It’s time for a contest boys and girls! Don’t even start thinking about how to butter us up though – we’re using Celebrity Bloggers to pick the winners. Feel free to butter them up instead (they probably like baked goods as much as we do).
The prize:
Four lucky winners will receive all those cool candies I talked about yesterday (pictured above) and some additional items as well. All in all, you’ll get about 10 lbs of candy to share with your friends, family and all the trick-or-treaters who come a-callin’ on October 31. No one’s going to force you to share, though, so if you want to keep it all for yourself make sure you read our candy storage tips.
The rules:
To enter the contest, leave a comment on this post telling us about your cool and timely Halloween costume for this year. The costume idea should relate to current events, world news or pop culture. For example, I was planning to dress up as health care reform, but I don’t think it will be ready by Halloween. (Get it? It’s a crack at how long it’s taking Congress to devise some acceptable health care legislation. Okay, maybe that’s only funny inside the Beltway.)
You can also qualify for extra chances to win. Mention our contest and provide a link on Twitter, Facebook or your own blog and leave a separate comment showing us that you’ve done so. After our Celebrity Bloggers each pick a winner, the Candy Dish Blog staff will give away an additional prize to a randomly selected person who helped us promote the contest. So, for those of you keeping score, that means we’re actually giving away FIVE prizes.
Your entry must be received by Thursday, October 22. We’ll announce the winners on Friday, October 23 Monday, October 26.
The Judges:
Picking contest winners time after time is a lot of pressure for your devoted Candy Dish Bloggers, so we’ve enlisted the help of some well-known writers from the blogosphere. Please welcome our Celebrity Bloggers:
Celebrity Blogger #1
Name: Kyle Ryan
Blog: www.avclub.com
Favorite Candy: Dark Chocolate M&Ms, Twix, Ghirardelli squares with caramel filling
Best Halloween Memory: When I dressed as Osama bin Laden in 2000 and no one knew who that was—I finally just told people I was “terrorist.”
2009 Halloween Costume: Matt Damon’s character in The Informant, because I totally had his hair in ‘91
What You’ll be Looking for as You Select a Contest Winner: Willingness to look beyond the obvious and do something creative
Celebrity Blogger #2
Name: Lois Kim
Blog: The Daily Grub at http://blog.grubhub.com/
Favorite Candy: Sour Patch Kids
Best Halloween Memory:My best Halloween memory is baking a cake that resembled a haunted grave yard for my fifth grade Halloween party. It was a chocolate cake decorated with Oreos as tombstones, topped of with gummy worms and spiders, and made ghosts out of Popsicle sticks. I went dressed as a green M&M but refused to wear both gloves that came with the costume, so I went with one white glove on.
2009 Halloween Costume: Undecided [ed. note - perhaps Lois will "borrow" one of your ideas!]
What You’ll be Looking for as You Select a Contest Winner: I will be looking for creativity of their costume and details. Then, I will look for how relevant the costume is to current popular trends. Ultimately, it is important that the costume stands out and its originality.
Celebrity Blogger #3
Name: Mark Wilson
Blog: www.gizmodo.com
Favorite Candy: Mr. Goodbar
Best Halloween Memory: Combining 4 different monster limbs and going as a mutant – nobody got it.
2009 Halloween Costume: I always have a great idea in June and blank out 2 weeks before. I’m in the panic stage again.
What You’ll be Looking for as You Select a Contest Winner: I’m looking for ruthlessness.
Celebrity Blogger #4
Name:Rachel Hobson
Blog: http://averagejanecrafter.blogspot.com and http://blog.craftzine.com/
Favorite Candy: This one is tricky, because I love soooo many! No wonder Halloween is a favorite holiday for me! I’m actually not a huge chocolate person – I’ll take caramel over chocolate any day. That said, I also love fruity candies and I collect PEZ dispensers. Some favorite candies are Reese’s Pieces (I also collect E.T. Memorabilia but I don’t know which came first – my love of Reese’s Pieces or my love of E.T.), Sour Patch Kids, Butterfinger and Twizzlers.
Best Halloween Memory: I remember when the Bangles’ song “Walk Like An Egyptian” was really popular, and my mom made an Egyptian costume. I wore eye liner and fake press on nails and felt really cool. Later, in high school, some friends and I mixed up a gallon of fake blood and just poured it all over ourselves and went trick or treating. That was a blast. These days, I’m enjoying Halloween as a parent – helping kids pick costumes and trick-or-treating in big family groups through the neighborhood. I’m just waiting for them to ask how to whip up a gallon of fake blood.
