A superintelligent shade of the color blue?

One Holloween a girlfriend in college sported a beard, carried a cigar, and wore only a slip.

Eh, hyperintelligent I mean.

Concept costumes are essentially an excuse to walk around explaining to other people how clever you are. I don't think this constitutes an objection to them, rather, I don't need any excuse to walk around explaining to other people how clever I am.

Pun costumes are the wurst.

My blog is my livelihood, I need to get my traffic as high as possible for advertising purposes which entails being an asshole and not offering full rss feeds.

My only hesitation about Ogged's approach to Dia de los Muertos is that the people are always explaining their concepts, which are high on concept or news relevance but low on visuals. Still, the best costume I've heard about this week ("the war on Christmas") works well on both counts.

But I prefer to go as a something. I had an elaborate scheme to dress as William Henry Fox Talbot that included talbotype-process handouts to be made by borrowing a friend's calotype set-up. I wasn't going to explain a damn thing, thinking just as Talbot would, that they who don't understand me can go to hell! Then it occurred to me: why dress merely as William Henry Fox Talbot when you can go as Zombie William Henry Fox Talbot? Out of concern over mission creep, I described my plans to a couple of friends, and I've since decided that it's best if I just go as Teen Wolf.

I wondered if that was what it was, Sais. Dooce, whose blog isn't just her livelihood in the potential, hopeful way that yours is, has a full feed, and simply includes ads in the feed.

The only worthy costumes are Slut-o-ween costumes, and they shouldn't be restricted to just this one day of the year.

albotype-process handouts to be made by borrowing a friend's calotype set-up

Also you could carry a talbobat.

Though maybe 8 doesn't address your traffic concerns. In which case, is there any good way to count feed subscribers?

6 - Saiselgy, would it be possible to add "Recent Comments" to the sidebar? That would be very helpful for following the comment sections on your site.

(Which means more clicks on articles! Which means more page views! Which means more money! Being completely selfless with this request! Not really, but we can pretend!)

I sometimes wonder if people who just read the posts have a fricking clue what you're talking about in posts like these.

people who just read the posts

That would be several of my friends, and the answer is "no."

Though maybe 8 doesn't address your traffic concerns.

It doesn't, really. You'll note that the various TPM Media sites, Tapped, and most other professional or quasi-professional blogs don't do full feeds, that's just kind of the way it has to be.

Saiselgy, would it be possible to add "Recent Comments" to the sidebar?

Yes, it would ... if I knew how ... I'll look into it.

People who read just the posts better be an empty set, for their own sakes.

I have no costume yet that I've deemed acceptable. I can't recall Strange or Norrell dressing distinctively, and putting together a Victorian garb is more difficult than anything I want to do anyway. I need a recent character whom I approve referring to, and whose garb is distinctive yet easy to assemble. It's why I really liked going as a member of Team Zissou last year.

I enjoy skipping the post and trying to piece it's substance together by just reading the comments.

No, not really. That would be weird.

I cannot think of a decent halloween costume. I have a feeling that 9 is right, and maybe I just should just get some vinyl chaps.

Is nobody going to point out that "at Chez Bloje" is redundant?

15 - It should just be a checkbox in your MT settings, I think. If not, I can help you figure it out sometime.

I've been trying to encourage people to go as Zidane. How fun would it be to headbutt people all night?

professional or quasi-professional blogs don't do full feeds

Yeah, I know, but dooce! Dooce, I tell you!

In October 2005 I began running enough ads on this website that my husband was able to quit his job and become a Stay at Home Father (SAHF) ... This website now supports my family.

And anyway, Cappology is still on the hook.

anyway, Cappology

The oggedinator needs to cut this shit out.

Let me predict that if a male person were to go out as Zidane, even if they stayed relatively sober, someone else will get drunk and pick an actual, as opposed to joking, fight with them. The only way this won't happen is if they either do the costume really poorly or go somewhere they'll be unrecognized (or just stay home).

I get full posts from G.p. Are you sure you're using the right feed?

I'm going either as Hank Venture, or the new Doctor Who, depending on whether it's easier to find a baby blue kerchief or a brown three-piece suit.

Yeah, I did notice more Italia than France fan jerseys in New York.

or just stay home

Probably the wisest choice all things considered.

15:I told ya back when the kid was smart.

Shhh. (Gilliard thinks Ackerman has a legal case against Foer. Whisper whisper everybody rich whisper defunct TNR whisper.)

Are you sure you're using the right feed?

Ah, thanks Becks. Cappoeirameister is saved. (I am so gonna beat up SB if we ever meet.)

Probly should have googleproofed.

if we ever meet

But how would you know?

But how would you know?

I'd wear my "BEAT MY ASS" t-shirt as a courtesy.

