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Update 1: Halloween Blueprints

October 18, 2006 at 9:09 am · Filed under Lifestyle

This is a rough sketch of my Halloween costume featuring the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I usually walk around the apartment with a blanket over my shoulders, so I figure that will be a good starting point. I’ll try to find a fuzzy blanket, which I can cut up to make the pasta noodles. The eyes will be styrofoam with a wire or spring holding them up. The meatballs will also be brown styrofoam balls. Then, I need to walk around preaching the gospel of the FSM and the eight “I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts.”

UPDATE 1:

I visited the thrift store and picked up everything I should need for less than $8.00. I bought 2 extremely large beige cloths. I’m gonna drape one of them over me and cut the ends into noodles. The second sheet, I’ll cut into lengthwise strips and wrap those around me for longer noodles. I got 2 candy bags. They were circular enough so that I can stuff them and use them as the meatballs. I just have to paint them. The googely eyes are pretty self explanatory. I just need to fix them on my shoulders, and I’ll carry around the book that I bought for $0.85.

ceej said,

October 18, 2006 @ 10:28 am

It looks awesome…are you planning on going trick or treating..or just to kill some time and make it.

Q. You said the character was based off of the FSM, but it resembles some of the (name) men created in numerous sketch books in the younger years of life…any correlation or just solely on the FSM.

I think TV man killed everyone.

~Mers said,

October 18, 2006 @ 11:01 am

My landlord is throwing the “3rd Annual Halloween Party”, and I need a costume. There is also a Chicago parade on Saturday, but I dont think I’ll have it done by then.

I suppose it carries some resemblance to ‘Pot Man’ and ‘TV Man’, but …no. And, let us not speak of those again.

clear :) said,

October 18, 2006 @ 10:52 pm

Neat idea, Mers. I wonder if lot of other people will know who you are? I made a giraffe costume in the Fall of 2001 and have been using it ever since, although I think I’ve only used it 2 other times since then. Some people thought I was cow and went into this discussion on how my costume needed udders. Most everyone else could tell I was a giraffe. (I just now thought of this but some friends once made little origami animals for everyone at dinner and they made me a giraffe…)

clear :) said,

October 19, 2006 @ 1:47 pm

Don’t forget to make a new cover for the book or write in white out or something “the gospel of FSM and the “eight I’d rather you didn’ts” into the cover. And be sure and make a copy of those or copy them into the book you got. Hey if you’re gonna be the FSM, you need to BE the FSM. That way if someone asks you what the eight I’d rather you didn’ts are, you won’t be like umm I dunno…unless of course you have them memorized :) People who don’t know the FSM will need to be educated and people who do know the FSM might be disappointed if you can’t converse about FSM things.

Maybe you should even stand up on a soap box half-way through the party or in a lull or something and spout your gospel…ok maybe that’s a bit much.. :)

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