catapult magazine

Did any of you dress up? I want to hear about your costumes. I was Kim Jong Il, complete with fur hat, large darkframed glasses, bland uniform, and dictatorial attitude.

One party I went to was graced by the Iatollah. We were Axis of Evil buddies. Strangely, I didn’t run into Saddam.

So, tell tell.

Oddly enough, I’ve never been to a Halloween party as an adult who can make a kick-ass costume. Every year I wait for an invitation, debate hosting my own party … all so I can create the costume-to-end-all-costumes. But my crowd’s too busy for Halloween. My husband and I want to recreate the TIME LIFE photos of “Little John-John and Jackie at JFK’s Funeral.”

My husband would wear a shortall-suit and salute everyone. I’d wear the pillbox with black netting and Jackie O. suit.

This year I didn’t dress up. But two years ago was my shining Halloween moment: I was Bjork in her swan dress. I got the idea and made the entire costume in one night, and it totally kicked ASS!!!! I made the skirt out of hundreds of feathered strands of toilet paper, and even managed to fashion a swan head out of the end of a sock covered in feather boa. I will never, ever match that accomplishment.

Kristin,

I always wanted to ask, did you play the Bjork character that whole night? With the kind of scratchy voice and difficult but incredibly cool accent?

This year I went as a dress-casual Wall Street temp. NO ONE recognized me!! Oh wait. Actually, I went to see some plays by Samuel Beckett that night. That was halloween enough for me.

Judging by the people I saw on the street, the costume of choice for the ladies this year was “The Slutty _______.” Anything. Maid, cat, cartoon character, woman…you name it. Real classy. The best I saw was a dog dressed as a taxi. Also, I followed a guy back from the subway that had a dog with just this foam/cloth gold crown on its head. No less than three people we passed said, “Hey! King of the dogs!”

Well next year y’all need to throw halloween parties and get dressed up cause it’s fun fun fun!!!! Honestly, getting dressed up in funny costumes changes everything.

Funny, but that’s what my husband tried to tell me last night. HA!

(married sex humor)

The best costume I have seen was a guy dressed up in all black with little boxes of cereal glued all over his body. Each box had a knife stuck in it with fake blood oozing out of the penetrated cardboard. On his back was a sign that read “Cereal Killer”

aha! So that’s what those people were! I saw a few people at the 7th Annual Halloween Parade in my neighborhood with cereal boxes and straws sticking out of them and couldn’t figure out what the crap that was all about. I also saw lots of men dressed in racier drag than usual, a giant penis (everyone get a mental picture of that!), a very large, male Suzanne Sommers with a tin can labeled “jack,” several references to roy (of sigfreid and…) with stuffed lions glued to various parts of his body, cute dogs dressed as pumpkins, and much, much more. All this in only 1/2 hour of standing on the street!

the best costume of all, although not a halloween one, has to be this guy dressed up as the AlkaSeltzer Man.

yes. he had over a 1000 of the little flat round pills stuck to his body. and then he threw himself in a pool.

it was moderately humorous to see the fizz. i think the pool was one big bubble.

Trying to imagine how that would feel.

…Effervescent.