A Halloween photo album

Costumes through the years. This is an old post. After the enormous post about Cashel’s birth, I can’t get it up for anything else. I’m done with original content for a while – it takes a lot outta me.

Okay. So Halloween.

Here goes.

Here’s a photo of my brother and I. I am a bunny rabbit. He, obviously, is a clown. The height of his hat is taller than his actual body. My mom made both of those costumes.

Here I am as a flapper. This is during my junior high years, my Eight is Enough pariah years. My best friend and I were obsessed with the 1920s. We loved flappers. We had seen Bugsy Malone. We were HOOKED. So we dressed up as flappers. Sadly, though, the neighborhood mothers, opening the doors to trick-or-treaters – all assumed that we were hookers. I don’t know. I think it’s PERFECTLY obvious that I am a flapper!!! This was my last year trick-or-treating.

Now we move on to college, when it becomes cool to dress up again. Here I am at a party with my college boyfriend. I was a blind mute French beggar. The sign around my neck says “J’ai faime!”

My boyfriend didn’t wear a costume. JUST KIDDING.

He dressed up as a nerd.

Here we are at the start of the party, costumes intact, the illusion complete.

And here we are a couple hours and many beers later.

Costumes not so pristine now. I love that picture.

At that same party – my friends Jackie and Mitchell dressed up as Jackie’s grandparents – who were FAMOUS to all of us. Chester and Millie. It was like one word. Chester and Millie, Chester and Millie. They died within days of one another. Truly devoted to each other. Anyway, as a tribute – Jackie and Mitchell dressed up (or should I say channeled) Millie and Chester. Here they are.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time. Look at Mitchell’s EYES! He is completely in character. I am also particularly amused by Jackie’s mouth. Like: what is Millie saying to Chester? Is she calming him down? I hope so, cause he looks a little worried.

A year later, Mitchell and I joined forces and dressed up as Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. Again, the expression on Mitchell’s face in this photo KILLS me. He looks so bored, so arrogant, so OVER it.

A couple years after that – while we were living in Chicago – Mitchell and I got invited to a Halloween party. The whole Woody Allen-Soon Yi thing had just exploded, so we dressed up as Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Please note that:

1. Mitchell is carrying Crime and Punishment
2. He is using photos of Geisha girls as a bookmark

A couple years ago, I was invited to a Halloween party where we had to dress up as someone who was actually dead. A person from history, what have you.

I am going to hell.

Here’s the side view. More hellatious fires licking at my heels.

I think my favorite costume I ever came up with, though, was when I was Squeaky Fromme. I don’t have any pictures of it. I was living in San Francisco at the time. But I thought that was my funnest costume ever.

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23 Responses to A Halloween photo album

  1. beth says:

    what are you going as this year?

  2. red says:

    Nothing. Not dressing up this year.

    If I WERE though, I would be Katie Holmes, circa late April 2005.

  3. JFH says:

    How would you do that (speaking as an un-creative type; at least when it comes to artistic creativity)

  4. red says:

    The essential elements:

    – Black cold sores on face
    – Pregnant already
    – Carry a scrapbook of pictures of Tom Cruise
    – Carry a copy of Dianetics

    It’s sick. A sick costume.

  5. mere says:

    hahaha would you have sores all over your lips from niacin?

  6. red says:

    HAHAHA

    Yes. I don’t think costume makeup stores sell that, though, so I’d have to make it myself.

    “Hi, yes … I see that you have fake blood, and scar makeup … but do you have Niacin sore makeup?”

    I also wouldn’t want to spend a DIME on Dianetics – so I’d probably find the cover online somewhere, print it out, and put it around an already existing book.

  7. Lisa says:

    I’ve never known a hooker to wear a shawl, so I think your neighbors are full of shit.

    Mitchell makes an awesome Woody Allen (who I hate, btw), but you needed more babies to pull off Mia. You should’ve pinned all sorts of baby dolls, of multiple ethnicities, all over your body. :)

    I’ll be joining you in hell.

  8. red says:

    Mere – by the way, I love that you immediately leapt to the Niacin sores. hahahahaha

    Thank you, Cult News!

  9. red says:

    Lisa – hahaha Yes – more babies would have been good! Covered in babies!

    Look at Mitchell’s face as Woody. He looks so BUSTED. Like: “uh-oh … i’m in trouuuuuuuuble….”

    We are both huge Woody fans, but we just HAD to make fun of him that Halloween.

  10. mere says:

    you’d have to have someone go with you as her new best friend/consultant/nanny/chaperone/agent

  11. Cullen says:

    That would be awesome. Very good idea.

  12. red says:

    mere – hahahahahahahahaha

    Yes!! That is a great idea!

  13. mere says:

    that would make one sick CoS group costume!

  14. Cullen says:

    What would be cool … get about five people, or so. Have one dressed up as an exploding volcano, one as a movie screen with “3-D” images coming off of it, and the others as dead, emotionally scarred thetans. Ooh, and one more as a modern Co$ rep. Who the thetans run from. That would be great.

  15. Cullen says:

    Pardon the double post … but howsabout a doctor, with his gloves bloody and with niacin sores. Then he’d be an “operating thetan.”

    The possibilities …

  16. mere says:

    hahahahahahahaha “Operating Thetan” Cullen~ funny!

  17. red says:

    Yeah, now THAT’S a good costume. An operating thetan.

    Best costume I ever saw – in my life – was someone who shows up at a party in college and his costume was a Blind Driveway.

  18. Laura says:

    Katie Holmes would be an easy costume for me..I’ve got the pregnant part already taken care of. Although my husband is about a foot too tall to be Tom.

  19. red says:

    Laura – his costume could be: Tom Standing on Oprah’s Couch – that would take care of the height discrepancy.

  20. Laura says:

    Then just have him jump and down like an idiot…he can do that.

  21. Just1Beth says:

    There was a preschool Halloween parade today at my school. There was a five-year-old flapper, and I thought of you right away!!!!! And, by the way, I sent Cashel silent birthday wishes this morning, after I called Mere. Happy Birthday, you Halloween ghouls!!

  22. red says:

    Argh, in the Cashel frenzy I have become a bad friend –

    happy birthday meredith!

    and happy belated birthday to Mitchell!!

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