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Not interested in dressing up as Sarah Palin this year, like just about everyone else is planning to do? You rebel, you. But maybe you're uncreative and can't think of anything else to be. To the rescue we come, bearing suggestions (none of which involve being "slutty" something -- score!):
"Joe." Joe the Plumber, Joe Six-Pack American, Joe the Dumber (McCain's 911-calling bro), and Joe Biden lead the Famous Joes of 2008 parade. Well, why not be a hybrid of them? While you're at it, add references to other joes, such as coffee, sloppy joes, and the R&B singer Joe. Think of it as being like a bride (old/new/borrowed/blue), but involving Joe references.
Bill Kaulitz, lead singer of Tokio Hotel (see left). Probably easiest for lanky model types and 15-year-old boys, but if you look halfway decent in skinny jeans you might give this one a try. Also provides an opportunity to practice your German accent.
The GTalk dot. Good for moody types. Change your color from red to green to orange to "invisible" to indicate how social you're feeling at a given moment. Maybe attach a small chalkboard at the bottom for people to write and erase "clever" taglines, or just keep it as "away."
A right-wing blogger. Suggested props: Laptop, baby doll, button/pin featuring one of those dead bloody fetus pictures, radio blasting Rush (Limbaugh, not the band), lots and lots of anger.
The Twitter failwhale. When you get too drunk, just yell, "I'm over capacity! I'm over capacity!"
The Dow Jones. This one can be really fun, because you get to jump up and fall down, and jump up and fall down again.
A McMansion. Get about 10 cardboard boxes and staple them together to form an absurd house-like shape. Then saw a broomstick in thirds, and attach a "foreclosure" sign to one of the thirds. Stick the sign on your head.
NSFW. Use boxes or some other material to make a costume out of the letters N-S-F-W, attach a mouse and make people "click" you. Don't wear anything underneath.
A LOLcat. Wear a cat costume, then talk like you've got a speech impediment. Shouldn't be so hard after a few drinks. I can haz 'nother?
Bonus suggestions, tested by Chicagoist staff:
Hunter: My last-minute idea in high school was a run-on sentence. I wore my cross-country outfit and printed out a long-ass sentence that I taped around me. Yeah, I was a dork.
Chuck: There's the always handy "cereal killer:" string a series of single-serving cereal boxes on a string, strap it around you and dabble a white sweatshirt with fake blood and/or a rubber knife.
I dressed once as a used Biore blackhead strip. I just bought a paper hazmat outfit from a hardware store, some black pipe cleaners and crazy glue, and glued the pipe cleaners to the front of the suit. That was a last-minute costume.
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The McMansion idea is pretty neat.
But the Dow Jones one is cool too...you can actually burn calories with this costume.
A Facebook page: just go around all night poking people.
Stealth, that's pretty funny, and I just made myself laugh picturing you doing that to, say, my grandma and then trying to explain Facebook to her.
Stealth, that's pretty funny, and I just made myself laugh picturing you doing that to, say, my grandma and then trying to explain Facebook to her.
"No, see I'm Facebook... No, FACEbook.. you know, the website... on the internet... yes, the one on the computer... well, it's a social networking site and... social networking... well, that's where you meet up with your friends on the internet and chat with them... well, yeah, you can still chat in person, but... the poking thing?... well, on Facebook... FACEbook... you can poke people... well, there's no reason, it's just something you do... no you don't really poke them and nothing comes out of the computer to poke them but... no, it's not a bad thing and there's no sexual connotation...I said "sexual connotation"... "sexual"... SEXUAL!!!! .. oh, jesus, no, it's cool everybody I was just explaining Facebook to here and... woah look at the time"
....aaaah, Stealth...that made my day. Thanks for the laugh.
Go as a hipster - wear skin tight pants, unnecessarily dorky glassed, and a cycling cap with the rim flipped up. Don't shave and don't shower for a few days for authenticity. Bring plenty of money for $6 PBR's!
wait.. that's a guy? i enjoy effeminate males as much as the next person, but there's a limit.
btw, the gtalk dot made me lol quite hard. easy, too. you'd just need several different colored hats and a whiteboard to attach to your shirt. maybe bring along a boombox so people can hear/see what you're listening to.
I thought it was a emo
actually a emo wolf person
@Shannon - i made fun of them once on a post here. I got half a dozen emails within 15 minutes from irate fans...
I wanna go as OFFICE DRONE.
Dark brown loafers, Khakis, powder blue shirt, shiny yellow patterned tie and a Starbucks mug.
easiest/funniest costume ever...
--one box maxi pads
--one blue magic marker
--color blue marks on maxi pads. peel off adhesive. stick all over self.
presto, you're "picasso's blue period."