Welcome to the 2003 photos! We were Edward Scissorhands and Kim Boggs (for those not in the know, she was Winona Ryder's character from same movie). Susie and Chad were Chucky, the killer doll, and Tiffany, the bride of Chucky. We saw all kinds of fun things on State Street again! As always, please give the photos a second to load. There's a lot of them.
Here we are, doesn't Jon make a great Edward? Thousands of drunk college chicks thought so, they were all over him. I had to beat them off with my "Free Winona" purse. And I am, of course, Kim from the last scenes in the movie, with the white dress and the dancing in the snow and the bad orangey-blonde wig. Watch the movie again, you'll see how accurate my wig is!
And here are Susie and Chad, who came all the way from Oklahoma just to hang out with us. Of course, because there was something like 80,000 people on State Street, we got separated after less than one lap up and down. D'oh! But we still had lots of fun, and I think they did too. I *hope* so anyway!
Jon meets a pretty darn good Beetlejuice. We always have to take a picture when we see another Tim Burton character. And we might use this as research for next year...
May da Schwartz be wit ya! We found Dark Helmet again! We saw him a few years ago, when we were Team Rocket. It may not have been the same guy, but we didn't have our camera with us on State Street then, and we always regretted not getting a photo of us with Lord Helmet himself. So we did. Yay!
We met I think 3 other Edwards that night, 2 of which totally sucked. Seriously, one was a girl (!?) in a black sweatsuit with tinfoil on her fingers. She put absolutely no effort into it whatsoever. The guy in this picture was the best other Edward that we saw. He gets points for having a more intricate costume (he had more belts and silvery studded things) but Jon gets more points for better blades (foam core with aluminum tape, don't you other Edwards know that aluminum foil crinkles like the dickens?!) - and now a note on that, because of last year's riot on State Street (and the riot this year too!) no weaponry of any type is allowed down there. So actual scissors are out. Anyway, this guy also loses points for his hair - it's like Jamaican dredlock Edward. Jon's hair isn't perfect, but it's better, and so's his makeup. Plus Jon is sexier. Oh, and he gets points for us being a "couple" costume - none of the other Edwards had a Kim with them. So there, we win. Ha.
This guy had a great idea, quite unique. He wore neutral sort of camouflage colors, and hid behind this shrubby bush that he carried with him. Every now and then, he'd jump out at people who were too drunk to realize that there was a guy behind that bush. And hilarity ensued. So Jon had to go and pretend that he was going to make him into a topiary. And more hilarity ensued.
This is one of my favorite costumes that we saw. Okay, he's Wolverine. But he was a really, really good Wolverine. Yes, he used tinfoil in his blades. But hey, not everyone knows that aluminum tape even exists, so you can't fault him too much. He even kind of looked like Hugh Jackman (maybe it was the hair?) but anyway, here he is locked in combat with my sweetie-pie.
This is the pumpkin that Jon carved this year. If you can't tell (shame on you if you can't) it's Jack and Sally! I, as always, carved a praying mantis on my pumpkin. And, as always, it wasn't very great. I can make good costumes (did I mention I hand-sewed Kim's dress, Sally's dress, Harley's leotard, and both of Team Rocket's uniforms?) but I kind of suck in the vegetable (fruit?) arts.