Time to Get Your Halloween Geek On

My husband's geeked out Stormtrooper Pumpkin

I’ve always enjoyed Halloween. At a young age, I loved dressing up (mostly getting to wear makeup) and getting to eat a shitload of candy. My parents weren’t big on candy in the house, but Halloween was the exception. In college it was a time to be as slutty as possible.

My favorite costume from ye olde college days was when my roommates and I were sexy pubic lice. I know, right?! Here’s the background; we lived in a college town that was notorious for booze, drugs, and sex. One of my roommates was working at Planned Parenthood at the time, and she learned a statistic that 1 in 4 people living in our town had an STD. We thought it would be absolutely brilliant to be an STD…but a sexy one! After all, we were in college with rockin’ bods at the time. As we walked down the streets of our town, we were invited into several house parties. Guys would yell out, “Hey, Angel Girls, wanna party?!” We corrected them that we were actually Pubic Lice and offered the knowledge that 1 in 4 people in said town had an STD—they quickly told us to get lost. Needless to say, it was a memorable evening.

These days, I’m all about the geek costume. A few years ago I was a school-girl zombie from one of the zombie comics I was reading. Last year I was a dead body from Dexter…not super geek, but pretty fun anyway. This year my husband and I are going to be Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura. We tried out the costumes at a pumpkin carving party last weekend. Although, I found that I hit a whole new level of geek when a friend of mine got so excited when she saw us that she did the “Live Long and Prosper” Vulcan salute. My first instinct was to say, “Oh, see, Uhura and Kirk are not Vulcans, so this really doesn’t mean anything to us.” Wowzers. Instead I just laughed and tried to help her do it right.

Some of the cool geek costumes I’ve seen in recent times:

• Children and/or dogs dressed as Star Wars characters
• Facebook (my cousin was actually a Facebook Page!)
• The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Brothers
• Browncoat from Firefly

Are you planning on getting your geek on this Halloween? Are you doing a geeked out pumpkin? Come on folks, let your Halloween Geek Flag fly!