"Charlotte Was Lame on Halloween" or " Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party"
As per usual what great costume ideas I had the year before and the solemn promise of doing it right (e.g. not at the last minute) this time went right out the window. It's an annual ritual I like to perform. After wanting to go interactive this year I changed my mind at the last minute and decide to be a mummy. It turns out getting enough gauze to completely wrap oneself as a mummy is expensive. I could have bought a costume for cheaper but it wouldn't have had the care mixed with a "fuck it I'm tired of this stupid thing" that went into its making. After three hours of attempts to get the gauze to, mostly, stay (it turns out hairspray works well to keep gauze stuck to the skin) and some added dirt to make it more realistic here is the final result.
Some of my friends and I went downtown to the JET concert and Blackhearts Ball, if it can be called a ball. The turnout was pretty low. In fact all of downtown, which is usually full of people in costumes on a bar crawl or just out, was dead. Even for a Saturday night it was dead, let alone Halloween. Maybe it's the economy or there were a bunch of private parties. I couldn't imagine not dressing up and doing something, though last year on actual Halloween all I did was take my creepy mustache and glue googly eyes to it and call it a monster mustache. The week before last year was the aforementioned bar crawl where I dressed as Hades. I admit I chose Hades because of the beard I had grown and I wanted to go shirtless since I had been working out a lot. On actual Halloween I was exhausted and not really interested in doing much. Back to the original point which is what other day of the year do you get to dress up as just about anything and not get stared at like you're a freak, unless you decide to ride the bus to downtown as a mummy. The costumes I saw while out weren't real impressive but I did enjoy Jay and Silent Bob. The weekend before I watched "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" almost three times. They knew the lines from the movies which always adds to a costume, like the Oompa-Loompas I video taped on Franklin Street my first year at Carolina doing the Oompa-Loompa song. They had the whole song down. I love Halloween.
My last game of softball with my team of four years, The Empire, was tonight. We lost the game 9-8 we should have won. It was a depressing way to go out, not playing up to your potential. On the bright side I took a rocket of a hit off my shin while playing shortstop. Everyone thought it was worse than it was. Right now it's only slightly swollen and bruised. People don't realize my bones are indestructible. Last time I broke something I was five years old maybe. I don't even remember it happening so it barely counts. My joints on the other hand suck.
Some of my friends and I went downtown to the JET concert and Blackhearts Ball, if it can be called a ball. The turnout was pretty low. In fact all of downtown, which is usually full of people in costumes on a bar crawl or just out, was dead. Even for a Saturday night it was dead, let alone Halloween. Maybe it's the economy or there were a bunch of private parties. I couldn't imagine not dressing up and doing something, though last year on actual Halloween all I did was take my creepy mustache and glue googly eyes to it and call it a monster mustache. The week before last year was the aforementioned bar crawl where I dressed as Hades. I admit I chose Hades because of the beard I had grown and I wanted to go shirtless since I had been working out a lot. On actual Halloween I was exhausted and not really interested in doing much. Back to the original point which is what other day of the year do you get to dress up as just about anything and not get stared at like you're a freak, unless you decide to ride the bus to downtown as a mummy. The costumes I saw while out weren't real impressive but I did enjoy Jay and Silent Bob. The weekend before I watched "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" almost three times. They knew the lines from the movies which always adds to a costume, like the Oompa-Loompas I video taped on Franklin Street my first year at Carolina doing the Oompa-Loompa song. They had the whole song down. I love Halloween.
My last game of softball with my team of four years, The Empire, was tonight. We lost the game 9-8 we should have won. It was a depressing way to go out, not playing up to your potential. On the bright side I took a rocket of a hit off my shin while playing shortstop. Everyone thought it was worse than it was. Right now it's only slightly swollen and bruised. People don't realize my bones are indestructible. Last time I broke something I was five years old maybe. I don't even remember it happening so it barely counts. My joints on the other hand suck.