10/08/2005 Entry: "Meet the Wallflowers!"

Bet you thought I was skipping another day. NOOO. Making up for what would've been October 7th's entry is October 8th's entry -- The Wallflowers! Courtesy of the New Line Cinema Shop.

This is, of course, your All Day Saturday Thread, X-E's holiest tradition. Today's survey: Discuss the most interesting Halloween costumes, good and bad, that you've donned over the years. I've had some fantastic ones, but I've also had some real crap. Near the top would be "ALF's cousin Ralph," this being a full-body ALF costume with a different -- but still brown and fuzzy -- alien mask. (We looked everywhere and couldn't find an ALF mask. This was the next best thing.) Closer to the bottom would be the year my friend and I wore his father's oily mechanic clothes, posing as "hobos." It was his mother's idea. We cried a lot.

I was the big bossman one year. I really doubt that can be topped at all. Since, you know, the big bossman is awesome. I also went one year as a page from a where's waldo book. This was last year, and I just had a where's waldo sheet on my person. Also of note: I was boo berry one year. Making your own boo berry costume is easy.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 10/08/2005 04:09 PM EST

Best costume: 3rd grade, dressed as Batman. Completely homemade costume, I was so proud of it. Worst costume: Homemade Luke Skywalker costume. Everyone thought I was a ninja. I spent half the night explaining what I was actually supposed to be before I gave up and just started doing ninja poses. That was the last year I ever went out.

Chestnuts roasted by Kyle @ 10/08/2005 04:25 PM EST

Hey, great and wise fearless leader, I have a humble question: is there an official X-E Jack o'Lantern?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/08/2005 04:28 PM EST

I love X-E!!!

My son will be Superbaby, not sure what I will go as. What about the other X-E Newborns Class of 2005, what are they going as?

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 10/08/2005 04:41 PM EST

My worst costume was a darth vader costume, with pants few sizes too big when i was in the third grade. During the party, there was a big room, where we gathered and everybody would in turn go to the middle of the room and show their costume. And when it was my turn, would you know it, my fucking pants dropped to my ankles, in the middle of the fucking room.
That's probably why i kill small kittens nowadays.

Chestnuts roasted by me @ 10/08/2005 04:43 PM EST

My best costume ever would be the time I went as Carrie, with blood stained prom dress and humoungoid blond wig. I stupidly stupidly stupidly used dyed Karo syrup for the blood so I spent the entire day sticky, miserable and chased by flies. Looked good though. I have some pics that I had scanned in from my high school yearbook, but I can't find them.
I did find this while I was looking, which was my blatant ripoff attempt at a X-E-style "megasaga" photo comic from way back in 2002. My worst costume came from the same year, when I got an hour's notice that I was going treating, threw a coat hanger into my hair, drew on a few freckles and went as Pippi Longstockings. I was able to find that picture.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/08/2005 04:43 PM EST

I never had a really great halloween costume, but I definately remember my worst. It had a huge inflatable head that you put on top of your head and then tied under your chin. The rest of the costume consisted of what I can only describe as a neon green garbage bag to be worn over the body. I don't remember the commercial name of this nightmare, but they could have easily called it "target". I spent the entire night being hit by rocks, candy, just about any ammunition my fellow little bastards could come across. Object of the game, "knock the fruity looking inflata head off the trick-or-treater". Fast forward to me with a deflated green head and bruises on my forhead. (Looking back now, I wonder why I didn't just take the damn thing off. What the hell) To this day I have nightmares about this, I can't even go near inflatable water gear.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/08/2005 05:11 PM EST

What's the deal here? I was Raphael, too. It involved lots of cereal boxes, as do many things I create, including my Cap'n Crunch costume. I had a totally stellar Mega Man X once, which, while not containing any cardboard of any sort, did make use of plenty of foil and a Sunny Delight bottle for a mega buster.