2009 Halloween Costume: A few months ago, we thought it would be fun – as a family – to go as characters from Coraline, but we haven’t been able to get it together. Every year, I vow to go as Rosie the Riveter, but usually I end up waiting too long and have to resort back to my standbys of blood/zombie.
What You’ll be Looking for as You Select a Contest Winner: Something that really makes me laugh. I’m a big fan of laughing. Bonus points for anything that involves gettin’ crafty, of course!
Good luck folks. Be creative and original and be sure to enter by October 22.
ED. NOTE – This is a family friendly site. Please keep that in mind as you enter your comment. As commenter Alison notes below, it’s possible to be topical without being mean spirited (or dirty).
10:06 am on October 14th, 2009
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11:43 am on October 14th, 2009
How timely? How about Obama winner the Peace Prize over Nicholas Sarkozy? Because I fully intend to go dressed up in a striped sweater, a red bandanan tied around my neck, a beret, frou-frou moustache, french bread, cheese, and white flag in tow, and a “I <3 Sarkozy" pin on my chest.
That's right. I'll be this Halloween's Cheese Eatin' Surrender Monkey Sarkozy lover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys
12:33 pm on October 14th, 2009
Michael Jackson’s Thriller video costume.
Because he’s actually dead now, get it?
Candy please!
1:03 pm on October 14th, 2009
I am so incensed with the Philadelphia Eagles for picking up dog-killer Michael Vick, that I plan to wear an Eagles jersey, but with a “B” written in front, so it reads “Philadelphia Beagles.” Then I will wear a Snoopy Mask, and carry jumper cables around my neck (Vick killed one of his dogs with jumper cables). Then I will go around my Delaware neighborhood where half the people are rabid Eagles fans.
1:07 pm on October 14th, 2009
Jon minus Nine. I am going to wear an Ed Hardy shirt (I will probably just draw an Ed Hardyesque design on a white t-shirt. Them clothes is expensive), jeans, cubic zirconium earrings (or fake, cheap equivalents), no wedding ring, and a sign that says “Will exploit my children for money”. Hopefully my friend will agree to dress in a suit and speak for me all night as my attorney.
1:16 pm on October 14th, 2009
I will be dressing up as a pig (swine) wearing every conceivable disease awareness ribbon out there…red for AIDS/HIV, pink for breast cancer, etc…
…sending the message that there are many diseases out there that are far more serious than swine flu….and hopefully get some laughs in the process….HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
1:25 pm on October 14th, 2009
I’m going as the Abominable Snowman. Then no one can claim he doesn’t exist. My boyfriend will be going as a reindeer. Now if only I can get two friends to dress up as Herbie and Yukon Cornelius.
1:27 pm on October 14th, 2009
I’m going to be dressing as Dr. Horrible and “crashing” a local Halloween party to rant about the absurdity of giving away candy to people dressed in cheap, store-bought costumes. It will be doubly realistic because I’m having to spend close to $80 to put the costume together.
The Bad Horse Chorus will also be making an appearance.
1:31 pm on October 14th, 2009
Alice Waters.
Wear a white chef’s coat and scowl disapprovingly at everyone eating candy. Be sure to rhapsodize about local produce at every opportunity and act innocent when someone calls you out for being elitist.
1:32 pm on October 14th, 2009
My outfit will be a black sweatsuit emphasizing our real national pandemic: obesity. I will proudly display wrappers from the candy that helped me attain my current size: Jelly Bellies, Rolos, Big Daddies, Big Hunks, Chunkies, and Whoppers. I hope this outfit will elicit a Good and Plenty number of Snickers bars and Laffy Taffy from my neighbors who already know I am Bonkers.
2:00 pm on October 14th, 2009
John Phillips, father of the year: Long hair, beard, wacky fur hat, guitar, #1 Dad T-shirt, father of the year pin, needles, etc. I would have condoms, too, but he apparently didn’t use those. Do I at least get the ruthlessness vote?
2:16 pm on October 14th, 2009
I will dress up as a dollar with the face of “the Founder of America” replaced by a pig with a pink thermometer sticking out of his mouth.
The “pink” thermometer for Brest cancer,
The pig for swine flu,
And finely the dollar (with the swine) for the sick “stock market”.
