Granny loves you, dearies.

[thehefner]

Between New York Comic Con in early October and Halloween at the end, our thoughts have been turning to costumes.

First of all, lest any of you doubt that the Henchgirl is a geek girl of hardcore cred, take a look her in nearly-complete costume as Granny Goodness. She'll be going as sexy Granny (she hates that I say that, by far preferring "GGILF"). I'll be Desaad. Skeezy, sleazy, ugly, regular old unsexy Desaad.

I still need to find the purple robe, though, and I'm not sure I have enough hair to pull off the signature look (which is essentially the same greasy hairstyle that I couldn't even entirely pull off six years ago, when I dressed as Bill the Butcher!), but either way, it'll be interesting to see how many people will get who the hell we are. Those are the ones who'll have cred.

I'm now trying to figure out how to decorate my iPhone with Kirbytech to create a Mother Box. And/or get surrealname to be a Boom Tube and follow us around the convention, occasionally going, "BOOM!"



As for Halloween... well, we have some other ideas on that front. I'm wondering if I should throw another big party here at my place?

Maybe without the grog this time. Oh, it was delicious as hell, but I honestly don't remember a good chunk of that evening, and every single person who had grog was feeling it the next morning. It is unforgiving. Maybe we should try our hand at home-made absinthe this year?

Comments

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

Man, there is nothing wrong with going to a dollar store and picking up an emo wig for your Desaad costume. ;)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Probably the best bet! It'll be an added bonus, ruining an emo hairstyle with grease.

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

So, Hipster Desaad?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Anti-Life is the new Life.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

I was Anti-Life before it was even cool. You wouldn't have heard of the Old Gods.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Use cardboard and tinfoil to make yourself a chestplate like Desaad had during the Super Powers cartoon. :)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

What, this thing?



That looks more labor intensive than I can pull off in a couple weeks.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

Air conditioning tubing! AIR CONDITIONING TUUUUUBING!

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Heh. he obviously never built his own TARDIS out of an appliance box, some magic markers and a shitload of Scotch tape.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Home Depot is your friend. The bigger ridged tubes are dryer hoses coated with silver spray paint, while the smaller black ones ... I dunno, you'll find something. For the front panel designs, rather than trying to make them textured, just go with magic markers to draw that shit on there, although a rule and a compass are your friends to get the lines and the circles neat. From there, all you need is some brown boots that you can attach red straps to, and you're all set.

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

Cheap, medical rubber tube (like the one used to tie up an arm during a medical exam / blood testing) with a piece of wire inside to keep the shape would work. Just paint it black. Attach some jumprope handles at the end for effect.

[bitemetechie.livejournal.com]

I said it in just that tone of voice, too.

[surrealname.livejournal.com]

I still think the boom tube costume sounds 1. uncomfortable and 2. Time consuming.

However, dressing me up as a mother box and having me walk up to people and angrily go "PING! PING!" Will be much more disconcerting to strangers, and therefore much funnier.

also:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
BETTER LIFE!
BETTER LIFE!

[torberg.livejournal.com]

"GGILF"

"Glorious Godfrey I'd Like...?"

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Just like that.

[night-train-fm.livejournal.com]

Only one question remains: how good is her Ed Asner voice?

[night-train-fm.livejournal.com]

I just clicked on that Wikipedia link and found myself staring at young-Darkseid with...I'm not quite sure what to call that haircut. The fact that he used to have hair at all is weird.

[yaseen101.livejournal.com]

Jesus, tell me about it.

If that's not the sound of Jack Kirby turning in his grave, I don't know what that is.

I remember when it was posted on S_D 1.0 it created some really hilarious discussions.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That's the one thing I have up on her. And I've used it in occasional... inappropriate setting too. It's a wonder she's still with me.