My Halloween stalker

There is a girl who I first met because she often comes to our magic bar. Now, her friend is also married to one of my friends. I keep running into her when I am dressed as a zombie or something similar. And in weird places, not in our magic bar or some place like that.

Once, I was meeting another friend for Halloween and she was going to a party and I had to go work in our magic bar, so we just met to say hello and see the other's costume choice. When talking there, random people kept coming up to me and asking if they could take a photo of or with me. So when I was talking to some random office worker outside KFC, this Halloween stalker of mine also showed up. I have also met her in the corridor outside a karaoke place. I have met her outside the shared toilet in a building with 93 bars. I have met her in the Sapporo Art Forest park (although at that time I was there for the Star Wars exhibit and was not actually dressed weirdly, only wearing Star Wars clothes). I have also met her in our magic bar when working dressed as a zombie, but that is not surprising.

This time, I was packing up my stuff after my magic show and was about to leave the bar I had performed in when I noticed my Halloween stalker sitting at a table not far from the exit. She seemed surprised to see me.

Magic show at the H's Cafe Halloween party

H's Cafe (read "his cafe") is a bar in Sapporo that among other things serves great hamburgers. Possibly the best burgers in Sapporo. They also have Halloween parties. Last year I was asked to do a magic show at their Halloween party, and they were apparently happy with the show and asked me back this year too.

The whole place was decorated with fake spider web and strange paintings that looked scary from some angles and not so scary from others. H's Cafe has a fairly young (early twenties? I cannot really tell with Japanese people even when they have not painted their faces for Halloween) clientele, and the Halloween party was no exception. You had unlimited drinks for the duration of the party and you could get free hamburgers and chocolate too.

There was a costume competition, and anyone in costume got a number to stick to themselves somewhere and you could vote for two or three numbers to win the costume competition. The winners got a H's Cafe free pass, which means you can eat and drink for free during November, under the condition that you are there with at least one other person (who will have to pay for their food and drinks). This year I ended up in second place in the costume competition, but I did not have time to use the free pass (the university keeps me too busy).

Scary reflection in the red bull cooler

My magic show went well this year too. People laughed at the right times and were surprised at the right times. It is always a bit difficult for me to do magic in weird costumes. No pockets where you are used to having them. People cannot understand your facial expression. Things like that. After my magic show was finished, people I know showed up by change (they had no idea I was doing a show, I had no idea they ever visited this place).

A group of vampires, and me. The girl in blue (rightmost) won the costume competition.

Three guys dressed up as "people who forgot to dress up for Halloween"

I took a photo with this guy last year too (last year he won the costume competition)

Face paint starting to peel off

Dressing up

Back in Sapporo, I was asked to do a magic show at a Halloween party one week before Halloween. I had bought a t-shirt in Sweden that has a skin color print that makes you look like a girl, and I used this and a wig I bought but never used for my slit-mouthed-woman costume back in August.

I also added some torn pieces of skin that you could peel back. I had to get up really really early the next morning and fly to Tokyo, so I did not want to have a costume that would take too much time to get out of after the party was finished (sometime after midnight)

My Free Food winnings from Halloween paying off!

After drinking tequila all night, sleeping in the plane, going straight to work, working hard, I had a dinner meeting with my Sapporo colleagues. We often go out for hamburgers. This time they wanted to go to H's Cafe, that has excellent hamburgers. This was perfect for me, since I had won a "Free food all November"-card from H's Cafe at their Halloween party. So I got my hamburger and my drinks for free! Yay.

Halloween party at H's Cafe

I eat at H's Cafe quite often. The have great hamburgers and the guy who runs the place is funny to talk too. He asked me if I could do a magic show at their Halloween party and I said sure.

The party was nice. There was lots of candy and cookies in pumpkin shaped bowls, and you could "trick or burger" yourself to a bacon burger. There was of course also free alcohol (and non-alcoholic beverages) during the whole 4 hour party.

The place was decorated with paintings that had different expressions from different angles.

I did about 25 minutes of magic, and people seemed to like it. They laughed at the right times etc. There was also a costume competition, where I ended up getting second place. So I got a special Free Pass as a prize.

The costume competition winners.

The guy in blue in the back one first place in the costume competition. The guy with grey hair on the left shared second place with me.

I liked these two that came as a set, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell

There was a group of three or four guys who all were red faced devils with horns and big ears.

Most girls had store bought costumes and small blood effects on their faces.

More girls in store bought costumes.

I ended up sharing a table with these two in the beginning. One (Alice in Wonderland) had fangs at first, but it turned out to be difficult to eat with fangs, so she took them out.

I liked the black devil with a tail costume, but in the photo it does not show its full potential.

The guy that organized the party

A waitress (in blue) and a guest (in black)

A girl who could roll her eyes pretty well

I liked the two faced man.