Even though I attend Princeton now, I’m certainly not ready to turn in my nerd card. This year, for my friends’ Halloween Party in New York, I dressed as The Facebook Newsfeed. Hey, it’s what scares the undergrads the most this holiday season :) . (And, as a Princeton grad student, they certainly emphasize that scaring undergrads is part of our job description.)
I think the idea was decent, though the execution left some to be desired. Basically, my costume was missing some sort of clothing element. My friend Sarah’s Fruedian Slip ‘tume (which unfortunately I didn’t get to see in person) is a great example of balancing clothing and text. Keya’s “Terror Alert” costume, which won “best in show” on Friday night, also combined placards and color-coded fabrics. But, alas, all I could come up with was poster board:
If you can’t read what it says, here’s a sampling. (There were 10 entries total, front and back).
More artistically, I stopped by Boston last weekend, and Dawn’s McCormick young women were carving pumpkins. The clear “scariest pumpkin” winner:
Death Eaters in the Great Dome! Actually, the Dark Mark would be an incredible hack if Tetazoo could pull it off.
I love the news items you included! My sister went as facebook last year. Her costume was a giant posterboard version of her profile, but she cut out a hole to stick her face through where her picture would go. I thought it was awesome. I’ll have to send her your costume- I know she’ll definitely approve. (This year she was a zombie something (zombie housewife?) and Carrie from SATC and Wendy from Peter Pan. She wasn’t these things all at once. She just goes to a lot of parties. Lucky undergrad.)
Good for your sis: I was invited to a couple other parties that I couldn’t go to — this being election season and all. Yup, lucky undergrads :)
Oh, was your sister’s zombie costume John Kerry? You know, back from the dead, an uglier version of his old self, and striking fear into the hearts of Democrats?