You're posting this to get me in trouble with politicalfootball, aren't you?
The smell of roses? That's in new detail in the UFO lore, isn't it?
in his heart and heard directions in his mind
Somehow has the same earnest clunkiness as "Use your words." I'm charmed.
Actually, now I see I misread "head" for "heard." But still.
4: Maybe she actually has roses on her balcony.
I find this more plausible than someone having a direct connection with god.
9: Either one makes me want to back away slowly from a person.
So basically, Kucinich is as loony as the Reagans. Electability, unchanged.
Since this is Kucinich, I suppose there's an outside possibility that he actually saw some super secret sophisticated spying apparatus that was being used against him by the 4th branch of the government. Or maybe he's just crazy. William of Ockham, would you like to comment on this one?
Oh my gawd, that totally happened to me once!
David of Ickeham would probably be a better source for information on this.
9: Either one makes me want to back away slowly from a person.
You gotta know when to back away, know when to run.
UFOs & Shirley MacLaine are both spooky--only one of them in a good way--so this is only a thread half-jack:
I'm having a Halloween emergency. I've got 5 days to come up with and put together a costume. Help!!
I prefer costumes that are conceptual and/or topical. The crowd at the party to which I'm going will be sort of politically aware, but not super-nerdy policy/ideology/etc. types. (You know, not smart enough for ogged.) So they'd get Darth Cheney, but not Neo-Cons on Parade. A number of them are lawyers.
My past costumes include:
- The ghost of Habeus Corpus
- Socialized medicine (the party's theme was "A Salute to Canada")
- 1972
- Dead prom queen (not heavy on the politics, but ghoul makeup + tiara = fun!)
- Good grammar (for a fetish party)
What's a procrastinator to do?
When in doubt, sheets make good togas for any greek or roman character. I was Athena/Medusa/Ares/whatever for about five years running. I've been a pirate ever since, but that's neither here nor there.
Wear zombie make up with a suit and a hat with a dollar bill in the band, and go as the economy.
I can't wait for someone to get Kucinich on the record about this!
Sir Kraab, this may not meet the awesome standards of 'Ghost of Habeas Corpus', but I've been trying to convince various friends of mine to go as MP3 pirates -- eyepatch, hook, Jolly Roger hat, iPod, Fuck the RIAA! tshirt. I'd do it, except I'm the person who hasn't bought an iPod yet.
I've only dressed up for Halloween one time since 1979. This has never caused a problem.
A couple years ago a friend was going to go to a party as a suffragette. She was planning on wearing an old-fashioned dress with a sash that read "Votes for Women!" So, I declared that I'd go as a pirate suffragette, and spent a good hour putting together a sash that read "Boats for Women!" Then my friend copped out, and my costume made no sense.
Still, a suffragette is a good costume.
I'm going as George Washington going as a sexy cat. So don't go as that.
What about Tron? You need, I figure, a helmet, some body paint and reflective tape, and a Lazer-Tag system. Look how much fun this guy is having!
"I can't wait for someone to get Kucinich on the record about this!"
Everyone knows that alien visitations always involve anal probes. Kucinich's failure to come clean on this particular issue makes me doubt his commitment to openness in government.
I think the "directions" he heard in his mind had something to do with convincing a beautiful tall woman to marry him. Looks like they worked.
I find the Kucinich story completely plausible.
Re: costumes, some women I knew in school wrapped themselves in vaseline-smeared saran wrap and went as a multiple orgasm. Conceptual and fun!
Unrelated:
Gawker notes that Guns & Ammo magazine has a blog.
If I ever feel like doing the drag thing, I think I'll be a suffragette, hopefully with an appropriately piratical companion.
I went as the White Stripes with S. my first year in D.C. At the first party we went to, on the Hill, we were only able to pass ourselves off as a Target commercial—no one got it or knew who the White Stripes were. I know, right? Later at the Black Cat we did better, but, whoo boy, Jack White did a little too well and had to be escorted from the bar by Meg on the insistence of a bartender.
I'm going as George Washington going as a sexy cat. So don't go as that.
Now where are you going to get like 30 goddamn cat dicks?
Now where are you going to get like 30 goddamn cat dicks?
29, I think.
Possibly 28.
3: DON'T DIS DENNIS.
I believe I'm going to have that made into a bumper sticker.