Please give me the candy I have don everything I can do to get i!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2:16 pm on October 14th, 2009
I’m going to be Michael Jackson on a cross… because since he died everyone’s acting like he was Jesus.
2:34 pm on October 14th, 2009
Transfomers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
Dress up like Michael Bay in a dirty baseball cap and robot boots. Also make little squished brains just sticking out of the underside of the boots to represent the minds that the movie has squashed. If you wish you can put tiny American flags on the robot boots.
You should act like an aging man-child and gleefully destroy things if you get the chance.
2:51 pm on October 14th, 2009
I’m considering going as Jon Gosselin but I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort of purchasing and sewing together 1000 douches.
2:55 pm on October 14th, 2009
I plan to go as Harry Potter with swine flu. Complete with an ice pack on my head, thermometer under my tongue, and-as the coup de grace-cosmetic, symptomatic “hogwarts” on my skin.
3:16 pm on October 14th, 2009
Roman Polansky on a cross with some Hanna Montana underpants around my neck and a champagne glass and a bottle of quaaludes.
3:24 pm on October 14th, 2009
Can a costume be topical without being mean spirited? I want to be Joan from Mad Men…but all bloodied and holding a severed foot.
3:26 pm on October 14th, 2009
As a young white teacher in a high school with a 99% black student body, everywhere I go I hear whispers and shouts of “Harry Potter,” “Guy from That 70s Show,” or “Hey, Peter Parker,” because, as is said about many groups of people, “All y’all look alike.” I’ve decided my resemblance to Tobey Maguire is slightly more flattering than the alternatives, so the Friday before Halloween, I am going to meet the dress code and wear slacks with a dress shirt tucked in, but with my Spider-man costume just barely visible under my collar. On Saturday, I’ll drop the secret identity and just go out as Spider-man.
3:27 pm on October 14th, 2009
I won’t wear a costume; I’ll just crash other people’s Halloween parties and make a nuisance of myself interrupting and shouting out how the host is lying and they’re just trying to take away my candy and give it to illegal aliens. I’ll be going as a Town Hall audience member.
3:44 pm on October 14th, 2009
As a college student in DC, most people like to dress up as large group themes. I’ve seen the Wizard of Oz, Power Rangers, and even American Idol winners. Lame. Me and my friends are dressing up as Lady Gaga songs – Paparazzi, Disco Sticks, and the like. Plus, we are in the awkward in-between stage of our life where we are too old to go trick-or-treating but still love candy. Hook us up!!!
4:07 pm on October 14th, 2009
Dress like a harlot, then tell people your the Nobel Peace Prize and you’ll go home with anyone.
4:47 pm on October 14th, 2009
Be Brett Favre dressed in Caps or Wizards gear.
4:48 pm on October 14th, 2009
And Gina, I heard an even worse one than that. Be Michael Jackson from the Thriller video.
7:26 pm on October 14th, 2009
Dress in a suit + tie. Top button undone, I’m one of the people. Print and wear a Glenn Beck mask ( http://glennbeckreport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Glenn-Beck-Mask.pdf ).
Stuff panty hose with cotton and the occasional string of blue yarn. Stick black coiled pipe cleaners through the panty hose. Form and sew into the shape of a scrotum. Tie a string to the bottom of it and place it on my head.
I am Glen Beck involved in a Tea Bag Party. Trick or Treat.
7:51 pm on October 14th, 2009
There were a few mentions of Swine Flu… but I think they got it all wrong. The obvious pun is the right pun in this case:
I’ll be going as a Pig with Wings. Swine Flew.
7:52 pm on October 14th, 2009
I will be wearing a plastic smock that says “The Eight Gosselin Babies” (with an accompanying picture) and a large plastic mask in the shape of eight baby heads.
9:24 pm on October 14th, 2009
Guy Fieri from diners, drive-ins, and drives. Enough said.
9:54 pm on October 14th, 2009
First I wasn’t going to dress up at all. Then I was going to go as a Green Bay Packer. Then I decided to go as a New York Jet. Then I decided again to not dress at up all. I finally settled on dressing up like a viking.
10:00 pm on October 14th, 2009
I tweeted this contest at: http://twitter.com/charlierb3/status/4878092112
10:17 pm on October 14th, 2009
I also blogged about it at: http://charlierb3.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-still-like-food.html
10:45 pm on October 14th, 2009
How about “Ailin’ Palin”?
One could dress up completely like her (hair, glasses, outfit) with the addition of FULL-FACE ‘Mr. Yuck’-green makeup.
