SIS Mania - Halloween Edition

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like. I don’t remember much about my childhood honestly, I chalk it up to repressed memories. In adulthood I’d say I liked going as a baby one year, just for the picture of me smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer, in nothing but a diaper, while BSing with a guy dressed as a priest.

 
2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan? I’ll probably be going to the area where I grew up Saturday to hang out with my best friend from childhood. The kids will trick or treat while he and I drink beer, and I fix a myriad of computer problems at his his household. Sunday night my kids will be with their mother so I’ll probably be sitting in normal clothes on my porch handing out godknowswhat to the neighborhood kids since the puppies don’t deal well with repeated knocking on the door/ringing of the doorbell.
 

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as? My son is going as the grim reaper, and my daughter will be going as a dragon. Last year it was Harry Potter and a duck.

 
4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got? I’m a sucker for candy corn, always have been. It’s one of the things I try to keep out of the house because I have no self-control. Other things on this list include white/yellow cupcakes with butter cream icing, carrot cake, and high end booze.

 
5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween? I don’t really have anything good here. We took someone snipe hunting once, so……yeah.

 
6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever? Movie has to be Nightmare On Elm Street, right? That scared the hell out of me as a kid. As for a song, I still love Monster Mash. Sue Me.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like. when i was kid i had a sweatshirt/sweatpants combo that was a glo-in-the-dark skeleton suit. the sweatshirt easily found its way into my normal weekly rotation. as a grown up, my best costume was a surfer mummy. i wore my shades and my trunks and wrapped my body in ace bandages. it looked great, but i had to fix my bandages like every half hour or so.

2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan? candy duty. we’re going over to our friends’ place because we dont get many t-or-t’ers in our neighborhood. i’ll probably eat reese’s cups and critique the 8 year olds for their lack of creativity.

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got? we always went t-or-t’ing in the neighborhood where my mom grew up, and there was this one house that went all out decorating for Halloween. it must have taken weeks of prep to build it all. i always looked forward to that the most, way more than the candy.

5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween? i lived way out in the country, so traditional Halloween pranks were difficult to pull off. if anything ever happened to anyone on my road, they knew who it was what done perpetrated it.

 

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever? Tom Petty’s “Zombie Zoo” and Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”. the latter would scare to tears my little brother until he was 9. we knew if we ever wanted him to do whatever we wanted, we could just howl at him like Zevon and he would quickly relent.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like.
 - When Kevin Mitchell is Batman was Ted “Theodore” Logan junior year in college. One of my roommates was spot on Bill S. Preston, esquire, even in his every day clothes, and I had the shag-hair, so it was really perfect. Easily the best part was talking like them, which actually lasted about a week after Halloween.
 
2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan?
- While cleaning out the attic at my dad’s house this summer, I found and old-ass cowboy hat with the feathers and shit on the front…and since I’ve maintained that my Halloween costumes must have a mustache every year, I’m going to be Richard Petty. The King, baby.

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as?
- Kevin Mitchell is not Daddy. That said, you should dress your kids up as Minions. That movie was awesome.
 
4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got?
- jch likes candy corn. Lewis Black does not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yuvMsvNqY

 
5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween?
- The chainsaw without the chain trick. From behind a bush. Cliche’, but was fun as hell.

 
6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever? Hmm…Teenwolf.

1-Favorite Costume: A cow. You know the ones, with the udders strategically placed. Only because it’s one of the only ones I can remember

2-This year: a convict. Best costume ever. You get to wear pajamas to a party!

3.-No Kids, but I’m dressing my dog up as a pimp, just to be annoyingly ironic.

4.-Best halloween treat: so many jokes, so little time.

5.-Best prank: Not really a prank, but the cow year (I think I was 13) it snowed about a foot and was about 25 degrees on the night, so a friend and I walked around throwing snowballs at little kids. I know, really cool. We were probably also listening to Dave Matthews Band…..

6. Best Halloween theme song/movie: Thriller. Anyone who says anything else is lying.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Oh man, I had a couple of good ones the past two years. Two years ago I was a Skegosaurus, which will sound like nothing unless you’re a rower.

Last year I gave myself a goatee and icepick sideburns, drew on a barbed-wire bicep tat, frosted my hair tips blond, and wore a knockoff Ed Hardy. I was “The guy who’s gonna hit on your girlfriend the second you leave the room.”
 

2) What are you going as this year? iI’m off to the U.S. Marine’s Halloween Party on Friday. So I’m going as hipster Ahmedinejad. “Yeah, I was into some of the Jews earlier stuff, before 1948 when they went Lamestream.”

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as? I’m just going to take this moment to salute BNKKH’s answer.

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got? In heaven everything is made of candy corn.

5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween? Using my costume last year to hit on everyone’s girlfriend with no reprecussions.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever? I don’t think its actually Halloween themed, but in my youth I saw Blair Witch Project halloween night at a friends house and totally failed the whole “hitting on a girl via scary movie” by being freaked out myself. Man, I hate scary movies.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like.

 Idk, prolly last year when I had no costume, and people asked me what I was, and I said “I’m myself?”
2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan?

 Nothing, if I was on candy duty the kids wouldn’t get any because I will have already finished them.

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as?

 I think I’m too young for kids, but that doesn’t stop some people

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got?

 1 Pound of Candy Corn!

5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween?

 This person had a huge bowl of candy and they were handing it out to us, I was with my friends and I took the bowl and ran. I returned later in a different costume to find the cops were there, they didnt know it was me, clever.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever?

