Jackson Hole Underground

This angel lit up the dance floor, literally, at the Q Roadhouse Halloween Party on Saturday.

Four days after most people celebrated it, the actual holiday arrives today with a hint of the spookiness that inspired the original Celtic festival, Samhain. For some 2,000 years, humans have been marking the last harvest, summer’s end, the start of the dark months, with revelry.

While in the past this tradition honored a connection to the dead or the underworld, today the holiday has evolved into an expression of the freakier side of human nature. And in Jackson Hole, the freaks come out on Halloween.

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Cheer up, Rockies fans, it could be worse. You could be rooting for the Yankees.

Bronx Bombers got a double detonation of disaster last night: While the Red Sox were sweeping the World Series, the best player in baseball hung up his pinstripes.

“A-ROD A-GONER,” screamed today’s N.Y. Daily News. “A-BOMB,” shouted the Post.

Scott Boras, agent for Alex Rodriguez, may have outsmarted himself on this one. Not only was the announcement an advertisement of A-Rod’s selfishness, the backlash against the timing was so sharp today that it might trim a few million dollars off the player’s next contract.

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It’s prime hunting season in Wyoming, and Air Force Two was parked at Jackson Hole Airport over the weekend. Uh, oh.

His excellency the vice president jetted back to Jackson on Friday afternoon and was gone by Sunday evening. The terror alert was raised to blaze orange.

Only a short stroll from the veep’s residence at Teton Pines, Osama bin Laden sipped cocktails Saturday night during the Q restaurant’s Halloween party.

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As the World Series begins tonight, let’s hope the Rockies do a better job on the field than they did selling tickets for the games in Denver.

Yesterday’s Internet free-for-all was a junk show, coming on the heels of Monday’s computer crash, and it seems nobody wound up happy but the ticket brokers with software for penetrating the system.

Is there a lower caste in the sports world than scalper? A pair of field-level seats behind the Sox dugout at Coors Field is going for $6,000 on eBay today.

If a casual fan in Wyoming, 500 miles from Denver, could grow aggravated as his two browsers repeatedly got stuck, I can only imagine the frustration of the hard-core fans in Colorado (assuming any of those exist).

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“Autumn,” wrote the French existentialist Albert Camus, “is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”

This year, perhaps due to the late summer rains, the re-blooming seemed particularly vivid and prolonged, especially in town, where the cottonwoods were ablaze the past few weeks, as orange as a ripe pumpkin.

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