M.O.M.'s Ball 2009

The hard to acquire ticket! Big thanks to Loki for hooking us up. After an hour in the freezing wind and drizzle outside Mardi Gras World, we finally got in, to find a huge crowd watching the Radiators perform. Great costuming everywhere. Here's Rorchach hanging out with Curt Kobain (freshly dead in a body bag) "Now hold still, Beaker, while I pour the sulferic acid over your cranium." "Memememememee...." Where's Dr. Z when you need him? He'd have appreciated the chance to worship Kali. As the night wore on, the costuming got wilder and less inhibited by modesty, taste, etc... Case in point. There were some really imaginative 'low budget' eyecatchers as well, including this couple sporting outfits made entirely out of drinking straws. And lots of light emitting costumes were on display as well, like this 'stick figure' couple in head to toe blackout suits, with EL lighting outlines. They looked abstract and kinetic on the dance floor. I ran into several familiar faces, including C.O.G.'s own 'Android Woman' Raphael, adorned in her own light emitting accessories and filmstrip bikini bottom. Nice errr, costume (?) Raph! Believe it or not, there were many even more revealing costumes than this, but I must exercise SOME restraint! Wild, fun night. We left early - at 2AM!