What are you doing for Halloween?
 

What is your annual Halloween tradition? Carving de-frightful pumpkins? Celebrating the pagan holiday (the name of which slips my mind)? Takin' the chillun' out trick-or-treating? (And what will they wear this year?)

And for those of you local-yokels, do you have plans? Or, uh, do we have plans? I haven't seen anything discussed here on the board, so I presume we're sans party. But that doesn't mean that we have to be sans fun!

There are a variety of amusing Halloweenish activities we could do while surrounded by weirdos. And people in costume. We could simply meet for dinner somewhere. There are a variety of spook-houses in the vicinity. Gawking in West Hollywood. The New Beverly Cinema has a double-feature of Day of the Dead and The Lost Boys. We could meet in a meadow and howl "Rauuuuuul" at the moon. (gag copyright T. Moore) Surely there are other fun possibilties.

We should gather! Because I'm remembering delightful red longjohns. Wolves and waifs. Wicked kittens. Tooth fairies. Regular fairies, and ones dressed up as Aladdin. Sexy mother-shut-your-mouths. And simulated papal-cardinal fellatio. What would Halloween be without simulated papal-cardinal fellatio?

Won't someone think of the goblins??

I'd like to go to a haunted house or two. Definitely celebrating Day of the Dead in Downtown L.A. And the double-feature sounds delightful.

The weekend is full of fright for us.

Friday, we are going to see Bauhaus at the Wiltern.
Saturday, we've been invited to a small gathering of evil-doers.
Sunday is undeadly undecided.
And Monday is Haloween Haunt at Knotts. Chris is a virgin and I've only done it once. We'have some really scary guides to show is the rope...s. :evil:

No decor this year with the exception of my little fall pot of deep purple sweet potato vine, chartruse grass and a a smattering of mini pumpkins and horney squash. It so pretty in our almost completed backyard.

Nickolas is going T-or-Ting with his friends from the neighborhood. He is going as Anakin, kid across the street is Darth Vader and the other 2 are Yoda and Darth Maul.

However, our very own kingdom of the spiders continue to decorate our front porch with an intircate set of webs that has at least kept a few solicitors from knocking at our door.

Yes, but where are your photos this year? I believe this batch of spiders are particularly lovely and would be quite photogenic. :evil:

Ep 1 Anakin or Ep 3 Anakin? Either way it'd be fun to see him challenge his inner demon, aka Vader, to a saber fight. :D

We'll be in Paris over the weekend and probably just hand out candy on Monday. No new costume this year...

Tis called Samhain (pronounced sow'-in). It is actually one of the most important Pagan sabbats (along with Beltane on May 1) and commemorates the end of the harvest and the transition from Summer into Winter. 'Natch, we will be celebrating with our Covern, albiet on Sunday.
What kind of freak would dress up as the Tooth Fairy?!?
Like a day without sunshine.

I used to dress up, run the office halloween party, make kitty litter cake, etc. Now it's basically like any other day, which is a pity, because it was my favorite holiday.

When I was a kid, my mom always made my costumes. Sometimes they were really cool, and sometimes they were a little weird.

For example, one year I was a wind sock. One of those rainbow ones. You're right, mom, there were no other kids dressed up like wind socks. Just me.

I've also been a Mousketeer, because one year our dance for the tap recital was to two Mousketeer songs, including the Talent Roundup. "We're the Mousketeers, we wanna say hello and give three cheers..." (I got to say my name during the talent roundup and everything!) We had white turtlenecks with M on the front and our names on the back. Red skirts. And red cowboy hats for the roundup. Made a great costume!

A wind sock?!? :confused:

How incredibly random! Do you have pictures?

Ep 3. They have been "practicing" all over the front yard since July. Of course, I am in trouble because I got him Obie's sword and not Anakin's (they are both blue). :rolleyes:

I don't personally have pictures, but my mom has pictures of just about everything.

It was, of course, all her idea. The "tube" part went around my torso with straps over my shoulders. The streamers hung down from the tube.