By the way, System of a Down's latest song rocks in a big way and reminds me of the third level *the one with the trains) from Little Nemo: The Dream Master. http://www.systemofadown.com/frameset-news.html

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 10/08/2005 05:18 PM EST

Tbe one year I was The Clawed man himself. I even wore it to the bar, Chicks dig Freddy. Another year I was Frank N. Furter. Then there was the time I was a black crayola crayon. black sweats, black shirt, black construction paper roller into a cone and a sign that said "crayola" My brother and sister were blue and red crayons. We were poor that year.

Chestnuts roasted by Neo Anderson @ 10/08/2005 05:43 PM EST

Karo syrup is the worst substance ever created. Even if you just try to use a couple drops, you always somehow end up getting the stuff smeared all over EVERYTHING it comes anywhere within ten feet of. But nothing else looks as good for blood, so I get stuck (har-har) with it every time I need some gore.

I've never had a best Halloween costume, but I know what the worst one was - a bed-sheet ghost. Literally. I think I was trying to do a postmodern parody of that scene in "Beetlejuice" where the Maitlans are doing a pathetic job of scaring the Deetz family. Yeah, I'll just keep telling myself that.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 10/08/2005 05:44 PM EST

My mom made a lot of my costumes from scratch, like a bird and a mermaid aaand a senorita, awesome stuff. But my fave was last year, when I was Janet Lee in Psycho (not the naked verson). Blonde Wig, vintage dress, it rocked. Even though I had to explain who I was every time.

Worst was a couple of years ago when I was a washed up old rocker.

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 10/08/2005 05:48 PM EST

Most def, Monte. I remember the section of my yard that I used to prep my costume ended up looking like a crime scene. I eventually rinsed out most of the red and refurbed the bloody prom dress into a really cute fairy outfit for the following year with the addition of a pair of wings.
Oooh another favorite costume I had was Beetlejuice, but it was of the cartoon version. Consisted of a cheap striped outfit and a really terrible plastic mask with purple skin. Remember how the show sorta fluctuated between off white and lavender for BJ's skintone? This was straight grape

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/08/2005 05:59 PM EST

I also remember when I dressed up as Indian Jones not to long ago. Since I have blondish hair I tried to dye my stubble with Just For Men. Boy was that an interesting experience, but it was worth it. I also had to visit some more... special stores for a whip. Man that was akward. Imagine how many people that are into that stuff (not that there is anything wrong with it) used an excuse "I'm dressing up as Indiana Jones." during Halloween to buy those things without embarrasment.

Chestnuts roasted by Phil @ 10/08/2005 06:07 PM EST

The worst costume I have had was when I dressed up in this old 70s outfit that had all these swirls and funky colours on it and painted my face with a big swirl, then to top it off I put my hair in rags over night and gave myself a huge curly fro. We only wore the costumes for the last half of the day at school so I had to have my hair all fro like for the day and some kid in my class with really curly hair got mad at me cause he thought I was being him for halloween.

The best costume prolly would be the one my mom made when, I was a scarecrow, she even made a bird that she sewed onto my shoulder, I believe I even had real straw coming out of the ends of my shirt. I was like 9 at the time.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/08/2005 06:11 PM EST

Since this specifically calls for it, I'll repeat myself. Halloween was always an excuse for me to cosplay, even before I knew what that was. Over the years, I've been..

Geno (Mario RPG)
Wario
Shy Guy (Still have the mask, and it rocks)

I feel as if I'm forgetting some things though.

Chestnuts roasted by Aristobulus @ 10/08/2005 06:39 PM EST

Oh yeah! I was a ninja turtle once, too. This was before all those other homemade costumes though, just a storebought one.

I was Donatello though, not Raph. I always preferred Donatello anyway.

Now that I'm thinking of storebought costumes, I remember I was once Sonic too. Man was that a crappy costume. Itchy, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Aristobulus @ 10/08/2005 06:42 PM EST

Wow, those things are baddddass.

Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 10/08/2005 06:48 PM EST

One time I went out as my favorite Bat-Villain, the Riddler. But since costumes are expensive to buy even when discounted after Halloween, I wore green sweatshirt and pants with the question marks made out of black duct tape. I did buy the hat and cane though. It wasn't actually that bad.

Best costume- Dracula. I had everything, makeup, blood, the cape, everything. The only problem was I kept tripping over the damn cape.

Speaking of bad costumes, http://wrestlecrap.com just started their Halloween entries and one is for bad wrestling costumes. There's even a contest plus Halloween Havoc stuff.

Went to Wal-Mart yesterday and got Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Booberry. AWESOME!

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/08/2005 07:31 PM EST

Sigh, America has all the greatest cereals. Me living in central southwestern Ontario has nothing to even dream of when it comes to cereal. Walmart here, though less redneckish, carries no good cereal types of any kind. The Golden Age of cereals has already passed Canada.

Chestnuts roasted by Phil @ 10/08/2005 07:55 PM EST

It's not a Halloween costume, but I totally hate anyone who cosplays, I respect anyone who has the courage to have countless pictures of them uploaded to the internet to get made fun of, but other than that I hate it.

This year I think I'll be lazy and make one of those ninja masks out of t-shirt, again.

Chestnuts roasted by Radio @ 10/08/2005 08:07 PM EST

Most of my costumes growing up were very last minute. I never remember planning it in advance.

In 2002 my sister and I went to a party with co-workers and dressed as 80's fitness guru types. A couple weeks later we got a joint "I Saw U" in the Stranger. I'm sure every city has their own version of that, it's the "alternative paper" that has show listings and such. Anyhow if I did it right you can click on my name and see the silly picture with the sillier ad.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/08/2005 08:15 PM EST

I just remembered that in first grad I dressed as a turkey for halloween. My mom mad it out of various fabricks and cotton balls to make me look all fat. It was bad ass. That would probably be the best costume of mine. Nemoidian nachos :o

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/08/2005 08:45 PM EST

Would you look at all those e's that I'm missing. I count two.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/08/2005 08:47 PM EST

One year I dressed up as the Unabomber, complete with wrapped package. It was fun to watch the old people get nervous as I shook it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 10/08/2005 08:53 PM EST

Here's the breakdown: SPIDERMAN for at least 2-3 consecutive years as a really young kid, Godzilla (mask with plastic apron deal), followed by a zombie, a headless executioner w/axe (probably the best one. Put on a football helmet, cover it with a black shirt, and put on one of dad's big flannel shirts), EDDIE from IRON MAIDEN ("Live after Death", and finally, the Grim Reaper when I was 10. EDDIE made a reprise when I was 11 but it was an afterthought. Very violent(boderline Satanic??) when considering we were a pretty churchy family .
In other news, catching up on the X-E goings on and I have to respectfully disagree with you Matt. I am (seemingly) seeing more Halloween this year than in years past and I don't think it's the baby. Haunted shakes at STEAK AND SHAKE and BARNES AND NOBLE, PITCH BLACK II (still can't find it), etc. Today at the local Wal-Mart there was a huge display for DORITIOS and PEPSI that had the UNIVERSAL monsters all over it. Best was the CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON climbing out of the punch bowl.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/08/2005 09:16 PM EST

-I forgot to mention Violent J from ICP in college. Yeah, they suck but with such class. I used the Karo Syrup blood to write on my shirt.
-Forgive my ignorance but how does one do bold/italics on these "ghostings"?
-Erik, I think E.Claire is going to be a kitten but it is difficult to find costumes for a 9 month old. We'll see...
-I watched JASON VS. FREDDY for the first time yesterday. I have no idea what the general feeling toward that movie is but I really was entertained. Good kills, solid story, the only real minus was the lead girl but who cares.
-Finally, I guess by everyone's deafening silence from the other day's post that no one has any information on my old makeup OR old costume quest???

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/08/2005 09:23 PM EST

Best costume was definitely Michelangelo (Ninja turtle, not the painter). I have three bros and each of us was a turtle. My Mom made all four costumes (our shells were made of green fabric and stuffed with lots of cotton)My Dad even made the fucking weapons for us(cardboard katanas & sai, a wooden bo and for me, nunchuks made of plastic pipe and some type of chain.) We still have all four shell suits in the back shed.

Worst costume, I can't remember.