She should have a stuffed PIG (with lipstick smeared on its face) somehow attached to her.
11:13 pm on October 14th, 2009
I am going to dress in rags, apply rotting makeup to my face (bruises, sores, flesh deterioration), tie one arm behind my back, and when people say stuff to me, I am going to cup my hand behind my ear and yell, “WHAT?”
I am going to be a Deaf Leper.
11:55 pm on October 14th, 2009
I’ve already won… I’ll be dressed as Kanye West with aviator sunglasses bigger than my head, 80’s retro jacket from American Apparel, lots of gold chains, and some too-cool for school sneakers. Thus I can deny the brilliance of any costume that comes before me by interrupting any comment, commenter, and by typing in all caps.
Swine Flu Costume?
“KANYE WEST HAD THE BEST COSTUME OF ALL TIME!”
David Letterman Intern Costume?
“KANYE WEST HAD THE BEST COSTUME OF ALL TIME!”
Dead Michael Jackson Costume?
“KANYE WEST HAD THE BEST COSTUME OF ALL TIME!”
Repeat.
9:39 am on October 15th, 2009
I’ll be going as the Wall Street bail out:
Yellow rain coat, mud-spattered galoshes, and a giant sieve.
10:06 am on October 15th, 2009
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12:12 pm on October 15th, 2009
I blogged about the contest here: http://swallowlightbulbs.blogspot.com/2009/10/check-this-out.html
1:06 pm on October 15th, 2009
So I’ve noticed that the post popular Halloween costumes can be divided up into two basic categories: Monster and Slut. This year for Halloween I will give everyone what they really want and be a Zombie Playboy Bunny. The relevance? Who isn’t into necrophilia this time of the year? It’ll follow my rule of Halloween costumes: Cheap and funny.
1:08 pm on October 15th, 2009
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1:39 pm on October 15th, 2009
Here’s my idea:
Two 5 foot by 3 foot sheets of ‘dad’s den’ style wood paneling, with two shoulder straps connecting them so they look like a ‘eat at Joes’ type human sandwich board.
Then using crazy glue, attach scissors, hammers, squirt guns, asprin bottles, and other vaguely threatening/dangerous household items to both boards, all items glued flat, on the outward facing side of the panel.
Then affix an Obama ‘O’ to the top right corner of both boards.
Presto! now you are an Obamacare Death Panel. Timely AND spooky.
3:20 pm on October 15th, 2009
My costume will be a curly tail, extended belly, snout and pig ears with 5 feet of chimney pipe extending from my head.
That’s right, a Swine Flue.
3:57 pm on October 15th, 2009
I’m going to have a life-sized cardboard replica of Megan Fox from “Jennifer’s Body” attached to my back with her jaws wide open and affixed to my neck/head/shoulder. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to Megan Fox’s body, and it’s definitely topical AND scary.
7:59 pm on October 15th, 2009
I’m going to go as the Balloon kid, or rather the odd balloon he was suppose to be trapped in, I’m going to get my art school friend to make a wire cage in the the shape of UFOisq design and then cover it in tin foil, my head will pop out of the top, and my torso will be half covered with the actual “balloon cage”. My head will be free so i can just spout off bullshit about how my father is crazy. People will get it.
11:12 pm on October 15th, 2009
Several ideas,
-Day laborer Martian looking for an emergency room.
-Cover yourself in astro-turf and pretend to be a conservative grass roots movement.
11:17 pm on October 15th, 2009
Dress up as Hitler or Stalin and claim to be a distraction.
11:51 pm on October 15th, 2009
Two words:
Lego Kanye
. . . because it’s only a matter of time.
10:37 am on October 16th, 2009
I was going to go as the Creed Reunion Tour, but the whole “rise from the dead to eat brains” thing is so overdone nowadays.
12:30 pm on October 16th, 2009
I blogged about the contest here: http://diaphanous-be27.livejournal.com/25061.html
2:16 pm on October 16th, 2009
This is another group idea:
1. Pink outfit + cardboard top making you rectangular = Pink slip
2. White outfit + red cardboard arrow going down = declining 401(K)
3. doctor’s outfit + over-sized, menacing clip board = rising healthcare costs
4. Sandwich-board that says For Sale: Foreclosed = housing crisis
And presto! The Four Signs of Recession ‘09!
