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Happy Halloween!!

Jill


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I’ve been working like a madwoman for the past two weeks and haven’t had time to pick up my drycleaning or shave my legs, let alone get a Halloween costume together. So this year I may be taking Halloween off, and getting dinner at a tough-to-get-into spot while everyone else is at the parade. If anyone asks, I’ll say I’m going as a corporate whore.

Alternate plans involve watching the parade from my friend’s rooftop on 6th ave. And still failing to dress up (unless anyone has good last-minute costume suggestions).

What are you doing?

23 thoughts on Happy Halloween!!

  2. I was going to go as a vampire, but apparently I look like Mary Seacole in the long dress and cape, so I think I’ll go with that.

  3. Zombie labor activist, and trick or treating on Beacon hill! Did you know the undead (zombie is a slur, but we’re trying to “reclaim” it) make .70 to the living dollar?

    Happy halloweenie.

  5. I will be following the lead of my three and seven year old as they try to gather as much candy as possible. The little guy has brought me his costume 5 times already and it isn’t even noon. At least when it is all over the kids are in bed the unhusband and I can settle back for out traditional that God its over drink together….

  6. “haven’t had time to pick up my drycleaning or shave my legs”

    You could go as a feminist stereotype. 😉 Wear a skirt, sensible shoes. Add a couple of NOW buttons and a nut cracker and you’re good to go.

    … or a hippy. Just substitute a joint for the nutcracker.

  7. I’m going as Sarah Palin, which I know seems overdone, but I’m in a foreign country and not as many people are attuned to the American political scene. So…it’ll be fun for those who get it. Plus, I really look like her – I did up my hair and put on the rimless glasses the other day, and freaked myself out. I’m determined to do a non-sexist impression based on the frightening nature of her politics 🙂

  8. This year will be the first year I’m not trick-or-treating and I’m really sad about it… but last year was kind of a bust, so I’m gonna go to my usual place, sing my usual song, and then hit a couple of parties.

    Among other things, I will be wearing the wings featured in my newest piece On the Silent Wings of Freedom, as the Constitution Fairy. Throughout the night I will be plinking people with my wand and saying “civil liberties!” and other such things. I also have a basket full of Constitutions that I plan to give out. (Unfortunately not enough to leave on the door step for trick-or-treaters.

  9. I’m going as a cute clown and will be attending a small “house party” though it’s more like our normal get-togethers but with costumes, since it’ll just be maaaaaybe a dozen of us and we always hang out anyway on weekends. Hellloo, they have a kegerator!!!

  10. Jeeeeallous of you with friends on 6th Ave. We’re trying to decide between seeing Rosemary’s Baby, Let the Right One In, or Herzog’s Nosferatu, after tooling around the 10th Street TFANA Halloween Ball/performance stuff.

    Costumes TBD at the last moment.

  11. I’m dressing up as a gnome, with a pointy red hat and all. This afternoon I’m getting together with the nine-year-old I mentor, which should be a blast (last week we went to a pumpkin patch) and then after that some friends are coming over for a Halloween-themed roleplaying game. I also plan to eat a lot of candy, since I have four bags and we usually get about a dozen trick-or-treaters total.

  12. I’m going as Wilma Flintstone. I wanted to get someone to butch it up and go as Fred, but alas.

    For a cheap costume, you could borrow a page from Joss Whedon’s playbook: Get an adhesive name tag, write “God” on it, and go as… well, you know.

  13. One year I had no costume and no time so I wore a yellow sweater with a green felt star on the belly and was a Star-Bellied Sneech.

    Another year I had no costume and no time so I bought a devil’s wig, a cheap white t-shirt, and a piece of yellow posterboard. Cut the posterboard into a circle, pinned it on my stomach, put on the devil’s wig, and was a deviled egg.

    Another year I had no costume but some time so I bought a cheap white sweatshirt, some white posterboard, some glitter, and one of those stinky black markers. Added cow spots to the shirt, improvised some wings out of posterboard, added spots and glitter to them, then improvised a halo out of a paper plate, a couple of skewers, and a headband. I was a Holy Cow.

