10/16/08
Okay, everybody – I'm on the north shore of Prince Edward Island on a very weak internet connection. And since we'll have to be a little more prudent this year, you must answer this CODE WORD question with a little more seriousness this season: what are you going to be for Halloween? And if you're not dressing up, WHY THE HELL NOT?
Posted by Ian Williams at October 16, 2008 7:11 PMHold the phone.... am I crazy, or was the question changed?
In any case, I'm planning to be the Gate Keeper. My BF is dressing up as the Key Master. He's working on memorizing some vital information that he will most likely repeat again and again throughout the night:
"Gozer the Traveler will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveler came as a very large and moving Torb. Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him.... that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you."
joe the plumber
Maria von Trapp. Can't find a suitable dress yet, so I may have to cut up my curtains...
I may dress up (again) like my own driver's license;fake I.D. I thought that was a very original idea the 1st time around on Franklin St. circa 1989, only to find that many others had the same simple brainstorm of taking one corner out of a piece of posterboard.
The old joke still works on the HS kids here though.
I'm going to be an IRS agent and scare the living shit out of people.
James and I were going to be Joy and Earl from "My name is Earl" because Joy is my alternate ego and I basically already have her accent. My half marathon, which I'm doing for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, is the morning after the big halloween party, so I can't go. I need my beauty sleep. We'll have to do it next year. I call dibs!
;-)
Actually- my kids are going to be Jango Fett and baby Yoda. So I suppose I will have to play along and find a costume. Maybe I can be Jabba the Hut and double down as Dick Cheney......
That's easy. I will be in "costume" as a Syracuse University mom. (Halloween is the first day of Family Weekend at the daughter's college.) ORANGE will rule the day in every way.
I could dress to synch with my boys who are going as ninjas (not the teenage mutant ones) or I may use my fall-back costume as the 70s go-go dancer. The red platform, plastic boots are a hit every time.
My son is going as an astronaut, so I was thinking of being some sort of space monster. Either that or a space ship. Hmmmm, space ship could be cool.
Not dressing up. Not a pagan.
Sarah Palin, of course.
Not dressing up...not going out... I always hated Halloween as a kid. I don't know why..my parents didn't scar me or anything.. i just thought it was pointless. Were it not for the candy as a kid i would have never gone out... ahh the power of sugar helps one overcome their irrational desires.
But for the rest of you; have at it. Just b/c I don't like it doesn't mean you can't have all the fun with it you want.
DO NOT RING MY DOORBELL!!! HA!!
My son first wanted to be the Tin Man. That meant my wife, daughter and I were going to be the rest of the Wizard of Oz cast.
Then my son wanted to be Peter Pan. So my wife ordered that costume, my daughter got a Tinkerbell outfit and I was going to be Capt. Hook.
The Peter Pan costume SCARED my son. So, my wife packed up the costume and sent it back and then took him to 6 different stores. At the second store, he expressed an interest in being Buzz Light Year. When my wife went to purchase it, he got shy and indifferent.
So she took him to 4 more stores, where he got scared going up and down the aisles--especially in one--store where a Harry Potter-esque broom with a motion sensor following him down the aisle.
At the 6th store he settled on Buzz Lightyear. Again.
My wife and I have no costumes. My daughter will be Tinkerbell who, as you all know, never appeared in either Toy Story movie.
But, we're actually ahead of the game. Usually my wife and I buy our costumes around dusk on Halloween.
Last year I went in a ghillie suit.
I'm gonna be one of my friend's two dogs. And my roomie is gonna be the other one.
Ruff ruff!!!
(not that original, but it's gonna be funny around my friends)
Who saw Obama roasting at the Al Smith dinner? It's priceless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwwjPnnvK40
Greg - I wish I had known I could have sent you Frederick's old Buzz costume. He loved that costume. Franz surprised him on Halloween day by picking him up from daycare dressed as Woody. He put Woody's costume together real easily, believe it or not.
What to be for Halloween consumes my thoughts for six months out of the year. This year, I had decided that my family would be Clue characters. You know, Col. Mustard, Ms. Scarlett, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, but I have not been able to sell my family on the idea. My daughter (age 5)has chosen to be a vampire and I am still trying to decide.
Snow White, again.
Cruella DeVille. Just got the long cigarette holder today. Dalmatian fur @ Joanne's fabrics. Black and white hair courtesy of Sally's Beauty Supply and an hour in the bathroom!
Not sure what I'll be dressing up as. BUT, I think I just walked past you today, Ian. Friday, October 16, 3:30-ish, PEI time, were you walking around the Shopper's Drug Mart in downtown Charlottetown? If so, yeah, that was me.
I would have said "Hi Ian" but you were in conversation with someone and I didn't want to interrupt. (I am Canadian, after all)