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Dead by Dawn, I need a Halloween Costume
It is that time of year again. It is time to get ready for the best holiday around. No not Christmas you present obsessed commercially brainwashed consumer you. I am talking about Halloween.
I just returned from Fred Meyers and did some light shopping and I saw that they have started to stock pile candy and makeup for October 31st. Praise Poe it is falling on a Friday this year. So I will not have to take off any time off work and there is no curfew for BBQ and I will have nothing holding us back from us spending Halloween the traditional way. For the past couple years we have dresses up as various monsters and went to clubs and horror movies up at Capital Hill in Seattle. Just because we are too old to go out trick or treating there is no reason why we can't go out and enjoy the nocturnal big city night life.
Lets look up Halloween in the Wikipedia to get a bit of a historical perspective.
This was the most evil time of the year. It was a Druidical belief that on the eve of this festival Samhain, lord of death, called together the wicked spirits that within the past 12 months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals. During the night the great shield of Skathach was lowered, allowing the barriers between the worlds to fade and the forces of evil to invade the realms of order, the material world conjoining with the world of the dead. At this time ghosts, witches, hobgoblins, black cats, fairies and demons of all kinds roamed amongst the living. The dead could return to the places where they had lived and food and entertainment were provided to exorcize them. If food and shelter were not provided, these spirits would cast spells and cause havoc towards those failing to fulfill their requests.
Sounds like fun to me but I think that wacko comic publisher and all around bastard Jack Chick had a comic about Halloween begin Satan's birthday or some thing.
But the real question is what do we dress up as?
Both BBQ and I have gone as Zombies, Michael Myers from Halloween, and Freddy Kruger. I want to dress up as something cool and scary and with no skin tight rubber on the face. The Michael Myers mask is not fun to wear on long periods of time.
I am open to ideas and if we can't find good ideas we can hallways go as really cool flesh eating Zombies.
I have more ideas for bad Halloween costumes than good ones.
Here is a brief list of bad ideas for Halloween costumes. I would never considered them but my mind wandered as to what would be the worst ideas possible.
1. An Islamic Terrorist. - Racially insensitive this costume strikes me as the easiest way to get shot or arrested.
2. President George W Bush - While I would enjoy the political humor this would require wearing more skin tight rubber on my face and still would get me shot.
3. A Nazi Storm Trooper. - I have an authentic WW2 German helmet that my grandfather brought back from liberating France, It could go with my Swedish army trench coat and boots to be very authentic looking. But then it will probably never be cool to pick a Halloween costume from the Third Reich. There was a South Park show about that.
4. A Vampire. You know vampires use to be cool, Just look at The Lost Boys. But then Anne Rice and her epic tales of Gay Vampires ruined it. Buffy the forking vampire slayer did not help either. Basically in 2003 a vampire costume is the quickest way of saying that you are a goth or homosexual.. or both.
5. A Furry - Not even funny.
6. A mid-evil elf. I love The Lord of the Rings as much as the next guy but the pathetic losers who still get off at the renaissance faire will disturb me until the day that I die.
That is about it as for ideas that I have thrown out.
I want to pick something cool, evil and bad ass but luckily we have a month until we have to put them together and about two months until the festival Samhain.
Then comes the next best holiday. All Saints Day or Massively Discounted Bulk Candy Day.
Jake at September 2, 2003 
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I personally prefer Nov. 2, also known as "Bob gets lots of presents" day. I always liked the idea of Halloween, but usually in practice is ended up sucking. By the time I was about 10, I was already done trick or treating so my parents had me man the door of the house (we lived in a very suburban neighborhood so they were lots of kids). This meant I couldn't go out and do anything else. It wasn't until I was old enough to drive that I was able to do the whole adult Halloween experience. Typically around here that involves getting raging drunk, going to Salem (THE place to be on Halloween), and gnerally making an ass out of yourself.
Posted by: Bob at September 2, 2003 4:07 AM
Hey man, no cracking on people who dress up in Lord of the rings costumes. I have a sweet aragorn costume and I'm proud of it!
Posted by: Tim at September 2, 2003 4:41 AM
I think the furry suggestion is SUPER funny. I almost fell off my chair laughing.
Posted by: Anna at September 2, 2003 9:24 AM
I've got it! Dress up as a deranged, flesh-eating
midwife. You can have BBQ play the mother-to-be but have the baby be a monster. You could pick up a realistic baby doll from a toy store and paint it to look evil. Yes, midwives can be males. Wouldn't that be just twisted?
Posted by: pete at September 2, 2003 10:22 AM
I do know some kids like that Peter.
I have been toying with the idea of going as a yuppie Satan.
Posted by: Jake at September 2, 2003 10:24 AM
ha! commented on the other one before i saw this one...in either case, what's wrong w/being a furry...i think you've got the "fur" part covered ;)
Posted by: lilly at September 2, 2003 2:30 PM
Oh I've just never been into cartoon animal fantasy bestiality that is all.
Posted by: Jake at September 2, 2003 2:43 PM
lol...i was joking, but when put that way i see your point :P
Posted by: lilly at September 2, 2003 6:40 PM
best think about candy season is that they have big bags of mini heath bars at the grocery store! my favorite but very rare the rest of the year.
Posted by: Anita Rowland at September 3, 2003 11:05 AM
i will buy that german storm trooper helmet off of you!!
Posted by: Christian at October 22, 2004 2:20 PM
by the way my email is elfgonebad@optonline.net
Posted by: Christian at October 22, 2004 2:22 PM