4: That sort of multi-sensory/synesthetic experience isn't universal but isn't uncommon in the realm of personal experiences with The Outside, however that's defined. It's a well-established part of hauntings lore (such as smelling the favorite perfume of a dead person in a place they frequented, etc.) and is associated to some degree or another with legends of faery mounds and gifts and the like. It's one of the things John Keel points out as a sign that he thinks UFOs/Mothman/etc. are more a projection of the collective unconscious than anything tangible that's on the outside and trying to get in/invade/manifest/etc.
Yes, I read a lot about stuff like this because I find that crazy = fascinating and having had a few oddball encounters that are probably best assumed by others to be signs of mental instability rather than anything else I am eternally fascinated by others' described experiences no matter what I think of the factual content or lack thereof.
Back when their one big hit was at its height, two friends and I had a very successfully Halloween run as Deee-Lite. I was Jungle DJ Towa Towa.
Too bad we didn't know Labs at the time. I bet he would have made a great Bootsy.
We're working up to holding a Cold War party (to capitalize on all this late-seventies/early Reagan-Thatcher nostalgia that's going around)--although probably more of a later in the year/nuclear-winter-appropriate one rather than an actual Halloween one. Russian food, cod-fifties American food, Red Dawn, Threads if I can get a copy, and everyone in costume! Either Madame Chiang (black qipao!) or Guy Burgess for me, I think. I'm also going to make the Best (by which I mean the snobbiest) Mix Tape Ever.
Some excellent ideas in here, folks. Keep 'em coming.
Once at a party Exene Cervenka told me about her alien abduction experiences. I found the conversation a bit awkward.
39: Always a bit dicey talking about anal probes in mixed company, right?
And to merge some of the different concepts in this thread, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is very appropriate for a Cold War party.
There's more wackiness from TPM on Dennis -- he was against the chemtrail menace before he was forced to back down.
I bet he would have made a great Bootsy.
I think this is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
You know, Sir Kraab, I don't know why I just thought of this, and it's not conceptual, but I bet we could pull of Sonny and Cher pretty well with the right accoutrements.
On the more conceptual front:
One of us could be Rights and the other Security, and we could spend the party bickering with each other.
You could go as a battered/flustered/crumbling Right Wing.
I don't care if Kucinich sees UFOs or not; his refusing to vote for SCHIP because it was a flawed bill puts him in the "infuriating lefty who thinks moral purity is more important than reality" camp.
43: I also think you have pretty decent taste in couches and window treatments.
Anal probes are unisex, aren't they?
47: Depends. Your more traditional alien chooses between the pink and the blue anal probe, no?
Sir Kraab and M/M/: Do you really only speak to one another through comments? Fascinating.
Back when their one big hit was at its height . . . Deee-Lite
"Groove Is in the Heart" is never out of fashion at the Florida Flophouse. I'm sure I've played that at each of our last three dance parties.
44: One of us could be Rights and the other Security, and we could spend the party bickering with each other peacefully co-existing within the bounds of the Constitution.
41: I assumed that the first effort to meld threads was going to be made by suggesting a Dennis Kucinich costume.
Sir Kraab and M/M/: Do you really only speak to one another through comments? Fascinating.
The sad part is that we're currently both in the same house.
No, not really.
And anyway, sometimes we communicate via e-mail, when she bothers to respond.
45, he voted aye on the override attempt.
54: But only because the aliens told him to.
If we had current leadership that was reliably sane and practical and moral in either major party, Kucinich's oddities would bug me more than do. As it is, I guess I don't necessarily care very much why someone favors ending the occupation of Iraq and restoring the rule of law and good things like that, as long as it motivates them consistently toward good stuff. At that, it's not like Kucinich is doing a lot of saying anything like "The Space Brothers told me to", looking to route more social services via the Unarius Foundation and MUFON, and so on.
*shrug* He's not what I'd wish for in a president. So if any of the people who strike me as overall more grounded in day-to-day mundane reality would like to stop being cowardly toadies to corporate interests and the media establishment and show a bit of spine, I'd be happy to support them instead. In the meantime, I'll go with the UFO fancier and his ilk, since they're the ones paying attention to morality, justice, and efficiency in governance.
Or so the mullahsaliens would have you believe.
(But seriously, I agree with 56)
did the aliens tell him that torture was good like god did bush, cause if not those are some weak aliens and I don't think we want to take any advice from them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKTCW4oxS6I
If we lived in a fair world, someone in the media would pick this up and point out that it's no weirder than Bush saying that God told him to do any one thing or another.
I'll trade Bush's bloodthirsty end-times War-Jesus for Kucinich's mellow alien space hippies any day.
