What's your costume this year?

[Earthworm Jim]

You've planned your costume for days / weeks / months (circle one). The moment of truth is almost upon you. Will you win the 'Best Costume' prize, or the 'Worst Eyesore (AKA the So Good You Can't Stand It)' prize?

Tell us what you're going to be, then come back after the fact & tell us how the costume turned out.

I'm dressing as William Wallace (Braveheart / Mel Gibson (http://www.tapetki.uq.pl/filmowe/braveheart.jpg)). Costume construction began this past Tuesday. I have my claymore, and my kilt is just about completed. I need to finish off the leather armor & buy a bottle of scotch, and I'll be all set.

I'm up against some stiff comptetion, but I'm confident my costume will be among the best. We'll see tomorrow night!

[bouv]

Jack Bauer.

"TELL ME WHERE THE BEER IS, OR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE!"

[ScareyFaerie]

On hallowe'en night itself, we're off to the Rocky Horror Show, and next Friday there's a big hallowe'en theme party that we have tickets for. The theme? Rocky Horror Show! Woohoo! No costume-making required!

Just as well because I'm going to the Dead Rat Ball in March and I've got to re-vamp costumes for that one but I'm doing it for about six people. And my uni course starts in a week's time...eeek! Better stock up on red wine and chocolate, otherwise things could get ugly.

[WOOKINPANUB]

I'm going as Kim Jong "I put the il in mental illness" Il.

Big sunglasses, bouffant wig and a bottle o' cognac.

[Beware of Doug]

Purple turtleneck
+ Eye patch
+ Rubber bike horn
+ Propeller beanie
+ Bag of gingerbread men
__________________

= One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater

[WhyNot]

The baby is going as a pirate (I admit, I wimped out and bought Target's toddler pirate costume, because it was cheap and easy. And, c'mon, it's cute! (http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-1/qid=1161957689/ref=sr_1_1/601-9367174-2364945?ie=UTF8&asin=B000FAMG0W) ) To make the punny match, I'm going as "Movies". (Pirated Movies, get it?) I'm wearing a tunic with some dollar store CD's attached with movie title labels on them, and a bag of microwave popcorn on my head as a hat.

But it's my son's costume I'm most excited about. He's going as Wash, from Firefly/Serenity. We hit the thriftstore yesterday and got a gawdawful Hawaiian shirt, a long sleeved pullover sweater and a vest, along with a pair of cargo-like pants. Of course, no one outside the Whedonverse would get what he is, so we're constructing a large wooden stake to go through his chest. Add a dribble of blood, and he'll be gory enough to qualify as "Dead Guy With a Stake Through His Chest" to the uninitiated.

[Cowgirl Jules]

Bear hunter, but then, I've been dressing as that for the last five weeks. And I won't stand out, as I'll actually be up bear hunting. But I'll bring candy!

[WhyNot]

Bear hunter, <snip>
This would be such a different costume in Boystown (Chicago)! :D

Have fun hunting bears! I hear they like Bit O' Honey and Jelly Bellies.

[pizzabrat]

A Hammer Brother. I had the idea in time for last year's Halloween, but I never got around to it. This year I got everything together:

-A form fitting thermal top and fleece bottom in "Army" color from American Apparel
-A black helmet with white bands attached around the rim and bisecting the top
-a reversed green bookbag with a turtle shell pattern painted on
-crab mallets with the tops painted black
-black boots

[tremorviolet]

I wish I could think of something. For the past five years, I've worn a vinyl mini-dress with fishnets and platfrom stillettos to which I'll add either devil horns or kitty ears and be slutty devil girl or slutty kitty girl. But I'm tired of being one of the zillions of generic slutty gals out there; I want something new.

[Dung Beetle]

I was dying to dress up my children as Audrey I and Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, and they were all for it, too....unfortunately, I decided that I couldn't, in good conscience, dress up my teen daughter as a battered woman (especially given our family history).

Inspiration declined to strike twice, so I'm letting them handle things themselves. The boy wants to dress all in camoflage and be "a military guy", and the girl is wearing a long black dress and doing ghoulish face make-up. Not one of our more glorious costume years.

