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I'm going to get ridiculously, shit-my-pants drunk, be a complete and utter asshole, ask to look at boobs and tell everyone to go see my movie I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.

How's that masterpiece doing in theaters, anyhow?

My nephew wanted to be a washing machine last year. So being the great aunt that I am, I made him a kick-ass front loader with an opening door containing unmatched socks and an electrical cord in the back so he could plug himself into the wall (he insisted upon it). I cleaned out a laundry soap box and lined it with a plastic bag for his goodies. A few times we heard other parents say something along the lines of "that poor child has a detergent box for his candy!" then he turned around and they got it. People took pictures of him all night. So much more fun than a store-bought serial killer mask!

This year his little brother (4 years old) told me he wanted me to make him a parachuter costume which I heard incorrectly as "pooper shooter". I told him he was already a pooper shooter and I wasn't sure how to make a costume like that.

I think somebody should go as the Murdertank.

Michael Bay's penis, but only if you're a little person or a child under the age of 4, in which case it might be inappropriate.

Wench. Because I've had the costume for two years and haven't had a chance to wear it yet and my boobs aren't getting any younger.

However, I highly recommend wearing a black turtleneck sweater and leggings, and taping toilet paper to your head and going as an Ass-Swiffer (TM).

This Halloween, I'm thinking about hiding in the bushes so when the kid receives candy, I can hop out and declare that Beyonce deserves it more than a Jedi Knight or a Princess.

I also intend to get very drunkenly happy this Halloween while dressed as a Dia de los Muertos Catrina. I beg to differ on the idea that teenagers and older can't go trick or treating. If someone puts in the effort to make an awesome costume, really have the spirit of the holiday, and recapture some childhood fun, I'm all for it. Of course, if someone just half-asses it to get some candy or be ironic, then I agree that's pretty crappy.

I intend to get my live acting on for the yard haunt this year, so I shall be portraying the Mad Hatter by way of hipster culture. I just need to drive over to the nearest Urban Outfitters and come out with horribly mismatched, skin tight hipster pants, button down shirt, cardigan/blazer, wacky hat, and killer kicks. Simple simple. I'll fit in quite well with the Jabberwocky goodness of the yard. I already own an assortment of ugly tea services for my pot a day habit.

I had no choice. By March, Tim Burton will have ruined my chances of doing an Alice-tinged haunt, in the same way he ruined Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd themes the same year I already started planning them. I was supposed to do the lesser known works of Edgar Allan Poe (Ligea and The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather were the principle sources) but then that Alice stuff had to come out.

I'm gonna cover myself head-to-toe in ShamWows and be the Defender Of Dryness.

The girlfriend wants to be an evil version of Alice in Wonderland, so I was thinking of being the "Bad Hatter". Which would basically consist of a lot of blood and makeup effects, and a regular Mad Hatter costume. (Possibly destroyed for that really cool psycho killer look.)

May be cheap, depending on what you've got around the house, but I was always a fan of a Steampunk styled get up. It can be pretty simple or you can get really intricate. Top hat with flight goggles, a monocle and mustache. It's fun, no?

I'm going to go as Dustin Rowles. I'll carry pictures of Ryan Reynolds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Robert Downey Jr. while watching irritatingly twee films and loudly insisting that I'm a heterosexual.

Or TK. Sweater vest. Bruises. Done.

I really want to go as an "interpreted" Wild Thing...as in, I don't have the skills to make a giant paper mache mask, so I wanna find some horns and do killer make up and where a furry sweater and leggings...but I can't quite make it come to life in my mind. I will have to meditate further.

A few of you boys could get together to be the Red Hot Chili Peppers circa their infamous Rolling Stone cover. It would be cheap and easy.

My friend has a pink skid-lid (that kind of helmet that only covers to the top of your ears) for riding his moped. I'm going to borrow that, wrap my neck in aluminum foil, wear all tan with black shoes, and paint the number 2 on my chest. I'll be a pencil looking for the scantron of my dreams...

I'm gonna go as Pookie, but change my name every couple of houses.

I'm going to be the guy in Skitz's neighborhood who tells the cameras, "He always seemed so quiet. Kept to himself mostly."

A bottle of TruBlood and fitted vampire fangs. i may put on a jogging suit

This just in: TylerDFC was found bound, gagged and molested in Patty O'Green's basement. Having been forced to speak in a Swedish accent, his throat, among other things, is rather sore.

The Priest With No Pants. To top it off, I'll get my best friend, a 35-year-old man who is 5-foot-2, to wear a sailor suit and a leash.

