Is that Anthrax the disease or Anthrax the band? I hope it’s not the band…yuck.
Girinpixie, here’s a link you might find informative.
Not that I’m judging him, but [judges him].
I used to have a foster brother who’d say things like that. “No offense, but you’re really ugly.”
My nine year old daughter is going to be the goddess Kali for Halloween. She is one of the most worshipped deities in India. Kali is blue or black, has a long red tongue, black and red rimmed eyes, long tangly black hair, a necklace of skulls, and extra arms carrying things like a severed head, a bloody knife, etc. Is this the perfect Halloween costume or what?
(For more about Kali, see my SD staff report:
Why are pistachios painted red? )
That sounds like a seriously cool costume! Yep, I reckon you can keep your Raggedy Ann outfits… I’d vote for a necklace of skulls and too many arms (with ooky accoutrements) any day. 
I’m really keen on Halloween. Unfortunately here in NZ it’s not very big (though gaining some popularity).
Last year tho’ I was living in the US for part of the year (including November) and got to dress up and go out to gen-yew-ine 'Merican Halloween parade. Costume options were limited, having only my work wardrobe with me… well, and one SCA outfit… so I wore my Persian coat, and fez, etc, added some nasty looking diseased makeup and a plastic sickle and voila, a boil-afflicted townsman from the recent Mummy film.
Imhotep… Imhotep… Imhotep…
One year I put on my dad’s AirForce uniform. I also had a blue notebook and at the party I told people that various things hanging from the celing (bats and spiders and other decorations) were actually weather balloons.
So in case you are like the people at the party and don’t get it I went as Project Blue Book.
You know Project Blue Book! It was a government project that reseached UFO sitings{sub] and many people thought
Hey come back![/sub]
My costumes are usually pretty basic. One year I was so hard up (I usually don’t think about it till the actual day of Halloween) I went as a dead Girl Guide… I painted my face white put my campe blanket on and my camp hat and went out like that.
This year I’m a vamp. Got myself some good fangs and am gonna wear black and red and I have a cape. -would love to have a corset but will have to wait on that one-
I heard one of the oddest ideas ever last week.
I’m working as a research assistant this semester. On Friday, I was waiting around Dr. X’s office, waiting for tech support to call him back about a program he wanted me to use. Killing time, he called someone else and said:
“Remember that blue academic robe I donated to the department? Could you help me track that down? My wife needs it for Halloween.”
He hung up and I asked “What is she going to be?”
“Martin Luther.”
WTF? I dearly wish I would have thought to ask him about his costume. How does one coordinate with this?