Its our first Halloween with a child, pretty exciting. Our little AK has a costume picked out, I'll post pictures tonight, and leave it as a surprise as to what she is, though I believe I told everyone and probably blogged about it earlier. Nevertheless its going to be a lot of fun.
We're going to our friends down the street, they have a better neighborhood than we do, we have a fine neighborhood just not for trick or treating.
I remember Halloween so fondly. I remember my favorite costume was always the BLACK NINJA! My mom would always fret when I picked the BLACK NINJA because wearing all black at night isn't always the safest thing. If you've seen that old Dan Ackroid skit on SNL when he's justifying his unsafe halloween costumes, "Invisible Boy" which was just a black body suit, that was pretty much me. Mom always tried to get me to tape reflective strips onto the arms, legs, and back, but I properly informed her that BLACK NINJAS do not wear reflective tape. So we ended up making a compromise, I got to carry the GLOWING SWORD OF THE BLACK NINJA! Which was pretty much a light up sword. It was killer! Now my mom and dad were always with me, or some other adult when I was dressed up as THE BLACK NINJA! So don't worry I wasn't running around on the highway dressed up as the BLACK NINJA!
Other costumes I recall, a pirate, skeleton was a popular one, HEMAN one year, myself another year--never picked a costume out. One of my more popular costumes was GORBACHEV! I got a Gorbi mask that was really life like and very rubbery. I wore it with a business suit for about three houses then got so sweaty I took the mask off and just said I was a business man. But the Gorbi mask was awesome.
During College I went to a costume party with wifey as Mario and Luigi, I was Luigi. I didn't have a pair of overalls though so I had to borrow one of her housemates and basically couldn't breath all night. We had a halloween party a few years ago and went as Mr. and Mrs Pirate, that was fun, though wifey unfortunately bought me a samurai sword instead of a pirate sword and it sort of just killed the whole motif, the sword after all is very important.
So should be fun tonight.
Posted by holtonian at October 31, 2006 09:09 AM | TrackBack