I’m away on vacation for the next week or so and I won’t be connected until I return. In the meantime, enjoy these scenes I never got around to posting.
On Hallowe’en, Chipotle offered a free burrito to anyone dressed as one. I think these two were a little too early to the party. The offer wasn’t good until 6 p.m. or something.
In my younger years, I was able to put together Halloween costumes (usually for parties) with relatively little effort. Four immediately come to mind. Once in my junior high career, I dressed up as Captain N needing only to make construction paper versions of the N on his jacket and the NES controller belt buckle. (Little did I know real ones would eventually come to be years later.) In high school, I threw together an ancient Roman citizen’s outfit for a party I was invited to at the last minute. The next year, I stayed home for Halloween but dressed up like Wakko from “Animaniacs” for the trick-or-treaters that came to the house. Years later, I dressed as Kyle from “South Park” for another party; I only needed to buy the hat for effect as I had everything else.
That was part of what made Halloween fun for me. I could theoretically wear anything I had in my closet and after minimal, temporary modifications, I could call it a costume.
After I got home from work yesterday, I stood outside with one of my house mates as kids came up the steps to do their trick-or-treating. While I stood out there, we had a couple of angels, an adorable baby in a Tigger outfit, and a vampire who was so in character — short of biting peoples’ necks — that I insisted he get extra candy.
The bulk of the kids I saw, though, weren’t in costume. They trolled the neighborhood, knocking on doors dressed as they normally would be for school. (I’m told that one kid said, “I’m dressed as a D.C. public school student. What’s scarier than that?” Well played, I thought.)
To me, Halloween always meant having the chance to be someone (or something) else for a little while. It disheartened me a little that so many kids went door-to-door without a costume.
Unless, of course, they had a little trouble with the scissors
In need of a costume idea? You could go as Idaho Sen. Larry Craig with a simple do-it-yourself project. (link via Towleroad)
After the jump, a pretty good reason to break the rule… at least I think so.
As I did a Google image search for “mac daddy” (in reference to the “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” episode of the same name), I came across this image:
Go to the full size, and you might see why he’s the mac daddy.
These are my links for 29 May:
