If You Were Here I Could Deceive You, If You Were Here You Would Believe

This guy here, Mikey Rat, had a birthday!

Micaela, his wife dressed here as Chrissy Hynde in the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket" video, decided the party should have an 80's theme.
Doug showed up as Joey Ramone and Steph worked an Exene Cervenka look.

The brothers Delilli came as two dudes from ZZ Top...but I don't know that they know which ones they were.

Gina had a super sexy Joan Jet-ish thing going on!

Pamela was doing the old school 80's Madonna...perfect!

Tristan showed up and did some air guitar for us. He has some really righteous moves!

Anna was going for the Sloan look from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I was so jealous of those boots and had a hard time not touching them when she was sitting next to me.
Doug is a NERD.
And p.s. he picked up that Member's Only jacket for $5.00 at a thrift store. Suck it, hipsters!

Kristy and Ryan in leather!

And look at Darling Meg! Meg told me, a while ago, that she was coming as Siouxsie, but I had no idea how impeccably she would pull it off!
Look at how morose she is!

Luke showed up. I'm pretty sure he was Billy Idol, but one never knows...

When Chris walked in the door he scared all the children with his Iron Maiden costume.
But then they saw those rubber skeleton gloves they fell madly in love with him!

Maura liked the gloves too.

She loved the gloves.


Tacquitos!

Aaron was the drummer from Def Leppard...right down to the ghost arm and English accent!

Forty looks good, my friend! Forty looks real good!

Terrifying...

Shannon was celebrating her birthday too...so, she came uncostumed. We don't care - we just love seeing her face!


Mike cruised around the room swilling giant beers and making that wig work.
He was Handsome Dick Manitoba from The Dictators.

I've known Douglet for a while now, but never unbearded.
Doesn't matter, I love his face either way!

Shelly Boo was there too...she can never keep that tongue in her mouth.

Crystal is always smiles...

It's no 80's party without dancing!


Russell is contemplating Meg's corpse paint.

Eventually, things started going down hill.

People started taking shots of tequila and Jagermeister...

...and stuff really got different!

But hey, it's not a party until someone does the Molly Ringwold!

Happy Birthday, Mike...!
Your family loves you!

xox