STEVE DUNKELBERGER: LAUGHS, LASTS AND LUST >>>

I began my ghostly tour of Tacoma with laughs at the Comedy Underground. It’s been a while since Susan Jones steamrolled Tacoma with her big gal humor. She not only won the Jack FM funniest person in Washington Comedy Contest but she has been casted in a reality TV show focusing on size awareness and acceptance called Larger than Life, and is currently performing in a comedy tour called "Too Fat, Too Furious."

Next, I dropped in on O’Malley’s Irish Pub to catch Paris Spleen’s last show. They rocked. No surprise. They will be missed.

I popped in on Jazzbones for a quick hit of jazz by the Billy Shew Band.

I ended the night at the Erotica Halloween show at The Robert Daniel Gallery. Slutty nurses, leather boots and busty corsets â€" all represent.

The Naked Man also made an appearance with his "costume."

The winning costume was a pony boy and rider duo that, well, let's just say the costumes were as much "costumes" as real deal gear from the sorts of catalogs that come in brown wrappers.