I just got back from Madison, which is mad about Halloween, and then I was emailed this exceedingly cool Halloween costume idea: dress up as a jellyfish with flashing LEDs.
It looks easy: here are the full instructions, with the traditional hot glue gun and soldering iron, but no duct tape, which does violate the rules of home handicrafts, I think. The only drawback is that the LEDs cost about $2.50 each, which adds up. The jellyfish uses 18, but if you modified this to make a luminescent squid, you’d only need 10.
Another virtue for the paranoid parents out there, though, is that the late night traffic won’t be able to miss seeing your kid when he or she is crossing the street.
Or, if you’re a Democrat- go spineless all year round!
**crickets**
How ’bout that Christopher Hitchens then?
I can’t see the link here at work but I can imagine the costume.
I have an ex-girlfriend who dressed up as a jellyfish a few years ago. She didn’t have any blinky LED lights but did choose some shimmery and translucent fabrics that worked really well.
P.S. I have also seen some great FSM costumes recently.
Just don’t wear one of these in Boston. LEDs are scary, y’know.
I’m assuming I don’t need to provide links to the results of Boston’s LED paranoia, but I can if people ask.
Here’s one with a squid. I definitely think you could work some duct tape into this one.
I’m not sure if the anatomic departures from reality here would disturb you like seeing legs coming out of a cartoon insect’s abdomen disturbs me.
HAH.. don’t try to link with your 10 month old in your lap.
Heheh.
I sent PZ that link. I’m glad he liked it.
And yes, “exceedingly cool” are the words I’d use to describe it.
HALLOWEEN!!! This is one of my favorite holidays.
This is also one that the fundie death cults hate the most. Seems every year they try to get it abolished in one place or another.
I forget their reasons, probably because there weren’t any understandable to a normal sentient being. Something about encouraging witches and demons or some such.
It is always amusing to see medieval fears and superstitions alive and well in those so called Xian churches.
I wouldask, but then you’d just say “That’s not a hair question.”
Never give car drivers the opportunity to aim at your body–put the LEDs on long stalks.
That’s really cool.
From step 3 on the instructions site:
I wonder if that’s a common issue for cephalopods? :)
Halloween in the Deep South: sanctimonious parents and their snide kids standing in their doorway, putting bible tracts in the kid’s bag while saying “MY children don’t celebrate Halloween, but have fun!” Mine have outgrown it, but a FSM costume would be perfect.
Very nice, unfortunately I’m going as Zombie Jeebus. He died then came back to life AKA zombie. Plus I’m going to a party/concert where zombies get a free shot…. And I enjoy blasphemy.
Suze: I assume the local punks know which houses to egg, then?
Wouldn’t EL wire work better for the tentacles?
When I first looked at this, even before watching it or reading what it was, the first image that sprung to mind was “is this a sort of Cephalopod version of an xmas tree?” Now that’s an idea whose time has come. Wouldn’t it be swell to have that in the corner of the living room with prezzies under it?
I had a jellyfish costume one year, but just with yarn. It was pretty cool, though.
Before I clicked on the LED link, I was thinking, “Wow, that’s pretty pricey for an LED”. But then I figured it out. My daughter has requested that I dress up to take her out on Halloween. That would certainly solve my costuming dilemma. Hmmm…