I understand that the trend of “slutty nurse/witch/vampire” is unimaginative, but I’m afraid Take Back Halloween isn’t going to get many takers for an Emma Goldman costume. Since we all know both sides do it, here’s an opposite take on Halloween from Dan Savage: he thinks that it’s about time that US heterosexuals had their own sexy holiday. Here’s an open thread to discuss your trick or treat plans.
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TheMightyTrowel
Clearly you and I differ – what an awesome website. So many fun ideas!
Lee
I love Dan Savage. Just not in ‘that’ way ;)
Betsy
“Sexy Emma Goldman” is redundant. That free loving, pro-gay, dancing radical was all kinds of sexy.
daveNYC
Couldn’t they get any pictures of Emma where she didn’t look miserable?
geg6
As someone who absolutely hates the whole Halloween thing, I have to say that the website actually has some good ideas for different sorts of costumes. I’d love to be Queen Victoria, for instance. Or Boudicca.
And Dan can have Halloween as far as I’m concerned.
JGabriel
I’d do her.
If, like, she were still alive. And would have me.
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jibeaux
Repurposed my law school graduation gown into the foundation for a wizard costume for my son, did the ol’ duct tape hem and it works great. So don’t let anyone dissuade you from that graduate degree, it’ll pay off somehow.
In stubborn news, he wanted this wizard staff from Target that was basically a plastic stick with a globe on the end that was supposed to light up, had 3 included button batteries. It didn’t light up, which is why it was the last one left at Target. Unlike everyone else in the universe, Target didn’t discount anything before Halloween. So I took it over to customer service and made an excellent argument that the batteries were the vast majority of the cost of that item, and here on October 30 would they charge me less than $10 for it? They said $9. I left it there, let them restock and try to sell a broken light up staff. Went to the craft store and got the materials to make our own, non-light up staff. Yes, it was $11 in materials but it does look better.
beltane
One of my great-grandmothers was a rather ferocious, blue-eyed Jewish woman from Kaunas, Lithuania born around the same year as Emma Goldman. They looked very similar to each other, though g-grandmother was not into the free-love (she was into radical politics), and I’ve always comflated the two in my mind. Everyone in the family was scared of my great-grandmother so there is something strangely fitting with the Halloween association.
Apologies to my great-grandmother who would probably hit me in the head with her handbag if she could read this.
daveNYC
I always like reading the Instructibles that people come up with for Halloween, even though they make me feel like even more of a lazy slob than I already am.
geg6
@beltane:
LOL! Great story!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@geg6: Hey, it’s the best holiday, especially since my last name is Mask.
Guster
Didn’t Emma try to raise money for the cause via prostitution, but her first customer told her she wasn’t really cut out for the job? Or is that apocryphal? If not, slutty Emma, here I, er, come!
RSA
In the past I’ve worn devil horns to class on Halloween, to give my students an indication about the nature of the rest of the semester. Not this year, though, since I’m being recorded for a distance education section.
MCA
I would generally agree with Savage’s column and point, were it not for the fact that Halloween is a child’s holiday. It’s all just a little pathetic to me when grown adults co-opt something that’s supposed to appeal to 6-year-olds and used to be theirs. Not to mention then parading around the neighborhood along with the trick-or-treating kids in their “slutty” outfits. I don’t enjoy having the following conversation with my preschooler: “Daddy, what’s that costume?” “She’s a nurse.” “Noooo! Nurses wear shirts!”
harlana
As noted before, I’m going tromping through affluent neighborhoods as the Matriarch of Mayhem holding out a big green bag with a dollar sign on it.
harlana
And, look here, if we’re going to have a Halloween post, I feel strongly that readers’ “pets in costumes” pics would be most appropriate to share!
handsmile
I had planned to ignore All Hallows’ Eve this year (as has been my recent practice), until I was inspired last week by Stephen Colbert who reminded me that “Jesus is the original Zombie (except you eat his body)”.
Yes, today I’ll be celebrating “Jesus Ween”! Established in Texas in 2002, this is a “Christian celebration of Halloween focusing on God’s divine love rather than the holiday’s darker themes.” Participants are encouraged to hand out Bibles rather than sinfully sugary treats.
