Than you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Dear Lazyweb, what should I be for Halloween?
If your answer is especially difficult or "conceptual", please provide enough justification to swing the needle toward "this is actually a suggestion" from "I am snarky and clever, look at me."
Tags: firstperson, lazyweb, sf
59 Responses:
Cthulhu. Or Santa Claus.
I like the "wrong holiday" idea. Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny.
Cthulu Claus?
Santa Cthulhu.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Santathulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl handing out goodies for Halloween.
(How concrete an idea is this so far, Jamie?)
GLaDOS
It really depends, are you (and the people you're likely to meet in Halloween) into anime?
The answer really makes a huge difference, compare:
Ordinary Halloween: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvdAJYvofI
Anime Halloween: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8pcxE6U9k
jwz. like the time i was. just tie rope and bottlecaps in your hair and cover your pant legs w/ zipties.
Or, you could shave the side of your head to look like that guy from Code Rush! Oh wait, that was you. You did change your hairstyle, right?
(I'm really sorry. Please accept my apology for this "I am snarky and clever, look at me" comment.)
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr9SuvBsw-8
alternatively, this:
and hopefully we can get David to dress up as The Skipper.
I was all about a group Gilligan's Island costume this year - and we all know Jim makes an excellent Skipper.
can't you just write a screensaver with floating pumpkins? An algorithm to vary face features randomly would work well.
('floating' is generally scarier than 'bouncing')
I suggest a non-vampire, non-zombie monster costume. Over the last few years I've seen pop culture/"clever" costumes completely supplant scary monsters. Unless those monsters are fucking vampires or zombies, neither of which are scary anymore.
Wolfman, deep one, ghost. Inspire the masses and remind them of the time when halloween was for something other than pirates, stormtroopers and tarted-up bloodsuckers.
It's pretty easy to make a set of bat wings out of an old (or new but cheap) umbrella. Cut two and a half segments out of the umbrella, and sew them to a top between the arms and your side, and voila, flappy bats wings. Leave the struts on as ribs to hold it's shape.
Of course, you do then have the ends of the ribs poking out threatening to spike people, but an actually dangerous costume is scarier right?
Personally I've always wanted to dress up as Pham Nuwen, with skroderider buddy. You could put a tree in a pot on a radio-controlled car (with six wheels, of course)
Naturally, at some point during the night it would have to go berzerk.
Slavegirl Leia?
Commander Badass.
(reference pic)
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Take a white t-shirt and attach about 100 black pipe cleaners and bend them so they are sticking straight out, on the back write Biore.
I think you should go as "crowdsourcing". Or "lazyweb".
I was thinking "social media" or "data mining", but then you would look more like a Nascar driver than a costumed human.
Harry Dresden. You get to wear a duster and carry a stick!
Gareth Pugh runway model? The LulzSec logo guy? Anthony Bologna and then shoot hipsters with silly string?
CA-ABC officer?
Tron had some nice costumes
Tron Cameltoe Guy!
A member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, perhaps a Stranger?
http://www.venturefans.org/vbwiki/Strangers
Or perhaps one of these two, with the eye gear:
http://www.venturefans.org/vbwiki/File:Ward_fritos.png
Blue Wizard.
1. Lovecraft. Spend the entire night in character discussing "the threat of the negroid races"
2. Lord Humongous. Though you need a lackey to carry the bullhorn.
3. Carl Sagan. Bring an apple pie. Insist you created the universe to make it.
1a) leave party with a jewish girl
Find a plastic jack-o-lantern big enough to fit over your head, cut out the bottom so your head will fit in it, put duck tape on the cut edges so it doesn't rip up your neck, tape glowsticks to the inside of it, attach an appropriately-sized witches' hat to the top of it, then wear the whole thing along with a t-shirt that says "I am snarky and clever, look at me."
A ringmaster.
Make a t-shirt that says "This costume is the result of a Lazyweb request -- that's why it sucks"
On the back, you can just print out all these comments.
Bonus: It's recursive.
Bonus II: So is this comment.
I don't know what you should be, but I would like to know if you still have several storm trooper costumes.
Go as your favourite nutcase. fictional: Rorschach, Hannibal Lecter, Batman or non-fictional: Stalin, Charles Manson, Gene Ray. People are much scarier than monsters, because people are all too real.
"Identifiable" varies according to the target audience of course. Not every party will have people who see a crow perched on your shoulder, identify your clothes as roughly 1950s period and conclude you're Melanie Daniels (as played by Tippi Hedren).
I've been Rorschach. Not hard: shopping at a thift store for the materials actually increases the accuracy of the costume. Sharpie on some thin coat batting makes a great mask, although it sadly doesn't move.
Why would you go as Gene Ray? He's just a dude who wears polo t-shirts and old-man hats.
How to make a Real Rorschach mask that changes and moves
Dr. Girlfriend
Whenever she's mentioned I always get her confused with Doctor Lovetalk for some reason.
How is that getup physically possible? It seems to defy the concept of tension.
Looks like it's probably just stretchy fabric + tape in her case, but I saw a video once where someone detailed a really neat trick: she took a mannequin torso that was a relatively thin plastic shell, cut the plunging V out of it, and sewed the costume onto it. A nice rigid form keeps everything in place, the fabric can really hug curves in an otherwise seemingly impossible manner, and from the outside it all looks like magic.
Was very impressive.
You saw the video of the very woman in the photo linked to by spoonyfork. :)
http://www.thenetwerk.com/games/2011/07/19/professional-dress-up-with-venture-bros-cosplayers/
Donald Rumsfeld, sir.
It may be a bit overdone at this point, but why not Zoidberg? ()
Seth Green's character from Cant' Hardly Wait?
Join us now
Best suggestion so far.
Nothing scares the children quite like sharing their candy under the GPL.
How about a real life scary monster. I'm thinking the ABC or the SF Planning Department
Snarky, clever *and* scary: A Mork database.
Realistically: Have a nice suit? Grab a martini glass and a fake gun: Secret Agent/James Bond. Put on a mask with a paper-cutout of some other over-done halloween costume attached to it? Team Fortress 2 Spy.
Dress up as The Doppler Effect.
Commander Spock, obviously
You're welcome to join our gang of Mystery Men. We have the Bowler, Mister Furious, and the Shoveler covered. You'd make a good Sphinx (you are, after all, terribly mysterious.)
I was going to say RMS, but you would've needed to stop showering about a month ago.
damnit, I about blew my coffee all over my work desk. LOL
You should be Chitti from the 2010 Kollywood movie Enthiran (Eng: Robot).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume