Being a Big Fag™ and all, Halloween is my national holiday. In previous years I’ve managed to pull off The Riddler from Batman Forever, Batman himself, a Psi Cop from Babylon 5, Two different styles of Starfleet uniforms from Star Trek, a whole buttload of Medieval and Renaissance costumes (being a SCAdian has its perks when my “fun clothes” are other people’s costumes), etc. Some I wear just for Halloween, but also, being a sci-fi geek, I attend sci-fi conventions and am able to wear stuff there as well. And it just so happens this weekend is Gaylaxicon, the annual gay sci-fi convention, this year being held in D.C.
So my friend from New York, who is Philippino, informed me that he’s going to be wearing the costume he made for last Halloween - Ash Ketchum, our hero from Pokemon. Of course I started making snide comments about coming as Pikachu, or Brock, or… hey! I could come as James from Team Rocket! So I went out at lunch today and started buying the materials I’ll need to do the costume. And of course for the Masquerade we’ll do something suitably queer - Ash and James as lovers, methinks. I mean, just listen to that voice of his! What a queen. And Jessie? “She’s just my fag hag, honey!” (I have a lot of other costumes on the back burner - high Tudor, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Data - but this one came to me and I was inspired.)
So, what’s everyone else going to be doing for Halloween this year? What have you done in past years?
Plus I look really hot - black boots, black pants, a U.S. Marine dress uniform (black) stripped of all accoutrements, black gloves, and a handmade Psi Corps badge (copper and tin, of course). With my pale skin and light blond hair, it’s quite stunning. The first time I wore it four women proposed marriage. I guess that military look works well on me…
When I lived in Baltimore—oh, back during the McKinley administration—one of my friends owned an abandoned “dollar mansion.” Every year she’d throw a Dead Party, where you had to dress up in a costume representing your favorite famous death.
One year I came as Marilyn Monroe—blonde wig, blanket wrapped about me, sleeping pills in one hand and a phone in the other. Another year I came as Isadora Duncan—barefoot, in chiffon tunic, with a six-foot scarf around my neck, attached to an old automobile tire.
My standby Halloween costume is to dress all in blue—dress, lipstick, hat, shoes—and debeck myself in tampons and maxi-pads. When someone asks what the hell I am supposed to be, I bellow, “Picasso’s Blue Period!”
Oh, I’ll probably go in one of my RenFaire costumes.
I just have to decide if I want to appear on my (Lutheran) campus dressed as a peasant, a barbarian, a noblewoman (who can’t afford a hoop skirt ;))…or if I’m actually going to go out and spend money on building a new costume all together. (Since I loathe sewing, I have to go shopping - oh, darn!)
Of course, I’d love it if anyone wants to give me suggestions…
As to what I’ll be doing - in the morning I’ll be working, in the afternoon attending class, and in the evening my plan is to terrorize as many youngsters seeking candy as I possibly can.
My costume is the epitome of laziness - I’m staying in bed. PVC frame covered in Simpsons sheets, a nice warm blanket wrapped around me, fuzzy slippers and to top it all off a pillow and an old-fashion sleeping cap. From the front it looks exactly like I am laying in bed. Yaaaawwwwn!
The reason it is the epitome of laziness (as opposed to just lazy) is that I initially built it last year. But I had such a blast with it I am recycling it again for 2000. Now, if I can only find my way back to NYC for the parade! (Any dopers know of a cheap hostel / hotel in Manhattan?
When I was 12 or 13 I was big into Star Trek. For H’ween I dressed in normal clothes but taped cutout photocopies of Worf’s face all over me. I was a bad case of static Klingons.
This year for the senior H’ween party I’m a dead rodeo rider, complete with hoofprint on forehead, horn through midsection and lots of fake blood and bruises. On H’ween itself I have to go to school, but I intend to dress all in black and wear my red Devil-horn headband and black satin cape with red lining. If I have time that morning to do makeup I’ll paint my face red with black in appropriate places to make myself look fairly Satanic. If the Devil were a chick, anyway. I can’t do my rodeo corpse costume at school because the horn through my ribs would get in the way when I sat down in the chairs.
I loved Halloween when I lived in So. Cal! Being a lot warmer there in late October, the gals could wear all kinds of neat costumes-I particularly liked the belly dancer/harem look. Also, I actually remember a party (at the Lighthouse bar in Hermosa beach), where a gal actually came in g-string and pasties! That was the hit of the evening!
It kind of depends on your definition of “cheap”. The New York Inn is supposed to be clean and decent and located right in Midtown on 8th between 46th and 47th. Single occupancy is $89.
The Herald Square Hotel is down on 31st near Macy’s. Their prices start from $60 for single occupancy and shared bath.
We are taking all our store managers away overnight for a team rally/get away/drunken halloween party next week. Our personal manager has come up with a murder mystery theme. I am going to be dressing up as the general manager for our company… and someone is going to kill me. We are setting the srage before hand by getting the secretary to let it slip that the GM has decided that managers are not allowed to take any vacation during the summer months. The director of operations is going to bring it up at the rally… which is REALLY going to piss off alot of people. Then I am going to have to go somewhere… as are a number of others… but I never come back!! They will find me “dead” in the dining room.
The funniest part is the GM has a number of mannerisms (sp?) that are going to be really funny to mimic!
(I have a lot of other costumes on the back burner - high Tudor, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Data - but this one came to me and I was inspired.)
I guess that military look works well on me…