a thing in 417 photos halloween So much manlier. The first time I met Jason he was dressed up as Clark W. Griswold from Christmas Vacation. Squirrel on back = perfect. Hangover. Aerial view of the party. Wolfman! This guy had a little "crypt keeper" guy on a leash and was making him dance in a all-too-realistically way. We were "greeted" as we arrived. A friend of his was working to clean up the BP oil spill in the gulf and when he heard we need three costumes on short notice, he let him borrow some gear! After getting suited up... We arrived at the party and Ty came out to the parking lot to greet us and give us our costumes! ...and here's Mark's real-life rendition. Hahaha. SOOOO GOOD! Although, my favorite costume of the day by far was Leonzo dressing up as LENNY KRAVITZ! Hahahaha. Oh man, so great. Taco Kane! Blair / Harry made the rounds with a candy bowl. The best Halloween costume at work is always to dress up as one of your co-workers! Bonus points to Greg for his Will costume! Let the judgement begin! Mmmmmm, racist . I arrived at Yodle's offices to find Mark preparing his homemade A.W.E.S.O.M.-O costume for the office costumer contest! Haha. Transformer? Costume convention. Bee! We ran into two other winged-dogs on the short walk! ...to go to the Halloween Dog Parade. Meredith sewed Maddy this "bug" outfit. Skull face is dying (for now). Sarah was excited about this guy's costume (but I have no idea what he was!). The street was littered with halloween casualties. Get a load of this joker! Ellen sums up her feelings about the guys that tried to dance with her. Haha. Karla had the perfect solution. 3am dance floor. Karla and Niki's trays of assorted goodies were a little unwieldy on the dance floor. Sarah, Karla, Niki, Kaitie and Ellen. ...and met up wtih Niki and Karla who were dressed as matching night club "cigarette girls" ...the Halloween party at Rose Bar. ...but we couldn't really find anyone we knew! Party was pretty fun... I love this photo! We took a cab to... A little before 1am, we finally decide to head out into the Saturday night Halloween fray. (Meredith decided to stay in!). I like dressing up, but I don't really like all the planning and buying stuff that's involved in dressing up. So more often than not, I'll revert to a last-minute halloween costume with whatever's lying around. This year I used some white face paint and a mascara pencil to go as SKULL FACE! Perfect! After I finished borrowing Ellen's eyeliner, she touched up her slutty 80s rocker make up! Sarah went as a Clockwork Orange droog. Cleavage makes the costume! Please return to your seat, sir. Halloween Family Portrait! It took forever to get a photo of Maddy looking towards the camera because in between shots... ...she couldn't resist licking my delicious make-uppy face. Best year yet! Aileen and her friend stopped by in their matching zebra outfits! This one loves the games! Meredith dressed up as a stewardess! Snacks and boners are that way, sir! Around 2am later that night, I drove around sleeping surbubia checking out the houses that were still totally overdecorated in Halloween gear. Clark W. Griswold style, with all the lights going! Choose life, indeed. This photo is so pefect. Mandy as George Michael is something I will never be able to unseeeeeeeee! Happy Halloween! George and Andrew: take me dancing tonight. So good / upsetting. (Keep in mind, this is like a full two years BEFORE that girl turned herself into Jared Leto. Hahaha.) ...GREEN MAN! If you watch Sunny, you know that this is an awesome costume and homeboy had the pose and the dance moves down too. As we pushed through the masses of people cluttering the sidewalk, I couldn't help but stop and admire... Speaking of epic, later on that night I met up with Mandy and Lawrence who were dressed up as WHAM ! HAHAHAH. Let's not forget the bronze sheen and perfectly-penciled chinstrap. Man, this photo simultaneously makes me laugh and shiver. Halloween was on a Friday and that kind of sucks because then EVERYONE comes into town and the streets get a little messy. I was moseying down 2nd Ave on my way to a party and I randomly ran into Josh and Jenny. A full two years before the Jersey Shore debuted on MTV Josh absolutely murdered with his douchebag costume. (Check him doing the shocker and everything!). Jenny was the Wicked Witch of the West. Man, I can't stop looking at Josh's outfit. Ok, and that killer pout. Genius. At the office a bunch of people dressed up - but all costumes took a backseat to Aziza totally SLAYING Thiller-era MJ. So perfect. Don't even get me started on the awesome homemade jetpack. Space dog won first prize at the parade. (Which was probably well-deserved because it can't be easy to train your dog to be cool walking around with a big plastic bowl around on his head). Alexis is blue. Pathetic. Who's the happiest little Mariachi dog? Pointy cone head! Leigh and Scott taking Edie on her parade lap. Oscar the Grouch! A hat's bad, Edie, but at least it's not an Elvis wig. On Sunday afternoon I walked down to Tompkins Square Park to see the annual dog costume parade. A-dor-a-ble. Edie's expression in this photo is the dog equivalent of when Ralphie's mom makes him put the bunny suit on in A Christmas Story . So good. Edie was there wearing the Crayola Wiener Crayon outfit that Meredith Leigh made. (Sorry, Leigh! I forgot!) Then when we got off the subway we passed these creepy Barack-masked mannequins on a Broadway storefront display. So unsettling. Some of the finished specimens! Note Siege's black-painted "Pinhead" pumpkin! Yes! Hahaha. I love this photo. Me, Mer and Millie show off our see no, hear no speak no evil TRIO. All lit up. Hahahah. Epic. Amanda makes a deposit in the seed bowl. On Saturday evening, we headed over to Siege and KT's apartment for a jackolantern carving party! (Just like the previous year !) Amanda painted her pumpkin black and carved LIPS! Hahaha. Best photo ever! Happy Halloween 2007! Post-Halloween Post-Script! Two days after Halloween had passed, Ian decided to exact his revenge by coming into work dressed up as Preggo Christine! Make up removal party! Happy official Halloween! Yay, hair again! We called it a night around 3am and headed outside so that we could free Leigh's sweaty head from the bald-cap. Here she is together with Geordon dressed up as V. Scoots and Sophia (and Leigh's little bald head!). I went over to the bar and STILL couldn't find Leigh. I was about to give up and head back into the crowd to look for her when suddenly, the little bald man in front of me turned around and he turned out to be... ...Leigh in a bald cap dressed up as Gollum from Lord of the Rings bald, post-prison Evey from V For Vendetta . Group shot! Alexis and Gordon. Leigh texted me and I told her I was at the Darkroom but couldn't find her. She texted back "I'm at the bar behind you." So after I finished snapping a couple of pics of Alexis, we realized that there was a drunk couple in one of the booths next to the bar that was taking their drunken make out... Sorry, Jenny Penny - you may have been a more realistic Amy Winehouse (with your falling-down-drunkeness and all), but Alexis' Amy Winehouse is the winner of my heart. Right when I got to the Darkroom I ran into two other dudes dressed up as Cobra Kai skullfaces! Wooooo! Yay, white grease paint! A little while later I ran into Ellen dressed up as a Court Jester Harley Quinn. Grant and Ellen. 
