*snicker*

[kitanzi]

Well, I got roped into agreeing to be part of the Crayola box of crayons that was supposed to be our "team costume" for Halloween this coming Friday. Fortunately, I just asked if that was still on and was told it was not, since apparently I was the only person wussie enough to agree. (The girl organizing it is very cute, and I'm a sucker, what can I say.)

I'm not sorry to skip being a crayon, believe me, but now I'm left wondering what to do with the blue spray in hair dye I got. A smurf, a drowned zombie, a blueberry.... heh, I'm planning on going to the last day of advanced voting that night. Suppose I could get away with dressing up as a blue state?

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

You could be bat mitzvah (taking the old saying (http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=637) literally :-)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Er, do you mean the title, about being a fountain pen? Because otherwise, although the article is great, I don't get it.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Yes. That was the best reference I could find, unfortunately. It's a very old joke that upon becoming bar (or bat, for girls) mitzvah, Jewish youth proclaim "today I am a fountain pen" (conflating the very traditional gift with "today I am a [wo]man").

And, just as with all jokes that need explaining, I now pronounce this one roadkill.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

*grin* I like the idea, but I think I'd have to do even more explaining on that than I would for the blue state, and still confuse people since I'm not jewish. (Or I could just be a fountain pen and leave the associations out of it, I suppose...)

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I totally think you should be a blue state! Clip cards for "Inexpensive Health Care" to yourself, and a rainbow flag, and ...

Yeah, probably not the best place to do that. But it would be terribly amusing. :P

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It really would be, but I'm wondering if some unappreciative official would decide it violates the whole thing about no political campaigning within x feet of the voting place. I suppose I could wear it all to work and then unclip things, and just walk in being blue. :)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Just carry a guitar around and be a Blues Singer.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I really, really don't want to risk carrying ACat's poor guitar around all day. I suppose I could carry just the case, but damn that's awkward. (It might be more worth it if I knew how to actually play it, and could play up the whole thing that way.)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I think you should at least go in with the Blue Hair on Friday. How often will you get the chance?

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Once in a blue moon? (OK, she probably can't get away with *that*.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmm, if you're suggesting what I think you're suggesting, NO. (I might could dummy up a mask, though...)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

This is true!

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

Dye a friend as well, wear red clothes and go as "Thing One and Thing Two" ;-)

The two Things have long been my favourite "Cat in the Hat" characters - I shouted, "IT'S THING ONE AND THING TWOOOO!!!!" very loudly on the Dr Seuss ride at Universal Florida and thoroughly bemused the poor Japanese people in the car with us...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I love it! I don't think I know anyone here at work who would do that, though.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Lessee...just brainstorming here, none of these are great, but...

Wear a cow mask and be a blue moo.
Carry a severed ear and go as Blue Velvet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Velvet).
Team up with people dressed as a zombie, a baby, um, a garden rake or cup of sugar? And be something old, something new, something borrowed (ok, that's a stretch), and something blue.
Hide things in your hair, so they can appear out of the blue.
Carry a sax and be a blues musician. Mood indigo?
Dress upper-crust and be a blue-blood.
Dress librarian-ish and be a bluestocking.
Carry a doll and be the baby blues.
Wear a sailor suit and be navy blue.

What shade of blue is it? Carry a whip and be a royal (blue) pain.

That's all I've got now...for which you are, possibly, grateful. :D

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

heh, trust a costumer! *grin* I think the blue moon idea would be about as far as brains here could stretch, frankly.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Puns and costumes are a terribly potent combination--well, potent for me, terrible for you. ;)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Mermaid? Sea-creature of some sort, fish or dolphin? Stick little antennae to your forehead and go as an alien? Rock star?
Dress in green, make a little petal-collar to frame your face or neck and go as a bluebell? Blue clothes, coathanger blue wings and go as a blue dragon?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

All amusing ideas! I'll have to see what I can do.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Or, just dye it and when anyone asks, deadpan "I decided to let it go back to my natural colour." and see what kind of reaction you get. :)

[aunty_marion]

That sounds like the best idea *ever*.

I once read a short SF story about a woman who met up with an invisible alien she could only see with her eyes closed. And he had blue hair and blonde eyes...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

If I had money to blow on colored contacts, I might try that. It sounds like fun, especially combined with the "gone back to my natural color" line.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I like that. I like it a lot. Now I wish I hadn't told Meagan that I'd gotten the dye. *grin*

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Swear her to secrecy! Everyone loves a secret.

(Acat: Idea of Awesome. If I had light-colored hair I'd steal it.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that if I want to carry that off, I should really do my eyebrows, too...

[aunty_marion]

Spike your hair as well as colouring it blue, and go as a blue funk?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Hmmmm..... France cut it at OVFF but not all that short. I shudder to think about how much hair cement it would take. It's a tempting idea, though.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'm truly confused. First I thought you'd bought the dye but not used it. So throw it out. Then it seemed like you *had* used it on your hair, even though it's a bit early for Halloween. But now it seems like you haven't used it on yourself yet. I's thoroughly clueless at this point.

Helpful suggestion - just throw it out and ferget it? Somewhat interesting suggestion (a variant on letting your natural hair color show) - dye the half of your hair closest to your roots, not all your hair, so it looks like your natural hair color *is* starting to show. And practice your straight face? :)

Ann O.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I have bought it and not used it - I could throw it out, but I'm considering whether I have a costume I'd like to use it for. *shrug*