Halloween In Madison

6:27pm

we are in an elevator with peter pan at a hiking store. we don't hike, we're just bored.

7:32pm

we are eating skewered meat and drinking asian fizzy drinks served by a 70's porn star.

8:58pm

still there. bowie's hunky dory on the stereo. sarah palin walks by us and says one word: "maverick"

9:24pm

get a text from tour manager: "bus leaves at 1:15am"

9:42pm

now at chill-out cigar/lounge bar. dean martin look-a-like on stage. sharon little takes mic, sings "fever". then "saints go marching in". 3 sisters who lost one sister to breast cancer are whooping it up. they are funny. everyone wants to know who sharon is.

10:09pm

i buy another cigar and a port wine. this is the place for sure.

11:23pm

at a hotel lounge now. jazz trio. dorothy is having a drink. cops everywhere, real cops. this is their rest station for halloween night. sharon introduces herself to trio and sings "over the rainbow".

she doesn't remember the other parts of the song so she keeps singing  the"somewhere over the rainbow" line over and over. the looks on band's faces: priceless.

12:46am

looking out the window of chinese food restaurant. the ladies of madison this year seem to have opted for the prostitute look over the scary haunted traditional look. i don't mind. sharon rolls her eyes.

1:15am we, on the bus, leave the chaotic scene that is Halloween on the Univerity of Wisconson campus.