Halloween on John's Random Review

Halloween this year, not like the others.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:26:08 +0000

The thing I misses the most since the tragic end of Rosetta Biosoftware will be not having a real Halloween party tomorrow. And not just because someone in the carpool had won either Best Costume, Best Group, or the Golden Frankie for like the last 5 years. The best thing was probably seeing your managers, directors, etc, dressed up in costumes. Microsoft has kids over and trick-or-treating, but it isn’t going to be the same as having Yelena forcing people to wear whatever costume things she brought for the people who didn’t dress up!

Another (blue) Halloween, another win!

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:38:38 +0000

Last year it was blue man group, this year: SMURFS!

4 of us were smurf boys:

(Brainy, Papa, Grumpy, Handy smurf left to right, and a nice background photoshop job by jay)

Last year we used blue liquid latex, which was a nightmare to put on, but trivial to take off, because it all just came off as one big piece. This year was blue grease paint makeup, which was easy to put on, but took forever to get off. For the entire weekend Laura was finding more blue paint in my hair here and there.

Another Halloween, another WIN!

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:42:55 +0000

Another halloween, another “best group” costume win. Our carpool went as the blue man group, and jeff (and jay) also built a “Drum-bone” that we played a little routine on. Somehow through all the pictures/etc at work, i don’t think anyone got a video of us!

Unlike the real blue men who use a blue paint that comes off, we used liquid latex. What a mess, and what a pain. It took us 3+ hours to do all of the prep with baldcaps, liquid latex, costumes, ick. Plus the time it took jeff to find parts and actually construct the drumbone. It turned out awesome, and we actually won 2 prizes at at work, “best group” and the “golden frankie” which is a little hard to explain :)

The Disney Princesses.

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:17:10 +0000

So last year i went as a bobblehead of myself for halloween. See this post from last year for details on that :)

This year, our carpool planned a group costume that was a huge secret. We came as the disney princesses!

From left to right:

Jeff - Belle
Jay - Cinderella
Me - Jasmine
Andrew - Snow White
Mark - Ariel

Aren’t we pretty? :D You should have seen the doubletakes we got while driving to work in in costume. Last year i won a $50 gift card to Best Buy for best costume, this year the 5 of us won $100 to the brand new Whole Foods opening up nearby work next week. Jackpot!

update: added a couple more pics after the jump

Paper mache Bobblehead halloween costume

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:18:20 +0000

Our paper mache Bobblehead halloween costumes were the best halloween costumes EVER! About 40 hours of work, several weeks worth of newspapers, 2 giant balloons, 20 little bottles of paint, 5 lbs of flour and some hot glue make a pretty good costume! More details and pics inside!