1:30am: We arrive at the Robot Heart Halloween Party at the Brooklyn Hanger in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. In order to buy tickets for this party, you needed to buy them on a secret website with a password and have a secret code to actually purchase tickets. I didn’t know the website, have the password or the passcode but my friend really wanted to go. So she did what any enterprising New Yorker would do and she bought 8 tickets secondhand off Craigslist. Lesson to be learned - where there is a will there is a way. So I am rolling deep with my “squad”, seven lovely ladies wearing loads of glitter ready for a night on the town.

READY TO SHINE. The guy in the back is our Uber XL driver

I worked very little on my costume for tonight. I wore my light up sneakers. Yes I own light up sneakers- you can plug them into the wall to charge them. What a glorious time we live in where I can plug in my shoes. I ordered them directly from China on AliExpress. Accompanying my shoes, I put on all the sparkly things I could find; a gold bathing suit, a fluffy white tutu, a gold skirt an as much glitter as I could physically apply to my body and a bunch of sparkly costume jewelry.

Dramatic reenactment of me getting ready

I titled my costume “good energy.” Somewhat as joke but also because I wasn’t really dressed as anything except a comfy raver. POSI VIBES Y’ALL. <3

Hmm or maybe I look like a deranged raver cheerleader?

1:45am: So about this party… Robot Heart is one of the most well-known camps at Burning Man. It’s THE “music destination” in Black Rock City often hosting electronic artists such as Lee Burridge and more recently mainstream favorites like Diplo & Skrillex (collectively known as Jack Ü). That being said, the scene at this party right now is what I imagine the rich people scene is like at Burning Man; lots of older gentlemen, lots of models and lots of European people.

I am basing this image off articles & instagram and hearsay because I have never “burned” but I have the Internet and have done quite a bit of research on the the "playa.”* The scene at this party was probably more extreme because we aren’t in the fucking desert. There was even an article on Vogue.com (written by someone who has done the bare minimum of research on Burning Man, Robot Heart and music)** about the party with suggestions with what to wear – most of which seems like Victoria Secret Angels do Burning Man.

As I am neither a tech entrepreneur nor a model I feel a bit like a pauper at the feast wearing a costume I threw together that night. But my comfy light up sneakers sure definitely better on the dance floor than the 5 inch heels the models were wearing with their all lingerie costumes. They did a good job of turning the Brooklyn Hanger into a destination, but it’s still a warehouse in Sunset Park with port-a-potties and mysterious black dust that falls on you form the ancient ceiling.

That being said the costumes are pretty amazing. About a quarter of the people are dressed as a “Burning Man” attendee wearing outfits they had obviously made for burning man and not Halloween. Honestly, I would do this too if I had spent tons of time on an amazing costume that I usually only get to wear for one week a year. People had tried to make them be more Halloween-themed. They added a mask or headpieces to make themselves into animals so their outfits were more of a true “costume.” The other 50% also have amazing costumes. Par level being “I got my make-up professionally done and this costume is custom made”. I hope these are being reused and if not they are being donated to one of the resale & thrift stores I frequent. I am very impressed and we spend time in the lobby people watching.

1:00am: And the clock switches back. Daylight Savings! Halloween, Saturday & Daylights Savings: a recipe for either the best or the worst night ever…. However, if I died on Halloween, I could come back to the earth for Sunday 11/01 for Dia De Los Muertos.

1:15am: For the first 30 or 45 minutes a very boring band was playing. They weren’t bad… but it wasn’t music you could dance to. It was slow and intense. I think the party was trying to be interesting, but sometimes it’s better to be basic and play music that make people want to groove. Luckily the next act is a DJ and he brings the crowd alive. The visuals switch to picture of Storm Troopers and the Yoda. Am I at a Star Wars Rave? Note to self - I should throw a NYE Star Wars Rave...time and place TBD.

3:20am: I am at the bar and I notice this extremely tall, very handsome man dressed up as the terminator. His metallic machine make-up is perfection. I do a double take to stare at him some more because 1. His costume is on point and 2. He’s super handsome. I look at him again and I realize that he is a Winklevoss twin, of the Facebook-suing, Olympic-rowing Winklevi. Where am I?

I love fancy parties and I love dancing in warehouses, but fancy warehouse parties just seem a little wrong to me. Watching the models not dance in their heels and hobble down the steps confirms this for me. Heels are a commitment to a cab and a chair.

5:00am: One of my squadettes tells me that the rest of the crew is downstairs. Downstairs? What there is a downstairs? I go downstairs and there is a basement with glowing circles and a 3D projector scene with bean bags. Why wasn’t I here ages ago?

6:00am: We run into a man dressed in a Peter Pan outfit and by Peter Pan Outfit I mean he was wearing green leggings, glitter and a hat. Lauren and Caitlin had seen him earlier and were raving about him. He had boundless energy still. Leaping around and dancing. He said "let's dance BUT friend zone ladies." Which was nice because multiple people had accosted Caitlin throughout the night. She is pretty, blonde and smiles a lot which apparently and according to society that is what all men want.

FRIEND ZONE WENDY FRIEND ZONE #FRIENDZONE

7:00am: The sun is up and the sculpture in the lobby has now been activated. What looked like a stationary sculpture is actually a very large automatized tire swing. A man in a daisy onesie is riding on one of the swings.

Caitlin & I decide it’s probably time to call it a night… Most people have left and my light up shoes have run out of charge. We get into an Uber Pool with a girl just wearing a body tight and flowers on her body with her face & hands painted pale pink.

Dramatic reenactment of the girl in our Uber Pool.

*What burners call the dry lake bed where Burning Man is held. If you have more burning questions about the lingo reference this OFFICIAL Burning Man Glossary. Learn what crucial words like Playa Herpes (cause I just assumed it was regular herpes from drug fueled unsafe sex... it's not), MOOP (don't want it), and Sparklepony (don't be it) mean so you can fit in when you BURN.

**My favorite is her listing Diplo & Major Lazer as her examples of musical artists. Major Lazer is basically also Diplo…. Well a collaboration project started by Diplo & DJ Switch. Then DJ Swtich peached and now it is Diplo, Jillinoarie & Walshy Fire.