The girl wants to meet with a group of her friends and go trick-or-treating without adults, which we haven't done before, so I'm toying with the idea of putting on a costume and following them at a distance. I like the idea of being "Generic Costumed Person". The outfit consists of a long furry brown bathrobe and a paper bag with eye-holes cut in it. :)

[Lissla Lissar]

Luckdragon. I doubt anyone will guess it. I've been working on the mask for months, and the dress is finished. It's a big white and silver dragon mask with red eyes and a silver-white mane, and a long silver-white cheongsam with a tail. I think I look cool. :D

I'm a little obsessive about Hallowe'een I'm wearing it to a costume party at a club tomorrow.

[mlerose]

Hulk is going to be Max from Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and I'm going to be Pippi Longstocking. I even dyed my hair red last night with Henna. Hulk loves red hair, but it'll only last a week.

[Lissla Lissar]

Oh, I forgot- the club has thousands of blacklights, so I'm going to glow really impressively. That's part of the idea. All-white at a goth club. Fun.

[Lionne]

At work on Tuesday, I'm going to be a construction worker. Leather tool belt with various tools hanging from it, hard hat either worn or at my station, toy chainsaw next to me, plaid shirt, scuffed boots and khaki jeans.
At a party this Saturday, I'm going to be a sexy vampire. Fangs, short skirt, fishnets, tight v-neck top, high heels and maybe a cape. Or a boa. Or a victim. We'll see.

[HazelNutCoffee]

I'm going as Little Red Riding Hood, risen from the dead. Corpse makeup, bite on the neck, and a basket full of finger cookies.

[Dung Beetle]

Luckdragon. I doubt anyone will guess it. I've been working on the mask for months, and the dress is finished. It's a big white and silver dragon mask with red eyes and a silver-white mane, and a long silver-white cheongsam with a tail. I think I look cool. :D

I'm a little obsessive about Hallowe'een I'm wearing it to a costume party at a club tomorrow.
Going to post pictures?

[some white dude]

I'm gonna be Westley, my roommate will be Inigo Montoya, and our big, hairy friend is gonna be Fezzik. We'll also have someone in a Bears jersey being Fred Savage. No six-fingered man, Vizzini, Buttercup or Humperdink though.

[Abe Babe]

I'll be wearing a suit, with devil's ears and a pitchfork, with my face made-up all red. I'm currently drafting sheets of paper to hand out that will be contracts for the person's eternal soul.

I'm gonna be the Devil's Advocate.

[WhyNot]

Hulk is going to be Max from Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and I'm going to be Pippi Longstocking. I even dyed my hair red last night with Henna. Hulk loves red hair, but it'll only last a week.
Uh....I have some news for you which you may or may not like (Hulk will be very happy, however.) Henna doesn't wash out. Like, ever. I last hennaed my hair almost a year ago, and it's still a happy flaming red. It's mousy brownish/blonde to my ears where it's grown out, and red below that.

The good thing is that no one notices the outgrowth until they look for it. Because henna doesn't lighten or darken tone, it only adds red, there's not a huge blinding line of demarcation like with a chemical dyejob.

[Cowgirl Jules]

This would be such a different costume in Boystown (Chicago)! :D

I don't think I'd have much of a success rate with those kinds of bears :D

[HeyHomie]

A chef.

I have a chef's jacket that I had to wear when I took a cooking class a few semesters ago, and a chef's toque that I bought at Disney World.

Big freaking whoop.

[Antinor01]

I'll be tying a few empty tin cans to my belt, I'll have a stack of movie cases and will have balloons and streamers and other party stuff around myself.

I'm going as the Cannes film festival.

[Enginerd]

I'll be the Buddy Christ (http://www.myspacephoto.com/files/9013/buddy%20christ.jpg).

[rock party]

Simple and current: Safari jacket and shorts...rubber sting ray sticking out the front.

[badbadrubberpiggy]

Was planning being Devil in a Blue Dress, but I can't find a blue dress anywhere, at least not one I can afford considering I'll likely never wear it again.

I do have the devil horns, etc, so I'll just be a devil if I can't find anything else.

The husband is going as Jack Skellington. If he'd decided sooner I'd have gone as Sally, but I don't have time to get a costume together.

[Duckster]

Not me, but Mrs Duckster.

Last year she dressed entirely in a pink pantsuit, pink skin, pink hair, and an old tennis shoe attached to the top of her head. She won first prize at her office party because no one figured it out. This year she is planning to attach these (http://www.smarties.com/) to her clothes, with a tiny working light bulb on the top of her head.

