On Halloween this year, as every year, Benny Pristine is staging a preposterous costume party which will include the usual suspects from the novella…Crysta Bella, Moondog, Quantum Coyote, Rosebud Peru, Dona Juanita Medusa and the Professor, Zeno Murray, Dixie Evans and Charlie plus Leon Shakes, Sir Real and a host of other North Beach denizens…and…the Druid Heights chapter of the Cacophony Society , who describe themselves as "Dada clowns rewiring the circuits of the community".



You may recall Cacophony Society events from the recent past…e.g. 50 members, all in full Santa Claus drag crowding onto a city bus on Christmas Eve, riding to the top of Nob Hill and joining 100 other of their members, also Santa-clad, in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel to sing bawdy carols to the guests. Benny and company were proud participants in that event.

This Halloween Benny is having the group, who usually dress like refugees from a traveling circus, dress in straight business clothes as "costumes" and descend upon an accountants conclave opening reception which is housed at another of the city's major hotels. They intend their presence and conversation to have the effect of bad acid dropped into the punch.