Today is SKYWARN Recognition Day.

Santarchy 2002 was a rousing success.

There weren’t many people younger than me at Santarchy this year, which is why it was so unnerving to be the one guy with the least amount of energy out of all the red and white bar-crawlers this evening. Our Washington Post photographer and our reporter, Ylan Quy Mui showed up when we finally got to Lucky Bar in Adams Morgan to join us. As with two years ago, we all began at the Natural History museum and ended at Heaven and Hell, except this time we left to frenzied dancing in the windows of Heaven instead of helping Santa out of Hell’s basement into the waiting ambulance and then glancing around nervously figuring out what to do next before spilitting into 5 different directions to head for the metro.

A couple of the bars were glad to have us, and once some of the other people on the DC Cacophony list remind me who they are I’ll be glad to list them in this space so you can share your hard earned money with their cute bartenders and considerate owners. I only felt bad for the strippers in the gentleman’s clubs we stopped in. Like I said to a few people this evening, there’s a bunch of burners staring at a naked body going, “So? She’s naked. Where’s the glow paint?” Thanks to all the people who made my evening wonderful, including (but not limited to) my lovely girlfriend Suzanne, Dave Diller, Steph Bean (for watching the Alexii all evening), Dustin Smith, Sean Rutledge, Lynn Marshall, Knarph and Liza, Alex Lanham and the oodles of other people who I know really well except at 00:48 three nights later writing my thank yous and the people who I met that night and instantly forgot their names. I hope to hear from a few of you soon.

I pooped out around 22:00 and tried to leave, but we didn't get started going until 11:30, and then walked a full hour in the cold through the city back to my car. What a way to end the night.

Ylan Mui's story will be running on December 15, 2002 in the Style section of the Washington Post.

Meanwhile, the Vice President appears to be building a secret bunker at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.

December 6, 2002 - December 8, 2002

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