ariel is to be an angler fish in his kindergarten end-of-year concert. "i'm a fish with a light," he told us. his costume costs $37. isn't that outrageous? how can a costume for a small child cost that much? diamond studded meh? as the concert is on the same day as our first thursday i

in other news, the children have somehow come to hear about halloween (probably from television) and want to know if they can celebrate it. cold storage sells pumpkins; yeen teck says he could carve them one. (note: put this down in my ever-thickening "contracts in blood" book.)