Halloween Parties?

[Rob Wright]

Anybody going to one, and if so-what as?

My step daughter is turning 21 on Halloween. We are all going out dressed up for her. I 'll be a bad cop, and my wife will be a naughty cop 

[Don Boyer]

Anybody going to one, and if so-what as?

My step daughter is turning 21 on Halloween. We are all going out dressed up for her. I 'll be a bad cop, and my wife will be a naughty cop 

I can only imagine how you two would work in tag-team interrogations...no good cop for you two!

I'm going out the night after.  I have to work Halloween but I took a night off for Saturday night.  It holds a certain significance for me going back to high school.  I had a really good night out with some people whom I'd met earlier that day and didn't realize until partway into our revels that it was the night Daylight Saving Time ends - an extra hour out and having fun together!

In honor of a very cool song, I call it "Moondance".  Back then it was a bit before Halloween; after two changes, it's now the first Saturday in November (last year it fell on the night of Halloween, which was kinda cool)!  My wife and I are going out in simple masquerade masks to see how much fun we can have together in the East Village!

[John B.]

I am going out to the bars with a friend. I will be wearing a straight jacket. May escape, any tips of things to add to it to help sell that I am crazy? I may be meeting a girl I have been chatting with online sometime that night.

[Don Boyer]

I am going out to the bars with a friend. I will be wearing a straight jacket. May escape, any tips of things to add to it to help sell that I am crazy? I may be meeting a girl I have been chatting with online sometime that night.

• Fright wig.
• Makeup to make you appear haggard - dark circles around the eyes, emphasized "worry line" wrinkles.
• Lots of random shouting about nonsense and random changes in your speech volume.
• Blood stains on the jacket (corn syrup and red food coloring are pretty basic - sticky, but they usually wash out).
• Foam at the mouth (drink a glass of water, break a fizzy tablet [use Berocca instead of Alka-Seltzer, especially if you're drinking] and put a quarter-tablet in your wet mouth - add a drop or two of the food coloring for bloody foam).
• A burn mark might be nice - paint an area of your face with latex, stipple it with a foam sponge so it looks a bit like stucco and decorate it with a lot of black and some "crack lines" in deep red.
• If you have leftover latex, you can make a nice wound out of it - paint it into two lines next to each other, layering it as it dries, then add red for the wound center, a bit of black for the edges, some purple if you want bruising, then conceal any exposed latex with fleshtone (your flesh, not some generic "flesh" color).
• If you can find them, some novelty companies make pairs of glasses with holograms on the lenses - one option is a hologram of "crazy eyes".
• Pick your least-favorite president, celebrity, character, etc., the one you're most likely to insult in public, and wear a mask of them!

When "Terminator 2" came out, I made a T-800 costume that actually managed to stand out in the East Village - considering how jaded and impossible-to-phase most New Yorkers can be, that's a major accomplishment!  It really looked like the left side of my face was torn away, exposing a steel cheekbone and a red, glowing eye.  I took a cheap-ass dime-store make-up kit with Terminator mask and added my own effects and modifications to it, used a bright green Super Soaker as my "phase plasma rifle", bought the best biker jacket I could afford (a cheap one, denim with patches of leather and crude, decorative stitch-work) and went around asking people if they had seen Sarah or John Conner.  Picked up my niece and nephew from grade school - their buddies we pretty stunned and they thought they had the world's greatest uncle ever.  One attractive young woman about my age approached me and said in the "Ah-noud" accent, "Give me your clothes."  I was dumbstruck!

[John B.]

I will be completely sober. I might try the alkazter and water thing.

[Rob Wright]

I am going out to the bars with a friend. I will be wearing a straight jacket. May escape, any tips of things to add to it to help sell that I am crazy? I may be meeting a girl I have been chatting with online sometime that night.

• Fright wig.
• Makeup to make you appear haggard - dark circles around the eyes, emphasized "worry line" wrinkles.
• Lots of random shouting about nonsense and random changes in your speech volume.
• Blood stains on the jacket (corn syrup and red food coloring are pretty basic - sticky, but they usually wash out).
• Foam at the mouth (drink a glass of water, break a fizzy tablet [use Berocca instead of Alka-Seltzer, especially if you're drinking] and put a quarter-tablet in your wet mouth - add a drop or two of the food coloring for bloody foam).
• A burn mark might be nice - paint an area of your face with latex, stipple it with a foam sponge so it looks a bit like stucco and decorate it with a lot of black and some "crack lines" in deep red.
• If you have leftover latex, you can make a nice wound out of it - paint it into two lines next to each other, layering it as it dries, then add red for the wound center, a bit of black for the edges, some purple if you want bruising, then conceal any exposed latex with fleshtone (your flesh, not some generic "flesh" color).
• If you can find them, some novelty companies make pairs of glasses with holograms on the lenses - one option is a hologram of "crazy eyes".
• Pick your least-favorite president, celebrity, character, etc., the one you're most likely to insult in public, and wear a mask of them!

When "Terminator 2" came out, I made a T-800 costume that actually managed to stand out in the East Village - considering how jaded and impossible-to-phase most New Yorkers can be, that's a major accomplishment!  It really looked like the left side of my face was torn away, exposing a steel cheekbone and a red, glowing eye.  I took a cheap-ass dime-store make-up kit with Terminator mask and added my own effects and modifications to it, used a bright green Super Soaker as my "phase plasma rifle", bought the best biker jacket I could afford (a cheap one, denim with patches of leather and crude, decorative stitch-work) and went around asking people if they had seen Sarah or John Conner.  Picked up my niece and nephew from grade school - their buddies we pretty stunned and they thought they had the world's greatest uncle ever.  One attractive young woman about my age approached me and said in the "Ah-noud" accent, "Give me your clothes."  I was dumbstruck!

or this

[Don Boyer]

I will be completely sober. I might try the alkazter and water thing.

Then go easy on it.  Its active ingredient, aside from carbon dioxide bubbles, is salicylic acid (aspirin).  Too much is not good for the lining of your stomach.  Berocca is more of an "energy drink, just add water" kind of thing.  It probably tastes better, too - Alka Seltzer or any generic equivalent will be very bitter.

or this

What, you're plannin' to push him around?  'Cause I sure ain't! 

[John B.]

If I had that mask I so would

[Don Boyer]

If I had that mask I so would

Then either buy one or MAKE one!  You could probably make a cheapo, only-lasts-one-night version out of papier mâché, a leather strap or small belt and a few nails with the heads cut off!  Give it a bit of foam rubber inside for comfort.  Add a waterproofing layer over the paint and it might last more than a night.  A little something to slick the hair back and maybe a buddy with a handtruck to roll you into the joint and you've got a killer combo for your straightjacket.

[John B.]

I'm not that crafty, and since as of right now its just for the bars, having me wheeled in might not be the best. Though there was an event I was going to try to go to before that has a costume contest. Now your making me want to do this. lol.

[Don Boyer]

I'm not that crafty, and since as of right now its just for the bars, having me wheeled in might not be the best. Though there was an event I was going to try to go to before that has a costume contest. Now your making me want to do this. lol.

No one said you had to remain strapped into the handtruck all night, y'know...  Save that for after you can't walk anymore!

[John B.]

Again, i am not drinking, I will be the sober one.

[Rob Wright]

A couple pics for you all to laugh at.

[Don Boyer]

A couple pics for you all to laugh at.

Lemme guess - the guy with the eye patch?