Saturday, September 09, 2006
Slutty witches and one night stands
I traipsed through the halloween costume shop today and was dismayed. Maybe I'm getting too old but all the costumes seemed to be based in innuendo or just plain skimpy. What happened to the days when you were supposed to be scary, not perverted? Granted, I thought the One Night Stand (a nightstand base with lampshade hat) was kind of clever, but the rest just seemed 'blah'. My next thought is what do the day to day slutty people wear for halloween? Do they dress in conservative suits and prim pant ensembles? Its an entriguing thought. I'm half tempted to stop someone slutty and ask them but I would hate to be the person to let them know that the rest of the world thinks they look slutty. I'm not ready to be a Dr. Phil. Oh man, now THAT would be a scary costume idea...
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There was (prolly still is ) a guy who would attend the SAR City weekend in Barstow, California every October. SAR City weekend is a gathering of Search and Rescue teams from all over the west coast and Southwest to train, offer seminars and share new technology amongst one another. This guys job was to create special effects for the rescue training portion of the event. He would take volunteers and use hollywood style theatrics and make up to give the volunteer victim a dislocated shoulder, and just for good measure, an elbow bone pertruding thru the skin for effect, complete with blood oozing from the shattered ulna in rhythm to a shocky heartbeat. I had the good fortune to be a part of SAR City for more than a dozen years and in the course of that time, I learned about the use of Mortician's wax to hold on any funky attachments. It was also useful as the "starting point" for bleeding wounds such as bullet wounds, impaled objects, and lacerations, as well as open fractures. I learned how to use Turkey and chicken bones for extruding bones, Plexiglas for flying glass, blue eye shadow strategically placed for simulating shock.
Burnt marshmallows exteriors for burnt skin, vaseline with white tissues over them simulate blisters.Ground rouge (not rogues) and then ground charcoal over the top of Vaseline for third degree burns, tissue (either Kleenex or toilet tissue) over the Vaseline and rouge, then possibly torn and lifted up for the blister) for second degree burns; this can also be added for third degree burns, just don't use the charcoal on second degree. For blood I found out it is best to use blue liquid laundry starch with red food coloring added. It sticks well, it gives the coloration of blood, and dries with the consistency of real blood. Or a mixture of cocoa and water with food coloring, placed in squeeze bottles drips marvelously. Very gory. Or for a simpler simulation of blood: mix catsup and face cream. I later was able to obtain some latex open wounds that I added to my arsenal and for Halloween I would dress up as a motorcycle accident victim, with busted helmut, shredded cloths and all the gooey bone protruding puss infected festering open wounds strategically placed about my body, and in final years, polished things up with a rubber bulb of fake blood attached to a plastic tube that when squeezed would ooze from open wounds. I was informed a few years ago that my approach to halloween was gross and disturbing ( although i never lost a costume contest, lol) by more than a few people. I wonder if they were the slutty people you refer to.
oh...my...god. thats AWESOME!!!!!
You, my friend, are one very sick puppy... but then, that's what I love about you.
Oh, and Em... I wouldn't worry about askin' the slutty people... they know. They just think it's okay.
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