Blog Log: Missing Out on Halloween

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SOMETIMES, annual events lose their luster, but it's hard to believe that could happen to something as flashy as the Dupont Circle High Heel Race down 17th Street NW, which is traditionally held on the night before Halloween.

For one contributor at D.C. Metblogs, the race is usually a must-do, but this year "[i]nstead of cheering for the Bubble Wrap Queen or even Princess Diana, I was off at work, then working on my house, even sober at that." If you were MIA last night, too, you can see what you missed here. [D.C. Metblogs; Free Ride/Express]

» ANOTHER ABSENCE: The D.C. Sidewalk Blog also didn't catch the race, but did attend Tuesday night's Ryan Adams/Cardinals concert at DAR Constitution Hall. The blogger says the show was "in its own way, more peculiar than sprinting drag queens." Oh really? [D.C. Sidewalk Blog]

» OH, JUST FORGET IT ... Jacking kids up on sugar isn't as fun as it used to be. [Red Nose]

» IN NON-HALLOWEEN NEWS: In March, around St. Patrick's Day, a bunch of people nationwide shave their heads to benefit children with cancer as part of St. Baldrick's Day. In November, there is Movember, the month of the moustache. And local blogger ArJewTino, who says his Latin Jewish DNA doesn't do much "to create dermis that could push hair out of my face in droves," is participating with a number of cohorts. He says he'll sport some sort of upper lip feature by the end of the month, all in the name of prostate cancer research. Here's a challenge: Why not just keep on growing until March and make it a Movember/St. Baldrick's charity combo? [St. Baldrick's; WSJ; Movember; ArJewTino]

File photo by Kevin Clark/The Washington Post