[myskepticsight]

I'm going as CSI Sara Sidle. I made a CSI vest like they wear on the show out of some old t-shirts. I will carry my Nikon d50 wtih me because they carry cameras similar.

I wanted a free costume that would be comfortable - the CSIs on the show get to wear their regular clothes, so I will wear a black button down, jeans and my Pumas under the vest.

[Della]

The Hubster and I are going as El Duderino (since we're not into that whole brevity thing) and Maude Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. We got most of his costume yesterday, and everything just screams "burned out slacker bum." I'm still looking for the perfect robe to wear so I can tear it open and say "Jeffrey. Love me." Good times.

Last year we went as cats, which in and of itself is lame, but we went as our cats, which makes it either cool or frightening, depending on your point of view. I made ears and a tail for each of us and painted them to look like our cats' coats, and then we painted our faces to match the cats as well.

The year before that we went to a party that had "the '80s" as the theme. I went as a serving wench (they didn't specify which '80s, so I figured that the 1780s were fair game) and The Hubster went as a Chia Pet (khaki clothes, orange face paint, green fuzzy wig), which no one got.

The year before that we were Mario and Luigi, which is a surprisingly easy costume to put together.

[Lissla Lissar]

I will post pictures, but for that I have to track down someone to hold the camera, who's around in daylight, at the same time. So far this has not happened.

I might ask a friend to take pics of me at the club, because I'm sure it'll look cool under UV.

[Draelin]

But it's my son's costume I'm most excited about. He's going as Wash, from Firefly/Serenity. We hit the thriftstore yesterday and got a gawdawful Hawaiian shirt, a long sleeved pullover sweater and a vest, along with a pair of cargo-like pants. Of course, no one outside the Whedonverse would get what he is, so we're constructing a large wooden stake to go through his chest. Add a dribble of blood, and he'll be gory enough to qualify as "Dead Guy With a Stake Through His Chest" to the uninitiated.
Now that's hilarious. I love Halloween costumes that have to be explained. :)

I'm going as Autumn. I've got a burgundy-ish dress covered in fake orangey-yellow leaves, and I plan on making my mask with real leaves I scavenge from my friend's backyard tomorrow afternoon.

[davenportavenger]

I'm going as a murder scene. So far I've decided to wear:

---Police tape tied and draped on various parts of my body
---Fake knives and blood
---Evidence (playing cards, glove, threatening letters, maybe a cigarette butt or three) taped to different parts of my body
---Post-It notes with letters on them to identify different parts of the scene
---Fingerprints made with blood and dirt
---Maybe fake semen, depends on if petroleum jelly looks enough like semen to work

I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was twelve. I hope people will "get" what I'm supposed to be. Hey, it beats being a generic pirate wench, you know?

[Troy McClure SF]

I'll be Jamie Hyneman.

[JThunder]

I'm dressing up as Clark Kent.

[Dung Beetle]

I'll be Jamie Hyneman.
Ah-HA! At last, one of our resident celebrities has revealed himself! We were just too slick for you, huh?

[Tamryne]

Im going as a kinky librarian to one of my college's halloween parties. I have a job at the local law library, so I should be outfitted fine with the usual demure A-line skirt and button down shirt, high heels, crop, red lipstick and a book on Eminent Domain!

[Daithi Lacha]

Flesh-eating Zombie (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a309/daithilacha/Zombie1.jpg), thankyouverymuch.

[BMalion]

I bought one of these (http://www.japanesegifts.com/images/kimonoblack.jpg) , and a pair of these, (http://www.asianideas.com/jahapa.html) . I have a katana, a wakazashi, a netsuke, a bamboo cup and chopstick and one of these. (http://library.thinkquest.org/J001272F/history/Institute/japanese/strawhat.jpg)

I'm calling myself the Penultimate Samurai.

[WhyNot]

Now that's hilarious. I love Halloween costumes that have to be explained. :)

I'm going as Autumn. I've got a burgundy-ish dress covered in fake orangey-yellow leaves, and I plan on making my mask with real leaves I scavenge from my friend's backyard tomorrow afternoon.
No way, Stalker Friend Draelin! I was Autumn two years ago! I used the glycerin-soaked real-but-preserved leaves from the craft store and a black butterfly face mask with real leaves attached with thin wires so they looked like they were swirling around my head. I wish I had a picture of it, it was really neat.

