Here are some ideas I’m brewing up just now, as I type this. You’re welcome to them if you like:
A. Gregor Samsa’s sister from The Metamorphosis. What was her name again? Ah, yes, Grete. Thank you internet. I don’t really know what that would look like, but I think it’d be brilliant.
B. One of the men – there are three iterations – that Jacques imagines to be sleeping with his estranged wife back in Spain while he languishes (and gets in way over his head) in London in Javier Marias’ Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (the third book is out this winter). These would be easy costumes, you’d just have to look brutish or callous or entirely too respectable , and perhaps vaguely Spanish.
C. You could be A Film Adaptation of Your Favorite Book. So: shorter, dumber, but also sexier, with more kicks to the face, more explosions, and maybe a happier ending. (Don’t take the “more explosions” bit too literally, eh?)
D. A sexy cat!
E. A young John Ashbery, in a convex mirror. Wow, I love that one. Maybe I’ll do that. You can still do it, too. I think the more of us there are, the funnier it would be.
F. A giant heart, looking a bit sad, with a bow and quiver. Get it? You get it.
Man, I’m good at this. I’m so lucky that random overly-complicated Halloween costume ideas is such a growth business, right? It’s the new plastics. So, just humor me here, which of these do you think you’re most likely to use? Did you choose D? Awesome. Good choice. Say, why don’t you click on this adorable photo of the kitten?
Are they gone? Awesome. Okay, all you readers who picked the other letters, here’s the deal. This year we’re hosting another Halloween party and you are very much invited. It’ll be fun. We’re having food, drinks, a costume contest, a scary voice contest, a horror reading, paper crafts and more. There will be prizes! Even the Desk Set, the coolest librarians you know, are getting in on the party. The full event listing is here, but just remember this: Halloween party at McNally Jackson, Saturday, 10/31 at 7:00 PM. I’ll see you there. And remember, if you really must be a sexy cat, be a film adaptation of Bulgakov and impress the hell out of us all.
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I’ve always wanted to go as an Ellen Jamesian.