communist party

C's off to a great adventure in Beijing -- we'll miss you! -- and she threw a Communist Party before she left. How apt!

There were the garden-variety communists dressed in T-shirts with the CCCP sickle or big yellow star or carrying Little Red Books. Then there were the Vietnamese peasants, cheongsam-clad Madam Maos, a gun-toting soldier in camo, a KGB spy with eye patch, a bald guy with birthmark painted on his pate to resemble Gorbachev and cheena-looking girls in samfoo tops [that would be me, complete with rattan basket and fake pigtails].

Very impressed by everyone's imagination, especially one guy who managed make an ordinary Gap shirt into a Communist Party uniform by pasting two small pieces of red paper on his collar and wearing a red arm band.

But the best costumes had to be this sporting couple who came as defecting East German athletes. Their sports jackets were emblazoned with the flag on the front and on the back, there were words like "ZEITGEIST" and "BRATWURST". Hilarious.

We should have theme parties more often.