Today I'd probably be sent home from school for wearing a "pride" costume. :rolleyes:

Every year I must do the following:

Watch 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' - Disney animated version, 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' and the Headless Horseman episode of 'Little House on the Prairie'.

This year, Ralphie and I are transforming our friend's garage into a haunted house for the neighborhood children.
:)

I'm going to be a zombie this year. I figure it's no different than staring at a computer screen all day! :D

:eek: How COULD you?? ;) Actually, I'm really asking - didn't it have the pic Ewan on the box?

I've always wanted to do this! Sounds like you'll have a blast. Maybe next year we'll have a house...

Looks like N.A.D.T. for me this year. :(

This kind?

Yep, but at the time I bought it I had no idea what he was going to do for Halloween. He picked it out. At $20 a pop I am NOT getting him another light up blue saber. It is just a tiny bit darker than the Ani saber so he can make do. ;)

And I thought the site of me in a tutu (hence the original reference for those who don't know) was disturbing!

Damn that ghetto tooth fairy is fly...

I love Halloween but since we are still waiting for our house to finish being built we have like no decorations (all in storage...) of our own and my sister's stuff is okay but I miss our stuff....

The festivites will start this week though as we are planning on going to the Mickey's trick or treat thing this Friday, then next weekend my son has his school's halloween festival and then a birthday party to attend and then Monday will be trick or treating as a family. He will be Mickey Mouse (finally!! The poor boy has wanted to be Mickey for two years but we have had other plans... two years ago we did a Peter Pan theme-my son Peter Pan, I was Wendy, holden's dad was Captain Hook, my sister was Tiger Lily and my niece was tinkerbell. Last year we did Aladdin--my son=Aladdin, I was the Genie, dad=the magic carpet, my sister was Jafar and my niece was Jasmine. I was also mistaken for a blue bunny. Some old man at one of the houses yelled at me when he answered the door, "What the hell are you supposed to be?" Ahhhh..drunk old people on Halloween. Good times....) But this year we are Mickey and friends. I will be Donald Duck. Yippee. I kinda wanted to be mermaid man but my sister refuses for us to have any spongebob related costumes....

Our house sucks.

At least from the perspective of trick-or-treaters visiting. Our usual Halloween routine (besides Samhain celebrations) is to watch "Nightmare Before Christmas" while the little rugrats came a knockin'. I think we had maybe one or two knocks on the door the firt year we were here. Which really sucked because we bought full-sized candy bars and lots of them.

I'm so busy for Halloween weekend and the following days after. 10 days of party party party. I'm still trying to get through Oktoberfest!! My best friend is coming to town on the 28th and we're going to a Haunted Mansion/Club party, then Magic Mountain on the 29th & another Halloween club thing in LA, then I'm going to Oktoberfest on the 30th. On the 31st our office has a Halloween party and after work my coworkers are all going out. Then Wednesday is a friend's birthday party, Thursday another friend, Friday a going away party, saturday....UGH! I dont even want to think about it all!!! LOL

We're going to the Pumpkin Patch this weekend....we've been planning it for-ev-ah and things keep coming up, dammit.

Halloween weekend, we're going to a Harvest Party at Chloe's preschool on Friday, then on Saturday, we're going to a grown-up's party. Boogie Nights is the theme....no, not like 70's....more like porno-inspired costumes from Boogie Nights, the movie. Last year is was Pimps and Ho's. Ugh. I'm going as Tawny Kitaen.....of the Whitesnake video, crawling all over the car hood. Kelly's going as Will Ferrell dressed up like the guy from the Blue Oyster Cult skit on SNL with the cowbell or he's going as Cousin Eddie from the Vacation movies (more specifically Christmas Vacation, with the white sweater and black dickie and moose mug). All depends on if I can find a moose mug or a cowbell!

We're not really doing the right theme......but we don't care. Last year I went as a pimp, not the ho. ;)

On Halloween night, we're going to a little party at one of Cassidy's friend's house, then trick or treating with several families we know. Then to one of their houses for drinks and so the kids can compare candy.