    Hope these ideas help. This year I am very tired and not feeling so hot, so I will be improvising a sleepy person, at home, in my own bed. : )

  14. I am going to be Condoleezza Rice (since I can’t think of any particularly appalling/conservative black Canadian politicians). My (American and British) roommates are going to be Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. And we are going to hit up some big queer dance parties.

  15. Ah, last minute costume ideas. Okay, lemme see….

    Cannibal – clothes you’re willing to destroy, including and apron and kitchen/BBQ implements. Lather on the fake blood. (either mix red food coloring with clear dish soap or white corn syrup. The dish soap washes out easier but be careful around your nose and mouth) Answer the door holding a covered pot or roaster with suspicious stains.

    Suicide salary person: person suit, brief case with various papers sticking out and cutting wounds to neck and and wrists. A neck tie as a noose with the proper neck bruising works to.

    Accident victim: copious bandages in various places with a liberal amount of fake blood. For added fun, have a medicare claim stamped “DENIED”.

    Various undead: Modern Vampires – black clothing pale foundation, dark around the eyes. Also passes for various shades of goth and punk.
    Modern walking corpses (since zombie is a slur) – any clothes you won’t miss and gratuitous fake blood wounds. If you have green, grey or other such colors of face paint, apply to skin. Darken the hollows of the skull for both types of undead for the proper effect. (I have no idea why this shows up in bold type. Sorry)

    If you have any sort of uniform or some sort of clothing indicative to a trade (scrubs, overalls, coverall, etc) add appropriate props and go as a members of said profession.

    If you know any people who are part of the goth/punk/emo/hippy etc subcultures, as to borrow something and have them make you up for the evening.

    Cop out and buy one of those shirts thats says, “This is my costume”.

    Glue, staple or quick stitch zippers, button and fabric to some old clothes and go as an unfinished costume.

    Sports fan : wear some merch from a certain team.

    Volunteer to let a friendly stage/fx make-up enthusiast make you up.

    That help?

  16. I’m going to be making phone calls for the Obama campaign. Someone will be home, right? Right?

    Here’s some costume ideas for ya:

    One year my brother safety-pinned a bunch of clothes on his outfit and went as “Pile of Dirty Laundry”. Another friend wore a t-shirt that said “I’m fucking Harry Potter”, which was funny on two levels.

  17. Go as an “unreal American” as McCain-Palin have both made insinuations that anyone who doesn’t live in all-White/almost all-White small towns and rural areas isn’t a “real American”.

    Just use a name tag or place a cardboard sign labeled “unreal American” on yourself and you’re good to go. 🙂

  18. I had a lot of schoolwork last night and so didn’t have time to put together anything special, but luckily I own old-fashioned blouses and skirts already. 😀 I’m Mrs. Danvers, the evil lesbian housekeeper from, ironically, Rebecca.

  19. I wore a cow costume with a halo and was Holy Cow. That went over REALLY well at the church I work at. My son is a mouse and my daughter is Cyndi Lauper. I’m taking my son out trick or treating tonight. He’s only 2.5 so it won’t take long, and I can give away all his candy without him caring. 🙂

  20. I hear you’re going as the total dickbag who doesn’t dress up.

    Close. I’m going as the jackass who makes his house look dark and empty all night because he hates answering the door only to be shrieked at by demanding dipshits in stupid costumes. It’s like being harangued by Jehova’s Witnesses, only with more pop culture references.

  21. Semi-related, at the office today, you were allowed to dress up if you wanted. One of the women who didn’t dress up was asked at one point why she didn’t dress up, and she replied “I did. I’m Joe the Plumber.” It kind of caught on, and the rest of the day whenever anyone was asked why they didn’t dress up, they said “I’m Joe the Plumber”.

    So there you go, you could just go in jeans and a t-shirt and be Joe the Plumber.

    *To clarify, this wasn’t because ANYONE thought that JTP actually represented “real America” but as a highlight to the absurdity of the whole thing.

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