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Huckleberries Online

Have a happy, sexy, bare-midriff Halloween, Boise

Every few years, my Halloween psychotherapist, Rocci Johnson, is kind enough to “explain the universe” to me. Her words.

It works like this. October approaches. I become agitated by the idea of adults cavorting around in idiotic naughty-nurse and mumbling-mummy costumes. And Rocci reminds me that grown-ups who dress up are perfectly normal.

Me, the guy who refuses to wear a costume?

“You’re such a dork,” Rocci says. “You’re a total dork.”

It’s a healthy doctor-patient relationship. So, this week, when I stumbled across Frightgeist, a Google Trends website that analyzes costume searches locally and nationally, I knew it was time to make an appointment with Rocci again.

The woman is a dress-up expert. She does it year-round while fronting her Rocci Johnson Band at Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 W. Main St. in Boise. This Halloween weekend, she’ll wear separate, elaborate costumes while hosting a Zombie Prom (Oct. 30) and Exotic Erotica Ball (Oct. 31).

Rocci never repeats a Halloween costume. “That would be a travesty!” she harumphs.

If anyone has the tools to analyze the search trends revealed by Frightgeist, it’s her.

So explain this to me, I ask Rocci: The No. 1 costume trending nationally this year — and trending No. 2 in Boise — is Harley Quinn, the female comic-book enemy of Batman. (I think she bangs the Joker or something.) Read more.


Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article41811339.html#storylink=cpy


Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.