Flashback Friday #4: Halloween Edition

This show used to scare the crap out of me:

I always wanted to be a member of the Midnight Society, they were pretty awesome.

Some kind of “wonder”-ful

So I finished my Halloween costume last night. I’ll have to get someone to take a full body shot for me tomorrow, but this gives you a little taste:

Now I just have to finish carving my “No on Prop 8″ pumpkins and I’ll be all set for Halloween. What are you dressing up as? What do you have planned?

Gayme recognize gayme

So today after work, I headed to the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. It’s a great place to go if you’re looking for crafting materials, cool antiques, or just random ass stuff. I went because I’m looking for more stuff for my Halloween costume. While I didn’t find anything that would help me on that front, I did find this:

Yes, “The Rainbow Gayme,” an early 90′s gay-themed board game. Check out the ga(y)me board:

It looks like Candyland, but (somehow) even gayer. Since it combines 3 things I love (the 90s, the gays, and games), I couldn’t not buy it, especially when it was only a few bucks. Who wants to play? Let’s get our gayme on.

In other news, my Halloween costume is coming along quite well:

POW! I still don’t know what I’m doing for Halloween, but I know I’m going to make an awesome Wonder Woman.

Sunday Bitter Sunday #4

Another Sunday, another outpouring of bitterness. And another new hairstyle:

Such is the beauty of last week’s bantu knots: you take them down and you get a whole new hairstyle. But not even awesome hair can keep me from being pissed off about this:

Sunday Bitter Sunday #4: Terrible Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

I love Halloween.

It’s probably my favorite holiday because it combines two of my greatest pleasures: a) dressing up and b) getting really, really drunk.

But seriously, a lot of these mainstream costumes are ruining it for me.

I went downtown on Wednesday to buy comics when I passed by one of those Spirit Halloween stores. I haven’t decided what I’m going to dress up as yet, so I thought I’d just poke my head in to see what they had.

Big mistake.

Practically all of the women’s costume were “Sexy (insert noun)”. No, you cannot just be a witch or a fairy or a nurse (which are already pretty dumb costumes to begin with), it has to be sexy. My “favorite” one would have to be the Sexy Border Patrol lady:

But it gets better. The website where I found an image of the costume includes this sentence at the end of the costume description:

“Pair the Sexy Border Patrol costume with our Mexican Man costume for a hilarious couples outfit.”

The Mexican Man costume (of course) looks like this:

Um, wow. Hate crime, anyone?

Let’s just say that I will definitely be making my own costume this year.

You know, it’s funny to me, all the people out there who think that racism and sexism ended years ago and people just need to stop complaining. You don’t even have to listen to the ignorant vitriol coming from recent Sarah Palin rallies.

All you have to do is look at what passes for a fucking Halloween costume.