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So uh...what're you going to be for Halloween?

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03:38 / 30.09.02

I'm going to be Desire from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, in accordance with a dream I had years ago. The fun part will be looking male/female.

10:07 / 30.09.02

There's a kick-ass looking clubnight on in Leicester on Halloween that claims to play everything from MOP to Altered Images to Slint (or something), so chances are I'll be going to that..

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:08 / 30.09.02

The entire cast of 'Hair'.

11:13 / 30.09.02

So you're spending the evening wearing a very large blanket, Nick? How will you drink?

11:19 / 30.09.02

I'd love to be the Snuffaluffagus. Nothing has scared me more than the Snuffaluffagus.

11:30 / 30.09.02

25 years of age and hopefully "Pyramid Head" for Silent Hill 2 fame. Any excuse to wear a butcher's gettup, a large blade, and outfitted with a cage-like executioner's helmet get's my vote.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:31 / 30.09.02

I'm going to be someone who WRITES A FRIGGING TOPIC ABSTRACT.

That way people will like me.

I'll probably do what I've done for the last several years and dress casually. This means, if asked why I am in not in costume, I have a choice between the Scroogelike:

"I am. I'm dressed as a grown-up."

or the disquieting

"I am. I'm being my brother. I had a wank before I went out."

12:08 / 30.09.02

I'm going as Edgar Allen Poe, as two of my friends decided to be Lenore and the Raven, respectively. My sister is appearing as the Safetypin Queen.

12:13 / 30.09.02

Am I going mad or is it in fact an entire month till Halloween? Next you'll be telling me that you're already thinking about Christmas, and that the shops are already selling tinsel and Christmas cards... oh...

12:28 / 30.09.02

I'm thinking of being a Cenobite for Christmas if that helps.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

14:03 / 30.09.02

I'd love to be the Snuffaluffagus. Nothing has scared me more than the Snuffaluffagus.

Not even the nine foot bird next to him? I don't know how big Snuffaluffagawhateversuffixisrequired get, but birds that big are usually bad news.

I'd like to be a refrigerator box. Kevlar lined, in case I have to go downtown for some reason that night.

17:20 / 30.09.02

Haus- I've got your "frigging" topic abstract right here, baby.

Kit-Kat- You've figured me out. Instead of just trying to see what people might be thinking about in terms of Halloween even a month in advance, I'm actually trying to create some kind of Halloween hysteria which even the enlightened patrons of Barbelith will be susceptible to. I want you all to go out and buy Yugi-Oh costumes from Macy's. I get 10% of the profits.

Eh. Maybe I'll be a touchy bitch for Halloween. They're pretty scary.

Murray Hamhandler

17:20 / 30.09.02

I want to steal Cameron's Modok costume idea because it really is just the keenest. Barring that, I suppose I'll maybe go as Wallace Shawn.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:31 / 30.09.02

You know, I think I rather like DuskySally.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:38 / 30.09.02

Why does nobody ever learn from their mistakes around here:

Sally: Without a topic abstract, your thread will not be searchable by Barbelith's search engine. This means that people who are raring to discuss Halloween will, if it has dropped off the front page, be unlikely to find all the good things that have already been said about Halloween.

If you do not create a topic abstract at the start of a thread, one of the moderators will have to take the time to do it for you, as regrettably it seems posters no longer have the option to insert (ho ho) one themselves after the fact. This will make the moderators teasy. Teasy moderators are sad moderators.

Deric: That's the best idea ever. Wallace Shawn, that is. Although Wallace Shawn *playing* MODOK would just rock hard.

Meanwhile, to broaden the subject a bit - are there any Brits who take Halloween very seriously for other than Magickal purposes? I must confess that it has sort of fallen off my radar...

17:43 / 30.09.02

I think I am going to pretend I am Haus this Hallowe'en

Now that, DuskySally, is really Scary!

~MT

XXII:X:II = XXX

18:57 / 30.09.02

For several years now I've wanted to build a full-on Voltron costume, but the enormity of that task always discouraged me. Now I've got the perfect mask, so I guess I'd better devote the next 32 days to actually trying to accomplish the damn thing. I figure a lunch tray should work as the chest, with a smaller tray as his coat of arms, a number of foam bicycle helmets for the headdress, hands and feet, and... wel shit, I just don't know how I'm going to do the rest. Any suggestions (other than "get another costume idea")?

19:43 / 30.09.02

MODOK would kick ass. My brother is the biggest MODOK fan. I should try to convince him. And I could go as the Green Mandarin, or Drunk Iron Man, or MODAM.