So...tell me what you were last year so I'll know what I'm going to be next year! :D

[Improv Geek]

I'll be working on Halloween as well as tomorrow night, so I'm hard pressed to find a party that I'll be attending. But I'll be dressed as a security / bouncer. I've got black BDUs and steel toed boots. I ordered a black "SECURITY" t-shirt and hit up the army/navy surplus store to get a utility belt and handcuffs. Though I'll also be sporting a party cowboy hat and eye liner - woot!

-- IG

[Draelin]

No way, Stalker Friend Draelin! I was Autumn two years ago! I used the glycerin-soaked real-but-preserved leaves from the craft store and a black butterfly face mask with real leaves attached with thin wires so they looked like they were swirling around my head. I wish I had a picture of it, it was really neat.

So...tell me what you were last year so I'll know what I'm going to be next year! :D
Seriously, we're really starting to scare me. As it turns out, it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow (where I was going to wear my costume to an outdoor ritual/party), so I might not even get to wear it. Ah, well. I can save it for next year and make it hundreds of times better.

Last year I didn't dress up, but the year before that, I was a Powerpuff Girl (Blossom, to be exact.) Two pink t-shirts and one black one sewn together to make a dress, big red bow, white tights and mary janes. Cheapest costume I'd made in years. :)

[Poysyn]

---Maybe fake semen, depends on if petroleum jelly looks enough like semen to work

Dried clumps of plain white glue work for this - that's what my guy friend used when he went as Monican and his GF went as Clinton

[davenportavenger]

Dried clumps of plain white glue work for this - that's what my guy friend used when he went as Monican and his GF went as ClintonHaha, only on the SDMB. Thanks! That sounds like an awesome costume, btw. I also think the Kim Jong Il one mentioned above is genius.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Im going as a kinky librarian to one of my college's halloween parties. I have a job at the local law library, so I should be outfitted fine with the usual demure A-line skirt and button down shirt, high heels, crop, red lipstick and a book on Eminent Domain!
From one law librarian to another... NICE.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

I'll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It's mostly stuff I would wear if I was going out for the night and wanted to look sharp anyway: my shiny blood-red dress shirt over a black T-shirt, new black jeans, black shoes, and my awesome gray trench coat over all that (I'm not buying a black one just for this occasion). I usually shave my head, but I've been growing my hair back throughout October just so I have enough to spray blond (seemed easier and less painful than actually bleaching my hair), and I have decent fake vampire fangs and I'll even paint my nails black. Then I'll try talking in a tough-guy British accent all night.

[DocCathode]

Just a clown.

Tophat and tailcoat made from motley terrycloth.

oversized pants- green with white polkadots.

one black sneaker and one black one.

I'm taking this year off of my usual elaborate costume.

[mlerose]

Uh....I have some news for you which you may or may not like (Hulk will be very happy, however.) Henna doesn't wash out. Like, ever. I last hennaed my hair almost a year ago, and it's still a happy flaming red. It's mousy brownish/blonde to my ears where it's grown out, and red below that.

The good thing is that no one notices the outgrowth until they look for it. Because henna doesn't lighten or darken tone, it only adds red, there's not a huge blinding line of demarcation like with a chemical dyejob.

I've done it 3 or 4 times over the years and it's never stayed red longer than a week or 10 days. My hair just doesn't take dye of any type very well.

[WhyNot]

[henna hijack]
I've done it 3 or 4 times over the years and it's never stayed red longer than a week or 10 days. My hair just doesn't take dye of any type very well.
That's so bizarre! Are you using real henna (green powdered leaves) or cosmetic hair dye with added henna? If real henna, do you do it with an acidic liquid like lemon juice and let it sit overnight to release the color before putting it on your hair?

Sorry to be nosy - ignore me if you want. I've just never known someone from whom real henna done the traditional way isn't permanent.

By the way, if you're interested, www.hennaforhair.com is a fantastic informational site. The FAQ (http://www.hennaforhair.com/faq/index.html) addresses the permanence question about halfway down.

[Mirror Image egamI rorriM]

Medusa. (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/toy_snake_medus.html) Yep, that's me.

[mlerose]

[henna hijack]

That's so bizarre! Are you using real henna (green powdered leaves) or cosmetic hair dye with added henna? If real henna, do you do it with an acidic liquid like lemon juice and let it sit overnight to release the color before putting it on your hair?

Sorry to be nosy - ignore me if you want. I've just never known someone from whom real henna done the traditional way isn't permanent.

