trick or treat

11 Things: Trick or Treat

Thursday, October 26, 2006

1. Partying in the streets of San Francisco on a Halloween night. (An annual treat with very few rivals.)

2. How your head feels the next morning when you get up to go to work. (An annual trick with very few rivals.)

3. Fresh fruit such as bananas, blueberries, Fuji apples, guava, Japanese pears, kumquats, mangosteen, oranges, papaya, passion fruit, pineapples, star fruit and strawberries. (Uncompromising treats).

4. Rotting vegetables such as beets, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, eggplant, lima beans, radishes, spinach, squash and zucchini. (Merciless tricks.)

5. Captain Sensible's new Blah! Party (www.blahparty.org) and the Damned playing Slim's in mid-November (www.officialdamned.com). (Wonderful timely treats).

6. Changing habeas corpus to habeas corpse and hoping no one notices. (A not-so-clever trick.)

7. British street artist Banksy (www.banksy.co.uk) and his use of anonymous -- and often hilarious -- covert operational art to communicate his politics -- and social mirth. (Poignant T-shirt-worthy treats.)

8. Brangelina actually spending $370,000 on Banksy artwork last month. (A hilarious, ironic trick.)

9. The Ghost Kite Flying event at Ocean Beach this weekend: ghost kites, four bands, social mingling, sky and ocean (see Enders for details). (A treat, as long as the weather cooperates.)

10. Taking Muni to get to the Ghost Kite Flying event at Ocean Beach this weekend and expecting to somehow arrive on time. (A definite, definite trick.)

11. This sentence, allowing treats to defeat tricks 6-5 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. (A clear and definite treat, by definition.)

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