2:19 pm on October 16th, 2009
I totally Facebook’d this
http://www.facebook.com/home.php
3:07 pm on October 16th, 2009
Mine isn’t timely, granted, but I still think it’s great.
Push-up bra and a slightly slutty suit a la Victoria’s secret ads.
Fake muttonchops.
Nametag that says “President Chesty A. Arthur”
Because nothing is more timely than a joke about our 21st president.
3:08 pm on October 16th, 2009
Also, I linked this on Facebook.
1:00 am on October 17th, 2009
I’ve decided I’ll be going as a bloodied, sword-touting Elizabeth Bennet. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, anyone? My myriad of siblings and amazing friends will probably agree to help me out by accompanying me as a zombie entourage, to complete the idea.
2:16 am on October 17th, 2009
Buy a bunch of chocolate coins and attach ribbon to them turning them into Noble Peace Prizes. Make a bunch and be sure to hand them out to whoever wants one!
2:21 am on October 17th, 2009
Republican Protester: America/These Colors Don’t Run T-shirt, side arm, Fox News cap, Teabag necklace, and total ignorance of current politics outside of sound bites.
2:22 am on October 17th, 2009
For a group of friends:
Pimp, prostitute, and ACORN workers
3:02 am on October 17th, 2009
Don’t wear a costume. Go as a real American
8:32 am on October 18th, 2009
I am dressing up as a hobo. How? By taking my once nice suit jacket and my once nice tie that I can’t afford to fix since I was layed off; representing the thousands of people like me because of the economy. Going for a kind of too close to home feel. Oh and some beaten up work shoes and other such; but those aren’t relevant.
2:13 pm on October 18th, 2009
Dress like Whoopi Goldberg.
Walk around in a wide-eyed daze.
Dance and make out with Demi Moore.
7:28 pm on October 18th, 2009
I’m going as the Grinch, in a limo, with a dildo glued to my head.
How is that related to current events, you ask?
Read it and weep:
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/oct/02/grinch-stirs-controversy-at-pot-meeting/
1:20 am on October 19th, 2009
This year, as I do every year, I will be Austin Powers from the once-popular Austin Powers film franchise.
Why be a Mad Man? Austin Powers already covered that era in a shagadelic way. Obama? Austin has more mojo.
Austin Powers, this year, and every year, since 1997.
4:56 pm on October 19th, 2009
my friend and I are going as Roe vs. Wade. I wear a blue shirt that says Roe (with the number 07 in the back to signify the amount of votes it got on the Supreme Court) and she wears a red shirt that says Wade (with the number 02 on the back to signify the votes it got). We’re going to then get boxing gloves, put some headbands on our heads, put back under ours eyes, wear shorts and sneakers, etc. You get the idea, hahah.
11:39 pm on October 19th, 2009
I’m going as You. Black body stocking, black facemask with a mirror mounted on it.
10:15 am on October 20th, 2009
Chuck, that does not sound like me at all, or like Susan, not that I know her every move.
11:01 am on October 20th, 2009
im gonna buy a chicago cubs jersey with the number 16 on the back, rip off the cubs logo and put on the olympic rings walking around 2-fisting old styles with a dazed look in my eyes (underneath a backwards baseball cap with sunglasses)saying in the most depressing voice…”maybe next (olympic) year”
ah its gonna be great, just wish i was gonnna be in chicago…
12:23 pm on October 20th, 2009
The Painter Of Light! That’s right, the world’s first and only Thomas Kinkade themed supervillain. What’s that you say? “Painter of light” is trademarked? Well hello, evil. The costume consists of sparkly silver tights like the light coming through the trees on to a country christmas ice skating pond and a leotard as pastel blue as the sky over a forest stream. Then a white cape with various cottage print fabric cut-outs sewn on. Then my holsters which each contain a small flashlight. Those flashlights are used to paint with light until we live in the world of Kinkade’s dreams. I also have a small crown fashioned out of Christmas lights (um, not on ones because I haven’t figured out how to make that work). Add cheesy pastel makeup and voila! I am ready to bend the world to my evil hallmark homespun painted with light will.
1:04 pm on October 20th, 2009
My wife will be Lady Gaga and I will be her date, Kermit the Frog.
Actually, I’ll be her husband. Her date is that neighbor kid whose always over.
2:45 pm on October 20th, 2009
I’m going to dress like tennis champ Serena Williams and carry a bag of tennis balls. If I don’t get the candy I want I’m going to threaten to shove the tennis balls….well, you get the idea.