The girls are going as:
Chloe...either Snow White, or Stitch or Minnie Mouse, hasn't decided.
Cassidy.....Darth Vader, again.
Courtney.....Elphaba from Wicked.

All are re-run ideas this year, guess we're out of originality, but this is what they want.....Cass has been DV before, Chloe was once Stitch, Courtney was once Snow White, Cass was once Minnie Mouse, and last year Cass was Elphaba. :rolleyes:

So how's this for Sunday, the 30th? (all you Orange County and L.A. locals):

I'm thinkin' of checking out two haunted house fun thingies that I got turned onto thru, well, Disneyland:

:eek: The first is near Knott's in Buena Park put on by a group called Phobia. We met these folks in New Orleans Square on Goth Day, and they talked a good talk about a fun haunted house thing they do every year. $2 admission, starting at 7pm that evening. I definitely got the impression that these folks knew how to do fun/scary.

;) The other is in Laguna Hills, and I got interested in it thru this thread on MiceChat. It's put on by a guy who uses the moniker "DisneyFreak" over there at M.C., and it's purportedly an absolutely amazing Haunted Mansion tribute that he started posting about over six months ago. Supposedly, he's done this for many years and has added a whole bunch of stuff this time. Seems worth checking out for sure.


Anyways, that's what I'm thinking of filling in Sunday evening with, if anyone would care to join me and Zapppop on our lead-in to 'Ween.


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Other than that, I've got the annual Nightmare Before Christmas screening at the El Cap on Thursday, two Halloween parties on Saturday night (ugh, as far away from each other as can be), I'm throwing my office's Halloween party on Monday the 31st, and then heading out to Hollywood Boulevard with some friends for the usual hijinks and weirdities that go on over there on Halloween night.


And on Tuesday, Day of the Dead, that's what I should feel like.

I'll undoubtedly be handing out tooth rotters to all the wee witches and goblins that make their way to my door in between bouts of creepy movies. With a bit of luck I'll get a few more than the half dozen that showed up last year, but gotta say that last kid made out like a bandit...which oddly enough is how he was dressed.

Anyone care to venture a guess how I'll be dressed? :P

That's like 3 minutes from my house! I'll be there.

It's a little further for me but I'm going! Thanks Innerspace!

I don't think anything could ever top that H'ween party ism did a couple years ago. I mean, ya just can't beat a half-burned-out psycho-house looking victorian with fog effects! And a rainy night to boot!

I haven't even made a costume (yet). I'm thinking of possibly going as a house (no, I'm not joking, I'll explain in a sec), or as Marie Antoinette, but my time for making a full-on detailed french queen dress with panniers is running painfully short. I could cop out and go as Amidala (if I can find the costume) or as Hermione Granger (again...)

The house thing I thought would be pretty funny because, of course, I work at a real estate company and we're having an office party. So I'd take a very large cardboard box, put a nice angled roof on it, and use one of the flaps at the bottom of the box to make a front yard with our company's for sale sign on it (obviously using string or some other supports to make the front yard stick out). Then, after Halloween, pop the house on to one of the empty desks in my cube and deck it out for Christmas. I thought that'd be pretty darn amusing.

Rofl

I have to admit that sometimes Ally's posts make me horny

I have been sufficiently bribed to wear my Jessica Rabbit dress to work on Monday. My options were that or Tawny Kitaen (GTMA Claire) but in the end decided as easily as that would win the costume contest I figure I need to wear more clothing to work.

I need tape, and lots of it. ;)

Halloween plans for this year:
--Mickey's Halloween Treat at Disney's California Adventure on Oct. 30.
--Office Halloween party in the daytime.
--Nighttime Halloween party on the 31st, followed by a visit to the Del Mar Fairgrounds "Scream Zone" (House of Horror, Haunted Hayride and 3-D Ghost Maze).
--Halloween costume: Still deciding between dressing up as either Stitch or a member of D.U.H. (the Department of Untapped Hilarity comedy/improv group at Disney's California Adventure).

