You can have your leftover white people dress up as Biden (fake teeth, slicked back hair, occasionally punches people) and Big Bird, if necessary. And just recruit a WNBA player to be the older daughter. Even if you’re black.) Your most muscular black friend (of either gender) should be Michelle. I’m telling you right now, you can’t pull that off without it being construed as racist. (I mean… you could spoof, say, the county comptroller race too, but I’m not sure it would land with the same impact.)įor Barack, you can just wear a mask, with maybe a Hawaiian shirt. Since Halloween is less than a week before the election, presidential spoofs have to be on the table. (“Cause tonight, is the night, and the feelings alright, to be eating brains the whole night throooooough.” And so on.) 7 | President Obama spoof Instead, go for ’80s Whitney or Bodyguard-era ’90s Whitney and occasionally throw the word “brains” into lyrics. I will NOT say that you should model your Zombie Whitney Houston costume after crack-era Whitney Houston. Up side: You can sit down anywhere AND remain fully in character. Down side: You have to lug a chair around all night. (And as longtime readers might remember from my list of creepy ventriloquist album covers, I am well versed in the world of ventriloquism.) Just dress up as Clint - gray hair, hiked-up pants, scowl - and bring a chair along with you. “Clint Eastwood and chair” sounds to me like one of those old timey ventriloquist acts. Or go with the standard Halloween costume of a bed sheet with ghost eyes cut out and staple some McDonald’s honey packets to it. Dress up as Boo Boo from Yogi Bear and carry around honey. I felt like I had to put this one on here, but instead of creepily dressing up like a little girl (or her not-so-little mother), there are twists here. (Make sure it has the silica gel pack inside keeping it fresh.) 4 | Honey Boo Boo You can get your Mayan clothing at either Putumayo or Cinco de Mayo. 3 | Mayan apocalypseĭress in traditional Mayan garb, then make a sign (either sandwich board-style, or one to carry) telling people the end is coming in December. This isn’t the movie 21 - you can’t just substitute all the Asian people it’s based on with white people. Yes, at least one of you will have to be Asian. You need a guy in a yellow Kill Bill jumpsuit, a pelvic thruster in a cowboy hat and shorts, your smallest friend in a tank top doing Michael Jackson moves, and the sexiest Korean girl you can find. So if you’re going to do this, I say you make it a group costume and go all the way. I have the feeling there are going to be a lot of Psys this Halloween since it’s so easy to pull off - sunglasses, colored tux, rudimentary dance moves. Then walk around a party, the neighborhood, and everywhere else knocking stuff over because the shuttle is clearly too big for where you’re going. Build yourself an oversized Endeavour space shuttle replica (I would accept a refrigerator box with big cardboard wings) and strap it to your back. And that payoff is… being an oversized menace. This will take a little bit of arts and crafts work but I think the payoff is worth it. 1 | The Endeavour space shuttle transport I tried not to pick too many obvious ones and come up with as many as possible that you won’t find on other people’s similar lists. Here are 11 topical Halloween costumes for 2012. (If you want a trip through ultra-recent nostalgia land, here’s what I wrote for 20.) Since I don’t really like dressing up for Halloween myself and, therefore, have no other Halloween traditions than writing this list, I figured I should do it again. The past two years, about two weeks out from Halloween, I published lists of topical Halloween costumes. For the third year in a row, I give some topical Halloween costume ideas just dripping with a weirdly angry sarcasm.
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