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November 3, 2008
Halloween Parade pics
Halloween fell on a Friday this year, and it was a warm night, so the Village Halloween Parade was especially popular. Some sponsored floats pulled out at the last minute, which just made more room for the tens of thousands of marchers, and a reported 2 million spectators lining 6th Avenue.
Among all the demonic Sarah Palins, Jokers, and Joe the Plumbers, there were many inspired costumes. A few photographic highlights:
- Wall-E and Eve
- Photo booth filmstrip
- A posse of Richard Simmons
- Scuba diver being eaten by a shark
- The curious "yip yip yip yip" aliens from Sesame Street
- Pac-man with ghosts
- Highbrow costumes: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
- Lowbrow costumes: Curious George, Spidey, and Pac-Man
- Buffalo Bill For Obama, a political Silence of the Lambs conceptual costume, I think
- The zombie nurse with zombie baby from Peter Jackson's Dead Alive
- Spartan warrior from 300
- Posse of scary Stanley Kubrick characters
- A zombie with Hindu deities
- Alive Michael Phelps meets zombie Michael Phelps
- Bjorn Borg
And one of my favorites: white pointy-headed guys covered in inflated rubber gloves. There is probably an underlying concept here that I'm not understanding, but I still love it.
Many more photos are up on Flickr.
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NYC, Robot-on-the-Spot
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Comments
I remember seeing the Richard Simmons posse over 10 years ago (same pink outfits and all) when I lived in NYC, but it seems to have grown.
Posted by: egn at November 4, 2008 1:30 PM
Thanks for the nice pics of my girfriend and me as Sylvie and Ted!
Posted by: lisa at November 10, 2008 5:14 PM
Those guys with the gloves are going to keep me awake at night.
Posted by: T-Rock at November 4, 2008 11:58 AM