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

[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.