I bought my Max (WTWTA) costume 3 months ago... do I regret it? Not a chance.

Pittsburgh is gonna all bow down to how glorious it is.

A bottle of TruBlood and fitted vampire fangs. i may put on a jogging suit

This just in: TylerDFC was found bound, gagged and molested in Patty O'Green's basement. Having been forced to speak in a Swedish accent, his throat, among other things, is rather sore.

I'm designing a cardboard chimney with a pig snout on the front of it....you know...Swine Flue.

I had a friend who came up with an ingenious party costume: she got some yellow cloth and just draped it over her head and shoulders like a big hood or cloak, so she looked like a referee's flag. She would then "throw herself" at people whenever they committed a party foul.

I want to go as Birdgirl from Harvey Birdman, but I'm afraid I don't have the legs.

Goggles. Snorkle. Wet suit. Business card reading "Tracer Bullet, professional muff diver."

I'm going to be wearing a pair of 3D glasses and chuck oversized meatballs at people. Hopefully, the weather will be relatively cloudy or the whole thing just goes to shit...

I'm dressing up in pink, strap two car batteries to myself and go as a DildOscar.

Monkey is going to be Batgirl this year. I didn't make her costume but I'm happy that she isn't a princess again this year.

The Husband and I may actually get to go to a Halloween party this year. If so we will be going as Ned and the deceased Maude Flanders. I'll make my hair all poofy and use a pair of Monkey's fairy wings as angel wings. I'll also have a halo. The Husband just has to grow a mustache and wear his glasses. We should be able to get the clothes at Goodwill.

I am am going as the human centipede. I have the bandages and two girls, so I am all set.
Drinking will be an issue for them, but I have one kidney, so I should be able to pass it to them pretty quick.

Sofía, please do not go into any dark tunnels.

Pinky, please step away from your keyboard.

I'm gonna be in drag, dressed head-to-toe in black, and carry a guitar with stuffed, numbered birds along the neck. I will call myself Sheryl Black Counting Crowes. There will be fighting.

For work and our Haunted Trail (hey, if you're in south-central Indiana, or close, contact me!! Our theatre group is doing a Haunted Trail as a fundraiser and we need LOTS of people to scare!!) I am going to be a very traditional Wicked Witch, green face and all. But, for REAL Halloween, I'm resurrecting the ever-popular dead skunk, complete with X's on my eyes. Haven't worn it for about 8 years.

Oh, and when older teens or even adults show up on my doorstep begging for free candy, I flat tell 'em NO. They may egg me, but BY GODTOPUS I have stood my ground!!!

Wednesday, Octomom was my first costume idea for this year. I was just going to string 8 baby dolls together and get a pair or wax lips. Done.

The party I am going to has a Carnival/Circus theme. I was trying to think of a costume in that vein and came up with the bearded lady-but not on the face. The costume would involve a short skirt and a wig pinned to the indside of it. heehee
But then I realized my mom would see those pictures and probably disown me.

@Julie, thanks hon!
@Tracer, your support is appreciated. ;)

Shoot, sorry everyone. I thought it didn't go through the first time. Stupid internetz.

I'm wondering if I have the follow-through to fully realise my King of All Cosmos costume...

....hehe...stalker.

Oh fuck it....here's my costume from last year.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ALXLEE3/2008HalloweenParty#5262418933516884562

If I was going to a party I would craft a miniature swimming pool around my waist, buy an inflatable, blonde fuck puppet and go as "epileptic dolphin sex scene in Showgirls".

Since I'm not, one kid's a zombie, one kid's an evil fairy and daddy hasn't decided if he want's to terrify kids or dress up as something that nobody but my family and Pajibans woudld get.

I am an actor and so spend the rest of my year "dressing up as someone else", so Hallowe'en is my night off.

My lamest costume ever though was just wearing my normal clothes and telling everyone I was the "Visible Man". Noone laughed. I think someone took a swing at me.

But for great ideas, check this out, if you haven't already.
(Hope the link works)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4rUiV_Hh74&feature=related

Beyonce in the Single Ladies video. As a junior in college, I feel like I really only have one more year after this of being able to wear just a leotard for Halloween, so I might as well go for broke now.

