What are you doing on Halloween this year?
Do you have a costume in mind?
Do you decorate your house? Make pumpkins? Make pumpkin pie?
What's your craziest Halloween story?
Do you even like Halloween?
Personally, it's one of my favorite holidays. It's a bit less consumeristic than Christmas and a great excuse to just dress up and goof around with friends. Plus candy. And it's fun for everybody! Kids go tick or treating, Teenagers have scary-movie sleepovers, college kids get drunk while wearing sexy costumes, adults get equally drunk in even sexier costumes ;) What's not to love?
Like kleinbl00, my halloween has a lot to do with my kids these days and we too went to the pumpkin patch. Here is a shot of my son amidst the pumpkins: He's going to be Robin for halloween and his sister is Batman. I'm going to go as Clark Kent and have a dress shirt half unbuttoned with the superman logo underneath showing, rimmed glasses and parted hair with some press credentials in my pocket. Should be simple. I'll post some shots of the kiddos in their costumes.
So, full disclosure, Halloween is my birthday. I think it's pretty great. I do have a costume. Please, bask in its glory. I wore this for the first time last night at a college party with people who are on average about 5 years younger than I am (or will be). I was nervous about wearing a ridiculous costume but I decided to own it. After all, I was surrounded by sexy nurses, sexy cannibals, sexy-something-deads, Posh Spice, and I'm trying to recall what other girl costumes I saw...Can't. Wasn't taking enough notes. Guy costumes: Crayola crayon box (I felt a kinship with this guy and his big ridiculous costume), guy in suit with "law" written over it - get it?, ANOTHER BANANA!!!, guys in shirts and ties who I guess were supposed to be people, etc. It was a crazy party and it was interesting to experience having guys walk up to the group of girls I was in and start hitting on, well, everyone but me. The other banana actually did try and hit on me. Surprisingly enough I also saw people who I knew independently of my sister, which was unexpected. Anyway this is becoming more like a Pubski response than a Halloween response. This year I'm celebrating starting Thursday night - going out with a guy I'm seeing and staying out til midnight, as he has standing other plans for the 31/1. On Friday I will help an old and dear friend move with the help of another old and dear friend. Later we are going to have a small and relaxed time, just the three of us, drinking and handing out candy at the other friend's house. We may also make JACK O'LANTERNS, cake, s'mores, and watch horror movies. I might have to have dinner with my parents at some point between moving, and drinking. Saturday I am going to a zombie party!!! I am going to cut out brown spots and tape them onto my banana costume. I think Halloween's the greatest. But I didn't really decorate the house this year. I want to make a pumpkin for my parents tonight just so they have something to put out. I will be helping decorate my friend's, if I can scrounge up my leftover Halloween stuff (if I didn't throw it out). The short version of my craziest Halloween story is once I partied so hard for the entire month of October (used to celebrate birthday month; still kind of do but not on the same level) that I made myself collapsing-sick for the week afterwards, and actually had to cancel my own birthday party.
Bruh. Happy birthday. I hope you find your banana charming tonight.
Happy birthday pal!! Glad to know ya!!! What are you dressing up as? Let me guess, "sexy banana poet?"
Badass day to have your birthday on. Happy birthday, ref.
I finally figured out why I hate halloween. The act of putting on a costume is the act of drawing attention to yourself, and I learned early in life that drawing attention to myself was the surest way to get smacked or draw my parents into a 36-hour fight. Also, anything involving school stuff that required my parents involved heavy amounts of guilt and drama and more than a little drinking. I realized this when I posted that picture of me as a robot - I was trying to figure out why I wanted a costume where I wasn't really visible beyond an eyeslit. It is, however, a favorite holiday of my wife's. It's her mother's favorite holiday by far. We're doing some volunteering for the munchkin events at the apartment complex and we're definitely dressing the kid up. I believe she'll either be a watermelon or a witch. She seems a little uncertain about the holiday. (bonus being-stalked-by-Tom-Arnold shot)
I was about to ask if you were aware that Tom Arnold was in the photo too? Your daughter looks a lot like you KB.
Last year I went as John Belushi from Animal House. This year I'm considering going as the Hash Slinging Slasher..
The genie from Aladdin. And the costume isn't an homage to the late Robbin Williams, it's that in eighth grade I played the genie and was asked to reprise the role. Two trips to goodwill later, and tada
I'm going as Astrid, and the boy is going as Toothless. The costumes are almost done. Here's the only shot I have on hand of the early stages of the toothless costume.
The only things I like about Halloween are pumpkin ales and b-grade horror films. I can't stand the rest of it and don't participate in any other part of it.
I was never allowed to trick or treat as a kid as my parents didn't 'believe' in it. I remember the one time I did get to go was a walk organised by the whole village where all the kids went round as one group. Also, I really don't like fancy dress, so I guess that kind of rules me out of enjoying this holiday to its full potential.
Badged the pumpkin! At least yours doesn't "Look like a retarded flower".
Eh. I can take or leave Halloween. My parents didn't really care about it, so I guess by proxy, we didn't either. I'll be wearing my laziest costume this Friday. I mean, really, really lazy, to the point where people will probably assume that I just ended up kinda sorta looking like the character I'm supposed to dress up as. I used to go all in when I was younger, though. Which one is me!? Hah. Hahahahaha- OH! If my sister trick or treats though I'm totally taking her up to Piney Creek, otherwise known as "Holy shit, hey guys, the rich people here give out full-sized candy bars, SUIT UP." Edit: Bonus pick I found while sifting though pictures showing the early life of drinking that I took on.
