The Official Thread of Halloween 2010

My girlfriend wants me to shave my head and go as James Ellroy to her Black Dahlia. I really don't want to shave my head, because to pull off the Ellroy look I have to lose the beard, and I hate my face when it doesn't have facial hair.

I just want to shave my beard and go as Ron Effing Swanson, complete with devilled eggs that I will not share.

You've got a girlfriend? Pics, dude.

Not happening. Coming up on a year, though.

I'm terrible at Photoshop. You can trust me.

No. Nope. Sorry.

You're no fun. What you should do is go as The Monarch and get your lady friend to go as Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.

Well, in the meantime, here's my proven-real girlfriend hugging a Halloween ornament.



Never liked officially branded decorations though. Doesn't evoke anything other than "yeah, that's from that movie".

Carly wants me to be Tank Girl, but I'm not into dressing up enough to search for a pair of short shorts that would fit me, let alone craft giant missiles to go over my breasts.

My girlfriend is in law school, and she's very big on her name and image not being out there because of her career. I would hope, my recent posts and ancient history aside, that my word can be taken on this one. Chewers who are friends with me on Facebook can back me up on this.

I also don't feel the need to have to prove shit about fuck.

Rath has a girlfriend. She and I have a mutual friend who is not Rath. #smallworldbrozef

All I'm saying is I haven't seen her hug shit.

I think Carly should be Gelsomina from La Strada for Halloween, but she's worried no one will know who she is. I need you guys to tell her how awesome it would be. Powers of peer pressure, I call upon thee!

Well, I bet she would be adorable in that getup. Not sure I would know who it was though. Sorry!

ETA: Well, you know, before I looked her up. Now I would.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. My mom used to decorate really elaborately for my brother and I, but because my brother has become obsessed with holiday decorations since then (he's severely autistic), he's destroyed most of the things we had. I managed to salvage a few things that were important to me (including a light-up Bates Motel sign that I actually had up in my room year round for a few years), but I realized the other day that they were still in my mom's storage unit. Oh well. I've got some lights up in the window, but that's about it for this year. Too busy with midterms.

I'm too old for trick-or-treating at this point. I don't mind handing out candy though. Some friends of ours are having a party the night before, so we'll be celebrating that way.

Patrick and I were supposed go to a pumpkin patch and carve pumpkins today, but things didn't work out the way we wanted, so we nixed the idea. It's not really his thing to begin with, but I'm sure I can talk him into doing at least one with me before Halloween.

I have no idea what I'm being this year. I have been known to pick things that are way to obscure for most people (Odile from Band of Outsiders, for example) and I get annoyed with people asking me what I'm supposed to be pretty quickly. My final ideas are a maneki neko, Delia Deetz of Beetlejuice, Medusa, or Napoleon. Patrick and I were originally going to go as Barbara and Adam Maitland, and then we changed it to The Creature from The Black Lagoon and Kay Lawrence, but then we ultimately decided to go our separate ways on the costumes because Patrick said he wanted to be Tank Girl. But now he's being a lttle bitch and doesn't want to be anything at all. I managed to get him to wear at least a mask last year, but we didn't really do anything. Now we actually have something to do, and he's refusing to dress up. The hosts of the party we were invited to specifically asked all the guests to dress up, so I told him he's being really disrespectful. But like he gives a fuck.

I've become too much of a curmudgeon to give a shit about dressing up for Halloween.

I will help Patrick out though. Carly you need to go as Gelsomina from La Strada for Halloween, or else you'll be, I don't know, probably gay. Is that good enough peer pressure?

Planning on dressing up as Andrew Dice Clay this year, following up Anton Chigurh in '08 and Bennett from Commando last year.

I believe you. And I'm sure she's awesome.


I'm not quite sure what my girlfriend and I are dressing up as this year...probably the same forest nymph and "man who lives in a cottage in the woods" that said forest nymph meets. Thats what we did last year.

Congrats Rath.

Carly, go as Gelsomina.

So, should I buy this?

It's $279 and I'm kinda broke, but I would use it for all major holidays and use it as my apartments Christmas tree (not me in the video, just a kind soul who was as impressed as me at his local Spirit of Halloween store).

I'll drive pins into your skull for a burrito and a ten spot.

5 and a 7-11 Buffalo Chicken Taquito?

NO DICE

Can't see the video at work, but Anderson's "Pins in your head" comment makes me think of the "Deluxe Pinhead Costume." If it is, then you can totally find it for half that. My friend bought the costume a few years ago and it looks pretty cool, though he did repaint the chest piece to make it look way better and added some other things

I'm going as Oscar Wilde. FOR MY LIFE.

I need a good costume this year. I've had two great years of theme costuming with friends (The Basterds last year and the Channel 4 News Team the year before) but I don't know about this year . . .

PS - CARPET: LA STRADA IS A GREAT IDEA.

This.

And yes, I will be shaving my head.

Take it from me, the only thing worse than looking like Oscar Wilde is not look like Oscar Wilde.

I look like the direct clone of Mr. Wilkie Collins, long time friend of Charles Dickens. Enough like him that I put his picture as my avatar on Facebook and everyone thought I just had an old timey photo done. Doppelgangers through time!