Dressed modestly as a Galilean circa 30 C.E., I’ll spend the night casting stones at money-changers and adulterers. Here in NYC, there’ll be no shortage of targets.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/400779/october-26-2011/war-on-halloween—costume-swapping—jesus-ween
kd bart
After seeing Reds years ago, Emma Goldman will always look like Maureen Stapleton to me.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@handsmile: When was the last time anyone, other than Christians, focused on Halloweens darker themes?
Linda
I actually went as Emma Goldman one year. Found a vintage dress at a consignment shop and did my hair up. It was fun!
jibeaux
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
In addition to my battle of the will with Target, I made the mistake of going into one of those Halloween temporary shops with my kids this weekend, for the first time. Right in the middle was a really gruesome set up of basically a tree with a sort of carousel of swings that circled all around it, on every swing a dead zombie baby/child. Not a fantastic environment for a six year old.
FlipYrWhig
Halloween blows. When I was a kid it sucked because I would always have a runny nose, and runny nose + fake beard + cold temps = repulsive. When I was in grad school it sucked because you couldn’t just have a costume, you had to have a conceptual wordplay or something, and that’s just irritating. Plus I am terrible with putting names to faces, so a day when everyone changes their face is extremely disorienting to me. Bah, humbug.
Judas Escargot
Salem resident here. Close enough to downtown that the October tourism has an impact on day-to-day life. Most of the profits made go to private businesses, so it doesn’t even do the town as a whole much good (they repave ‘certain streets’ every August… mine hasn’t been repaved once in the seven years I’ve lived here).
Let’s just say that November 1st is among my favorite days of the year.
West of the Cascades
No offense to her ideas, but Emma Goldman looked a lot like Terry Jones in drag (the Monty Python one, not the Koran burning one). http://mundabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/terry-jones.jpg
Roger Moore
The only thing I’ve done for Halloween this year is drop off some candy at Occupy LA.
harlana
It appears the general consensus regarding Halloween here is:
GET OFF MY LAWN!!
gelfling545
@RSA: I used a witch hat similarly.
Cris (without an H)
zubalove
Sexy Princess Leia is still totally acceptable, by the way.
Cris (without an H)
fucking nested blockquote
harlana
@zubalove: well if you’ve got the abs for it
jeffreyw
I’ll be handing these out to anyone who comes to my door tonight. I guess if no one shows I’ll have to eat them myself.
MikeJ
@handsmile: As Fred at slacktivist pointed out, the people that complain that you can’t really have a secular Halloween (because underneath it’s still always about the devil worship) are the same people who complain that people don’t spend xmas doing explicitly christian things and therefore are denigrating their holiday.
I will spend the day snarling at clerks who don’t tell me to have a blessed dark sabbath.
scav
@harlana: well, the general consensus of people not off elsewhere having a good time with the day might lean lean that way. Non-random subset, no more. May be worried about outhouse tipping.
Any actual decent research on historical Halloween? I doubt the Disneified always just for cute kids ruining their teeth interpretation (for no good reason, maybe it is all the of creation of the marketeers in ‘merca) — I’d like something a little more dull footnoted than would show up in a standard GoogleSearch.
andrewsomething
Heh… A friend of mine showed up at a party Friday night, and was upset that more people didn’t recognize that she was Emma Goldman.
geg6
This is turning out to be a Very Bad Halloween for Herman Cain.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/cain_aides_ran_wisconsin_corporation_that_may_have_illegally_gotten_his_campaign_off_the_ground.php?ref=fpblg
Martin
Is that Sarah Palin modeling that Emma Goldman costume?
@zubalove:
Well, duh!
wilfred
Truth to power:
“PARIS —Unesco defied a legally mandated cutoff of American funding and approved a Palestinian bid for full membership by a vote on Monday of 107 to 14, with 52 abstentions. Legislation dating back more than 15 years stipulates a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts the Palestinians as a full member. Unesco — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — depends on the United States for 22 percent of its budget, about $70 million a year.”
I doubt many Americans even knew about that legislation, now they can take comfort in knowing that some programs will lose funding because, gasp!, Palestinians are human:
“Unesco, perhaps most famous for designating world heritage sites, is a major global development agency whose missions include promoting literacy, science, clean water and education, including sex education and equal treatment for girls and young women.”
Fuck ’em.
Shinobi
@Judas Escargot: I did notice a certain lopsided ness to the paving when I visited Salem. Also could most of those attractions be lamer? That’d be awesome.