Oh, poor you, having to go to all the trouble of opening a browser to read Yglesias's blog. Leave the full feed off, Matt, and grow rich and fat upon its traffic.

I'm going as SB for Halloween!

I'm going as ogged, so watch out, 'Smasher.

Some women I knew in college wrapped themselves in vaseline-smeared mylar and went as a multiple orgasm. I'm not sure why, but it seemed to make perfect sense at the time.

ogged, with his desire for needless AJAX-y comment regulation and his demand that all blog feeds follow some Central Command protocol set by fiat, represents the very faceless face of lefty blogging.

go somewhere they'll be unrecognized

That would be just about anywhere in the United States. No man's chest is safe in France!

The only worthy costumes are Slut-o-ween costumes

There's good overlap to be had here with "ones that illustrate a concept" I'll get the ball rolling with a couple of my favorite concept costumes.

1. "O' Glorious Tits"
2. "O' Glorious Ass"

I went in a habit with a clipboard once as the Nun of Your Business.

I actually just went to a costume store to pick up a Superman for Newt -- they had an aisle full of Playboy brand Slutoween costumes.

I just sent out some e-mails and heard back about Brokeback Mountain costumes and "ce n'est pas un costume" costumes.

40: Did you pick one up for Sally?

I'd really want to see someone dress up their young daughter in a playboy slut-o-ween costume. (For the provocative political message. Please don't throw me in jail.)

Don't make me reach through this screen and strangle anyone, now.

How fun would it be to headbutt people all night?

Not a bad idea. To go for brilliance, though, suggest something the would enable me to sexually harass the girls in the slut-o-ween costumes.

The Playboy costumes weren't for kids, were they, LB?

43: And the political message would be . . . what, exactly?

45: All you need is some silk PJs and a pipe.

47- that's what a lot of girls are taught to idealize, from the images on MTV and an magazines, etc., starting at a very young age in our culture. Taught that women are sex objects, and ought to flaunt their bodies. The 7 year old slut-o-ween costume just takes this to its logical conclusion, to make a statement.

Sure, it's using your kid in an arguably damaging way just to make a statement, which some people might find in poor taste, but I'm willing to cross a few lines and push some buttons.

Hell, I may buy some myself and give them out to the neighborhood children.

They had that, too! In the Playboy aisle was a set of Hef pajamas for sale! It was freaky.

(And no, they weren't for kids.)

Nun of Your Business

Nothing I've written on this or any other blog should be construed as an endorsement of such a thing.

49 - Don't you have like a 3 month old baby girl? Now that would be a statement.

51: Hrmf. It was great.

At the same party were a married couple, both in all black. He had a potato hanging in front of his crotch on a string; she had a battery and a salt shaker on a necklace. He, of course, was a Dick-Tater, while she was A-salt and Battery.

I hate puns.

Yesterday I got an advertising circular for the seasonal Halloween store in the neighborhood, and one of the models was a girl -- she couldn't have been more than thirteen or fourteen -- dressed as a sexy devil (short skirt, fishnet stockings, and red vinyl-ish top). And another of the models was probably about eight or nine, and dressed as a pirate wench. Now that costume wasn't exactly scandalous -- she was fully covered -- but it consisted basically of a cinched corset, plus a tattered black skirt. It was like Slut O Ween Lite, for kids.

When applicable, Halloween costumes should be maximally tacky. My friend is going as a dead Amish schoolgirl, and I think it's brilliant.

Can we all agree that Halloween is the greatest holiday?

Yep. The thing about Brock's little political point is that they'd blend right in.

By the way, the Obama Antichrist and Slutoween posts are being discussed over at Fark.

53 is not the kind of tacky I'm talking about.

Can we all agree that Halloween is the greatest holiday?

Nope, it's Thanksgiving.
1. Football
2. Food
3. Alcohol
and
4. I was born on Thanksgiving.

Finally, the Fark/Unfogged convergence is complete.

Also, your estimation of Halloween will drop precipitiously once you have children.

61: BitchPhD is going to sigh heavily.

53 is not the kind of tacky I'm talking about.

Only art critic could be snobbish about tackiness.

Dead Amish schoolgirl is really pushing it (no, I'm going to say it's over the line), but this remains the best costume ever.

65: I'm pretty sure we've had this thread before. I remember that picture.

52- actually, a boy. I think I first said it was a girl, for preservation of pseudonymity. In case any family or friends were reading. To throw them off the hunt.

I have to give this costume a plug.

Around here, we are given to puns.

1. Extemporaneous costuming: Hefty bags & paper cups with a couple of coins tossed in.

2. Wall Street costuming: Witch's hat, wig made out of the stock section of the NYT, clock with three small hands, all facing 12.

3: Lazy costuming: A propellor tied to my left wrist.

