Halloween musings

[lionofgod]

I'm really looking forward to Halloween in a place that might actually get trick-or-treaters. (To the point that I'm considering doing a little bit of decoration, not so much because I'm enthused about it myself as because I remember how amazingly cool the house with the smoking cauldron was when I was eight

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[ellyfialy]

My house is having a Halloween party on Halloween. We need to send out the invitations. It's going to be superhero themed, and I've already gotten Chris his spandex. :)

We get hardly any trick-or-treaters. I'm not sure who'll be answering our door this year. BlackCat's making a Starfire costume, and that'll be a little skimpy for the nearly-November air, and I'm going to be in fishnets and a tailcoat and top hat (Zatanna) so I have nearly the same problem. We have a Batman, though, so that'll work.

The shawl-and-star-map getup sounds really cool, but yeah, big project. I'd come to a non-31st party of yours. I'd love to see the house.

[jadia]

This is easy, you can just be a zombie!

Get some old clothes, rip them up and spatter red paint all over them.

Make up your face white with ghoulish shadows and stuff.

Lurch a lot and say BRAIIINNNNZZZZ.

[justinjs]

I'm really looking forward to Halloween in a place that might actually get trick-or-treaters.

Yeah, our neighborhood (and thus yours!) tends to get a decent but not enormous number of them. For reasons I don't know, the number seems to fluctuate a bunch from year to year. Definitely decorate!

[truthspeaker]

There are indeed already parties on the 31st. (I'll probably go to the Evil League of Evil party that night.)

I'm having a party the following weekend (for different reasons).

[topologist]

Anyone got a preference?

It's probably going to be a crowded time for parties (and I agree with you about post-Halloween costume parties being lame). Friday is probably your best bet; if it's sufficiently late, you might manage to avoid the problem you mentioned of parents trick-or-treating with their children.

You're also allowed to have a costume party at another time during the year. If you want an excuse to dress as Cordelia Vorkosigan in a gown made of stars and gerbils, I'm sure you could find enough people who also like costuming to have a random party when there's a less congested schedule.