Awright, here goes...the condensed version:

Way back in February 1982, a friend of mine ran an Anti-Valentine's Day costume party. He wanted people to dress as famous dead people (real and fictional), murderers, etc. People came as Edgar Allan Poe, Norma Desmond, Bonnie & Clyde, Lizzie Borden...you get the idea. Oh, and the host dressed as Jayne Mansfield.

A friend and I went as Charles Manson and Squeaky Fromme.

It was so convincing, that when I drove to pick up another friend, he thought I was a customer of his weed-dealing younger brother and shut the door in my face!

Once we arrived at the party, the three of us "decorated" our host's refrigerator with theatrical blood.

We certainly were a bunch of sick bastards way back when...

Anyway, here are two photos. I'm finished hijacking this thread, and will now return you to your regularly-scheduled political announcements.

Signor V. (AKA "Charlie")

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"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."