Last year I went as Dr. Horrible, this time I'm doing the David Tennant version of "the Doctor" (bought a new suit for the costume, my excuse is that my sister's wedding is coming up so I needed a suit anyway, and now whenever I go to a formal event I can secretly be wearing a Doctor Who costume). For Halloween I always go to New York to visit friends and watch the big Halloween parade they have there, then roam the streets to see all the other costumed freaks...the good thing about obscure nerd costumes like mine is that they work well as nerd-detectors in crowds, since only fellow fans will recognize who you're supposed to be and yell it out when they spot you...

Oh, and Pinky, what about Zombie Maude Flanders?

I'm actually going to dress up this year since I'm going to what should be a non-shitty Halloween party. I think I'm going to end up going as zombie secretary. I didn't want to be just a zombie so I went with a theme. I got a cheap white blouse from Walmart that I'll rip and stain with blood, pair that with a pencil skirt, ripped stocking, and some pumps and then get my art major friend to do my makeup.

My husband and I are doing costumes on the cheap: Boss and secretary. Just your typical office attire, but with tousled hair,smeared lipstick on his collar, undone tie, shirts untucked and buttoned up wrong and unzipped fly. The only problem is that we'll have to get dressed away from our kids. I don't want to explain the "mess" to my 9 and 11 year old daughters.

Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! They're everywhere, so my friends all decided to throw a zombie prom.

My husband and I are going as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. It's pretty easy as he owns a black suit, just pick up a black shirt and I'll make myself a fifties style patterned dress.

Heather Mooney, you could make it current and have your hubby sport gray hair (provided he doesn't have it already) and wear glasses a la David Letterman.

Skitz is bringing the pain today, folks. :)

Kanye. The glasses, the mic, and the custom T saying "Yo, I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best Halloween costumes of all time!"

So am I, Julie. We need to think of a costume for you. One that involves your rack.

I'm gonna dress up as Conrad, carry a Bible and bitch about the perils of Pagan worship.
Or maybe I'll be Connie, circa 2000 and walk around topless with ones in my garter belt.

Wait, Tracer, Dustin says he's straight? I always thought that when he talked about his wife he was just being euphemistic.

Not this year, honey. It doesn't have to be clever. You're a chick, pick something really mundane and make it slutty.
Think of Barbie professions:
Nurse
Doctor
Astonaut
Teacher
and turn them into:
Naughty Nurse
Naughty Doctor
Naughty Astronaut
Naughty Teacher

Done.
Aaaaannndddd feminist backlash in 3...2...

So does this mean you're not coming to the party Julie??? I am, you know, a gee-nee-uss when it comes to thinking up good costume ideas.

WM, I totally want to go as a slutty astronaut now! In my most low-cut space suit.

"I was planning on going as a combo of swollen glands, face rash, and unusual loss of hair but scrapped it. Have you seen Halloween costume winners? They're never lupus!"

branded, if that don't win one of the top five EEs, I'll never hump a jar of mayo again.

Speaking of mayonnaise, I'm gonna smear a gob of it into my ass crack and wear a sombrero. It ain't Halloween on my street - IT'S STINKO DE MAYO! Get it?! HA!

You get it, right?

...

I've hit rock-bottom on this thread.

Skitz:
You could mix it up for Halloween:
Cut an appropriate sized hole in a pumpkin and go for it. Punkin' Fukin' is a time honored tradition down on the farm!

I have to hang around kids as usual, but mine are old enough I can just do my old last minute one - dead prom queen. All you gotta do is charcoal up your hand really well and place it on your neck for that nice strangled look. Do some eye stuff, maybe spirit glue a few leaves on from that ditch ya ended up in, powder your hair all dull and there you go.

My kids are going as darth vader and leia. At least I'm not sewing insane custom plush Toopy and Binoo costumes this year. That blew.

I'm going to dress up as a confused Santa Claus and run around screaming about a ripple in the time-space continuum. Who's gonna stop me? Parents? Good luck trying to explain to your kid there's no such thing as time-space continuum ripples.

haven't decided yet but its a toss-up between The Baroness (from the cartoon, not the movie) or Aayla Secura

I'll suffer from multiple personality disorder consisting of a foxy chick and a skeevy pervo - I'll wear panties, drug my drink and desperately try to molester myself before blacking out.

Just like last Halloween!
And the one before.
Thanksgiving and Christmas, too.
Pretty much all of last month.
Sunday.
Monday.
Tuesday.
As soon as this drink is finished...

Every party has it's pooper ...
Novel or inspired mash-up costume ideas aside. Doesn't it take some
of the alledged 'fun' out of things if you have to explain again and again
what you're travelin as that evening. Ya know, if you go too fringe, don't
you end up over in semi-pretentious-ville? [winkie wink, knudge nudge.
eh?... eh.. Whught!?]
H-ween aint my holiday anyways. Maybe I'm just crabby.
The whole take a random profession and make it 'trampy' and there's
your costume thing? Snooze.