3:43 pm on October 20th, 2009
I’m going to be dressed as Obama’s Nobel prize-worthy achievements… so I’ll be going naked again this year.
7:48 pm on October 20th, 2009
My husband will be Roman Polanski with a grey wig that’s a little too long, button down shirt, blazer, slacks, topped off with a smug grin (and carrying around lollypops in his pocket, to tempt the children). I will dress as the blindfolded Lady Justice who has managed to turn a blind eye on Polanski these many years. My costume will be complete with toga, blindfold- so that I may not be enamored of his celebrity status, scales of justice to weigh his heinous crime, double-edged sword to protect my virtue and dispense justice.
10:10 pm on October 20th, 2009
Just posted your link on my Facebook page!
10:37 pm on October 20th, 2009
I’m not exactly crafty, so someone else would have to deal with the *construction* aspects, but here’s another suggestion…
The wearer should be clothed in stark white ‘patient’ garb.
Create and affix a large birds’ nest, complete with aviary friends (either handcrafted, or perhaps preferably, those motion-sensitive ones that chirp, etc)across the wearer’s waist.
Finally, somehow attach above the wearer’s unkempt hair(maybe like one would do an angel’s halo) a pig with wings.
So, what would you have? SWINE FLU OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST!
11:43 am on October 21st, 2009
I’m going to be costumed as the Balloon Boy this year. I’m buying the industrial-sized Jiffy Pop and after it’s done popping, I’m going to cut 2 holes in the bottom of the pan for my legs, slits for my head and arms, and slip inside and replace the popcorn with helium. Then I’ll float from door to door and if anyone doesn’t surrender some candy to me, I’ll throw up on them!
1:16 pm on October 21st, 2009
My plan is to go as The Vampire Diaries. I’ll take a vampire costume from 18 years ago and reuse it.
Of course, the only reason I’m doing this is because someone I know found my old vampire costume and decided to go as Twilight.
2:59 pm on October 21st, 2009
I’m going as the money you Could be Saving with Geico. It has actually been challenging to scale up a giant stack of money with 15″ googlie eyes, but it is finally coming together.
In a warehouse party, I anticipate lots of people asking aloud, “what is that?”, setting up his friend to deliver the punchline/catchphrase.
3:05 pm on October 21st, 2009
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11:56 pm on October 21st, 2009
I’m getting some white window-shade sunglasses and going as a lyrical wordsmith and the self-appointed spokesman of a generation.
I know you’re handing out Halloween candy and all and I’mma let you finish, but Kanye is the best costume of all time.
10:34 am on October 22nd, 2009
For Halloween, I am going as the balloon boy: I will be at home the whole time.
10:59 am on October 22nd, 2009
I’m working on an Emma Frost costume (X-Men). Not the Emma Frost who wears pants and a cape, but Emma Frost from Greg Horn (and others) who wears a nearly impossible “bra” that make two sides of her X. It’s been two years, a mechanical engineer, and much cursing in the engineering, patterning, sewing, re-engineering of the top, collar, hot pants, and thigh-high boots, (each with white vinyl) but it will be worth it when the fanboys start to drool at the annual comic book costume party. Now if she could only give out candy…
http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Emma_Frost_Vol_1_2_Textless.jpg
3:18 pm on October 22nd, 2009
I’ll be getting a puppet that looks like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and I’ll be the guy behind the scenes that makes Triumph talk. Basically, a way to crack sarcastic jokes all night without having to actually wear a full-on costume.
4:09 pm on October 22nd, 2009
Wow. So many interesting costume ideas. Keep them coming!
4:37 pm on October 22nd, 2009
Paint your face like a ghoul. Wear a t-shirt that says “Spring Break — Death Valley.” Wear a bunch of beads around your neck. All night long flash people your breasts. Costume — “Ghouls gone wild.”
11:04 pm on October 22nd, 2009
I facebooked this – mmmm, candy….
-Rini
11:42 pm on October 22nd, 2009
I will attach a sheet to my right hand, right foot and right shoulder and then cover myself in feathers: I am a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
11:30 pm on October 23rd, 2009
Well… WHO won?
10:08 am on October 24th, 2009
There were so many entries it took our judges a few extra hours to decide. The winners will be announced on Monday!
11:36 pm on October 30th, 2009
What won?
9:35 am on October 31st, 2009
The winners are posted here – http://candydishblog.com/2009/10/26/and-now-for-the-winners/