FlipYrWhig
@scav:
Nicholas Rogers, a well-credentialed academic historian, wrote _Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night_ (Oxford UP, 2003).
ruemara
I loved that link, especially for it’s recognition of non-western females and pantheon. That being said, I’m a size 8 now, so I’m cracking out the leather pants, punk/ren fair top and the weapons. The theme for the office is pirates. But I suspect I will the only one there with a real 2 handed zwëihander plus a reproduction pistol from the islands. If only I was allowed to wear this during salary negotiations.
MiniVanVader
That Emma Goldman costume reminds me of the best Halloween costume I’ve ever seen. It was my sophomore year of college, and my English prof came in to class in a 60s-era black dress with a cookie sheet glued to the side of her face. She was Sylvia Plath.
Halloween is pretty much the greatest day of the year. I suppose it can be annoying if you live somewhere that has a chance of snow by 10/31.
I’m firmly with Dan on the “sexy” thing, and it seems that there’s been a lot of backlash lately to the “Sexy Nurse/Witch/Ninja Turtle/etc.” craze. I had a party Saturday that featured both a male Sexy Lumberjack and a Sexy Jesus. I myself was letting it all hang out as a particular cartoon character from an awful 80s cartoon/advertisement for action figures. Last year I was Misfits-era Danzig, which required leather pants, no shirts, and a shit-ton of bobby pins in my hair. But yeah, Halloween is great.
Shinobi
I actually wish Halloween was like it was portrayed in the movie of Meet me in St. Louis. Kids making a bonfire and then running around terrorizing adults. At least that gives everyone something to do.
Though I guess since now kids can only trick or treat from 4-5 and eat non sugar candy that wouldn’t fly. I’m so glad I”m not a kid anymore, halloween sucks now.
I am the most horrible!
Martin
Halloween is a bad holiday to do sexy – too cold to really get mass effect. July 4 seems much more apropos.
@handsmile:
You can do that for anyone eating shellfish and wearing garments made of two kinds of cloth. You could have a stone-throwing parade from Zuccotti to Chinatown to the garment district. That’d be pretty cool. Wind up to Chinatown, across Canal, up 6th, across Greenwich, then up 8th. I think you have very target rich environment there – and two rocks for the gay adulters there in West Village. (There are still plenty of gay adulterers in West Village, right? Haven’t been back to NYC since 9/11.)
handsmile
@jeffreyw: (#32)
Well for your sake then, I hope you live in an underground bomb shelter. My god, man, that treat was a cruel trick here. Begone, you peddler of food-pron!
The Dangerman
Trick or Treat, little girl?
/herman
handsmile
@Martin: (#44)
While I appreciate your recommended additions to the target list, the requisite sack of stones is heavy enough already.
schrodinger's cat
@beltane: Speaking of great grandmothers, mine was quite a terror, she ran a business and raised 11 kids after her husband died in his 40s, lived to be almost 90. She loved kittehs though!
Not Halloween related but day 2 without power and water. Even the traffic lights in my town are not working. Downed tree limbs and live wires everywhere. Next time a global warming/ climate change denier crosses my path I am going to punch them.
Martin
@handsmile:
Well, I grew up in that burg, so I suspect there’s no redemption for me.
Redshift
I’ll be going to work on a friend’s neighborhood haunted house tonight. (We’ve been doing construction for the past several weekends.) It’s always based on a Poe story (sometimes more loosely than others); this year, we’re doing “The Telltale Heart.” They’ve built up quite a reputation; last year we had about 220 kids go through (plus some adults.)
Judas Escargot
@Shinobi:
The rides are a recent addition. Basically, the Topsfield Fair people realized that they could get another 2-3 weeks of income if they moved some of their rides over after the fair closed. Another lot that stays empty for 11 months out of the year, paying no taxes.
And nothing says “Colonial 1692” like Vampires, werewolves and ghosts. Though it is interesting to live in a town where the witches are a voting bloc. Just don’t bitch about it at the city council meetings, or you just might find a dead raccoon on your doorstep the next day (true story).
Come in November and go to the Peabody-Essex museum instead.
