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For Eight More Days, The Emperor Wears Clothes

Halloween is next weekend, which means that starting next Friday, you will be forced to pretend that each of the 700 billion Sarah Palin costumes you see is hilarious, winning, and topical. This will be terrible—an exercise in bad faith that will test the very resilience of the human condition. So! Enjoy this sartorially unremarkable weekend, for next weekend’s free candy comes with a price.

Friday:

  • Catch Born Ruffians at the Rock and Roll Hotel, maybe they will play that one Grizzly Bear cover! $10; 8:30 PM. [Rock and Roll Hotel]
  • Celebrate Lotus Lounge’s first birthday at Lotus Lounge. They will be serving that vodka energy drink you kids love so much. [Lotus Lounge]

Saturday:

  • See CAP President John Podesta read from his book, The Power of Progress at Politics and Prose. Podesta Power Progress Politics Prose. 6 PM.[Politics and Prose]
  • Sad beautiful person Mirah will be performing at the Black Cat tonight. $15; 9 PM. [Black Cat]

Sunday:

  • Deerhoof takes the stage at the 9:30 Club. $15, 7 PM. [9:30 Club]
  • Watch Jules Dassin’s Rififi. There are French gangsters, French women, etc. [National Gallery]
  • Relive your romantic failings, all night long, as the Magnetic Fields play GWU’s Lisner Auditorium. $35; 8 PM. [Washington Post]
  • There will be 10,000 pictures of the ocean on display at the Smithsonian. The exhibit is closing in November and the ocean will probably be gone before that, so, you know, hurry. [Smithsonian]


3:26 PM on Thu October 23 2008
By Juli Weiner
3045 Views

  1. Barack Like Me says at 3:31 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    Hopefully a lot of the Palin costume wearin’ trick or treaters will go for that added extra dash of realism and accessorize their look with a Hitler mustache.

  2. that vodka energy drink you kids love so much

    Y’all are gonna kill yourself with that shit.

  3. The Real JR Revisted says at 3:33 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    Breaking: In part 2 of the Brian Williams’ interview with McCain/Palin, McCain reveals that fake america are the parts that planes flown into their buildings. Yup: DC and NYC.

    I’m livid. And this is officially over for him.

  4. JeffGoldblum says at 3:35 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    I saw Born Ruffians when they were in LA last week. They were pretty good, although I’m not sure how reliable my opinion is because I somehow managed to spend $120 at the bar. Also, I think they did play the Grizzly Bear song, maybe.

  5. problemwithcaring says at 3:39 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    I love topical costumes! I am either going as Zombie Benazir Bhutto or Novak’s evil bicyclist-killing brain tumor, I haven’t decided.

  6. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:43 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    The Real JR Revisted: I hope to G*d you’re kidding, but this being WALNUTS!/Mooselips, I know you’re not. Could somebody please drive a wooden stake into the McCain campaign and call it done?

  7. Uncle Sam says at 3:47 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    But I just dropped $150,000 on my Palin costume…

  8. Doglessliberal says at 3:55 pm, October 23rd, 2008
  9. bulliestogo says at 4:20 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    <3 Deerhoof

  10. Sarah Palin (vp@whitehouse.gov) says at 4:30 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    I’m dressin’ my five up like little wolf pups, fer sure!

  11. yourwildhorses says at 5:34 pm, October 23rd, 2008

    Haha, I live abroad, so I might actually be the only Sarah Palin at the party I’m going to.

    However only 30-55% of people will get it.

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