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[vulgarweed]

Halloween is coming up again. What should I be?

Last year I was a Ringwraith and G was a Jedi. We had a crossovertastic drunken swordfight in the middle of the floor at a packed rock club. My costume made me pretty blind, which made the sword fight even better--his glowing lightsaber was literally the only thing I could see.

That'll be hard to beat.

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[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I had two costumes last year--the pirate gear I wore to work the actual Halloween night, a Tuesday, which is the late night shift when I still had the typefettinge job.

I'll be at the same packed rock club this year too - a friend of mine's band has had the Halloween residency there for years, it's a tradition. And this year G's band is opening for them. So I have to look impressive.

My favorite high-concept costume was in '04 when I went as an Entwife for Kerry.

[fyrdrakken]

There was a nice Treebeard costume at the Dragon*Con parade this year. I toyed with the idea of working up a dryad costume for the Phoenix Rising masquerade last May (inspired in part by my water sylph costume from Halloween 2002) but decided a green fairy would be more fun -- and I'd really love to find an excuse to wear that outfit again.

I've gotten spoiled by previous years when I was able to visit a ren faire in October and go to that one party and dress up at work -- one year I recall managing to find at least three or four costuming opportunities in the month, including a friend's party the weekend after Halloween. I'm thinking stealth costume on Halloween at work -- my glen plain trousers and vest, with the Doctor hat and scarf to be added that night for the benefit of trick-or-treaters when I'm answering the door -- and I'm really on the fence about the party since it's likely to be my one good dress-up chance this month. (I have no one to go to TRF with this year. It's saddening. I should maybe actually ask my friends.)