Walker
Just got back from class. Quite a few female students dressed up as anime characters. Where does that fit in this picture?
harlana
@The Dangerman: Dude with a creepy smile – good chance he actually is a creep
Redshift
@scav: It’s definitely an American thing. A few days ago, I was reading Neil Gaiman’s essay about how when he was growing up, Halloween was a night to hide in your house because it was when the dead and creatures of the night walked the earth.
PurpleGirl
My building will experiment with having people in the lobby handing out candy. I may join them there or do the traditional at my apartment door hand-out. I will again wear my yarn monster thingy.
I’ve worn it to work a few times. The year I borrowed a friend’s Klingon forehead and used AA makeup to color match my own face got me high fives from a few people when I went out to buy lunch. I also used the Klingon forehead for a hall costume at a SF convention in Florida. A couple of guys were there in true-to-show Klingon warrior get ups, even speaking Klingon. Some people tried to speak Klingon to me but I told them “I’m on vacation on Earth; please, when on Earth I speak English.” My fellow convention goers loved it. (I don’t go so far in being a fan of ST as to learn Klingon.)
I have no problems with adults doing Halloween; it’s fun and I believe in having fun. I don’t believe you have to be “sexy” in a costume, the thing is to lighten up, take things easy, relax… have fun.
harlana
@schrodinger’s cat: I feel for all you guys without power, I was shocked to see how many people in the “nawthun” states are without power right now. I guess most of you have emergency heat of some kind, but being without power still sucks.
Valentine's Day
it’s about time that US heterosexuals had their own sexy holiday
a-HEM! I’m still here, people!
gelfling545
@scav: My understanding (from the remnants of a Catholic education) was that the Catholic Church created Halloween in an effort to replace the nature religion’s new year celebration and that, 11/1 being All Hallows the eve was designed to emphasize the demonic from which the saints would offer protection.
Gin & Tonic
Many do not, actually. Fuel oil is the predominant form of heat in the NE, and without electricity it doesn’t work. Likewise for the (many) people without municipal water, you need electricity to run the well pump, so no power in very many cases means no running water and no heat, which was at least marginally tolerable after Irene, but is quite a pain when the temps drop into the 20’s.
Violet
@Redshift:
It may have started out that way, but it’s morphed. I was in the UK visiting family a few weeks ago and they have entire aisles in supermarkets dedicated to Halloween costumes, candy, decorations, etc. just like in the US. I know kids trick-or-treat too.
Does it make me a terrible person if I don’t go buy the candy and just turn off the porch light tonight? I am just not up for trick-or-treaters. I might go to the gym instead.
PurpleGirl
@harlana: No, most people don’t have emergency heat or generators for lights and other stuff. Until the power is rewired, they don’t have power. And thanks deregulation, most power companies aren’t paying for tree trimming to keep overhead power lines from being caught in tree limbs.
Oh, I forgot to mention the year I created a “shark” costume to follow the theme of a friend’s shark costume. I helped him design and sew and realistic shark suit. It left me little time to make a costume for his Halloween party, so I made a small shark fin and tacked it onto a suit jacket. I borrowed a law book from the office and wore a silk blouse with floppy bow tie and pearls with the suit. When people at the party asked me what I was, I said, “I’m his cousin…” and pointed to my back. I was lawyer, the shark’s cousin.
Cris (without an H)
In 2003, I shaved my head so I could paint the whole thing as a glow-in-the-dark skull. Unfortunately, that was the year that it was -7°F.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Walker: One of the many things I miss about college.
@jibeaux: My wife went to one of those that had a zombie upper body model that you would lay on the groud and it had a rat eating its way inside. We have our yard decorated to be a little spooky for the kids in the 5-9 range – cemetary markers, dark entrance, some lights. The zombie thing was way beyond what we shoot for. I can’t even think of a place where that would be all tha popular.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Violet: A friend of ours from Germany said it’s spreading across Europe.
Just make sure your lights are out.
geg6
@Violet:
Nope, it most certainly does not make you a bad person. That’s pretty much how I always celebrate it.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Halloween? Such a stupid “holiday.” Hated it as a kid, hate it even more as an adult. Especially now that adults are trying to take over the day. Grow up, people!
slag
Lise Meitner…I had no idea!
Also, the Confidence Fairy kid that Kthug posted was fairly inspired.
PurpleGirl
@Violet: No, it doesn’t make you a horrible person. There have been years I haven’t done the Halloween thing. Either I wasn’t in the mood or didn’t have money to buy candy or to hand out a nickel or dime to each kid.