By the way, if you're interested, www.hennaforhair.com is a fantastic informational site. The FAQ (http://www.hennaforhair.com/faq/index.html) addresses the permanence question about halfway down.

Ha, such a hijack! I only let it sit for a couple of hours, not 12, and I use part lemon juice and part water. And yes, it's the powdered green leaves, though I don't know if it's body art quality or not. And I did consult that site before I hennaed this time. So maybe it will last a little longer.

My natural hair color is medium to dark brown with some red and two parts in the front that grow in blonde. The blonde bits are the only parts that really get red. I would probably have to bleach my hair out in order for it to get really red.

[WhyNot]

Ha, such a hijack! I only let it sit for a couple of hours, not 12, and I use part lemon juice and part water. And yes, it's the powdered green leaves, though I don't know if it's body art quality or not. And I did consult that site before I hennaed this time. So maybe it will last a little longer.

My natural hair color is medium to dark brown with some red and two parts in the front that grow in blonde. The blonde bits are the only parts that really get red. I would probably have to bleach my hair out in order for it to get really red.
Sounds gorgeous. I hennaed my friend Gina's hair - very dark brown Italian hair. You can't see the red so much until she goes out in the sun, then it's like WOOSH! That girl's head is on fire! It's super curly hair, and all the short pieces give her a halo of light. Tres cool.

I let it sit overnight and do it's thing and then leave it on my hair for only an hour - I noticed the site splits in two camps of opinion - some let it sit for 8 hours then put it on the head for one, and others put it on the head for 9 hours. I find it easier to let the color develop on my counter instead of on my head.

[bouv]

I'll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It's mostly stuff I would wear if I was going out for the night and wanted to look sharp anyway: my shiny blood-red dress shirt over a black T-shirt, new black jeans, black shoes, and my awesome gray trench coat over all that (I'm not buying a black one just for this occasion). I usually shave my head, but I've been growing my hair back throughout October just so I have enough to spray blond (seemed easier and less painful than actually bleaching my hair), and I have decent fake vampire fangs and I'll even paint my nails black. Then I'll try talking in a tough-guy British accent all night.

Dude! You totally reminded me that I wanted to be Spike a year ago, but decided against it because I had a job and bleaching my hair would have been a tad unprofessional. But, now that I'm a student again, I can bleach away and it doesn't really matter. But spray blond...hmmm...would be easier and less permanent than a bleach.

And, to make things cooler, I actually have a black leather trench coat. ;)

[Misnomer]

I'm going as Charlie Brown, in the costume he wears in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown -- you know, where he tries to be a ghost but has "a little trouble with the scissors." I have some sheer black material for the eye holes, and the other "holes" will just be circles colored in with a Sharpie. I also have a paper bag, and will gather a couple of rocks over the weekend (Violet: "I got candy!" Lucy: "I got gum!" Charlie Brown: "I got a rock.")

I'll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.I'd really, really like to see a photo of you in costume. :)

[pbbth]

I am going as Cavity Sam from the Operation board game. Pink scrubs, tongs for tweezers, and "bone" shaped cutouts that are attached with velcro so people can actually use the tongs to pull them off. I also have a red clown nose for added realism.
http://www.primetimeinteractive.com/images/large_images/operations_game1.jpg

[susan]

Hogwarts professor. Got to get some more use out of that academic regalia, after all.

[jellyblue]

I'm being a bat girl (not Bat Girl, as in superhero). I found this really cool minidress in a thrift shop - it's charcoal velvet and pretty slinky and each sleeve has more material than the dress proper - the dress is only mid-thigh, but the sleeves hit my calves! So that, and some batwings and a goth black bob wig (I'm blonde so this is fun for me) and some bat-ish makeup. I made a bat necklace and earrings yesterday too. I test drove it Thursday - I'm pretty happy with it. Litespeed is going to be a mime, which will really crack our friends up because she's not a big talker and gets teased about it. I love Halloween, it's my favorite. I'll be dressing up when I'm 90, I know it :D .

[peri]

Wednesday Addams

[Gundhilde]

I'm going as a crack-ho-lantern! It's basically just a jack-o-lantern themed crackwhore - only the name is clever, unless I can miraculously find that "trick or treat" pumpkin temporary tattoo I've seen somewhere before.

