Happy Halloween!

More Photos from Key West Fantasy Fest 2006

Warning: NOT work-friendly -- some photos may be considered offensive and/or contain partial nudity

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My friend Britta, Kim Jong-Il and I take in the sights


Wonder Woman and Robin body paint


Lars, Britta (those are real alligator teeth she's wearing), Aunt Laura, me and my friend Bill


Pirate body painter


the pink poodle brigade


yet another body painter


Another cool headdress


One of the best costumes all week (he was wearing enormous stilts)


random crowd shot


Britta and peacock woman


Here I am with a blushing bride and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz (who was later seen limping in 5 inch red glittery heels well after midnight)


Her body painting looked exactly like lace


There was a bit of a breeze


Lars and Bill at Fast Buck Freddie's


I thought this was a very interesting bird costume


more comic book body paint

And yet more Key West Fantasy Fest photos

Warning: not work-safe -- some photos may be considered offensive and/or contain partial nudity

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This woman had a really cool headdress


My friend Bill and I at the parade


Britta (dressed as a Russian mail-order bride) and friends from volleyball. More than once we ran into Russians and/or Latvians who tried to speak to her without English, which was pretty funny.


a drag queen with a really great wig


Britta with body painted skeletons


Butterfly body paint


The theme was "Key Weird on the Dis-Oriented Express", so they had several Chinese dragons. Another thing I always enjoy is the large number of live bands they have on the floats.


We are formally introduced to Mr. T, who pities the fool!


Yet another really wild (handmade) costume


Wonder Woman seemed to be a really popular paint choice


Every year I see at least one outfit made from bottle caps


One of the most glittery and shiny drag queens we saw


Skeletons were popular costume choices


another skeleton costume


random crowd shot


This guy won first prize at the Headdress Ball (the top of it was an actual rotating carousel)


Invasion of the Plutonians


purple drag queen


Yet another body painter


more body painting...


I have no idea how this photo got in here...

"Do you realize how difficult it is to preserve the peace when you have transvestite guinea pig owners and redneck rabbit breeders in the same room?"

Fantasy Fest is finally over, and we left many memories, feathers and glitter behind us.

(Photo of me encountering just one of the many magical fairies who inhabit Key West)

It was a small group: me, my friend Britta, her boyfriend Lars, my gay escort Bill, my Aunt Laura and Javier, who is Bill's recently-sprouted avocado plant. Javier, of course, was far too young to be left behind at home, where he would probably get into the liquor cabinet, throw very wild parties, and rack up hundreds of dollars in charges by constantly calling inappropriate phone lines in the middle of the night.

We danced through the night, watched many interesting people, stared at insane costumes (and insane lack-of-costumes), ate vicious numbers of stone crabs, devoured chocolate covered key lime pie on a stick, played with a chihuahua, wandered Duval street, watched cartoons, ogled knick knacks at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, and generally slept in whenever possible.


random quotes from the week:

"OH MY GOD!!! WATCH OUT FOR THAT CURB!!!"
"Calm down. SUVs are made to jump curbs! They're like little Lipizzaner stallions!"

"Well, there go my chances for a political career..."

"Now what am I going to do with my horniness, my Guatemalan-ness?"

"Oh, he is so hot... look! Now he's wearing a stethoscope! That's so hot."
"Yeah, it's like 'Genital Hospital' in here"

"Do you realize how difficult it is to preserve the peace when you have transvestite guinea pig owners and redneck rabbit breeders in the same room? It ain't pretty."

"Is that guacamole? Mmmm...."
"Yes. Please don't tell Javier."

"What is it with animals and humping anyway?"
"Oh, I don't know.... it seems like a good idea to me...."

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Unfortunately, I took a disposable camera, so most of my photos did not turn out very well (if at all). I have posted a few below, but will be posting better ones from Bill's and Britta's digital cameras in a day or so.

Fantasy Fest 2006

Warning: generally inappropriate photos and not work-safe

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Most of these seem to be body painters and drag queens, but I should hopefully have more of a variety in a day or so...

random group of drag queens


body paint couple with a comic book theme


me with a very tall person who was even more glittery than I


camo body painter


patriotic body paint group


double martinis


out of all the mohawks I saw, this was one was my favorite


aquatic body painter


enormous cake-man


body painted couple (sheriff and peacock)


random couple (more conservative than many, I will add)


one of many colorful headdresses


"Deal or No Deal" drag queens


purple body painter


zebra and lizard


another aquatic body painter


flower child


half cyborg, half brick wall (?)


one of many drag queens seen wandering outside Club Aqua