I'm taking my nephews out trick-or-treating. So I'm going as Mark Foley.

Which one, though, ortho?

This one:
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Or this one:
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Or this one?
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Eid, you're going as jonmc? (last pic)

As for me, I don't know... perhaps some sort of hentai tenticle monster?

How come you couldn't be in the parade before now, Miko?

"What are you going to be?"
posted by: Miko at: 17:57

Plastered. As in, blind, knee-crawlin', preacher-cussin' drunk. Or a proximate facsimile thereof.

You see, I long ago stripped Halloween down to the adult basics. I trick-or-treat at my friends' houses with my own shot glass in hand, we all do the same, round-robin fashion, and the fun continues until we're all too blitzed to crawl across anybody else's lawn.

And nobody mows anything for days thereafter, until everybody that might have needed bail is home safe and sound again, and a proper amount of time has passed for divorces and lawsuits to be filed.

In a good year, that'll be the week before Thanksgiving, and those who have survived will damn sure be grateful for something.

I don't think I'm going to "be" anything- but I did volunteer to be a puppeteer in the NYC Halloween parade. Hopefully I'll get to carry something cool!

How come you couldn't be in the parade before now, Miko?

Me too. I'm so curious now...

Me too. Were you banned or something? Cause that would be awesome.

Heh. No. IT's not that interesting. Although there has been a tempest in a teapot in town this year about the parade - because while it's open to all, it doesn't make any concessions to being 'family friendly'. There are risque costumes and pointed political displays. I guess a couple people got their knickers in a bunch last year and complained, but nothing's changing, other than that the parade is now billed as a "PG-13" event.

No, the reason I could never go is that the museum where I work hosts a two-night Halloween event, with bonfires and old-timey trick or treating and hayrides and such. It always was held on the night before Halloween and Halloween. This year we're getting smarter and holding it on the Friday and Saturday prior to Halloween, for better attendance. Leaving me free to raid the costume shop on the actual All Hallow's Eve! Yay!

a bored person.

Eid, you're going as jonmc?

well, jonmc if he gained 100 pounds...

We don't really have Halloween in England because Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes' Night) is on November 5, and that's our big autumn festival. I have to say, though, that Halloween is starting to creep in and, as well as asking for 'a penny for the guy', kids are also picking up the habit of trick or treating. The good thing about where I live is that it's so out of the way that we never get any trick or treaters. Or carol singers. Yay! Yeah, I know I'm a Scroogey old curmudgeon

I tend to go to Whitby. Come halloween, the place gets filled with Goths. They all hang out at a pub called The Elisnore. It really is a sight to behold.

Don't know if that's going to happen this year, but it might.

Whitby is probably the best place in England to be at Halloween.

Yeah, I know I'm a Scroogey old curmudgeon

It runs in the family says essexjan's little twin... she who turns all the lights out and parks the car in the garage on holidays so it looks no one is at home.