Chestnuts roasted by Fatboy @ 10/08/2005 09:53 PM EST

Best costume? I'd go with The Joker in 1989. Wore it to the (elementary) school Halloween carnival and won some sort of prize (and I got a picture in the paper and up on a bulletin board and all other sorts of things. No money, though).

I'm willing to be seriously money there's no way a kid could get away dressing as a muderous psychopath at school in this day in age. Also, I had a toy gun that shot out a "BANG!" flag to complete the ensemble.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/08/2005 10:11 PM EST

This is actually my first Halloween in an off-campus place of my own. Does anyone know how to indicate to the little costumed moochers that I am interested in giving away free candy? I don't have a porch light, and no place to really put a jack o' lantern, so there's the two classic signposts of my childhood shot.
Manimal: through the black magic of HTML tags. This page should have all the tips you'll ever need.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/08/2005 10:18 PM EST

I was trailer trash a couple years ago. That costume kicked ass. Some of the highlights were: bruised knees and a big ass hickey on my neck, straw in my messy hair, those seventies soccer player socks with the big stripes (different color on each foot), and hillbilly teeth. Best costume EVER! And I used to live in a trailer growing up, so I'm allowed to dress as trailer trash. Don't get all politically correct on me.

Chestnuts roasted by Kathy @ 10/08/2005 10:24 PM EST

Few decorations on the porch, including a cardboard tombstone with an arrow marked "THERE LIES CANDY," should do the trick.

Writing about so much candy during the Halloween season really boosts my reputation amongst the kids of our neighborhood. I've got so much crap leftover from Countdown entries that the only way to get rid of it is by filling dozens of Ziploc bags and giving those out on Halloween. You haven't lived until you see the look on a kid's face when you hand him/her a Ziploc bag full of Halloween candy.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/08/2005 10:26 PM EST

I saw TCM and the Shining in theater last night at an epic film festival. Ed Neal (hitchiker) was there and we had a awkward discussion about Marilyn Burns. P.S. does anyone else notice that having a cat around the house makes you get more into the Halloween spirit?

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/08/2005 10:45 PM EST

My best costume was dressing up as a Dead Jockey (like for horse racing). My grandmother owned a business sewing jockey shirts, and so the costume was free...and I thought making the jockey be dead would make it more halloween-y. Actually, that's kind of a lame costume. But I've never seen anyone else do it!

Worst was as a domino. I made a sandwich board out of black construction paper and put white dots on it, then painted my face. I couldn't sit all night, it was a pain in the ass!

And good luck getting the ToT's, Jedoc. I only had a handful come to my house last year (my first year to hand out candy)--although Matt's cardboard tombstone is a good idea!

Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 10/08/2005 11:00 PM EST

I'm loving this thread right now. I'm seriuously thinking of going as Magnum PI, I just need to find me a fake mustache, becuase I have everything else: ugle hawaiian shirt, baseball hat, coolk glasses, khaki shorts, and of course, chest hair.

and to repeat myself from last night's blog:

I saw Wallace & Gromit: curse of The Were-Rabbit last night. My review: It. Kicked. Ass. It's definitely the best of the 4 Wallace & Gromit cartoons to date! But I still think Feathers MacGraw from The Wrong Trousers was the best W&G villain. The biggest name in the movie is Ralph Finnes, but there's also the obvious Peter Sallis as Wallace and Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Toddington (she's also in Corspe Bride).

There's a short toon starring the penguins from Madagascar before the movie, and it was ok and funny, it wouldve gotten a "pretty good" from me, but there's a fucking horrible song at the end that just ruined the whole thing.

In short: GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!! That's what the saturday night thread should be: See Curse of The Were-Rabbit! There will be a quiz on it later.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/08/2005 11:18 PM EST

Thanks Jedoc!
Speaking of THE SHINING, a buddy of mine pointed out this funny clip to me. Click my name.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/08/2005 11:31 PM EST

Best: This year i am going as Batnana. I bought one of those banana costumes and a batman mask.

Worst: I went as a pirate, and everyone thought i was George Washington.

