I like to press pancakes. :evil:

No board split, no YAGE. Just slightly bruised feelings.

Steve, the party looked fantastic, and I'm glad a few people missed me. The unreturned phone call is what got under my skin, sorry you had no phone service for 3 (!) days. That would make me crazy, what with guests coming from all over. I'm sorry your mom is ill.

Isaac, I had no idea that Steve was not, in fact, the host. If they're needed, pass my apologies on to Val for making that assumption.

Looking at the pictures, I was remiss in not adding CP's fabulous Bride to the tie. FP and DP's are amazing Yipp-Yipps! Audra's Shag Girl is the hippest, Kevy's Passhole is dead-on, and, after all these years, I've finally gotten to see GD's Woody. Impressive. LSPiggy and Kermit the Tom are adorable, as is Susan's Drunky Mary Poppins! iSm, I envy your many fine suits, all quite dapper, and Isaac, well, what better name for a bartender than Isaac? Who have I left out? Oh yeah, my roommate and his boyfriend.

They suck.

But their costumes are cute. ;)

Well, though Isaac keeps saying it ... Val was not the host. She usually is the hostess of this party ... but was not this year. She took a well-deserved break.


That said ... the party is at her parent's house ... and she has certain say-so about things. Most years that's "no outside people." This year we persuaded her the party had to be bigger and got her ok to invite a few non-regulars.


Then she left the country :evil: - - and we did LOTS of things that would not have been ok with her, but were totally cool with her parents.



Still - - though Autumn and I were completely in charge of this year's party, we made a conscious decision to not have more than a hundred people. I hope that's ok with everyone. And so the guest list was limited.


I just don't want to foist that decision on Val and deflect from me when it's not true.






(And there's nothing better that spotty cell service when you're working desperately around the clock to put together an event of this scale. No interruptions or flash pictures, pleease.)

See - this lack of invite just proved you really don't like me! I *knew* it! :p

I think I might stalk you for awhile on the board until you decide you like me or I totally piss you off.

A MONSTER! AUUGGGGGHHHHHH

Since Matt did request more pictures (among other people) and the issue here seems settled (somewhat), here are the few pics we took.

Don't you just love Mary and her penguin? (Her guy came as Burt.) And I could not get over Captain EO.

And can you believe that bitch who showed up in the same outfit I did? GAH!

Lisa & Ric's outfits were great! I hadn't seen their new baby daughter so that was a nice surprise.

Yeah, Bryan's Captain EO costume was awesome. He said he used TicTac boxes for the jacket.

Bryan was another one who kept telling me his costume was going to be lame and it wouldn't come together ... and his Captain EO was astounding.

We had to invent categories on the fly for best costumes, so we awarded him Best Sound, even though his was among the coolest visually. He had a MichaelJackson-blaring sound system incorporated into his costume though. And since sound figured into more than one outfit, we gave him the nod for this .... but I regret I was a little too drunk to remember to include Ghoulish Delight in the running. He also had a fantastic-looking costume, but with a great sound element - - the crotch-level pull string that triggered risque sayings for Porn Star Woody.



I was also tempted to have a run-off for Hottest Guy between B.J.'s Prince Eric and Bryan Lee's Captain EO, but I thought better of it at the last minute and chickened out.

:eek:

To be fair, the photos that were posted in the thread were specifically of costumes, which as far as I can tell, are exactly the sort of thing that should go in this thread. I certainly didn't post them to rub anything in anyone's faces. I very specifically did not post photos just of the decorating or party "events" for that reason. But if we can't post photos of our Halloween costumes, then what's the point of having a Halloween thread?

There are events going on this weekend, not everyone is invited to all of them, and it'd be nigh impossible for anyone who is to make it to all of them. I'd love to see pics of the stuff I'm not invited/can't make it to. I hope folks won't be shy in sharing.

I got Lisa to show me how she did the hat - two paper doilies, a cardboard cake round, and a paper bowl. I love when people can improvise with materials and make them look better than purchased items!