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Virtual fancy dress party

Olulabelle

11:56 / 08.10.03

I come as a magician's assistant, complete with spangly leotard.

I also wanted to be a church spire fixer (you know the absailing builder types) but the costume's not nearly as good.

Unencumbered

12:07 / 08.10.03

By an astonishing coincidence, I wanted to be a magician. I used to practise the tricks that I read in my many magic books and watch the pros whenever I got the opportunity.

So, here I am in my penguin suit, complete with top hat and cane.

spidermonkey

12:17 / 08.10.03

I am in the gingerbread man costume which I wear to entertain small children three times a week!

Mourne Kransky

12:19 / 08.10.03

I am covered in dirt and dust, holding a pottery shard in one hand and a large gin and tonic in the other. I have adopted arab dress because of the heat and I'm dancing with someone's mummy. Always been partial to skinny, bony guys with bad skin.

I am looking mighty chirpy for someone cursed so many times by Protector Deities for breaking the seals on so many Houses of Eternity.

Great playlist, olulabelle. "Walk Like An Egyptian" segue'ed into "Egyptian Reggae". If you're taking requests, have you got "Are you going to Scarborough, Pharaoh?"

Olulabelle

12:29 / 08.10.03

No, but I have got 'Pharaoh my Summer Love.' Will that do?

illmatic

12:53 / 08.10.03

My head’s covered in an enormous glass bubble and I’m sweaty as hell in this anti-cosmic radiation swaddling suit. However, I’ve managed to tune the suit’s internal radio to a local pirate station and am listening to U Roy’s Ace from Space, thus the dyslexic dancing. Good news though, I’ve just claimed Mars for the People’s Republic of Barbelith!! All we’ve got to do is terraforming and Ganesh can build Xoc that enormous dusty pyramid city he’s always wanted. Someone, help me feed Red Stripe into my suits internal life support system – I’m dying for a drink, (I'm am sick of this suits recycling funtion, d'ya know what I mean?)

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:59 / 08.10.03

Dahling, that suit's so 2002.

I'm male, dressed in expensively-distressed jeans(my own brand, naturellement) and t-shirt, surrounded by several stick-thin women, wearing my bizarrest and most beautiful creations. I, on the other hand, am built like a builder. And am probably gay.*

Squirmelia

14:13 / 08.10.03

I am wearing paint-splattered trousers and a trenchcoat. On my head rests a captain's hat. I'm smoking a pipe, and in one hand there's a wallpaper-scraper.

If the party happens to be on a boat, I shall scrape wallpaper from it while contemplating exciting mysteries.

Mr Ed

14:17 / 08.10.03

I will turn up as the hebridean island of Orkney, completye with pubs, roads and standing stones.

Not so much a costume, more a venue.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:09 / 08.10.03

Astronaut. For deffo. (Although with the benefit of hindsight, I think cosmonauts are infintely cooler).

Ahem. Allow me, if you will, or even if you won't, to quote the wonderful NMA on the subject: "When I was young I dreamed and dreamed about all the things I was gonna be/A handsome pop star on the screen or captain of the England team/A brave explorer holding court or a really famous astronaut"

Although I'd settle for being a minor, unheard-of, obscure astronaut. A cult following would be nice, though. Depending, of course, on which cult.

Tryphena Absent

15:16 / 08.10.03

I wanted to be a librarian (and was mocked for it). So I'll be borrowing skirts off our lovely lady.

Ariadne

16:18 / 08.10.03

I'm in a ballerina's pink tutu, with a scientist's white coat over the top. I know that creates a funny ridge around my middle but I was a conflicted child.

adamswish

16:36 / 08.10.03

A cult following would be nice, though. Depending, of course, on which cult.

That's a thought, think I will come as a cult (and I said CULT you uncouth lot, really

).

Wearing a black sheet with various, differing, finger puppets showing the ethnic mix of this cult. A large glove puppet worn as a hat to represent the devine leader/bloated conman, and ear-rings depicting the faithfuls devotion to the leader (dodgy 70's hardcore porn images printed off and pasted onto them).

The bottom of the black sheet and comedy slippers poking up from under it, will show the advancing army of federal forces, come to dis-band the merry pranksters.

later on in the evening I may explode or burn to the ground, depending on how the negotiations go. As a mark of respect to the host I'll be in the garden if anyone wants me.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:50 / 08.10.03

[channeling Neubauten]You can find me in the garden if you want me
Unless it's pouring down with rain[/channeling Neubauten]

rizla mission

20:18 / 08.10.03

Not limiting myself to one discipline, I'll be attending as a rock star, best-selling occult author and daring trans-dimensional adventurer.

Which proably involves a lot of layers and fending off "who the hell are you supposed to be?" questions.

gingerbop

23:46 / 08.10.03

WOw, I was right- we should start Barbe-circus, Olula and Unencumbered.
I too am wearing a leotard, and am a circus performer; trapeze artist/acrobat.

I think Im having a real fancy dress party this weekend, if I get round to tidying my room and persuading my parents, and its gonna be Bollywood themed. I have my costume all ready and waiting. Its gorgeous.

Jack Fear

00:06 / 09.10.03

A black Rolls with tinted windows roars up, incense belching from the tailpipes, Gregorian chant blaring from the sound system: enter Jack Fear decked out as a Catholic priest, resplendent in gleaming-white alb, metallic thread glittering from the intricate embroidery of a gothic chasuble, attended by two altar boys in red vestments who follow at heel, pouring drinks and holding the plates in the buffet line.

After a few drinks, I send the boys home and strip down to a black three-piece suit and shirtfront, blacker than black (but for the dazzling white stripe at my throat like an Egyptian pharaoh's ritual beard), more like a shadow of a priest than the thing itself and shrper than anything in the wildest dreams of Armani.

Mazarine

02:33 / 09.10.03

Green hat with feather. Bow and arrows. Tights. Some money I robbed from the rich and intend to give to the poor. Possibly a red bushy tail with a white tip.

Robin Hood and lil' John, walkin' through the forest, laughin' back an forth at what the other'n had to say,

Reminiscin' this an' that an' havin' such a good time, oodelally oodelally, golly what a day.

(Can I have a real bow and arrows this time round? A bent stick with dental floss lacks credibility.)

The Falcon

18:07 / 10.10.03

I wanted to be an astronaut, too.

I had a horrible dream about astronauting about a year or two ago, and now I don't want to be.

Kit-Cat Club

08:20 / 13.10.03

Here I am, in tweedy genteel clothes, with an air of abstraction and inkstains on my fingers (and also on my forehead, which is where I wipe my pen when I am deep in thought). You can buy copies of my works in most reputable new and second-hand bookshops. I also have a cat draped round my shoulders, just like Father Christmas, though I don't say 'blooming' quite as much as he does.

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