Chestnuts roasted by BetterThanFew @ 10/09/2005 12:04 AM EST

A friend and I once went as the ghost of ourselves which really means we didn't dress up at all. Of course we were 17 and it just seemed sort of childish.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/09/2005 12:16 AM EST

Most of my memorible ones are from recent years. I'm sure I had both bad and good as a kid, but my memory doesn't serve me too well. There is a tie for best.
Best concept- Chia Pet. It was a last minute stroke of genious, put together with a nasty, old, green shag rug straped to the back, green beanie, and my Chia Pet shirt.
Best overall- Pedro, from Napoleon Dynamite. I had the wig that looks like a midevil warrior, bola tie, and had my sister-in-law dye my crappy, thin, half-asian mustache so it appeared fuller.
Worst- random Peruvian guy. It was last minute and I had lived there for two years, so there you go. There were some highlights, including the canteen made of a bull's testicle, and seeing the reactions to a 22 year old guy trick-or-treating. (We were trick-or-treating for canned food for the local food bank, but I still came away with some chocolate!)

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 10/09/2005 12:21 AM EST

I think my best and worst costume were all summed up in the same Halloween. When I was 14 I dressed as a dead saloon girl for my cousins' Halloween/birthday party. I wore my store bought Saloon girl costume and I pained my face white. My family thought it was a cute costume, but when I went trick or treating everybody thought I was a dead pirate.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/09/2005 12:45 AM EST

I don't think I've ever had any wicked-good Halloween costumes. One year my mom sewed a Star Trek uniform for me because she liked Star Trek. I think I'd seen like one episode ever. It was like she was setting me up to be a social misfit.
My first Halloween costume was supposed to be a clown but as it was wicked cold out my costume turned into 2 year old me in a snowsuit with balloons taped to it, a toque on,and clown facepaint. I'm sure my fellow Canadians have had similar snowsuit adapted costumes. Most years you had the indoor costume and the outdoor version, which is when those plastic sheet costumes came in handy because you could just slit the sides of them so they'd fit over a snowsuit.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 10/09/2005 12:45 AM EST

My boyfriend did some up with the best last minute costume ever though. Some friends invited him out last minute so he wrote "Idaho" on a piece of paper and taped it to his shirt. Surprisingly only about half the people at the bar got the joke.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 10/09/2005 12:46 AM EST

When I was a kid, my mom was able to buy a ton of costumes from Sav-On Drugs due to an error in price. One of the costumes was of a Monk. So I came up with the idea of taking this dog mask I already had and used it in conjunction with the costume. It was original, but not all that special. But oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 10/09/2005 01:55 AM EST

My "best" costume was a clown. I say "best" because I won a costume contest with it at my best friend's school, but I hated the stupid thing because I've always hated clowns. My mom bought it for me when I couldn't wear the previous year's costume again. I still don't know what she was thinking. Ha ha on her, though, because now she gets to wear it every year.

I really liked my first costume ever, a jack-o-lantern. It was really puffy and I could fit a winter coat under it and you could still see the costume.

At school one year (fourth grade)we had a "dress up as your favorite book character day" and I went as Matthias from Brian Jacques' Redwall. I had a big shiny blue robe and my mom and dad helped me make a tail and ears (he was a mouse). I thought it was really awesome, but it was tough to walk around with my big paper tail all day. It was at least better than all the other girls in my class. I swear almost every one of them went as a character from the Baby-Sitter's Club. All they had to do was dress in their regular clothes. Lame.

And my favorite things to find in my trick-or treat bag were the bags of candy. There was always at least one house every year that gave out Halloween-themed Ziploc or small paer bags filled with stuff. So awesome. I'm so jealous of anyone who trick-or-treat's at Matt's place.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/09/2005 02:14 AM EST

Oh! Sorry for the double post, but I just remembered- in first grade, one of my friends dressed up as "laundry." She had a laundry basket pulled up around her waist filled with clothes and an empty bleach bottle strapped to her head. It was really creative.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/09/2005 02:17 AM EST

I'd say my worse costume had to be my vampire costume. There was a big blizzard just starting right before it got dark. It eventually dropped 2 feet of snow that night. But I was bound and determined to get some candy so I just bundled up with a whole bunch of clothes and put the cape on. Didn't even bother to put make up on. There was also a time that my friends dressed me up as a woman. I made one damn ugly woman!

