Sunday, November 1, 2009

Best dam Halloween costume of the year

Another Halloween, another ridiculously over-complicated, difficult to understand costume. P1010152

This year, we decided to highlight the parlous state of Washington’s civil infrastructure and represent the Howard Hanson dam in miniature. This US Army Corps of Engineers dam is expected to fail this winter, flooding a South Seattle neighbourhood.

Step one: buy and modify numerous items of plastic tat.

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Step two: Attach to freshly painted moving boxes (yes, from last year), decorate with lettering, cotton wool and bits of skin ripped from our bodies by Superglue.

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Step three: humiliate selves and bemuse friends at a super-stylish party in ultra-hip Ballard with the effortlessly gorgeous Kim and her elegant acquaintances. Before:

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After: Rumble! Crumble! Ker-splash! Er, that’s meant to be water.

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