Wednesday, 27 October 2010

• Halloween changed...who noticed?

  While reading another blog, titled Sexy Halloween Costumes , I found myself snickering a bit. Eesh...something happened along the way, hadn't it?

  I put in a bit of snark, posted below:

  *snicker*

  Sorry, but a while back, I came across an article titled 13 Halloween Costumes That Have No Business Being 'Sexy'...from construction workers to "Cookie Monster" from Sesame Street [and, if I'm not mistaken, that particular costume predates the Katy Perry-Katy Brand? - debacle, so that's ruled out...]...

  Folks: wear what you want to wear. Single women get a lot of attention as $1.98 pop-tarts. Creative costumes take a lot of time, effort, and attention span - which the current generation just simply lacks. It's no fault of any given person or people - it is just how it is.

  Folks in this generation are more interested in bodies than wit on display, these days - and Halloween's not spooky anymore - heck, vampires sparkle these days...nothing like Max Schreck's 1922 Nosferatu ...and I'd bet that any readers here will likely ignore the links.

  "Meh"

  Okay.../snark

  Now that I exhumed that from my noggin, I guess I have to backpedal just a bit. Yeah, I got married on Halloween. Yeah, I do the whole Halloween Camp thing at the house. Spider webs. Movie marathons. Dinners like this:

  

  And, yes - it's more camp than fear factor. I think the decapitated and/or zombie gummy bears in the poorly rendered graveyard cake illustrates that - as well as the poorly rendered "flayed flesh", etc. This is true.

  Still: there's honest effort in the whole process.

  The past few years, I've noticed something quite embarrassing/horrifying about Halloween as I go out and about, shopping: as October opens up, Christmas decorations are already underway, displaying tinsel and nativity and Santa and cheap card endcaps...in some stores, these things are on display before the first week of October has come to a conclusion.

  Just...wait a minute...what???

  Look: in Nightmare Before Christmas, we already figured out that Christmas just doesn't set well with Halloween season. [Cute film, by the way] but...

  What happened?

  Now, the race isn't on creativity - it's on trying to figure out how to strategically cover the bits about you in such a fashion as to strut about unclothed but not return under police escort under your local "lewd and lascivious" laws - just ensuring adequate coverage, and naught more.

  Some, perhaps even less so - whether by accident or design.

  "Can't you tell I'm a mouse? Ears...look at the ears..."

  [Reminds me of a bad one-liner, "the eyes are up here"]

  So, yeah - it's different for me - I'm married. Yeah, I get that.

  The thing of it is: even single, I pulled zombie/vampire/harlequin/etc. from my own head.

  Heck, one year I went as a "broken lobbyist" - stiletto heels, 3-piece suit, skin flap hanging and rotting, exposed circuits painstakingly applied to my skin with a toxic combination of spirit gum and liquid latex [and yeah, a nasty allergic reaction afterward], brief case in hand - a cross between a business woman and the T-1 Terminator movie [that Arnold Schwarzenegger flick - reminiscent of Arnie's T101 as shown below]. I got a few laughs.

  

  Some of the outfits, sure, showed feminine form - or couldn't be guessed outright without a bit of prompting. But - there was a spark. Creativity. Less focus on the plumbing and equipment: more on the fun of the moment.

  I don't know. I know I'm rambling. Still...I'm just trying to figure out what happened.

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