No one is going to get it! Sure - you guys do, but I'm sure that 99% of people at the party will just think I have a really shitty mime costume. And when they ask what I'm supposed to be, I'll have to explain I'm a character from a movie they've never heard of by someone they've never heard of. I might as well go to the party dressed as a giant douche.

I'm seriously considering going as Antoine Dodson, but I imagine the majority of people wouldn't get it.

Fine be a gay.

Depending on how much time I actually end up having this year, I'm either going to go as the "GOTTA DANCE" character from Singin in the Rain, or I'm going to bust out the trousers, trench coat, and fedora and go as Humphrey Bogart.

I made myself a promise after last year that I wouldn't go as a Ghostbuster anymore. I won't I won't I won't.

Don't fight the temptation. Don't fight it. Just let it happen. You know you want it.

If you live in NC, your ass is on Franklin Street for Halloween. I was toying with going as Lady Gaga, but I know there will be a ton of Gagas out there, so that got nixed. My boyfriend is going as Cobra Commander, and I have a suit left over from when a bunch of us went as X-Men, so I'll just slap that on and say I'm The Baroness.

I'll think I'll do what I did last year...I'll go as the 'Invisible-Man-Caught-Getting-Out-Of-The-Shower-As-The-Fire-Alarm-Was-Going-Off'.

Last year, my ex went as Belle from the market scene and I went as myself, The Beast (har har). Actually, I wore a hospital gown I kept after my surgery a few years ago.

This year, if I don't end up handing out candy, I may wear my camo shorts, brown shirt, and tactical vest and carry a butterfly net full of paper towels and go as a Bounty Hunter.

If Facebook is any gauge, I think you'd be surprised how many people will (a) get it, and (b) be wearing that costume.

Me? I'm going as the Beastmaster.*








*Not really.

You could go as Pierce as the Beastmaster and maybe get some friends to go as Eddie Murphy, Batman, a Squirrel, a Skeleton, and a Cowboy (and maybe a Matador).

And what a skeleton!

One of these days, I'm going to put together a really sweet Thanos costume, complete with Infinity Gauntlet.

However, that day will not come this year. Soon, though...soon...

I'm totally intimidated by Franklin Street at Halloween. And also too damned old. But I heard rumblings that they were trying to tone it down this year

Circumstances beyond my control (read: I'm too fucking broke for that shit next week) have forced a costume change.

I'm doing Dr. Manhattan. Because I have not the requisite washboard abs, and my wang is too awesome for public consumption, it'll be funeral attire, of course.

And yes, I'm still shaving my head.

There's a zombie walk in town on the Sunday, so my plan is to go as John Marston* for a house party on the Saturday then zombifying it for the next day.

*Complete with vodka filled six shooters

Yeah, they are. It's gotten too out of hand supposedly. I'm really not into the huge fucking crowds of thousands of drunk people that go there for halloween, so I'll be skipping that one.

My son is going as Doctor Who (the 11th Doctor). He might be the only 6 year old around here who knows who Doctor Who is. Poor little geek child. I have no idea what I will be this year. Last year he was Fred from Scooby Doo so I went as Shaggy and my wife was Velma.

I've always heard these horror stories about Franklin on Halloween, but I've found that going with a group of people who won't get shit-faced, limiting your time there, and sticking to establishments that don't shill booze help make the evening perfectly pleasant. It is true that the later you are out there, the rowdier the crowd gets, so we're outta there by 9pm and on our way to another party. Last year we just camped it in McAllister's Deli and had a nice dinner while we watched the crazies run past the windows to get to the bars. McAllister's doesn't serve alcohol, so it was a ghost town in there.

Dressing up as WWII-era Cap and going down to Dallas to catch a trippy Ghostland Observatory show downtown. It will be the most memorable Halloween for me in ages since I can never, ever seem to get my friends to dress up. Plus this weekend catching Evil Dead The Musical to get in the spirit of things. With all of this AND The Walking Dead premiering on AMC Halloween night, I think I'm set.

Ha, oddly enough I'm also going as the 11th Doctor. Couldn't think of anything better, and I'd get more mileage out of it than going as Joel from MST3K.

Plus, I'm on a small streak. What with going as Hunter Thompson last year and the Tenth Doctor before that.

And Hunter, I want to see pics of you as the Diceman, extra points if you re-enact any scenes from Ford Fairlaine. Automatic win, if you have a friend to go as Lt. Amos and have him sing "Bootytime".

I had my costume planned out for MONTHS. I was going to convince my oldest daughter (6 years old) to dress up as Hit Girl, and I was going to re-use a old Batman suit I had––with a new mask and accessories––to suit up as Big Daddy. Best father/daughter costume combo EVER.

Unfortunately, I've been overruled. My wife wasn't nuts about the idea, but it was mostly my kid's doing, since she's fell in love with some exotic Arabian princess costume. It was an uphill climb for me, since I couldn't hook her on the coolness of Hit Girl with still photos alone, and (though I was tempted) she's too young to watch her best action scenes.

I'll definitely do it in the future though. I still have a few years.