Actually, I shall have at least two costumes this year. I'm working part-time at a costume shop, and they provide expensive costumes for the month. I'll have to see what they allow first, since most of my ideas are either disturbing, messy or don't involve merchandise from the store. In order of preference, my choices are The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly, Popeye or Zorro.

Outside of work, my brother wants to go out as Optimus Prime. I suggested that I go as Megatron so we can fight with the portable Radio (Soundwave?)pumping out "You've Got The Touch." If that falls through, onward to Creature from the Black Lagoon.

20:29 / 30.09.02

Vladimir: Post an image or link to what Voltron looks like.

for the pop-culture impaired.

20:55 / 30.09.02

Here you go, Grant, from my personal collection of giant robot pornography:

22:11 / 30.09.02

That pic is awesome!!

I will probably go as a ninja, again.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:15 / 30.09.02

See now, I simply don't have this problem.

"Hey, I like your costume. Enjoying Halloween?"

"Oh. Was that today, then?"

23:14 / 30.09.02

I really want to be ArchAngel from Airwolf . I could probably pull it off. Unfortunately, I am having a hell of a time finding an eyepatch. You think I could go to Wal-Mart and get one of those little pirate costumes with an eyepatch, plastic hook and the like for around $5.00, but noooooo. The damned place is saturated with teletubbies, Harry Potter, and Pokemon. What the hell happened to ninjas, pirates, and vampires? Huh? Where are they?

This is ArchAngel for those people who've never seen AirWolf or don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of old 80's TV shows.

23:36 / 30.09.02

What?!? I work at a store that stocks a wide variety of eyepatches! What Hell do you live in?!?

23:48 / 30.09.02

Fucking Tennessee Hell. There's a store down the road that had an advertisement for costumes and I saw a little pirate thing in their ad for $3.00. I'll pop by there in between classes and see what I can get. It makes no damned sense. I can get a friggin' velvet pimp hat, but no eyepatch.

What the hell is the world coming to?

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:57 / 30.09.02

Surely Archangel had one lens of his spectacles painted black, rather than an actual eyepatch? Which woudl be far easier...

I saw about five inutes of Airwolf while prepping the greyhounds for a walk on Sunday. It's really mantrically awful...

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

00:32 / 01.10.02

For several years now I've wanted to build a full-on Voltron costume, but the enormity of that task always discouraged me.

That would kick so much ass. And for the costume, you could use real cats dressed as robot cats for your arms and legs!

...damn, that's a really bad idea, now that I think about it.

02:47 / 01.10.02

I'm going to wear only an old pair of jeans for my costume.

They - "What are you dressed as, then?"
I - "I'm a premature ejaculator."
They - "Oh, how so?"
I - "I just came in my pants."

We're The Great Old Ones Now

07:57 / 01.10.02

Mordant, you have to go as a chartered surveyor from Kent.

15:58 / 01.10.02

Vladimir:
For those struts coming off the knees, I'd advise using either radio antennas or, if you've got the dosh, those shock absorber thingies that hold car trunks (boots) open.
It seems like everything else could be done with cardboard boxes from cereal or tissue paper. Maybe something with cricket shin pads as the undercarriage.

16:00 / 01.10.02

wire clothes hangers under paper for wings.

Murray Hamhandler

20:36 / 01.10.02

Here is Cameron's Modok costume idea, w/a lovely illustration of our favorite floating turd a few posts up.

Haus: I've already got the weasely balding thing going on, so now I just need to find some tweed. Or a blouse. Hmmm. The Princess Bride-era or My Dinner With Andre-era Wallace Shawn? The mind reels...

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:35 / 01.10.02

Always the Princess Bride. And floating chair also a bonus.

00:43 / 02.10.02

For Halloween, I'll be poor, as rent is due on the first.

Heh.

I'm tempted to try and do some absurdly lavish anime cosplay thing. I've only been one of the many Sailor Scouts, so that's always an option.

But the little kids in my apartment complex always get really excited when I wear my superman/girl/boy/dog logo t-shirt, and I do have a yellow cheerleading skirt lying about, so I reckon I'll do the supergirl thing. You know, for the kids.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

00:50 / 02.10.02

I wanna be a kid in mazarines building for Halloween then...

but really, I will be 23 for Halloween, at around 10:30AM
I was planning on turning that into some oddball abstract costume, but i think i will look flash as Adam Ant instead.

and no, not the mental patient one, the highwayman one

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