.”

I eagerly await your posting of the video clip.

My favorite Halloween experiences have been in NYC – especially the yearly parade which hands down beats any gay pride parade any day of the week.

And dressing up as Cher? Way to dispel the stereotype there dude.