Congrats! The link works just fine for me. Very nice work, “Paul.” 
Originally posted by Attack from the 3rd Dimension:
“When I was 8, T. Slothrop’s dad (who was also my dad) helped me make a paper mache bear mask, and put me in an ancient fur coat, so that I was a bear (with mothball accents!). I won a prize.”
I wondered what happened to that coat.
The best one I’ve ever done (and there have been a few good ones over the years) was Brunhilde.
Long, white, flowing gown, hat with horns, hair in two plaits, staff, pointy ta-tas…guys were coming up to me and singing “Kill the wabbit…” all night long.
If I can find the pic, I’ll post it later.
Last year I was in Cameroon for Halloween. I went as a Lamido, a traditional king in the north of Cameroon. The outfit consisted of heavily embroidered robes, sunglasses and a special kind of head dress that is like a huge net wrapped all over the chin and head. For a white girl, I really pulled it off.
It turned out that everyone came to the party with Cameroon themed costumes. We had His Excellency Paul Biya and his wife Chantal. We had goats and Fulani herdsmen. We had the village drunk, motorcycle drivers, pregnant bar ladies, a bottle of Maggi sauce, Samual Eto’o, Monica Brava (a popular TV character) even our boss (the guy who keeps writing all those anti-Peace Corps articles for you all who keep up)…all kinds of costumes that were spot on.
So having a king walking around was just absolutely perfect.
We invited the desk clerk from the hotel we were at and she was absolutely floored. We were a little worried she’d be offended, but she thought it was all hilarious.
The best part of this costume was the search for the netted head dress. I had to walk around the local open air market-, and ask everyone who sold hats “Um yeah, so I need the kind of scarf that kings wear…what part of the market would that be at?” After some time I finally found a guy who could produce them. I mean, the North had lots of lamidos so they had to get their hats somewhere. But to this day I imagine that guy must have wondered why this random white lady needed a lamido scarf.
In 1984 I was a Ghostbuster. I went to the local military surplus store to buy a “Flight Suit, Coverall” and embroidered a Ghostbuster patch (I’d made a sketch from a movie poster, as it wasn’t on VHS yet). I made the backpack and gun from a variety of junk. The main pack was part of the housing from a discarded portable TV, with a reactor housing made from an old metal bulk 35mm film canister (about 4" diameter). I had a couple of web belts that I attached to the backpack so I could wear it. I used scrap to build a big heatsink and other parts, painted it all up and added some Letraset text here and there for verisimilitude. For the gun, I used a pingpong ball gun, with rigid and flex tubing and other accoutrements added, painted it up and connected it to the backpack with a length of automotive heater hose. I felt quite proud when everyone started asking me where I’d bought all the cool Ghostbuster stuff and I could tell them how I’d made it all.
Happy Halloween!
My best halloween treat was a dirt pudding (chocolate pudding mixed with whipped cream as the pudding, with crushed oreo wafers on top as the dirt) in a little cardboard casket I had made myself. I put a couple of tiny little skeleton hands in it as if the skeletons were coming out. It looked awesome, if I do say so myself. I need to find a little plastic casket so I can make this for every halloween party.
For 2 months in 3rd grade, I was in a private Christian school (until my parents realized I wasn’t learning jack squat and threw me back into the public school system).
But those 2 months did include Halloween, where the school rule was that you were only allowed to dress like a character from the Bible.
Well let me tell you, I was the biggest, baddest, kick-ass Moses ever! Charlton Heston didn’t have shit on this 9-year old!
That was my Halloween peak. It’s been all downhill from there.
I’m pretty pleased with this year’s costume. I’m wearing a crazy punky pink wig, fairy wings, pockets stuffed with confetti, a fairy wand, and I’m dressed in head-to-toe black with a pair of ratty old black Chucks. I’ve got lots of black and grey eye makeup (would have worn black lipstick but my friend forgot to bring it).
Who am I? Why, the fairy goth mother! 
Ooh, that’s good, N.Sane. I may have to put that on my shortlist for next year.
That wasn’t creative though - that was just stoopid. Although I still tell the story about the frat boys who didn’t have any Halloween candy but they had a huge Butterfinger and gave me that instead.
I went as the Unknown Comic in about 1979. Took about 30 seconds to make the costume, and people liked it. Win!!
About ten years ago, I went to work on Halloween as a bad hair day & won $25
This year I went as another student on campus, who is fairly well known for being active in student politics and is currently the president of the student government. All I needed was a preppy sweater, a name tag, and a squint. I don’t look a lot like him, but it was a big hit.
My simple costume tonight which got a lot of laughs and weird looks, but not too many comments, was the “business man without pants”.
Bluetooth, pen, dress-shirt, tie, boxers, black socks (that came 3/4 up my leg), and dress shoes.
Nothing like some hairy, pearly white legs to scar your vision for life. 
I couldn’t believe how many people were in Waikiki this Halloween. Ended up leaving around 3:30am. And as usual it rained. I ALWAYS rains on Halloween in Waikiki. Not badly, but mediocre off and on. I can’t complain though this year since the rain didn’t come until about 3:15am.
My favorite was probably the year I dressed in a sandwich board decorated with the sun, and went around downtown with my best friend dressed as a grain silo and my brother dressed in a white sheet with lots of holes cut in it. We were the Trinity.
Daniel
The grain silo is throwing us here. That’s the Father? What?
Grain silos are used to hold fodder.
A couple days late, but here’s my Miami Vice look from Friday night:
I’m pretty happy with how nicely it came together. I even had a little plastic alligator with me as Elvis.