4. Prgrammer costuming: Baseball hat with skull & crossbones; black clothing, bandolero made up of left-over CDs from all those AOL mailers [normally, they serve as coasters] and a sword. [It should have been a SORD, but they're scarce.

It does get kind of laborious, says the woman with delusions of being the anime Martha Stewart. Next year, Sally can go as a kitty-cat. Ears on a headband and burnt-cork whiskers.

70 to 62.

62: "Halloween" s/b "dead Amish schoolgirl costumes"

The link in 68 is great.

On the topic of kids' costumes, the Chinese are laughing at us. Not they haven't been all along.

Second link no longer contains the film. Maybe here.

Slut-o-ween costumes, and all purchased costumes, are tragic because they betray a fatal lack of imagination and fun. The wearers may as well staple a sign reading "I am a clueless bimbo" to their foreheads.

The one I liked was a fellow who'd put on a suit, gelled his hair into a vertical streak, stuck a wire in his tie and twisted it upwards, and was a 9-11 jumper.

There are no Halloween parties in this godforsaken place.

staple a sign reading "I am a clueless bimbo" to their foreheads.

It would be really helpful if clueless bimbos started doing this.

That costume in 65 is genius.

Yes, it really is.

It would be really helpful if clueless bimbos started doing this.

Do you remember the heavy metal roadie in one of those word.com interviews, saying that they handed out different colored stickers to the groupies, depending on which sex acts they were willing to perform?

65: I don't see how dead Amish schoolgirl is over the line but pedophilia in flagrante isn't, maf54.

(For the record, I like both costumes, and 65 should be updated with a suit and American flag lapel, and Ogged should admit that he hates Halloween because that's when the pedophile-alert signs appear in his yard.)

My cousin had a letter in the NYT defending Slutoween costumes...she's heading down the slippery slope to blogging.

Long long ago, my mother made me a bumblebee costume involving some wings - white cardboard with some gauze stretched over them. Years later, she found the wings in the attic, and put them on, along with lots of gaudy jewlery and brightly colored scarves. She was, of course, a gypsy moth.

75. That film scared the shit out of me. Maybe I'll be a laughing Chinese for Halloween.

she's heading down the slippery slope to blogging

This is so true; that's exactly how I started out, writing letters to the Times.

You know, I've made the child murder/molestation distinction before; don't have time to look for the thread now, though I weep that it keeps coming up.

Ah, here.

I'd be wary of people trading on the Sausagely name if I were Wetham.

TTL, you should be a laughing Chinese guy carrying a computer to smite American websites with!

Sorry, I mean TLL.

That China video pwns! "Homesick" isn't the right word, but all those street scenes sure made me miss the place. Shanghai, anyway, Wenzhou not so much.

And okay, the fractured English also triggered great nostalgia. But then they went and turned that around on us too, crafty devils!

Hey, ogged. It's not that you hate fun, so much as you just wouldn't recognize it if someone dressed up as fun at your lame-ass halloween concept masquerade.

I was going to go as Death, but cooler heads than mine prevailed and I decided that a real scythe is probably a bad idea. So instead I'm going as A Person Who's Obviously Costumed Though Not Costumed As Any Determinate Thing.

Someone ought to go as the dolphin's date.

The thread linked in 86 is superkoranically hilaripus.

I'm going as ogged

This year I'm dressing as a screwdriver and going as that tool, Glen Reynolds. Or maybe as Ogged's kidney if I can think of a way to slut it up a little.

The lone google hit for "kidney slut" is porn page gibberish. The excerpt at the google link is: "whipping?saluted teens showing cleavage checksums,dismal kidney slut wife stories compartmentalizes and Honolulu coronets! little girl hentai pickle!"

Is nobody going to point out that "at Chez Bloje" is redundant?

Probably not.

Hmmm...

I'd really like to see someone go as the mustache of understanding.

The duster-wearing whip-snapping hat-sporting fellow from Chicago for whom I'm gay even though he's married to the hot hot goth descendent of Robert Herrick had amazing halloween costumes. The only two I can remember are an incredibly large and detailed alien queen costume into which he had to be helped and the dude from Evil Dead.

the hot hot goth descendent of Robert Herrick

Ok. That's officially my favorite phrase ever.

For all I know there's more than one, so I probably should say "a hot hot goth descendent of Robert Herrick".

What's the opposite of the mustache of understanding?

A spacula.

The merkin of self-delusion.

(Ok. The bottle's empty. Time for bed.)

102 -- better you should say, "a hot hot goth descendant of Robert Herrick".

Either is acceptable.

I am not typically offended by politically incorrect humor, but I nevertheless question the judgement of any parent who would let their child wear this costume.

And if I see that child next Tuesday, I will give him some candy and politely ask him to get the hell of my lawn.

Or "the hell off my lawn."

As for "the hell of my lawn," that's a private matter between me and my lawnmower.