Happy Pre-Halloween

If you want to make the case that the Halloween costumes we choose are somehow reflections of our psyches -- that we distort and project a self-image first affected by our perceptions of how others see us -- then at some level I'm a nattily dressed yet naked-from-the-waist-down gorilla in smart-looking glasses, and my friend Shannon is a toothpaste model channeling '80s high school live-for-the-moment exuberance as imagined by John Hughes and engineered by Savers. Her gentleman friend, Collins, was a Ferris at least as convincing as her Sloane.