LAist: Halloween costume crisis

elizabeth

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:44:14 -0800

LK, you weren't that "costume portrayal of an architectural theory" I ran into last year, were you? It's a slippery slope from building rooftop to cheese grater already; just sayin'. Bless you, my child. What were/are you this year?

LK

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:34 -0800

A few years ago I decided that I wanted to be an office building rooftop. Not the building... just the rooftop. So I spent half a day building the top two floors using cardboard and tape. The 'lower' floor sat on my shoulders. The 'roof top' sat on my head. Both floors were connected by standard office building stairwells on both sides of my head. And I added mini battery-powered xmas tree lights -- green ones around the helicopter pad (complete with plastic helicopter) and red ones around the corners of the roof top. Oh yeah... the year after that I was a full-sized cheese grater. Modeled exactly after the one I bought from Bed, Bath and Beyond. With yellow-orange paper mache playing the part of the grated cheese.

Jen

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:19:43 -0800

My dh is going as Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo which isn't gay or slutty but is hilarious.

Caroline

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:54:46 -0800

This isn't an elaborate costume by any means but I thought it was genius when I saw it on a guy at a Halloween party last week: he wore that big ol "Easy" button from Staples.