by day, brandon is a dignified professor at a respectable college. but every halloween, he WYLEZ OUT. last year, he wore a green sheet and a spiky headband, with nothing else, and was the statue of liberty. two female cops busted the party he was throwing, but he somehow drunkenly charmed them into not giving him a ticket/shutting down the party. although, no one knows the actual details of what transpired between them.
me: hahah wtfffffff you love being almost naked at halloween don't you
Brandon: dude, its halloween, youve got to be
i got like the flu from being freezing cold, but totally worth it
i also fell on some rusty garbage and cut the fuck out ofmy leg
me: eeek tetanus
Brandon: yeah i had to get a shot to prevent that
me: the farmer's tan is the best though
how do you still have one
Brandon: dude that shit is baked in there
its from biking
from being out in the sun so much
me: and was the ladder originally intended as fuel for the flame or is some poor dad missing his ladder now
Brandon: oh man we burned like 20 doors
two laders
a ton of shit
me: from what abandoned warehouse did you get twenty doors
Brandon: well
the party was on this piece of land this guys family owns, 150 acres in northeast PA.

there are like several falling-down houses and trailers on it
so... thats where 20 doors came from
p.s. they were old doors, like from the 40s, so they were all covered in lead paint hahaha
me: you walk the razor's edge m****r
Brandon: the fire was enormous
like 8ft tall in the beginning
me: whaaat did you burn all 20 doors at once
Brandon: haha no
but it was so funny to say "throw another door on the fire"
on like many, many occasions i came running out of the darkness carrying a door to throw on
me: hahaha
no one drunkenly fell in the fire pit? i'm surprised
Brandon: actually several people stood on it
on a freshly-thrown in door, wet with rainwater, as flame leapt up around
me: epic
Brandon: yeah. it was pretty metal
me: you in a recycling box, with a farmer's tan, on a raft sailing on waves of flames. i wish caleb d. took that picture, it would be my screen saver
Brandon: i got two photos of my friend pete doing it
theyre on my film camera
yeah so i need to go get that roll developed
my leg is infected as shit it hurts like a motherfuck
Brandon: im going to like limp into my class tomorrow morning
me: are you gonna tell them the real story if the students ask
"well i was half naked, ripping doors off abandoned buildings...."
Brandon: haha no!
i try to maintain an aura of professionalism
ill just say "Halloween won"
me: good choice
Brandon: i'll say "my costume was inappropriate on a number of levels"
me: twas indeed
Brandon: the box ended up in the fire