It'll be fun, kind of a variation on the sexy costume because it's quite revealing, yet I still manage to look way more gross and skanky than sexy. I do have to try really, really hard, though ;)

[HeyHomie]

Not me, but Mrs Duckster.

Last year she dressed entirely in a pink pantsuit, pink skin, pink hair, and an old tennis shoe attached to the top of her head. She won first prize at her office party because no one figured it out. This year she is planning to attach these (http://www.smarties.com/) to her clothes, with a tiny working light bulb on the top of her head.

I get last year's costume: chewing gum on the bottom of a shoe. This year's is lost on me. :confused:

[DoctorJ]

I've done it before, but I've moved since then so I can reprise it:

Shirt, tie, khakis, white lab coat, stethoscope, reflex hammer and eye chart card in pocket.

Witch hat, full green makeup with warts, black nail polish.

Yep, I'm a witch doctor.

The Catlady is going as a bridesmaid. "They told me I'd be able to wear the dress again!"

[jellyblue]

Wednesday Addams
I was her once! I destroyed the white shirt I was wearing 'cause I sprayed my hair "black". Have fun :) .

[Taber]

ManMan, a superhero who got his powers from being bitten by a radioactive man, and gained all the strength and powers of a man.

[Thalion]

I wish I could think of something. For the past five years, I've worn a vinyl mini-dress with fishnets and platfrom stillettos to which I'll add either devil horns or kitty ears and be slutty devil girl or slutty kitty girl.

If you've worn that for the past five years, then surely you have some pictures to share . . .

[Jayn_Newell]

My costume depends on my sewing speed. If I can finish it in time, I'm going as a black mage from Final Fantasy. If I can't, I'm hauling out my Lenne outfit from last year. And after Halloween, I also want to get a Quistis costume done for Animaritime (have most of the materials I need already, including a whip :D)

I'm not a FF fanatic, I just like the outfits.

[El Perro Fumando]

Since we were invited to no awesome parties and the bar scene is really not our thing, I'll be at the door dressed in my standby Cinderella dress.

For the next party though, I'll be working my way through med school. Lab coat with stethoscope, etc. That will be taken off multiple times through the party to reveal a stripper's outfit. Slutty, but funny.

[Earthworm Jim]

Well, now the update. We had a wildly successful party last night, we had 50 - 70 people show up(!!!) with great costumes. William Wallace was a hit, and some other highlights were the Jolly Green Giant, the Big Bad Wolf & Little Red Riding Hood, and Osama Bin Laden.

Now I have ~3 cases of beer and a metric crapload of liquor left over.

[ladybug]

I win the award for most unoriginal costume -- I'm going to be a pirate. Specifically, I'm copying Keira Knightly's outfit from PotC2. I just finished the costume this afternoon. It took longer than I thought since I had to adapt the pattern for the men's costume (the women's costume had a tight blouse and a miniskirt. I wanted pants, a puffy shirt and a vest). It actually came out pretty good. I'll post pictures on Tuesday.

[bouv]

Now I have ~3 cases of beer and a metric crapload of liquor left over.

I'll email you my address.

[cruel butterfly]

I was a cat.

Last night was my Halloween since that's when all the parties were scheduled. The restaurant staff also dressed up last night, and I had to work at the bar so I wore jeans and a really cool backless shirt that I rarely get to wear (because it requires one of those sticky bras...). Since my "costume" lacked a certain je ne sais quoi, I did my entire face in makeup a la Cats, the Broadway musical.

Oh, and I had a tail.

[Lissla Lissar]

Here's me in costume. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/caldrik/283163666/) Here's me again. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/caldrik/283164108/) From the back. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/caldrik/283164238/)

It was fun, but I boiled dancing in it. Next year I'll wear something a lot skimpier, with better ventilation.

[Earthworm Jim]

OK, the pictures are starting to filter in. Enjoy! (http://new.photos.yahoo.com/xyzpdg1313/album/576460762332696142#page1)

[N9IWP]

Saturday night I was a SCUBA diver. I had the (farmer john kayaking) wetsuit- I added a black turtleneck. I made the tank from a sonotube (used for pouring concrete footings) and a giant Christams tree ornament. Add some plumbing and a hose - ta da!

There is a party next weekend. I may go as Dr. Who #4 (already have the scarf - the rest is pretty easy)

Brian

[Creaky]

I am a Cheesy Pirate Wench this year for Halloween. I have a nice pic but no way to show it. I have yet to get a website so I can show pics. I am not technological and I am also lazy I guess. But it's a fun costume.

