Tango Video + Playing Dress Up + Reader Magnets by Kirsten Bett

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5 min readNov 1, 2024

Do you celebrate Halloween? This year Khashayar and I dressed up twice, never on the actual night, because Thursday nights are taken. That’s when we get together with friends to watch the wonderful new show, Matlock, starring Kathy Bates. The easiest occasions to elicit smiles via outrageous duds are when most everyone else is dressed normal, but it’s close enough to a holiday that one doesn’t get mistaken for being totally out of touch. Like at yesterday’s monthly book club meeting at the library (no surprise that the library is my fave place as I work on finding a literary agent to rep my 3 novels that’re explained here), when I wore this hat that I also sported days earlier at Zumba.

The exercise class was a wild sweaty affair — note the faux police officer behind us who threatened to shut down the Zumba party…

We’re quite a festive bunch around here. The weekend before, cherished dance-community friends hosted an annual party where many of the attendees performed. Khashayar and I did this non-choreographed (the authentic way to tango) Argentine Tango. The music is “Vuelvo Al Sur” by Ricardito Reveira, from his Palermo Nuevo Album, 2006…

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