--Halloween tradition No. 1: Watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." :)
--Halloween tradition No. 2: Visit a supermarket to buy 50% off candy the day after Halloween. :D

Be sure to take a group photo of all these Star Wars kids! It would make a cool photo now--and several years down the line, too.

We've scheduled some special Halloween activities that will give us a nice physical workout and last for at least 72 hours.

In other words...we are moving this weekend (ugh). Oh well, the Pope costume will just have to stay in storage for another year. :)

Mermaid man? I totally thought you were a chick! Sorry. Probably because in a post you listed a lot of the same music that I like and for some reason I figured you must be a girl. That and your name has kitten in it.

Oh, I just wanted to give this a bump as we head into Halloweekend.

I had a heck of a time finding regular pumpkins for carving. I went to Vons, choosing the larger of the 2 stores near me. All they had in the produce section were white and fairytale pumpkins. After I paid for my groceries one of the clerks found 6 remaining pumpkins. All I need were 2 for the boys to carve Sunday (I just want the seeds). Last year I spent a couple weeks carving Pumpkin Masters creations on 6 decorative pumpkins so that I would never have to carve pumpkins again.

I also had to buy more candy. I went into chocolate mode and one of the bags sort of opened itself and the candy found its way into my mouth. Nickolas saw the open bag and had the same problem.

ROTFL!

Well, no one at work seems to be working today. We had a morning staff meeting that only lasted 10 minutes and the convenient gathering of employees jump-started the staff Halloween party--which was not scheduled until later in the day. The IT director is monkeying around--literally in a gorilla suit. Two graphic designers are dressed as military commandos with guns and playing war with a cowboy and Indian. A sales person is dressed as a really good pirate--and acting the part. I'm dressed as Stitch, and wearing all blue with the Stitch head/hat, claws/gloves, feet/slippers--all of which were purchased at the Disneyland Resort, by the way. But one of my co-workers asked me, "Which Pokemon character are you?" :rolleyes:

Happy Halloween, everyone!

I plan on spending halloween sobering up from the weekends activities.

I made the mistake of going to Party Works yesterday. I needed some glow sticks for the pumpkins (I prefer them to using candles). It was a total mad house. I did make Nickolas's day when I came home with some fake spider web stuff. He had been bugging me for some for the past 3 weeks. His little friends went a bit bonkers with the stuff on their house, covering all of their bushes, the street sign and even the fire hydrant. So he and his friend covered our shrubs leading to the front door and had me draping it in our tree.

My whole idea with pumpkins went to pot. Last night Nick and I carved pumpkins. David had a rough day trying to work on a blown up car, so I let him off the hook.

I just got done cleaning the living room and am getting ready to start setting out all of the pumpkins. Nick just took off to his friend's house.

*do'h* he need to get is furry butt back here and do his homework!!

The pumkins and decorations are now all lit. Nickolas is in his costume. The candy is by the front door. Now I will have to deal with a hyper boy who wants to go N.O.W!!! We may get off easy again this year. He is talking about going out with friends so we don't have to take him.

We just spent the evening at Knott's Haloween Haunt with Coaster Matt and his wife, the Monster Magnet. It's been YEARS (almost 20) since I went to Haunt and Chris had never been. We have an absolute GREAT time! I'm sorry it ended tonight so I can't experience a few of those amazing and horrifying mazes again. I had a few good scares - which was cool since I am hard to scare in a situation like that. I'm always watching, always aware, so I am rarely surprised. But, it was fun to see the Monster Magnet get it quite a few times. I inadvertently orchestrated a great scare for her that was too perfect and was a great way to start off the evening.

I ended up telling my Icee Bear story too many times in one evening so I'm not going to do it again now - besides, it would keep me up until 3 am. But, it led to a funny moment orchestrated my some Disney friends we ran into.

There are pictures in cameras and stories to be told, but we'll have to do a more complete Rank the Swank er Spook later.

^Good to hear that Halloween Haunt is still fun. I'd love to hear the Icee Bear story sometime... :)

We built a haunted house in our friend's garage this weekend and had several groups of kids come by. They liked it. It was sort of a tiny maze that led to a seance room where a gypsy lady (my friend Christy) told your fake fortunes and gave you candy. A hanging grim reaper hovered over her head and eerie music played nearby.

