Alexplorer's Halloween page

Our Costumes

• 2010
• The Coneheads: Belzar, Prymaat, and Stan

• 2009
• Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swee'Pea!

• 2008
• GI Joe: Destro and the Baroness

• 2007
• Nightmare Before Xmas: Jack Skellington and Sally

• 2006
• Rocky Horror Picture Show: Riff Raff and Magenta
• The Cat in the Hat: Thing 1 and Thing 2

• 2005
• Revenge of the Sith: The Emperor vs. Yoda
• DIY lightsabers and force lightning!

• 2004
• The Ninja and the Geisha 
• Pippy Longstockings

• 2003
• Matrix Reloaded: Neo and Trinity

• My Childhood
• For all the Freudians out there

• Costuming
• Choosing a costume
• Costume requirements
• Costume supply sources
• So he won't dress up...
  
• Erinn's costume: Her grandads!

• Costume Ideas
• Solo
• For couples
• For groups
• For bald guys
• With the baby

• Makeup and effects
• Making a head cast
• Halloween makeup/special effects

Haunting our haunt: Decorations

• Monsters
• Gravestones and the Undead
• The roof spiders
• Ghosts
• Glowing skulls
• Halloween Jack

• Home Unimprovements
• Haunted fencing
• Haunted house shutters
• Back yard bone yard
• Coffin
• Deadwood trees

• Lights and Effects
• Lights: A primer for Halloween
• Lamppost
• Spotlights
• Luminaria
• Pumpkin light string
• Santa O'lantern
• Fogger cooler

• Blacklights
• A primer on blacklights
• Fun with blacklights
• More fun with blacklights
• Still more fun with blacklights

• Signs of the Apocalypse
• Enter At Your Own Risk!
• The Halloween countdown clock
• UFO crash!
• Area 521/2 sign

• Interior desecrations
• Angels and Demons
• Fridge drawings of a disturbed mind
• Freaky Halloween party food
• A Shining typewriter
• Jacob's Ladder
• Mad scientist lab

• Whole rooms (old house)
• The front room goes batty
• The blacklit living room
• Kitchen of the spiders
• Kitchen bloody kitchen
• Bathroom bloody bathroom
• Pool room planetarium
• MIsc. rooms

• Haunted TVs
• A quick overview
• The '50s tv
• The '70s tv
• The '90s tv
• The '00s tv
• The console tv
• The tiny tv
• The giant tv

• Around my neighborhood
• 2007: Part I and Part II
• 2008: Part I and Part II and Part III

• Ideas
• Decorating ideas
• Decorating strategies
• Halloween door-decorating ideas
  
• Halloween room themes and scenes

Oak Lawn Oak Lawn 2008 -  Election year/Erection year   Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Part XIII Part XIV Part XV Part XVI Part XVII Part XVIII Part XIX Part XX Oak Lawn 2007 -  Things that go bump and grind in the night.   Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Oak Lawn 2006 -  Returning to the scene of the crimes against fashion.   Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Oak Lawn 2005 -  Back to our old haunts.   Part I Part II Part III Oak Lawn 2004   Part I Part II Part III

Parties and other happenings

• Pug-O-Ween
• 2007: Part I and Part II
• 2006: Part I and Part II

• Liz's Halloween parties
• 2007: Part I and Part II

• The party at Sarah's Place
• Part I and Part II

• Dorm Parties
• 1992 and 1993

• Text
• When's the best time for a Halloween Party?
• Which day does Halloween fall?
  

Halloween-themed music

• Halloween-ish music
• Party playlists
• Halloween music ideas
• The monster list of Halloween music
• Sci-fi songs

• Lyrics
• The Nightmare Before Christmas lyrics
• The complete Scooby Doo lyrics
• Grim Grinning Ghosts lyrics (from the Haunted Mansion)

• Full discographies of Halloween-ish bands/artists:
• Metallica
• Megadeth
• Nine Inch Nails (NIN)
• White Zombie/Rob Zombie
• Slayer
• Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne
• Judas Priest
• Marilyn Manson
• Alice Cooper
• The Misfits/Danzig
• The Cramps
• The Nekromantix
• Misc bands:
• The Ghastly Ones
• The Fuzztones
• Sisters of Mercy
• Zombie Girl

Other excuses to play dress-up

Scarborough Fair 2009

 

Part I	Part II	Part III
Part IV	Part V	Part VI
Part VII	Part VIII

• Scarborough Fair 2008 -  Fair and balanced...
 

Part I	Part II	Part III
Part IV	Part V	Part VI
Part VII	Part VIII

• Scarborough Fair (more from) 2008 -  Part II: History repeats itself.
 

Part I	Part II	Part III
Part IV	Part V	Part VI
Part VII	Part VIII

• Scarborough Fair 2007 -  Fair thee well, fair maidens.
 

Part I	Part II	Part III
Part IV

• Liz's Easter Parade 2007 -  A very hoppy affair.
• Part I and Part II

Blog-o-ween

• Photo essays
• Stan's first Halloween
• Halloween bites: The sweeter side
• October 32nd: Our haul

• Dissecting Halloween
• Why Halloween?
• Halloween traditions
  
• Trick or Treating 101
• Halloween pet peeves
• Making a holiday about suspense more suspenseful
  
• Jesus is the reason for the season (yes, humor)
• Celebrating superstition: Why Halloween is a beautiful thing

• Our Halloweens
• Whatever happened to Saturday Night?
• Tales of Trick or Treaters
• A Halloween chronology
• A year in the life of a Halloween addict
  
• Zombie encounter before a Halloween party
• Survival guide to Halloween in Oak Lawn
• October 32nd: Bargain Day

• Assorted Fun
• A Halloween survey
• Another Halloween survey
• Some Halloween jokes
• My favorite Halloween videos
• The best Halloween and horror movies (IMO)
• Universal monster movies checklist
  
• Halloween fonts

Links

• Links - Some of the best of the web.

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