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In the past, Halloween has been a big production. My friends Fourleafclover and Batman have always made it so, and believe you me - their enthusiasm is contagious.
The first year that i got involved, we dressed up as the gang from Scooby Doo... yours truly was your fabulous Velma, natch.
Seriously, check out those boots... we completely wrapped my boots in red electrical tape! kick ass! Also, the Crow in the back is my littlest Brother Willy Billy McNilly
The year after that, we didn't do anything for Halloween - we handed out candy to about 9 kids and then went to bed. And last year we were so busy getting ready to move back home that it came and went and we hardly even noticed it. But now that we're back, with the whole gang, the question is "what kind of costume can we come up with for large group of people that is relatively easy to pull off and cheap?"
They thought: "How about Spartans?" well, really Spartans are only good for the dudes as the ladies had such a minor role in the movie - yes yes, i know that the main spartan's wife was hot and political and stuff... Okay, hm... how about other characters dressed up as Spartans? i.e. Napoleon Dynamite in a spartan costume, or Borat in a Spartan costume.
hmm. Still pretty gender biased.
there have been other ideas - like Ghostbusters. I mean, we don't have to be one of the main four, maybe business has expanded.
or Zombies. That's pretty easy to do.
the plan, i believe, is to get our big group together and get on a pubcrawl bus and dance dance dance the night away... so the costumes have to be something relatively cool so we don't die from the heat. Like one year (the Addams Family year) there were an entire pack of dudes in CareBear outfits. all i could think was : "they must be dying!!"
But the thinking caps are on! and i will keep you posted, it's only six short weeks away!
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I've always wanted to get a bunch of my friends together and dress up like the gang from "The Big Lebowski" for Halloween.
Think of the possibilities: The Dude, The Stranger, Walter, Donnie, Jesus, Maude, the Nihilists. Aimee Mann with only nine toes!
You may have inspired me and this may be the year. Now I must decide between being The Dude or Walter Sobchak. Tough choice!
that is a tough choice... i'm sure you'll make the right decision...
B-rad would go as Roul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas every single year if he could... if i had long black hair, or the legs for the cutoffs i could go as Lucy.
When you said "spartans," I was really confused for a bit because I thought you were talking about the cheerleading sketch from SNL.
As the the Halloween conundrum, three words: The Golden Girls.
Every year me and my friends come up with a group costume idea, and every year, it goes bust. And then, I have to scramble for a costume at the last minute. Your friends rock!
Okay, you look seriously hot in costumes, all costumes. B-rad is a lucky, lucky guy.
Halloween is quite the even for me as well.
One year my friend and I went as pregnant crack whores and her husband was our pimp.
The next year we all wanted to be Mr. T - so we went as an evil band of Mr. T's. Makes no sense really, but we had fun.
There has been Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb from Alice in Wonderland.
My FAVE (and I highly recommend this one) Oompa Loompas. You could all go as them and maybe one of you could be Willy Wonka.
See my visual link below to all of them. Then think LOOONG and Hard about Oompa Loompas... Always a winner...
http://annalander.blogspot.com/2005/07/homegirl.html
You really have fun friends - you all look great in your costumes! I'm really trying to come up with ideas for you, but the Oompa Loompa one sounds pretty good.
Our group of friends always comes up with great group costume ideas.
There's a table at Local Pub thats PERFECT for the last supper. We've planned this so many times, but it never falls through. Last time we brought it up, we totally were going to just pose all night, and have some dude on the other side of the room pretend to paint us all night.
Our theme parties work out though. Hillybilly theme, dead celebrities...
Great fun.
I have to say, I am a little bit jealous with how great your costumes were though!
you are my new hero! i LOVE those pics!
You should ask Earl to send you the pics of the year he dressed up as Gandalf....
by the way, whats all this hootenanny i'm hearing about you not being able to post on my site? I see you registered, that should be that... what is it doing?
hey slyde,
try as i might - i can't log in.
GRRR! i've registered, but i never got activation email, so i'm guessing my account is not activated... anythoughts?
hmmmm, i have never heard of anyone having a problem...
ok, i just deleted your account, and recreated it using the email address you supplied.
let me know if you get the activation email this time.
and i made your pw the exact same thing as your username... once we get you in you can change it if you like....
Grrr...
i'm starting to wonder if it's really worth commenting...
:(
It's really not.
He hasn't posted anything interesting since I left his site and started my own. ;)
Aaaaaarrrrrr!
ok, i figured it out...
and as i guessed, it had nothing to do with any of the stuff that you eblogger zombies complained about! :)
its actually yahoo messing us up. The activation email went out to you, but yahoo considers it JUNK email, and it went into your junk bin. I just tested it and thats where it went for me..
so blame stupid yahoo! :)
Anyway, i made your account for you.. username madamdiva, pw madamdiva. i would suggest when you have time to change your pw, and the email address on the account since its still pointing to my test yahoo account and i forgot what yours was..
what personalized service my blog has! My next steps will be to actually stop by your house, and post for you :)
(you should organise a zombie walk)
slyde; you rock.... and you're welcome in The Skatch anytime....
thanks missy! :)
Those are some great costumes! Go check out my blog, only to help me (not pimping my site)! I need suggestions! Your costumes are great....
One year, Mr. Dymund was JFK, with a gory hole in his head, I was Jackie, (little pink dress, little pink pillbox hat, with blood all over my little white gloves) and my best friend friend was LHO, with a toy rifle and a hat that said "I killed Kennedy". That was totally tasteless, but lots of fun.
Another year, my best friend and I recycled old floral bridesmaid dresses, added a cape made from a black shower curtain and glommed on the fake blood. "Vampire Lesbian Bridesmaids of Doom", "Bridesmaids of Frankenstein" and "What Happens When You're Three Times a Bridesmaid" were all interchangeable titles for our theme.
This year all my friends and I are going as people from I, Claudius. So we're all going to be in togas. It's going to rock. ...I guess it's only funny to classicists and medievalists.
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