Halloween Revisited

I know I never got around to posting the actual, physical outcome of my Halloween design ideas (see "Worst Blog Post Ever" below) on the day itself, but I didn't want my first Halloween in London, defined by such appropriately British costume dress, to go undocumented. After a day wandering around Camden Market, with the intriguing, intermingling smells of curry, lo mein, marijuana, and garbage tickling our nostrils, Sam and I gathered all the necessary materials to utterly transform ourselves into Wallace and Gromit, the classic clay duo. Green sweater vest? Check. Red tie? Check. One pair dark brown socks, plus tacky khaki slacks from Gap with tags retained in order to be returned the next day? Check. Google image search printouts of archetypal wedge of cheese and dog bone? Check and check.

And here we are:



Please compare to:



Not bad, eh?

Unfortunately, the costume party we were planning on attending turned out to be way the hell over on the other side of London, so we skipped it. Without any backup plan of another social event to attend, we just decided to deck ourselves out anyway and make the party come to us instead. So, with numbers 6 strong, we played kings like college kids (well...I guess one of us still is) and listened to Kanye West on a loop. Not a legendary Halloween, but not such a bad one either. There were no tears, after all.