My friend came to a party once in a dirty, lame, homegrown superhero costume and handed out his business cards as "CAPTAIN APATHY...all the powers of Superman and no desire to use them!"

Went to a club on Halloween one night and two guys in matching jumpsuits carried a couch in to the bar. It said "somethingorother Movers" on the back of jumpsuits. They sat on their couch, drank their beers for an hour or so and loaded it back on the truck. I saw them at 3 different places that night.

I always go to work as a fucking pumpkin. Its cute. Every year.

pissboy, I don't know if I could do it, it'll be tough to find a space-suit that works with stripper heels. I like the dildo flagpole idea though, that works on so many levels.

Two presidents ago, before a wife and two kids, some brown butcher paper and chicken wire along with a presidential seal wrapper made a great presidential cigar. Strange enough, I met a younger woman wearing a blue dress.

oh i forgot the other potential option.

I go as GOB and she goes as Rita. The only problem is that the rita costume isn't exactly sexy...unless she has a bum paddle. Hmmm. What do you guys think?

Oh yeah, and this year my boyfriend was going to go as Captain Hammer and I was going to go as a Captain Hammer groupie, because we thought the costumes would be super cheap and he wanted an excuse to walk around at parties whispering "The hammer is my penis..." to strangers. (Why he suddenly decided he needs an excuse, I don't know.) Then I went to buy the t-shirts from drhorrible.com and found out that two shirts plus tax came to $63.00. No thanks.

Now I really want to go as a grammar ninja, but I'm not sure how to put it together. Any ideas?

Would like to take a moment to thank the P-Team for being the impetus{sp} to my looking up 3 things I was completely unaware of &/or their meaning.

Urban Outfitters: and it being a nifty place to drop into if one needs Mad Hatter ish douche-baggian overpriced fashions. Be it for H-Ween costume or daily wear. That place looks like shear crap-ola with a side of mayo and lame tunes played too loudly.

LOL-Cats and the like: somehow, this phenomenon has *completely* bypassed me in my web travels and email inbox. Based on what I've seen in the past 30 min on any # of wacked out sites, that's perfectly o-tay 4 me. WTF is the point really.

"Steampunk": never heard of this word or the genre or subculture...or whatever it is exactly. I read over the Wiki and really, still not sure where it falls in the general order of the world. Apparently though, Disney's Treasure Planet movie from several years ago is a reasonable depiction of things, even though it's animated and stunk.

nobody copy me: i'm going in camouflage with (fake) joints and baggies attached to it, dark circles under my eyes.

chronic fatigue

I'm going as Zatanna this year, I made a women's tux jacket with tails and have a pop-up top hat. I'll even be working at a comic con all weekend in that costume doing magic tricks I've taught myself. Last year was Silk Spectre and bf was the Comedian, hmmm maybe I'll try a non-comic costume next year...

I came up with the Max costume before it got all cool and popular with everyone, so I'm making it for myself to wear on Hallow's Eve.
As for cheap costumes to make, I'm already brainstorming Halloween 2010. It looks like I'll be Frank the Rabbit from Donnie Darko, because being Max isn't hipster enough as it is.

I'm gay, but relatively straight-acting. A friend of mine is bi, but she's quite girly. So naturally, we're going as stereotypes. She'll be wearing Doc Martens, baggy pants, a white tank-top and a leather jacket, with slicked-back hair Clea-DuVall-in-The-Faculty-style. I'll be wearing a purple cardigan, skinny jeans and a pair of overly decorated Cons, with some pretentious glasses and overly-styled hair. I can't wait!

Sorry Kate, I can't give you credit for that one. It was a suggestion from a friend this morning.
But kudos for thinking alike.

Get a pig's nose and a set of angel wings and go as ... wait for it ... swine flu.

I had a friend who dressed up in a garbage bag. She was white trash.

Zombie beer hall wench. I've definitely got the tits for it. I'll be the one staggering around with two huge steins of beer in my hands.

I don't know why you think Max will be the big kids costume this year. You can't actually buy one anywhere. I guess there's one, but at $70 I don't think it will be that common. My daughters will be Max and a wild thing, and my MIL is making the costumes. It's so cute it will make you cry. I'll share pictures.

Adults dressing as Max = lame. Like a 16 year old trick or treating.

Kids dressing as Max = cute as all get out.