[Freudian Push Up Bra]

I'll be going as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It's mostly stuff I would wear if I was going out for the night and wanted to look sharp anyway: my shiny blood-red dress shirt over a black T-shirt, new black jeans, black shoes, and my awesome gray trench coat over all that (I'm not buying a black one just for this occasion). I usually shave my head, but I've been growing my hair back throughout October just so I have enough to spray blond (seemed easier and less painful than actually bleaching my hair), and I have decent fake vampire fangs and I'll even paint my nails black. Then I'll try talking in a tough-guy British accent all night.

May I be the first to say; Hel-lo Sexy! I hope your wife/girlfriend/SOMEONE appreciates this. And I'm not even a Buffy fan!

Tonight, I just went as a generic waitress because I was working and we don't celebrate Hallowe'en. If we did, I'd go as Poison Ivy - I have a green dress, I'd get a long red wig and some fake vines from the local craft house and wear my black knee high boots.

[Count Blucher]

I had not worn a costume in years, unless you count dressing up as 'camcorder-dad' and waving hi to everyone who gives my kids candy. Part of it had to do with sheer girth and clothing practicalities. This year, however, I have lost a significant amount of weight [kudos and a royalty to Earthworm Jim for the use of his term 'metric crapload'. Size 38 pants never felt so good!] and I just might fit into an old monks robe stashed in somewhere in our crawlspace of pack-rattiness.

[Edward The Head]

I haven't dresed up yet, and when I walked into work people noticed and got mad. I do have a creapy old man mask with a really long beard, and a cape I think I'll wear to give out candy. I haven't even set up my house yet, and I've always done that two to three days in advance. Maybe I should have just worn my swim suit to work today since I was at the pool, wonder what they would of thought of that!

[SurrenderDorothy]

I'm going to be Whatserface (http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/What%27s_Her_Face) or The Ugly One (http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/The_Ugly_One).

Don't worry. I'm not trick-or-treating.


I was going to be Twiggy, but it's cold out and none of my mod dresses are any good for cold weather.

[Wnabtokio]

For work-biker chick. It's going pretty well, especially with the fake tattoo sleeves!

After work-goth fairy. Not very imaginative, but the sheer impracticality of the giant, tulle-covered wingspan will overcome that, I'm hoping. I'm also excited b/c I get to have a wand and be COVERED in glitter. Good times.

[Clockwork And Candy]

I was going to be Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Bros., but I don't think I'm actually going to dress up today.

Which is something of a shame as it took me over a month to sew the dress/hat and find the right wig. I suppose part of the reason is that I'm not comfortable with how the breasts look (balloons wrapped in gauze don't seem to be cutting it) and this was only my third experience sewing something as complicated as her l'il Jackie O number.

Oh, well. There's always next year and at least my legs are nice and smooth.

[Chronos]

Last year, knowing my penchant for odd, nerdy, and sometimes abstract costumes, one of the other grad students challenged me to go as the Vacuum Energy. Well, of course, I can't pass up a challenge like that. So I'll be wearing a twine grid framework representing a de Sitter expanding universe, with pipe-cleaner vacuum Feynman diagrams hanging from it. I reckon it's probably my second-nerdiest costume ever. I won't be winning any awards, though... The host of the Halloween party has decided to just re-name the "What the Hell were you thinking?" award after me after three consecutive years, so I'm no longer eligible for it :):(.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

I was going to be Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Bros., but I don't think I'm actually going to dress up today.

Which is something of a shame as it took me over a month to sew the dress/hat and find the right wig. I suppose part of the reason is that I'm not comfortable with how the breasts look (balloons wrapped in gauze don't seem to be cutting it) and this was only my third experience sewing something as complicated as her l'il Jackie O number.

Oh, well. There's always next year and at least my legs are nice and smooth.
Please tell me you're a woman.

[Bobotheoptimist]

Me? I'm magically (http://new.photos.yahoo.com/donegalbob/album/576460762318825761/photo/294928803479990670/27) delicious (http://new.photos.yahoo.com/donegalbob/album/576460762318825761/photo/294928803479978803/28)

[BraheSilver]

I was Dr. McNinja. No pictures yet, but it was pretty good.

[Snooooopy]

I dressed up as a robot to hand out candy. One wee small boy asked if I really was a robot. His big sister reassured him that I wasn't, calling attention to all of the tape on my costume.