Michael Myers

1) Best costume: One year I went as the annoying paperclip from Microsoft Word. I made a huge paperclip out of rolled up newspaper and aluminum foil, and got those huge fake glasses

2) This year: I’m going as Donnie Darko from the party scene at his house

3) Kids: Hat tip to Nukkah as well

4) Best treat: I went “Liquor-Treating” in college, so I’ll go with whatever I got that night. Besides an STD.

5) Best prank: In high school there was one house in our neighborhood that had a very elaborate decorated graveyard in their front lawn. We took the entire thing and recreated it as best we could on their neighbor’s lawn.

6) Best Halloween Movie/song: I’m gunna go with Beetlejuice or the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Big fan of both

I’m breaking out the Dremel. If it’s not a total cock-up I’ll post pics.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like.

- when i was 10 i went at King Max from Where the Wild Things Are. my mom made the costume. same story last year when i was 25.

2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan?

- Deadmau5, i am DJ’ing a party so it seemed fitting

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got?

- i got laid for the first time on halloween night. no, it wasn’t last year, you wiseguys.

5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween?

- shot bird bombs at people’s houses we hated. i got caught.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever?

- thriller no doubt.

) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? I once went as Charles Whitman

2) What are you going as this year, if anything? Nothing if I can help. Fucking kids can go get their free candy at Jeremy’s house.

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as? I have grandkids and they are all going as Joan Rivers
 
4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got? Christine Simpson (but that was in college…)

5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween? I don’t do pranks but I guy I know used moon the kids as they left his porch.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever? Beyond the Vally of the Dolls.

1) Favorite costumes
Kid: My mom was strongly against pre-made costumes, but she also didn’t know how to sew, so I got a lot of costumes that required hot glue, felt, or puffy paint OR a trip to Goodwill/the attic—and they were mostly awesome. The best was probably the year I went as a recycling bin.
Adult: One year in college, my housemates and I went as our best guy friends—by stealing and wearing their most characteristic items of clothing and then acting like them all evening.

2) This year:
Wait, when’s Halloween? Is it a work day? I hope I don’t have to dress up. I wonder if we’ll get trick-or-treaters at my house…

3) Kids:
If I had kids, I’d know when Halloween was.

4) Best treat:
Am I the only one here who doesn’t like candy corn? Any chocolate candy (except Butterfinger) was the real prize. I didn’t get many of them. My neighbors were cheap/poor (including my tootsie roll-distributing parents.)

5) Best trick:
The vast majority of my pranks were pulled for April Fools Day. The above stealing-of-clothes-for-costumes scheme is the best I’ve got for Halloween. My dad used to have this record of Yoko Ono singing that he would blast every Halloween. That was downright terrifying.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever:
Do you just mean best scary movie? My favorites aren’t all that scary—The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wait Until Dark. For Halloween one year, I watched The Bad Seed. That’s a very, very screwed up movie. Oh! I forgot The Nightmare Before Christmas. Love that one.

My favorite Halloween song is Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.

The Shaggs – Halloween – Outsider art girl group from the late ’60s
The Greenskeeper – Horrible/funny horror movie starring John Rocker (I own this if anyone wants to borrow it).

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like.

One year I went as Frankenhitler, and I ran into Eric Davis at a costume party that night. He really thought it was great.

I made a very convincing Mr. T about a decade ago, complete with makeup and a voice so convincing that I had to take off my gloves to prove I was white. The ladies love Mr. T.
 

2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan?

 We’ve been so busy getting my 3-year-old’s astronaut costume together that I haven’t thought about myself. A few years back my family dressed as the Monster cereals: Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and BooBerry. I might just go Count Chocula.

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as?

 Astronaut

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got?

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5) What’s the best prank you ever pulled in the name of Halloween?

I once masterminded a ruse involving a broken-down car, a running chainsaw, and a creepy guy rising out of a cornfield to attack some pre-planned victims. We literally scared the piss out of one dude. ’Twas awesome.

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever?

Squirrel Nut Zippers – “Hell” (1997)
White Zombie – “I’m Your Boogieman” (1996)

is both straight edge and an aspiring race car driver, I’d like him to lose.

1) What was your favorite Halloween costume ever? Break it down kid years versus adult years if you’d like.
Hmmmm. Pre-911 years, I went as a Mad Bomber. I actually made small acid bombs on each street as I went. I was a shithead.

2) What are you going as this year, if anything? If you’re on candy duty, what’s your plan?
Stuck working and not happy about it at all. Considered quitting for a moment.

3) If you have kids, what are your adorable little scamps going to be dressed up as?
The oldest is Iron Man and the youngest is Bumblebee the Transformer.

4) What’s the best Halloween treat you ever got?
A sexual favor.
 

6) Best Halloween-themed song/movie ever?
Gotta go with “The Hunger.”

I’ve discovered ‘Tootsie Fruit Rolls’. They’re like Starburst but they’re bigger and easier to open. Yay, cheap candy.

does any Cincy based RRer have a Kordell Stewart jersey? I NEED THAT. I will come to your house and pay you ten dollars for that piece. Common, I know somebody got one. It’s gotta be today.

No, really. I have proof!

Halloween is probably my favorite holiday. Not because of the candy or the costumes. Can’t say as I remember any outstanding costumes, candy, or pranks from my childhood.

But I love the ghost stories, ghost tours, etc. that come with Halloween. Last year I took a class on the haunted history of New York. This year, I signed up for a walking tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Not planning on doing much today. Too much sports on TV. ;-) I will be giving out full-sized Hershey’s Almond bars. I asked a young friend of mine what the cool people give out, and she said full-sized candy bars. Given that hardly anybody lets their kids trick or treat around the neighborhood anymore, I figure I can afford that.

Dunno if I have a favorite Halloween movie, but my favorite horror movie is The Other. I like the book even better.