Chestnuts roasted by Disgruntled Spam @ 10/09/2005 02:33 AM EST

My best costume had to have been Dolly Parton. It was when I was in high school. I wore a white denim skirt, a western style shirt with fringe, cowboy boots, and a hat. And I borrowed one of my mom's bras and stuffed it.

I also have to mention what I think was my son's best costume, though I'm sure he'd disagree. He was born on October 27, and my mom made him a dalmation costume by glueing black felt spots on a white sleeper, and sewing doggie ears on a little hat. It was so cute, and Halloween was the first day we took him out in public. Lots of people wanted to look at the cute little newborn in the doggie costume.

Chestnuts roasted by Elfinlady @ 10/09/2005 09:32 AM EST

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I think my best costume was my matrix 20 dollar costume from last year, the year before that was probably my worst with a makeshift punk rock and then when i actually did go trick or treating it turned into this attempt to be a marine from alien with a stomach buster popping out that totally failed and fell off, damn you duct tape

Chestnuts roasted by DeathX @ 10/09/2005 12:33 PM EST

My best Halloween costume was in 2003. I dressed up as a woman. Normally, thats a pretty lame costume, but it's rather funny when you are 6'8" and about 3 bills. Pretty easy costume actually, just picked up a dress and bra from Salvation Army, stuffed some rice in pantyhose to make boobs, got some support hose, and had my girlfriend do my makeup. The hair is mine. Click my name to see me in all my unholy glory.

Chestnuts roasted by Devil Denied @ 10/09/2005 02:05 PM EST

My worst costume ever was when I was at Girl Scout camp right before Halloween and they were having a costume contest. See, my REAL costume was a black cat, but my grandma hadn't finished sewing it for me in time for camp, so my troop leaders ended up making me a damn sheet ghost with holes for eyes. I hated that costume so much because my real costume was cooler and plus it was hard to hold my pail what with having my arms under a sheet and all. I think I ended up winning some sort of prize for effort because the judges felt sorry for me.

My best costume was either when I dressed as Luigi and my best friend dressed as Mario (this was when I was 18.. people in my friend's neighborhood didn't give a crap how old we were), or when I dressed as an non-traditional alien. For this I wore as many inhumanly bright and clashing colors as possible, neon green tights, purple skirt, hot pink shirt - sprayed four different colors on my hair and twisted it up in these weird braids, and carried around a flashing fairy wand. Also my face was painted white with pink fake eyelashes and blue lipstick, plus random patches of glitter on my face. It looked really cool.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 10/09/2005 02:06 PM EST

Hehe I figured I should comment. Hmm damn my memory is failing me. I guess my worst costume would have been the fact that Ive been a witch for a good 4 years running (thats what happens when u take up the Pagan faith and enjoy a good kitcshy laugh.)

Most years I was something evil but I cant play my finger on what. We always saved our costumes for dress up though so hell we probably still have some of them.

My best costume is gonna be this year. Im gonna be Ginger Spice (in the Union Jack dress so people get it :p)! Stupid as it is because I have the makings for 4 out of 5 Spice Girls but Im lacking that damn outfit. What super sucks is the job I just started boasts a huge Halloween costume selection ad we get 50% off yet I have to wait another 2 weeks to get it...I'll probably just piss my money away anyways.

Seems like Halloween is gonna be a good 2 week event for me this year so Im sure Baby Spice will be thrown in the mix too at some point...

