On Saturday, I attended a Halloween party at my friend Matthew Feeney’s house. (I’m always torn between his party and a Mensa gathering in Chicago called “HalloweeM”, but given my current lack of disposable income, it made my decision a little easier this year.) Matthew sends an invitation to a couple hundred people and averages about 150 visitors who drop by during the course of the night. The invite always states that costumes are encouraged<\/i>, but not necessary. Thank God for that, because anyone who’s seen me at one of his parties knows the only “costume” I might wear is dressing up as a Geek.<\/p>\n
This year, one of the other attendees was putting a little pressure on me to find a costume—she even offered to bring an extra that I could use that night—but I politely turned her down several times over. If I was really<\/i> interested in dressing up, I’m sure I could think of something interesting. It was about eight years ago when I put together an outfit with a black shirt, a black tie, a black suit (alas, no fedora) and dyed my brown hair completely blond: I was dressed as a member of the Swedish Mafia.<\/p>\n
So after said attendee kept needling me about wearing a costume, I told her that I could show up to the party as a Hollywood celebrity. It would have been pretty easy, really: all I’d have to do is dress up in whatever clothes I wanted and bring along a sense of entitlement. The only problem might have been that some people like to take pictures of the most creative costumes and I wouldn’t want to get into a fistfight with the paparazzi, so it’s probably best that I stuck with “costume not necessary” again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Saturday, I attended a Halloween party at my friend Matthew Feeney’s house. (I’m always torn between his party and a Mensa gathering in Chicago called “HalloweeM”, but given my current lack of disposable income, it made my decision a little easier this year.) Matthew sends an invitation to a couple hundred people and averages … <\/p>\n