A celebrity sighting kicked off an eyeful of observations Friday evening in Austin as the Demon football team hunkered down at their hotel getting ready for today's visit to Texas State.
With the Demon Sports Network crew at the renowned Iron Works BBQ on the banks of the Colorado River, we noticed actor Evan Handler on his own in line ordering up.
Handler is best known for his supporting role in the HBO series Sex in the City. Now he's got a prime role in the HBO series Californication. Friday night he was flying solo for dinner, and was polite and gracious when congratulated for his success by Patrick Netherton.
Either that or he was relieved we weren't asking if he was gonna eat all those ribs.
The real eyecatchers, however, were the unknowns. Each Halloween night, downtown Austin fills to the brim with costumed revelers. As Netherton observed, it's like Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, except with wider streets and no beads.
Seen on the street: a photo being taken of Superman meeting Batman and Spiderman (or a moment, I felt the world was a safe place again!) ... too many Teletubbies for my taste ... a Titantic group, with one walking in a model of the ship going down, along with a captain and a couple of distressed and presumably drowned maidens ... a group in cubes dressed as Tetris ... several different characters from the NBC TV series Heroes ... a lot of '70s costumes ... also, pirate gear was very popular this year ... and plenty of gouls, hooded gothic characters, and a fair sampling of witches and such ... there was Fiona from Shrek, the Stock Market Crash, one of our own (not one of the football team party) dressed as the villian in Scream, but you'll be glad to know that as popular as any getup were Demons. Various styles of Demons were on the prowl, none in football gear, but lots of horns and such!
We're about to head to lunch and then down to San Marcos, about a half-hour drive south on I-35.
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