We are encouraged to post a sign by our building’s management that says “no trick or treat” on our doors so the kids don’t ring the bell and disturb us. It actually works.
Redshift
@geg6: We promise to stay off your lawn.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@MCA:
No it’s not; Halloween is a pagan holiday all full of remembrance of the dead, nasty revenge, bing eating before starving during the winter and burning things that was commercialized into a children’s holiday by corporate America to sell crap, much like Christmas was.
Now if some shows up as a slutty Emma Goldman. That would be something “are you happy to see me, or is that a revolution in your pocket?”
PurpleGirl
mistermix: Take Back Halloween is a great site. It does have a nice selection of women to use as an inspiration for costumes. Many people might not know of some of the Goddesses and Queens, and the directions they give for making costumes are very good.
Villago Delenda Est
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Another group that’s like the octoplex down at the mall.
Violet
@geg6: @PurpleGirl:
Thanks. I might just turn off the porch light. I have a good friend who lives a few houses down and last year she ended up coming over to my house when they ran out of candy (it was a crazy busy year) and we hung out on the porch, which was fun. She’s disappointed I’m not really up for Halloween this year. I don’t know why I’m not, but I’m just not. I guess I could go spend money on candy to give other people’s kids, but somehow I’m just meh about the whole thing.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Violet: I stopped all that bullshit when I stopped doing acid. . .and that’s a long long time.
Shinobi
@Judas Escargot: We wanted to go to the Peabody but we got distracted and it ended up not being worth the price of admission. (It was just a daytrip.) I think I was actually there in the spring, my favorite part was the super old graveyards.
Villago Delenda Est
@gelfling545:
Oh, well then, it’s papist!. That explains everything!
burnspbesq
@slag:
Raises an interesting question: what does one wear to go trick-or-treating as an Invisible Bond Vigilante?
Violet
@burnspbesq:
Cloak of invisibility? Teflon?
Catsy
I find that a sign on the door that says “no candy here” does wonders for those years where you just want to opt out of the whole thing. It happens. Personally, when I’m not taking my kid out ToTing I tend to fire up a gory or scary video game and crank up the volume. Maybe watch Aliens for the umteenth time.
Probably my best childhood Halloween was from about 25 years ago, when my mother and I got a bunch of cardboard boxes, duct tape and spraypaint and made me a Soundwave costume with a chest compartment that I could open and use to store my candy. I saw a photograph of the costume many years later and it wasn’t anywhere near as cool as I’d remembered, so I decided to stick with the memory and never looked at the photograph again.
As for adults, it helps if you think of Halloween as National Cosplay Day. If that appeals to you, run with it; if it doesn’t, it’s probably not for you anyway. Just enjoy the candy you’re allowed to have at your advancing, probably antediluvian age.
Brachiator
Halloween is for children.
I plan on handing out coupons for McRib sandwiches.
By the way, Heidi Klum, coolest Halloween costume evah!
Liberty60
@MCA:
Say what??
Halloween, like nearly every holiday, was a religious ritual with deep roots in paganism.
The secular culture stripped it of religious meaning and neutered it to where only children could possibly be interested.
scav
Thing is, there was apparently also a tradition of people (not just kids) wandering the streets asking for stuff and causing general mayhem associated with Christmas too (not just tidy and cute wassailing), so I’ve a feeling things are likely to be complicated. Shades of Carnival / Lord of Misrule elements as well. And while the currently popular incarnation might be ‘mercan, as a kid a man from the UK showed us how they carved turnips into essentially jack o’lanterns which, given the solid nature of the turnip, impressed the hell out of us. Would still impress me, actually, if a man would actually carve a turnip merely to play with the little minds of two ‘merkanettes.
MikeJ
Halloween is for children. Brachiator
Have I mentioned how much I hate Halloween? Such a stupid “holiday.” Hated it as a kid, hate it even more as an adult. Especially now that adults are trying to take over the day. Grow up, people! geg6
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken
cckids
@jibeaux: My 18-year old has a temp job in one of those stores, and even as a jaded teen he is creeped out by the parents who bring little kids in & tease them if they are scared of the displays. When he’s on duty at the front of the store he goes out of his way to warn them or shield the kids if he can. He regularly calls & tells me “some people should not reproduce”.
