A couple of friends got attacked on L St. 2 nights ago. One of them was shot clean through his thigh when he was running away. Yesterday he was walking just fine and pulled up his shorts to show me his 2 wounds—entry & exit. Good thing it was only a .9. He was laughing about it. He was tickled pink about being able to say he was shot once.

Tower Clock staff's been working on its section in the Haunted House at Ole Jim (all student organizations host it together). A couple of staffers and I went out to buy costumes and shit. We decided that a mix of sweet innocence and horror would be more disturbing than the tired old vampires and ghosts. So we bought costumes of Baby Doll and Tinkerbell (along with a jail escapee, a nun and a doctor) and have the staffers who wear them put on bloody, gruesome make up.

When Tim W., the EIC, first saw those costumes, he exploded into a stream of furious WTFs. I laughed until I cried. The thought of him thinking that we'd plan to have earnest babies and fairies in a haunted house...

My idea for the baby is to have it crawl slowly up a hallway to every visiting group, carrying a doll or a baby bottle, then suddenly swivel its head up to reveal a hideous, snarling face. In the tune of 'Trainspotting'.

As for the fairy costume, it was a mistake. We sold it to a frosh chick.

Speaking of froshies, Class of 2009's section's theme is very anti-Buff and Blue. You see, BnB published a couple of columns telling them to grow up. Ooo.

What will you be on Halloween?