Are you gonna be anything for Halloween?
If so, what?
Also, what do you think I should be? I have a costumes-seriously-encouraged party to attend and I have no ideas At.All.
I am not good at costumes, or at least I am not good at putting together costumes that people can parse. One year I went as a butch from the 1930s and people thought I was one of the Men in Black. Another year carapace_green and I went as the old Anne Merkel and the new Anne Merkel from the excellent Why I Hate Saturn, and people thought she was Death from Sandman and I was some chick in a CAT Diesel Power cap.
randomposting
October 20, 2006 at 9:41 pmA Gypsy this year, I believe.
invertedreptile
October 20, 2006 at 9:42 pmmy girlfriend and i are going as crows in suits, possibly interpretable as gangster crows, with big-beaked masks. i’m not sure this ounts as ‘being’ anything.
sdn
October 20, 2006 at 9:46 pmi do not wear costumes. i have not worn a hallowe’en costume since i was a child.
hey, maybe you can go as wonder woman.
::cracks up::
babymowgli
October 20, 2006 at 9:56 pmI wanted to be Hedwig, but I can’t find a good wig for a reasonable price. I’ll prolly just dig out my old goth clothes for the day, unless I think of something better that isn’t too expensive or complicated.
babymowgli
October 20, 2006 at 9:57 pmI was also considering Maude Lebowski, but I can’t sem to find that costume anywhere either.
quirkybird
October 20, 2006 at 10:15 pmI am going as Nymphadora Tonks from the Harry Potter books! I have made myself a Ministry of Magic ID badge and I’m spraying my hair pink and it is going to RULE.
And by RULE I mean BE UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.
robinwasserman
October 21, 2006 at 6:38 amThis is absolutely brilliant — I have this bright purple wig and I’ve been trying to come up with something good to do with it for years. I think this is it!
nenime_lissuin
October 21, 2006 at 8:16 amHey, at least you look like SOMETHING when you go out, eh?
I’m going as a gothic angel.
coppervale
October 21, 2006 at 10:31 amYou both went as ANNE?
I am SO IMPRESSED I can’t stop smiling. Brill. Absolutely Brill.
alevai
October 21, 2006 at 11:19 amI’m going as Amelia Earhart, if only because the costume is ridiculously easy to put together. Last year I tried Anais Nin but just ended up looking like some chick in her undergarments. It was fun.
zoe_trope
October 21, 2006 at 2:57 pmI’m going to dress up as a student at a private liberal arts college in NE Ohio who is drowning in debt. Hurray!
caitlinleah
October 21, 2006 at 3:47 pmi’ve always believed it was the dressing up that was important, not neccesarily the AS anything. we always just put on silly clothes, our favourite wigs, and masks- or painted our faces. why go to the worry of being anything if people will guess wrong anyway?
capn_jil
October 21, 2006 at 3:58 pmI am contemplating going as Emperor Zombie from Screw-On Head but probably I’ll just be Ghede or Saturday. i have no idea what i’m doing.
anonymous
October 22, 2006 at 5:05 amLast year I went as A Hairy Potter. It went over pretty well.
-Jeff C.
anonymous
October 22, 2006 at 3:08 pmso this book was good but i think the first few chapters give it a different idea about nic i would never thik she was gonna turn into a lesbian it kinda turned me away from the book yet i still finished it
thisisnotanlj
October 22, 2006 at 4:27 pmhey, thanks! i’m glad you liked it, and finished it. :)
thisisnotanlj
October 22, 2006 at 4:29 pmi did once, when i was little. i had the horrible plastic mask & everything.
thisisnotanlj
October 22, 2006 at 4:30 pmit’s too bad you weren’t at that party! :)
kenllama
October 23, 2006 at 4:58 pmi’ve been facing the costume quandry too. my friends in kzoo reminded me this weekend that dressing up as a nun is always a good choice, and i may go that route.
anonymous
October 24, 2006 at 1:34 pmI will be Velma, because I already look like her.