Casual Fridays
This picture of Chris and me was taken Halloween 1999 at our place of work. Chris was unrecognizable as a dinosaur and I gave myself a mohawk and dressed up as Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver.
Having a Mohawk was really cool. At first I felt silly, but after a couple days, I got quite used to it and actually embraced it. I liked being the "Mohawk Guy."
But how great is a workplace when it is encouraged to come in dressed for Halloween. Folks have been known to wear shirts with dirty words on them, or shorts in the cold of winter, and shoes are entirely optional. Some of my co-workers have even dyed their hair "crazy colors" like blue.
Normally blue is not a crazy color, like salmon, but when referring to hair, I think this qualifier is on the money.
I'm sure you've heard of this place. It has figured prominently in numerous cinematic features by Toho studios. But in those films it is always portrayed as a desolate island, overrun by monsters.
Although Monster Island is a real place, the proprietors do not want the location to become too well known, fearing that twould then be overrun by the greatest monster of all: man. So my trip there was planned in secret and I had to remain blindfolded during my flight.
Casual Fridays