My little scary (possibly too eerie for the kids) touch was hanging my friend Pete's sharp tools and ominous gardening implements from the ceiling... all stained with fake blood. Luckily, a lot of the kiddies didn't look up. ;)

We had great fun last night. We also watched Tim Burton's 'Vincent' and 'Frankenweenie' on DVD as well as one of the 'Scream' movies. I think it was 'Scream 2'.

We had pizza and too much candy. But, boy, was it a blast.

went to party

stayed out too late

paying for it now

This year, I was the Fearsome Phlegm monster for Halloween. Only problem is it's November 1 and I can't seem to shake that costume. I hate colds.

EPCOT Food & Wine Festival (just the "food" part for me).

The inferno barge still has no inferno, in case anyone is wondering.

On a tip from someone we checked out a house near us that had set up a Haunted Mansion tribute last night. It was pretty nifty, a few spiffy props, the whole spiel (including every Grim Grinning Ghosts audio track and even the "Playful spooks have interrupted.." ride stop) along with pretty elaborate synchronized lighting. Quite entertaining, we even wore our "Cadaverous" and "Ghoulish" mouse ears for the occasion. :D

I bought 2 Costco bags of Hershey's Nuggets for the evening. We got a grand total of about 10 trick or treaters. So now we're "stuck" with oodles of "extra" candy. Damn.

Oh, are we doing recap:

Well, then .... went to Halloween Party One at the dilapidated mansion in Highland Park. This is where the intimidating costumes are worn by friends who have too much time on their hands, apparently. This year's theme was Video Game characters: zapppop and I decided to play it simple (yet effective) by going as Mario and Louigi. We were adorable, if I do say so myself. There were many characters from the Mario Brothers universe, so we had a lot to play with. And there were, as usual, some truly amazing costumes. I'm really excited about next year's theme: Tim Burton. Best to start working on costumes RIGHT NOW.

Then, before first midnight (this was the night of time-change), we headed down to South O.C. for a Willy Wonka themed party ... not guests costumes, but the setting and the hosts and, most important, the concoctions at the (Wonka) Bar. The party was dying down, but there was still lots of fun and larfs to be had till the wee hours (a bit past second twosies).

On Sunday, zapp and I went out again as Mario and Louigi to visit some "haunted houses" that we posted about above. The Phobia scary maze was fun, if a little brief. (We were the only customers at the time, so we had all the attention of the ghoulish inhabitants ... which kinda made me uncomforable and I may have rushed things a bit).

Then we went over to the Haunted Mansion tribute in Laguna Hills. It turned out to be a nifty light show to a custom-made H.M. loop (G.D. posted about it above). They were not really open for business, and some of the projection effects (Leota, Singing Busts) were not working right ... but they treated us to a rehearsal run-thru, and gave us cool Death Certificates for visiting.

On actual Halloween, i threw a really cool Halloween Party at work - but had to run off in the middle of it. After office hours, I drove through Beverly Hills on the way to Hollywood - a great route with tons and tons of trick-or-treaters. I thought I'd gone back in time or something. Hollywood Boulevard was obnoxiously crowded. I hung out with friends lined up at the new Virgin Megastore (next to the Chinese Theater) as they waited for the midnight release of the Star Wars III DVD, and costume-watched for a while. But it was too hectic for me, and I ended up going home early and watching scary movies (The Others and The Shining). I had a ghost whisper the word "papier" in my ear quite distinctly during The Shining. It freaked me out.


The wierd part of the day, however, was leaving work in the middle of our party to head to court to hear my nephew testify in the trial of the punkass fu<ktard who shot and paralyzed him two years ago. What a bizarre Halloween.

No O in Luigi sweets ;)

Oh, it looked wrong that way. Ooops.


It's a good thing I have the proper spelling now ... so's I can correctly recount how we came home from the Halloween parties both horny and scared, and had a Super Mario Lovers seance featuring a very hard Luigi board.

;)