I live in a city that’s apparently shut down for some celebration today (Phillies parade at noon – way to go, Phillies!). Congrats to the team and to all the die-hard fans! To those fair-weather fans – those who bitch royally about how that team “owes” them something – you get nothing. Be a fan or be quiet. Oh, and those of you booing the team that lost – bad form, people. It’s called sportsmanship. Try it sometime. Otherwise, you look like a jerk on national television.
Halloweeen tonight! Oh sure, it’s a wiccan celebration and probably goes against anything Christian or otherwise… but it’s fun. Kids don’t know anything more than hey, I get to dress up like Snow White and beg the neighbors for candy. Maybe that’s the more disturbing aspect, huh?
Great costumes I’ve seen and where I’ve seen them:
–Paul Stanley of Kiss (my youngest)
–Mr. Peanut (my cousin back in the day)
–Santa (my son)
–A maxi pad with wings (the woman was wearing a white pillow case, a pair of wings, and had, well, pads stuck to her)
–Wilson from Home Improvement (neighbor kid wearing a hat holding a picket fence over his face)
–Princess Lieia (my youngest again, using bagels on a headband for the hair)
–A photo strip (woman on the Today Show this morning, using pics of herself on a long piece of cardboard and her own face peering through one of them)
–A box of popcorn (another neighbor kid whose mother put her in a striped popcorn box and pinned cotton balls in her hair)
What are some of your favorites?
My best friend and I went trick-or-treating as a 2-headed monster one year. She was a good 6 inches taller than I, so that was a bit of a challenge.
We had a costume party at work several years ago, and a coworker came dressed as a character from The Birds (fake birds pinned to a suit, with bloody peck-marks on his face and hands).
ROFLMAO at the maxipad costume!
My son is going to be a sock monkey and my daughter will dress as a fairy princess. The sock monkey will, in my humble, but accurate opinion, be the talk of the neighborhood.
Great ideas!
Sal, I think you’re right – that’s a cool costume!
I think my fav (and I’ve seen/worn a lot) is my daughter’s last Halloween. She wore gray clothes beneath a sandwich board cut out all puffy/fluffy with gray spray painted cotton balls all over it. She carried a squirt bottle of water. She was “Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Rain.” Anyone who couldn’t guess what she was got squirted. 🙂
Angie, I LOVE it! LOL
These are all great ideas! My 17 year old son decided to be frank n furter for halloween. It’s hard to find a corset to fit a 130 pound 6 foot boy with no ass.
Jen, the visual has me laughing like crazy!!!
What a great list – and love the ones your other commenters listed!
The best one I saw was an old lady with her cats – she had a grey wig, glasses, overcoat, and Beanie Babies attached all over. The pregnant man was pretty good, too.