Chestnuts roasted by Anastacia @ 10/09/2005 02:25 PM EST

Devil Denied: Thank you for punishing my curiosity.
I've just decided that, should I ever manage to reproduce, I'm going to dress my five-year-old as Pennywise. Everyone expects a little kid in a clown costume. Nobody expects them to grin broadly to reveal jagged fangs. My goal is to emotionally scar as many fellow candy-grubbers as possible.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/09/2005 03:27 PM EST

If you get up early for work, Cartoon Network has wisely put Cartoon Planet reruns back on.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/09/2005 04:50 PM EST

Me- What does the the link reruns lead to? Every time I try to click it it moves out of the way.
Matt- read the above and fix it damn it! I always have problems with the stupid god damn links in the shity text. Damn. Shit. Poop! Yay for swearing!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/09/2005 05:04 PM EST

Darth, it goes to a sound page from the show: http://www.nd.edu/~comet/stuff/sounds.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/09/2005 05:47 PM EST

Sorry I'm late. A few of my costumes from Halloweens past, starting with the earliest (that I can recall, at any rate):

-Sylvester the Cat
-Spider-Man
-Vampire
-Pirate
-Gangster (complete with fedora and revolver)
-Eddie (the mascot of Iron Maiden)
-Jerry Only (from the Misfits)
-Vampire (again)
-Grim Reaper
-Crazy 88 assassin (from Kill Bill)

This year, I think I'm just going to re-hash my Crazy 88 costume from last year since I'm gonna be spending Halloween with a different group of folks. Plus, I'm too broke to buy a new outfit and too lazy to scour thrift shops for cheap costume elements.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/09/2005 06:23 PM EST

Creepy. Yeti, we had 3 costumes in common: SPIDERMAN, EDDIE, and the GRIM REAPER.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/09/2005 06:46 PM EST

For years I alternated between The Reaper and the Impaler himself, Dracula.

However, over the past few years I've had some great ones:

- Ted "Theodore" Logan
- The Crypt Keeper (complete with ridiculously overpriced mask)
- Vlad the Impaler. I knew someone who made chain mail and such so I had real armor and it was the stupidest idea ever.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/09/2005 07:28 PM EST

My best costume: my mom made me a bat costume when I was about 10 I guess or 9. I even had ears and the whole nine. Of course everyone thought I was a cat and would ask where my tail was and then I'd hold up my arms and would have these badass wings under them. It was so awesome I recycled it again the next year.

Year after that I was a black cat.

Then I was going through a Godzilla obsession and found this green "dinosaur" suit that had huge spikes on the back and looked JUST like a Godzilla costume. Complete with the super long tail. No one knew what I was though, they all thought I was a lizard or something . Disappointing.

Then I was a witch, and a vampire. My mom owned this awesome black cape that came in handy throughout high school and junior high.

There was also a ghost costume that had a pointy hat on it. Looked like a KKK thing unfortunately Ew.

the last year I dressed up I was a cat again. Although i did go to class in HS once on Halloween with a "goth/vampire" type makeup job and all black clothes with my hair styled. With these high heeled black boots with chains on them. Kinda a rocker/vampire I guess. I normally was very light on the makeup and didn't look like myself at all. When people started teasing me for dressing up I would just give them a cold stare and say I was just being myself. That's when people started whispering to themselves about how I weird I was. Oh well. LOL

I want soooo bad to be a fairy this year but don't have the money for the costume. Will probably just get some ears and a tail to tack on to my jeans and go as a cat. My B/Fis totally against Halloween costumes for babies but I bought my daughter a "Halloween outfit" anyway. Black pants with a spider web print and a black shirt with a cat and a big spider on it. It's cute. He didn't say nothin' when I brought it home.

I LOVE holidays!

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 10/09/2005 07:59 PM EST

I need to get me one or two of those kids. Not because I like them or anything, I just want an excuse to get free candy, and taking a 10% fee of your kid's candy for taking them Trick or Treating so they don't die or get hurt or get kidnapped or someone doesn't steal their candy is fair...right?

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/09/2005 08:42 PM EST

I seem to remember being Indiana Jones for two or three years...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/09/2005 11:24 PM EST

no one can top my two best costumes:

1. yellow sweatsuit with a 2 on the shirt, black party hat, gray socks and pink shoes. i was a pencil

2. smeared lipstick, "goo" in my hair, elmer's glue on my shirt, and a "hello my name is: Eileen" sticker. i was "cum on eileen" this, of course, was more recently