Christina I LOVE that Snidely and Nell costume. I might steal that one year.
Several years ago I was a broke post-grad and couldn't decide what to be. I wanted to utilize past costume pieces to form something new.
So I took the wig from my Femmebot costume (Austin Powers) and the vinyl catsuit and whip from my Catwoman costume and behold! Dominatrix Barbie was born.
My favorite part was using my old 80s style Ken doll (which I had to dig up in my mother's attic). I got some black raincoat material at the fabric store and made him little shorts, boots, a blindfold, and bound his hands together. I tied some string around his neck and kept him on a leash all night.
To this day that is one of my very favorite Halloween costumes.

Posted a flyer for our Haunted Trail for all those interested:

youlookfunny.blogspot.com

I will also need a hopelessly naive telpeathic waitress to loudly declare she hates me while also endlessly fantasizing about me to truly make my costume complete.

Done, TylerDFC, absolutely done. I even have the green scarf to cover up my bite marks.

If I feel like going creepy-and-inappropriate: Zelda Fitzgerald post-insanitarium fire

Oh, Mimi, thats awesome!!! I love crazy-ass Zelda!!

Seriously, reading all these, my ideas suck. I need to come up with something better.....

OK, was given an even better suggestion today as to what I should wear. Preface: I grew up in Nigeria and, thanks to Mean Girls several of my friends refer to me as "Hey, Africa!". Result: I'm going to get a map of Africa, blow it up to A1 size and make myself an Africa costume. I love Hallowe'en!

Nobody said Dayman (Master of Karate and Friendship. For everyone)? I am disappointed with all of you! Back to your rooms and no candy !!

Ahhh I need Halloween ideas! I had mine all planned out. I live slash work in Texas and my company is owned by a couple of (awesome) Republicans. Me and the other designer I work with are liberal but we were gonna dress up as Kim Jong Il and Castro and paste up maps of the US with big red circles and unhappy faces and call everyone CAPITALIST PIGS and whisper conspiratorially all day and not let anyone see what we were working on.

Then she got fired.

So I'm back to square one. I'm thinking Velma, of Scooby Doo fame. I'm brunette, wear glasses, am entirely nerdy, and I love orange. Or a Calvin alter ego - Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, something of that ilk.

I was Cruella DeVile two years ago. Black and white wig, black and white shawl, toy dalmatian, cigarette holder. Worked wonderfully.

I am very short, so a few years ago I glued crepe hair to the tops of my feet and told everyone I was a hobbit.

Also once dressed as Liza Minnelli circa Cabaret and when anyone asked who I was I said I was the ghost of Liza's career.

Once had a student who had on a white T-shirt with a large letter P, and black eye makeup... he was a black eyed P.

My sister and her husband are going as the Publisher's Clearinghouse Prize Patrol this year. Business dress with balloons, confetti, and a big check. I think they are excited about the ambush factor on this one.

Why the hate on teenage trick-or-treaters? I trick-or-treated as a teenager. It's only annoying if the teens don't dress in costume. Why would you deny anyone the fun of being someone or something else for a night and collecting free candy?

My husband and I love Halloween and always dress up for it, although we've never done an actual "couple" costume. Last year he was The Joker, which somehow led to him getting flirted with more than usual (my husband is a grade-A hottie), with chicks in their skank-costumes (skankstumes?) fawning all over him and telling him he looked just like Heath Ledger.

This year he's going to be Magnum, P.I., and I'm thinking Cruella De Ville. Not really a matched set, but I get to be evil all night while he winks and smirks at an imaginary camera.

One of the best couples costumes I saw last year was Pac-Woman and a Ghost. The costumes were completely handmade and just adorable. The couple won a huge prize at the Halloween party we went to.

If I have to work (at my crappy customer service job) I'm going to spike my mohawk and wear a Twilight shirt and when a customer approaches me for help I'll just yell, "Whatever! You're not my dad!" and walk away. I'm Teen Angst!

My boyfriend also suggested "slutty Stephen Hawking."

I want to go as Lady Ga Ga. I have everything already in my wardrobe except for the wig.

Though I may be talked out of it by Yossarian, who was thinking about going as Fight Club's Jack/Tyler Durden and Marla Singer. He kinda got psyched for it when we saw a baby-sized penguin costume for our daughter.

Our first choice was to go as Clarence and Alabama Worley from True Romance (our baby would go as Elvis) but it started to really add up to be too expensive. (especially the Alabama ensemble and the baby Elvis) We'll probably save that one for next year.