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The District is the best place to spend Halloween in the living world. D.C. is a city where a sign reading "Stop the Capital Braaains Tax" is a welcome part of an undead teabagger's costume. It's a pun that might prompt a debate, even! A Halloween party in D.C. often feels like a gore-inflected Sunday morning chat show circuit, with the newsmakers of the week paraded out to explain their relevance. (To be sure, Halloween has a better theme song than Meet the Press.) How many other cities in the nation do you expect witnessed a Bizarro Orly Taitz last night?
That braaaaininess is a wonderful feature of the city, but it is far from all that D.C. Halloween boasts. Right across the river is Georgetown, where you may find regular ol' slutty celebrity costumes in abundance. I support the people aspect watching of Georgetown's Halloween people parade and in fact braved the claustrophobia-inducing event twice. This year, I didn't see any Balloon Boys at all and I only spotted one Octo-Mom and one Green Man apiece -- anemic numbers for categories that should rack up multiple pings in any given costumed room. I take great pleasure knowing those costumes are well represented in our city -- in Georgetown! -- leaving more space for terrible, terrible political puns for me and mine.
This year, classic costumes were in. I saw monks, knights, and even a plain-old normal vampire that neither sparkled in the light nor affected a Louisiana drawl. That at least was the scene at my party and, it would seem, in a few of these pictures.
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I'm with you on the level of costume creativity in D.C. However, I'm pretty sure Georgetown isn't "across the river" from the city...
It is if you're a hipster!
yeah, i was kind of confused by that phrase too. guess rock creek has been elevated to a river by dcist, at least on the weekends...
As Halloween celebration is one of the awaiting events of everyone specially kids, we cannot deny the fact that even we are affected by the recession still we prepare for this occasion. Some of us borrowed money from trusted money lenders just for the Halloween parties and pay it until payday. Most kids love trick and treat, wears their scary costumes and do their trick moves.
Remember when being seen holding your crotch was occasion for embarrassment?
I'm Gumby dammit!
I was a little surprised at the lack of Michael Jacksons and Billy Mays(plural) out there on Saturday. Big props to the guy who went as a hipster 10 years from now--i.e. think of a hipster who is fat and consumes more than cigarettes and Natty Boh. Then again, I apologize if it turns out said gentleman has a thyroid condition.