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/10/2005 10:46 AM EST

One time i wrapped myself in a unstable pocket dimension, and spent Halowe'en reversing the vortices in people's toilets. Just phase through the walls, a flick of the wrist, and presto! The look on their faces when they flush and a cone of water rises out and almost hits the ceiling before going down the hole! Ha ha ha!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/10/2005 12:01 PM EST

In '94, when I was 12, I was an Indian Princess (and before you ask, I'm actually Italian). I was a Bee in 3rd grade (1991). I had this AWESOME Unicorn costume in Kindergarden (1988). It was Pink with a hood that had the mane and horn, and the body suit had a tail. I think there were hooves on the cuffs of the legs and arms.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/10/2005 03:29 PM EST

My best friend wanted to dress her almost 20-month old son up as Darth Vader, but couldn't find a costume that small. For god's sakes, he's a BABY!!!!! He doesnt even know who Darth Vader is! Can you tell I don't like Star Wars????

So, instead, he's a Mummy. Last year, when he was 8 months old, he was a Hershey Kiss. He was damn cute too. My poor kids (the ones I'll have someday, not any time soon) are gonna be traumatized for life b/c of me--they'll be Peanuts characters, Muppets, and Care Bears. Until they're old enough to decide for themselves what they wanna be.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/10/2005 03:35 PM EST

I remember one or two years I adorned a garbage bag, bicycle helmet, pastel or some similar substance on my face, and a delightful sign that read 'costume' spelled incorrectly and up-side-down. When people asked what I was I told them I was an idiot. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Seal @ 10/11/2005 12:16 AM EST

I'm a bit late with this, but what the hell...

My two most memorable costumes: One year I took a loose leaf sheet of paper, wrote "WORST COSTUME EVER" on it with a black sharpie, and duct taped it to my chest. That was one of my personal favorites. And then last year, I went as a Fudge Packer. I got a white lab coat and smeared it all over with chocalate. I made a name tag for myself that said "Karl Brown - Fudge Packing District Manager," which included a hilarious Photoshopped picture of myself. I even smeared my lip with chocolate as a piece de la Dirty Sanchez resistance. I won third place in a costume contest and I still think I was robbed. The sucky part about that costume was I couldn't sit down anywhere because the chocolate got all over everything.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian @ 10/12/2005 09:55 AM EST

As I've mentioned in several entries, I've never been too imaginative with Halloween costumes. Though they were always well-made, thanks to my seamstress, former costume-mistress mother, they were also usually generic - fairy, butterfly, bride, cowgirl, gypsy, pirate, cat. I wanted to be a 50s girl and wear a poodle skirt one year, but poodle skirts and my waistline are not a good combination. The fabric intended for the skirt went to my cowgirl's vest instead.

The most original costume I ever did was the year I got into old murder mysteries and mystery novels and decided to go as a shamus straight out of film noir in Mom's leather shoes, fedora, and tie from her "Annie Hall" period, my own button-down shirt shirt, pants, and jacket, and a cheap dollar store gun, handcuffs, and PI badge. (I think Mom still has the handcuffs and badge.)

I've been a flapper twice, once in junior high when Mom made the dress, and once two years ago when I wore my prom gown, a beaded headband from Family Dollar, and a feather boa I'd picked up for another costume a few years before.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/13/2005 11:34 PM EST

Best:
A generic "Mad Scientist." I had a kit with purple hair dye and gray face paint that crusted up when it dried, so it looked like I had weird, cracking skin. I still remember how that stuff smelled. I borrowed my Grandma's nurse jacket for a labcoat.

Worst:
- John Lennon. I got some oversized, circular frames and a stick-on mustache. I looked exactly like Groucho Marx.
- That stupid "Scream" mask. With just a black turtleneck.

Chestnuts roasted by iseeshapes @ 10/14/2005 02:39 PM EST

Honestly how do you people remember what costumes you wore. I've been trying to think but I can't remember shit. I think maybe I went as Indiana Jones or a pirate or something. I need to pull of photos, cuz my memory sucks!

I don't dress up anymore, what's the point if I want candy I'll go to freaking sams club and get much more than any human possibly needs. If I want to socialize I'll join the army.

Chestnuts roasted by wheeljack @ 10/15/2005 02:12 PM EST