Asshats aside, I love Halloween. Dressing up, decorating, having kick-ass trick-or-treat parties, getting the right balance between “a bit scary” & “too creepy for little ones”. Its just fun. My mom has always hated the holiday with a passion & won’t say why, tho. I suspect some childhood trauma from her older siblings.
Brachiator
@MikeJ:
Did you notice that I linked to Hedi Klum’s marvelous Halloween costume?
And when I said that Halloween is for children, did I suggest in any way that kids were not entitled to their fun?
What I love about Halloween is that is a day when children are in charge, when they can demand of any adult a trick or treat.
And I like what one Southern California city is doing to celebrate:
SiubhanDuinne
Only slightly O/T, because it is Hallowe’en: If you want to scare yourself silly with a familiar piece of classical music (Schubert’s Der Erlkönig), turn off the lights and crank up this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5xH4uKPDAEE
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, what was in my #85 to get me moderated? Huh?
MCA
@Enhanced Voting Techniques and Liberty60 – well, yeah, no shit at some point in the now distant past Halloween was a pagan morphing to quasi-religious thing with some actual mystical meanings and ties to real fear of the dead and unknown. Then post-WWII America happened. At no time in my lifetime has Halloween been anything other than a purely secular organza of consumer goods.
Joykill? Probably. But not ignorant of the historical Halloween.
When I was growing up, Halloween was an opportunity for kids to dress up in costume, be set free to roam the neighborhood after dark, scare the crap out of each other if they could, and amass ridiculous quantities of candy, all set to the background of Mars and Chinese costume makers giggling with glee over their take. I enjoyed the fact that my parents didn’t wear crazy getups to hone in on our turf for that one night. I liked that it felt like ours. Just like those kids in It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. No interference from adults: come up with your own costume and build it, arrange your own group of friends for trick-or-treating, make a haunted house in your friend’s tool shed and charge two candy bars for entry. It was the law of the jungle out there in the dark, without today’s parent/kid ratio of approximately 1:2. So I feel for today’s kids, competing with a bunch of grownups willing to spend $200 on some pancypants costume that blows them out of the water.
Old curmudgeonly fart of 37 that I am, I think there’s a fine line between having fun and letting loose for one day a year, and maintaining some grownup dignity. And that mothers of three wearing lingerie and garters around the neighborhood, or fathers and Little League coaches with guts parading around with their asses hanging out of a cupid outfit in front of their children (and their children’s friends and parents) are jumping right over it.
Also, too, stay off my lawn!!!
Hawes
Where is the “Sexy Ruth Buzzee” costume?
S. cerevisiae
Just light a big bonfire and dance around it naked chanting Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
Sacrificing a few banksters would help.
Quaker in a Basement
@Hawes: Aisle 3, right next to the Sexy Edith Prickly outfits.
Quaker in a Basement
BTW, E.L. Doctrow’s “Ragtime” has a sexy scene in it, featuring Ms. Goldman.
jake the snake
I am planning to hand out candy and watch Bride of Frankenstein.
BTW does takebackhalloween have a Mary Shelley costume.
It would be rather expensive to recreate the dress that Elsa Lanchester wore in the intro to “Bride”.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cMdbfkl3Rz4/RxQk3INZBMI/AAAAAAAAA2s/Hz9B3Du6N4E/s800/Bridereach1.jpg
Considering that she created Frankenstein, she should be
a Halloween icon herself
Southern Beale
I hate Halloween.
I have to go to the husband’s work thing and then I’m bailing out as soon as possible, coming home to drink beer and watch TV and fold laundry.
puddle
Not Emma, but pretty close. . .
http://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/2006/12/rosa-luxembourg-girls-with-steel.html
kestral
My Halloween this year involves marathoning all of Marble Hornets and then taking a flashlight walk out in the woods once it gets dark.
Because nothing says “Halloween” like scaring yourself witless.
Mnemosyne
This year for the first time ever, G actually expressed some interest in dressing up for Halloween, but I could not find a goddamned fez to save my life.
Yes, I could have been Dr. River Song, archeologist, this year if only I had found that fez for G. I haz a sad. If nothing else, I love the idea of my sexy costume being a character played by a 48-year-old woman who’s burning up the TV screen by romancing a guy who’s 20 years younger. That’s how you do Sexy Archeologist.