[Jayn_Newell]

I did get my black mage outfit done in time (woot!) and good thing too, because it was a lot warmer than last years outfit. Someone even got it. Best line of the day:

"Hey, are you the one who casts the spell that knocks everybody down?"

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

I pulled an old costume out of my costume trunk: a mirror with eye holes and mouth hole cut in it, attached to a black hood and worn with all-black clothes under a black cape. Someone dressed as (for example) an Amish farmer would say, "So what are you supposed to be?" and I'd answer, "I'm an Amish farmer--I thought I'd be the only one here!" If folks weren't dressed up, I'd say, "I'm going as you this year--took me hours to get the look right, how'd I do?"

Someone else told me that I was a poem and quoted Emerson at me: "A poem is a mirror walking around." Another person asked me if I was Mirrormask, and a third person referenced the mirror-masked police in Perdido Street Station. I love literate goth crowds!

Daniel

[BMalion]

I pulled an old costume out of my costume trunk: a mirror with eye holes and mouth hole cut in it, attached to a black hood and worn with all-black clothes under a black cape. Someone dressed as (for example) an Amish farmer would say, "So what are you supposed to be?" and I'd answer, "I'm an Amish farmer--I thought I'd be the only one here!" If folks weren't dressed up, I'd say, "I'm going as you this year--took me hours to get the look right, how'd I do?"

Someone else told me that I was a poem and quoted Emerson at me: "A poem is a mirror walking around." Another person asked me if I was Mirrormask, and a third person referenced the mirror-masked police in Perdido Street Station. I love literate goth crowds!

Daniel


Damn, that's a great idea, hope you don't mind if I steal that.

[lieu]

As the homebody hander out of candy, it wasn't real extravagent. Just a backwards ballcap, my wife's sunglasses and some of those godawful "hillbilly teeth".

I told 'em "Y'all be sure and brush after eating this, okay? it's reeeeal important".

[monica]

Tonight, I just went as a generic waitress because I was working and we don't celebrate Hallowe'en. If we did, I'd go as Poison Ivy - I have a green dress, I'd get a long red wig and some fake vines from the local craft house and wear my black knee high boots.
Poison Ivy? That sounds like a really fun costume- I may just have to remember to steal the idea next year...

Anyway, this year I went to a couple of parties. To the first one I wore my costume from last year in order to not freeze. It's a pretty burgundy medieval type dress. To the second one, my friends talked me into a french maid costume.

[BMalion]

...To the second one, my friends talked me into a french maid costume.

any chance of talking you out of it? :D

[Waverly]

Darth Vader. I've cooled on the idea of doing it again next year, and will probably give the Lord of the Sith a year off.

Here’s something you might not know about Lord Vader: He’s a queer magnet. Waverly isn’t, but something about a leather suit and plasteel armor really attracts players for the other team. I always get loads of attention, requests for pictures, and whatnot. But guys… guys want to touch Vader... hug Vader, rap on Vader's cod piece… If I could find a way to work the same magic with women, I’d be a happy Vader.

[even sven]

I was baton de manioc, a tasty treat from southern Cameroon made of mashed fermented cassava. Yummy!

[Daithi Lacha]

Updated photo: me getting along (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a309/daithilacha/choking.jpg) with a co-worker.

[Necros]

I'll try to post up some pics soon. Second win in a row in the office costume contest! :)

[RedFury]

None. I'm going as a dick.

[Ghanima]

I went as a zombie. It was pretty good. Liquid latex is neato. I had two kinds of fake blood - congealed and fresh. My shoulder wound was by far the best. It looked very real. I also had a pretty good head wound going on. My coworker was a zombie too. We were the only ones at work to dress up. Why oh Why is Halloween only once a year?

[LawMonkey]

Imagining, for a moment, that I had my shit sufficiently together to -have- a costume this year, it would have been either Anton Gorodetsky of Night Watch, or V, of ...for Vendetta.

My preference might be slightly towards Antoshka, but people'd just think it was me, unshaven, in a hoodie, with shades and a flashlight...

[Marley23]

I went as Hunter S. Thompson, and I think it was my best Halloween effort ever.

[BMalion]

Better late than never, The Next-to-Last Samurai. (http://share.shutterfly.com/action/slideshow?a=67b0de21b32100ce0568&auto=0&idx=2&m=1&d=1163168021583)