Halloween pt Deux
Nov. 2nd, 2003 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grrgoylWell, I would call the night a rousing success and a good time was had by all (some noticeably more good than others).
I fulfilled my dream of having my Crow costume viewed by people old enough to vote. Considering I had to work and flew home, donning the entire thing in less than a half hour, I was quite pleased with the result:
Tery infuriated me for the second year in a row with her thrown-together outfit. Last year she recycled a store-bought judge's robe (from her Judge Judy get-up), bought a boy's clip-on necktie, hot-glued it with yellow ribbon stripes, pulled a sweater out of her closet with some kind of crest and voila! she was "Tery Potter." (The irony is she has never, nor ever will, read any of the books. >:( ) This was all in the space of perhaps 15 minutes, while I spent at least 2 weeks preparing my Braveheart costume.
This year she took it one step farther. After her usual indecision leading to the event, she finally borrowed one of my kilts and a sporran, threw on a Hawaiian shirt from her closet, and pronounced herself a "Scotsman on vacation." Now, I am all for homemade costumes, obviously, and the more you can use from your everyday environment, the better (I am very proud that all my Crow required was black clothing which I have in abundance, a generous supply of electrical tape (for the hand/wristbands) and a $2 facepainting kit from Walmart. Genius in it's money-saving simplicity). However, I draw the line at pulling things randomly out of your closet and then NAMING yourself based on what you find (although I guess she should get points for that extra level of creativity. Considering her first choice was to wear regular clothes and be a "nudist on protest.") In the middle of the party she realized she could have gotten one of those inflatable Sumo wrestler costumes and be "Fat Bastard." See what happens when you wait until the last minute? Such a good idea wasted.
Sexy Alice (Laura) and I
Inexplicably Tabby emphatically denied all night that she was Hannibal Lecter; you be the judge.
Prof McGonagall and The Vacationing Scotsman (Tery). I mean, COME ON.
For me by far the highlight of the evening was with Tabby's new friend Danny. I unfortunately didn't get a picture of him, but he came as a very convincing nerd and there was a running joke all night (started by him) that he wasn't in disguise at all (although I have never seen a nerd pop-and-lock or imitate Michael Jackson as well as he did). The Halloween mix CD started playing "Thriller" and everyone was dancing and remembering the video fondly. Danny told us how it terrified him as a kid. As Vincent Price's monologue wound down to diabolical laughter at the end, Danny could be heard animatedly describing the extremely-well-known video to a (seemingly) rapt audience on the couch...."and then, at the end, he turns into a ZOMBIE, man! and...." I interrupted, disbelievingly asking who on planet Earth still hadn't seen the video. Everyone in the group nodded and said, "Oh, we've all seen it!" I turned to Danny and said, "My god, you ARE a nerd!" I didn't mean it insultingly, and he was good-natured enough to laugh at himself. But the really funny thing came later when, with a much larger group in the room, the incident was retold and Danny mimicked me running over to ask who hadn't seen it, only the way he told it I sounded remarkably like George McFly. I couldn't even breathe for a good minute or two, he had the whole room in tears.
Definitely one of the best Halloween parties ever!
-=Lainey=-
I fulfilled my dream of having my Crow costume viewed by people old enough to vote. Considering I had to work and flew home, donning the entire thing in less than a half hour, I was quite pleased with the result:
Tery infuriated me for the second year in a row with her thrown-together outfit. Last year she recycled a store-bought judge's robe (from her Judge Judy get-up), bought a boy's clip-on necktie, hot-glued it with yellow ribbon stripes, pulled a sweater out of her closet with some kind of crest and voila! she was "Tery Potter." (The irony is she has never, nor ever will, read any of the books. >:( ) This was all in the space of perhaps 15 minutes, while I spent at least 2 weeks preparing my Braveheart costume.
This year she took it one step farther. After her usual indecision leading to the event, she finally borrowed one of my kilts and a sporran, threw on a Hawaiian shirt from her closet, and pronounced herself a "Scotsman on vacation." Now, I am all for homemade costumes, obviously, and the more you can use from your everyday environment, the better (I am very proud that all my Crow required was black clothing which I have in abundance, a generous supply of electrical tape (for the hand/wristbands) and a $2 facepainting kit from Walmart. Genius in it's money-saving simplicity). However, I draw the line at pulling things randomly out of your closet and then NAMING yourself based on what you find (although I guess she should get points for that extra level of creativity. Considering her first choice was to wear regular clothes and be a "nudist on protest.") In the middle of the party she realized she could have gotten one of those inflatable Sumo wrestler costumes and be "Fat Bastard." See what happens when you wait until the last minute? Such a good idea wasted.
Sexy Alice (Laura) and I
Inexplicably Tabby emphatically denied all night that she was Hannibal Lecter; you be the judge.
Prof McGonagall and The Vacationing Scotsman (Tery). I mean, COME ON.
For me by far the highlight of the evening was with Tabby's new friend Danny. I unfortunately didn't get a picture of him, but he came as a very convincing nerd and there was a running joke all night (started by him) that he wasn't in disguise at all (although I have never seen a nerd pop-and-lock or imitate Michael Jackson as well as he did). The Halloween mix CD started playing "Thriller" and everyone was dancing and remembering the video fondly. Danny told us how it terrified him as a kid. As Vincent Price's monologue wound down to diabolical laughter at the end, Danny could be heard animatedly describing the extremely-well-known video to a (seemingly) rapt audience on the couch...."and then, at the end, he turns into a ZOMBIE, man! and...." I interrupted, disbelievingly asking who on planet Earth still hadn't seen the video. Everyone in the group nodded and said, "Oh, we've all seen it!" I turned to Danny and said, "My god, you ARE a nerd!" I didn't mean it insultingly, and he was good-natured enough to laugh at himself. But the really funny thing came later when, with a much larger group in the room, the incident was retold and Danny mimicked me running over to ask who hadn't seen it, only the way he told it I sounded remarkably like George McFly. I couldn't even breathe for a good minute or two, he had the whole room in tears.
Definitely one of the best Halloween parties ever!
-=Lainey=-
