So Halloween is two days away and I still have NO IDEA what I'm going to dress as. I keep hoping that something like the above guy's costume will hit me, and it'll be the type of costume everyone will admire and laugh heartily at when they see me, but that's never happened in the past, so I don't know why I'm expecting it to happen this year.
One year my friend Micah dressed as a Rabbi and attached a circuit board to his chest and told everyone he was a "Rabbot". I thought that was great. I saw some photos of a guy who made a perfect model of the "happy foot/sad foot" sign on Sunset Blvd. and wore it like a sandwich board. It looked awesome. One guy made a huge, perfectly detailed drivers license and stuck his head through the part where a person's photo would go...even that was great because it looked really cool. Me? I've been Olive Oyl for the past five years, except for last year, when I was a thrown-together-at-the-last-minute LOLcat, which was an admittedly great idea, that I of course didn't come up with (thanks Micah!).
This year, what I'd like to be is:Diane Lane's character from Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains - I have everything I need for the costume already, I just don't think anyone would know what I was...they'd probably think I was a hooker.
or, what I'd really like to do is dress up in my everyday clothes and put a nicely made sign around my neck that says "Costume Fail". Do you think anyone would realize I was making reference to failblog.org? Then again, only a handful of people got the LOLcat reference last year, which made it almost better because you could tell who the dorks at the party were (ie, me) by whether or not they knew what I was dressed as.What are you going to be for Halloween, dear readers? Or better yet, what would you go as if one of your more clever friends (preferably someone who won't be at the same Halloween party as me) hadn't thought of it first? So I don't seem like a total mooch, I'll bake you cookies if I end up going as what you suggest. Pandering for a Halloween costume...that's gotta be a new low in blog culture.
11 comments:
ooohh! Love the LOLcat! Mr. Perfect & I are going to be Andy & Brand from the Goonies. No one will know who we are, I'm convinced of that.
Oh, I did come up with pinup girl. Get some cork board & put it on a piece of foam core, put a belt through it around your waist, and probably some straps up top. Added touch - pin the top of your shirt to the board. Pinup girl.
I made LOLturkeys last year for Thanksgiving. Not many people really "got" them, but they amused me nonetheless.
I love your ideas. This year, I'm going as a witch (made slightly less unacceptably boring by the fact that I'm dressing my dog up as a black cat). Maybe I'll be an LOLwitch and my dog can be my LOLfamiliar?
i was going to be an old timey lion tamer (you know, the kind with a waxed mustache and top hat?), but my plan for sewing jodhpurs has gone terribly awry.
I'm going as Jem, but I have no friends to be "the Holograms." I already bought my wig, but I kind of wish I was going as a LOLcat because the crowd at my party would love it.
As an Aussie, my only experience of Halloween is through movies and TV.
I learnt from Mean Girls that "Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."
But maybe that isn't the look you want.
How I Met Your Mother tells me that "You know what I love about Halloween? It's the one night of the year chicks use to unleash their inner ho-bag. If a girl dresses up as a witch, she's a slutty witch. If she's a cat, she's a slutty cat. If she's a nurse she's a slutty nurse." But thats a Barney quote, so take it with a grain of salt.
I went to an evil themed costume party as a Republican, wearing a big "Vote Bush" T-Shirt. Maybe pick a current event and make light of it? (You could go as the scariest woman in America right now: Sarah Palin)
i'm going as holy shit!
i bought a banana suit then dyed it brown and i'm wearing wings and a halo haha
OMG. i want to be diane from the fabulous stains every day of my life. forever.
and that fail costume idea killed. i wish you hadn't referenced the fail blog because it kind of killed the costume fail magic. only assholes wouldn't get the fail reference.
I might just have to steal that Lolcat idea from you...
PS: Every time I see your name I get "Georgia on My Mind" in my head, and I love it. :-)
What did you finally decide? I was super-excited about the Stains idea - such a great movie!
My Alice Cooper outfit worked out fairly well but next year I'm gonna put some genuine creative effort into the holiday.
Also, I shamelessly stole your idea to be a Lolcat... but I'll totes give you the credit :-)
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