You know your costume sucks when...

...the picture of you in your costume needs post-production work to explain itself.

Look ma--I'm in a video game!

And even then everybody is like "Yeah, I think I remember that..."

For the record, I was Bif this year...a character from Toobin'--the best video game ever. You know, the one where you float down the river in an inner tube and throw pop cans at hippos and snakes and indians trying to shoot arrows at you? And then you get into the sewer and punk rock dudes in mohawks throw bottles at you as you try to avoid toxic waste spills? Not ringing a bell? Wikipedia that shit and see what you're missing.

Also for the record, I had a way better costume that got doomed by its seasonal nature...with a little planning, maybe next year.


Laurel--deadly hot even without the beer steins.

Despite my lameness, there were a number of excellent costumes in the workplace this year. Laurel gets big props for actually importing a Heidi outfit from Germany and foregoing the usual amount of air she recirculates in the average day all for the sake of fashion.


From cubemates to roommates. The winning entry.

The winning entry was actually a group effort from Shannan, Simon and Andrea as the housemates from the sitcom Three's Company. Not surprisingly a girl in short shorts elicited a number of visits from creepy office Larrys.


Get it now? How 'bout now? It's a chicken...and it's on a cord...and I'm wearing blue...

One of our newer hires--an engineer named Greg--came up with the strange "Chicken Cord on Blue." I forgive him...he's an engineer and a really nice guy.


Burgess Meredith eat your heart out. Molly F waddles the waddle.

The most crafty award goes to Molly F who wove her penguin costume out of yarn. Though you can't really see it in the pic, she made the wings and the hat. Very cool. She has a rad lobster outfit from last year too.


Greg is not Moses. Did moses have snakes on his staff? I think not.

Greg gets into Halloween pretty big and this year's fallen-wizard-that-really-looks-more-like Moses costume was pretty good. Nothing he does will ever trump the hula girl from a few years back though. Him having a serious negotiation in the conference room with our German distributor while wearing coconuts on his boobs is a visual I will always cherish.