Would ya like some more cheesy pattycakes, then?

Whoa! Check out these new awesome Victorian masks I found at the party store on Western yesterday. They were only $2 each. I am so in love with masks. I want to start a collection. I love how photographing people with masks on adds this whole new complex dimension to their personalities. They still look like themselves but another version, a slightly off version, cartoonish. B and had to drop off our (late!) rent check at the realty office in Roscoe Village and while we were waiting for the bus, B suggested we run over to the party store to look for costumes for our new wacky band. Brian found this awesome green jacket with gold lame $$$$ signs all over it but sadly, it was $40 (boohoo). It looked like something Rodney Dangerfield would wear if he was working in a casino. I told Brian I'd try to make him one for a lot cheaper, so that's my next project.

But back to the masks...we went back to the bus stop and tried on our masks and immediately started talking like little british schoolchildren with cockney accents. I even came up with a new cockney word for pizza (according to schoolchildren, of course), cheesy pattycakes! Haha, endless amusement.

Here's some mask pics. See what I mean about the weird extra dimension the mask adds to the portrait?