Halloween, the pre-game
Hands down Halloween is my favorite day of the year. I start thinking about my costume for the following year on November 1st, and I'm not joking. It keeps me up nights. I try to veer away from the typical "I'm wearing a white teddy and I'm a bunny" type shit. One year my homeless person costume was so detailed and dead-on that I was kicked out of a party because they thought a homeless person had infiltrated their keg. I also avoid predictable, common costumes. My predictions of overused costume ideas this year are (annual ideas excluded, i.e. cat, angel, devil, etc barf etc):
1. The Joker, and any of his associates
2. Paris Hilton
3. Sarah Palin
4. Amy Winehouse
The reason I take it so seriously is because I always have the best costume. And I wouldn't say that unless I could back it up. Last year, I was toweleee from South Park. Hand-sewn, made from scratch:
It was a total success. However, I did lose to the 1st place spot for the costume contest in a local haunt; a girl dressed in red lingerie and said she was Santa, so she won. What a cheater. I was so disappointed in the masses. I ended up dancing with some 60-year-old fisherman dude with a mustache because he was wearing sparkly oak tag and called himself a robot.
Last year I'd cut it pretty close. I came up with my costume idea about three weeks before D-day. This year, I am really at a loss for what to be. I have scraped together the following mediocre- and 100% original ideas:
1. Dress in a burqua, with only space for my eyes, but have a sparkly sash around me that says "Miss Kabul 2008" and a little crown.
2. (This is for New Yorkers only) I'd be covered in those subway notifications about the delayed or not-running train lines and go as the MTA.
3. I'd make myself look like a runaway puppet, with strings coming off my arms and legs- and I'd be Russia.
4. I'd get another girl friend to walk around with me in plain clothes, but we'd be holding ONE CUP. If you don't get that reference, then you're a lucky person.
5. Angelina Jolie- giant, fake boobs and babies pasted ALL OVER ME. I would go as far to draw veins on my arms and try no to talk about how hungry I am.
6. Meg from Family Guy
7. The bag of weed from Harold and Kumar; pink bathrobe and everything.
8. A gladiator girl.
I'm kinda leaning towards #7 or #1.
These are the type of costumes I respect:
A friend of mine is going out with her husband and several of her girl friends, and they will dress like the members of the Zion polygamist cult. That's pretty sweet. A guy I know is going as one of Michael Vick's dogs. Another group is going as Team Zissou, which I totally sweat.
What are YOU going as????
1. The Joker, and any of his associates
2. Paris Hilton
3. Sarah Palin
4. Amy Winehouse
The reason I take it so seriously is because I always have the best costume. And I wouldn't say that unless I could back it up. Last year, I was toweleee from South Park. Hand-sewn, made from scratch:
It was a total success. However, I did lose to the 1st place spot for the costume contest in a local haunt; a girl dressed in red lingerie and said she was Santa, so she won. What a cheater. I was so disappointed in the masses. I ended up dancing with some 60-year-old fisherman dude with a mustache because he was wearing sparkly oak tag and called himself a robot.
Last year I'd cut it pretty close. I came up with my costume idea about three weeks before D-day. This year, I am really at a loss for what to be. I have scraped together the following mediocre- and 100% original ideas:
1. Dress in a burqua, with only space for my eyes, but have a sparkly sash around me that says "Miss Kabul 2008" and a little crown.
2. (This is for New Yorkers only) I'd be covered in those subway notifications about the delayed or not-running train lines and go as the MTA.
3. I'd make myself look like a runaway puppet, with strings coming off my arms and legs- and I'd be Russia.
4. I'd get another girl friend to walk around with me in plain clothes, but we'd be holding ONE CUP. If you don't get that reference, then you're a lucky person.
5. Angelina Jolie- giant, fake boobs and babies pasted ALL OVER ME. I would go as far to draw veins on my arms and try no to talk about how hungry I am.
6. Meg from Family Guy
7. The bag of weed from Harold and Kumar; pink bathrobe and everything.
8. A gladiator girl.
I'm kinda leaning towards #7 or #1.
These are the type of costumes I respect:
A friend of mine is going out with her husband and several of her girl friends, and they will dress like the members of the Zion polygamist cult. That's pretty sweet. A guy I know is going as one of Michael Vick's dogs. Another group is going as Team Zissou, which I totally sweat.
What are YOU going as????