Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is Free For All Friday again...tee up your thoughts, concerns, questions, complaints or views for all to admire.
I have a bleg also (a bleg is a "beg" made on a "blog"). The Kitten and I have been invited to a Theme Party, the theme of which is "Come as Your Favorite Rock Star". We haven't decided to attend yet, but if past history is indicative of future performance, the Kitten will tell me we're going the day before. Do any of you have any simple to pull off ideas that I might implement, should I find myself attending this soiree?
No video in planning for a bit....I've got some pretty time consuming stuff at work that is taking up my evenings for probably a week more.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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CW--
Got any bats in the attic? Ozzy's always a big hit!
John
Paul Stanley. Rock on.
Other possibilities
- Sonny & Cher - If you and the Kitten go as a couple
- Lenny Kravitz
Adam Ant.
I obviously need to be more clear about the costume---I'm looking for HOW, not who. I have no imagination, and I am not a creative person....I sorta need a set of directions, know what I mean?
Well, the "who" should lead you to the "how"
Let's take Sonny Bono for instance. Head on down to the local Goodwill and snap yourself up some ugly looking 70's duds, then go over to the dollar store for a cheap pair of John Lennon sunglasses.
Or even better - John Lennon. An Army Jacket, t-shirt, jeans, round glasses and voila.
Bob Dylan - Jeans, rumpled shirt and jacket, messed up hair and a pair of cheap black wayfarers. And just walk around the party mumbling.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4659
"Virginia needs all of her sons, Mr. Anderson."
"That might be so. But these are my sons! Mine! They don’t belong to the state! When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around here with a spare tit. We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own living, and thanks to no man for the right."
Go as Rick Allen of Def Leppard.
Tousle your hair. Put a clip-on earring on left ear. Wear any number of slovenly (or made to look slovenly) get-ups and tuck one arm inside your sleeve (the left one). To clarify: Not the right arm in your left sleeve.
Get a drum stick. Viola!
**Third attempt**
You have to ask for help with this one? Surely lurking in the back of a NJ native's closet is a plaid flannel shirt. Cut off the sleeves, add bandana, jeans and boots and it's Bruce baby.
Why not Captain and Tennille? All you need is a skipper's hat and you and the Kitten can wear whatever kind of clothes you want...
I obviously need to be more clear about the costume---I'm looking for HOW, not who
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No, you need to be looking for HOW to get out of this silly party.
When I first saw this, I thought Sonny and Cher. GG had a good idea but I'd take it one step further by wearing a ski jacket and a broekn ski.
CCE was there to witness my slow evolution from Jersey hood to respectable UVA man....I don't think the transition occurred quickly enough for her.....
I've got it. You can go as two members of the Village People
You can go as the Navy guy in your dress whites, and kitten can go as either the construction worker, the biker, the cop or the indian.
Ok, I admit it, I'm fresh out of ideas.
Borrow a [cased] AR-15 and a long bow, so you can go as Theodore Nugent. Or not, if the party is in Maryland or Arlington County.
Or, you can pull the cleanest Che t-shirt out of the hamper, and go to the party as a faithful Daily Kos reader.
Seriously, I'd stay at home, pop some popcorn, and settle in for a movie and some quality time....
-- Jeff
You and the Kitten can go as Exene Cervenka and John Doe of the LA Punk band - X.
For "the look" go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exene.jpg
and here:
http://www.punknews.org/images/interviews/xtheband2.jpg
Go as Rick Moranis -- not a rock star, but you look like him.
You dress up as a sink and kitten as a pair of lips. Then you can be any number of "artists": Milli Vanilli, Britney Spears, Lin Miaoke, Ashlee Simpson, etc.
Can anyone explain why the stimulus package didn't include provision for raising the allowable ceiling on 401K contributions? Wouldn't that encourage additional investment in struggling companies while providing working citizens additional tax break AND allow us to have each dollar we invest not get disembowled in the hands of the IRS before returning its emaciated carcass in the form of a refund?
Separate FFAF Post-
Very little media coverage of the Soldier's Court Martial where he was convicted of killing 4 Iraqis. The MSM could learn a lot about the judicial processes at Guantanamo if they did a little homework on court martials like this. Done by a military jury, with a military judge, with a military prosecutor and military and civilian defense attorneys. What is frustrating is that the media doesn't take the time to recognize the fact that the military CAN effectively dispense justice. There is an irony here that shouldn't be lost on anyone. That 9-member court martial panel (the jury) probably had 7 combat veterans. They all could have easily placed themselves in the convicted Soldier's boots -- tired, no sleep, constant combat, fog of war, enemy detainees who minutes before had been trying to kill them. To empathize with the Soldier would have been easy. The prosecutor, an Army officer probably not too far removed from Judge Advocate General (JAG) school, was in essence defending the 4 killed Iraqis. The judge, an Army Lieutenant Colonel, holds the trial, but doesn's use his rank or authority to coerce the young captains (both defense and prosecution). The outcome is a fair trial where justice was served. Just as it would be at Guantanamo, if given the chance.
How? First, determine who your favorite rock star is. Then dress up like him. Then, when you realize that you look nothing at all like a rock star, let alone your favorite one, put a name tag on your failed costume and indicate the name of the rock star so everyone will know your intent. I can't make it any clearer.
Prince and Appolonia?
Sonny and Cher or Captain and Tennille, are easy duos... Prince and Appolonia is an intriguing combo, just not not sure you can pull off... and you must have made that transition from Jersey hood to respectable UVA guy before second year... I don't remember any "hoodlam" left in you at that point.
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