I came up with the idea last year, thinking rather rhetorically, "How funny and annoying (for everyone around me) would it be to roller skate around all night?" Rhetoric or not, I'll tell you. It would be really funny and really annoying! That year, however, I was already scheduled to dress as a dinosaur, so this "best idea ever" had to wait.
The dinosaur costume was great. Ken and his brother, Tim, who were also dinosaurs, made three costumes our of solid colored hoodies. I was an orange pterodactyl, Ken a blue triceratops, and Tim a green t-rex. The costumes were creative, and the warm clothing ideal for walking around a cold Cleveland at night.
The roller derby player also seemed like a really fun costume. It is slightly "bad ass," I am not expected to look hot (why compete?), and I can play around with makeup to give myself fake injuries.
Fake injuries are one of my favorite things to create. That all started in college, when we used to dress up for everything. My first attempt at bruising was creating track marks on my arms for a cappella solo auditions (the song was from Rent). My first attempt at blood was for my "Pulp Fiction's Uma Thurman Overdosing on Cocaine" costume senior year.
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| Halloween 2007: Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction |
My "I've Been Under The Water Too Long" Mermaid kick-ball costume senior year was another hit, followed by my "Extra From Heroes Who Was Killed By Sylar" my first year of grad school, when the one good season of Heroes was still in the collective pop-culture memory.
I was looking forward to creating a broken, possibly bloody, nose this year, and I still am. I am also looking forward to a pretty unattractive costume. My rising concern is that we are going to a crowded party Saturday night and I can't roller skate. Even more perilous, the cost of my pre-paid ticket includes (unlimited) drinks. You can see why I am questioning the wisdom of this decision. The evening will almost certainly end with an actual broken nose, or any number of broken noses. We'll find out soon enough!
Actually, in watching the Ellen Page movie, Whip It, I discovered that roller derby actually involves a lot of physical contact. So if you knock people over and break their noses, you're really just being authentic.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but if one of them was a werewolf and they decided to eat my face as a counter-attack, I could only blame them for authenticity as well.
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