This week I asked the PorchDrinking staff about epic costumes for purely selfish I-don’t-have-a-costume-yet ideas. My prompt: “Halloween is at the end of the month and I’m in need of costume ideas. What’s the best Halloween costume you’ve ever worn or seen? Or based on recent pop culture, what would be an epic costume for 2013? Picture submissions welcome”.
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Every election year my costumes are political. Last year I was Big Bird with a “The 47%” sign. But my Big Bird was the fabulous Manila Luzon drag queen version with dyed ombre tights, yellow velor dress with a big yellow feather train and orange high heels with orange lace gloves. It was epic. Here’s my previous Alice and viking costumes. – Kat

Last year, I went as Hurricane Sandy. I dressed as Sandy from Grease (think leggings, leather jacket, curly hair, red lipstick) and pinned leaves in my hair. I went around with a spray bottle of water and spritzed people randomly. Most were less than thrilled by this but I feel I committed fully to my costume. I am expecting to see a lot of Ted Cruz Green Eggs and Ham this year – especially here in DC. There will undoubtedly be a lot of Miley/Robin Thicke duos. – Erin

Last year I dressed as Lasso the Twinkie, the year before was Bob’s Big Boy. I think a group theme far surpasses any individual costume. Some highlights over the years: Ghost Busters, American Gladiators, Pacman and the Ghosts. This year I am thinking Space Balls theme. – Josh B.

One year I printed out two large images of toast and mounted them on on foam board with some straps.  I wore a brown t-shirt with word “peanut butter” on it and my friend has a purple shirt with “jelly” on it.  And when we danced we made an awesome PB&J sandwich.  Also the whole night we heard people constantly singing “peanut butter jelly time!  peanut butter jelly time” – Josh K.

I’ve always been super lazy when it comes to Halloween, for like 5 straight years I was a Tomato because my dad was a manager of a Fazoli’s and I just asked to borrow their promo Tomato costume. This year I’m guessing we’ll see lots of people dressed as “The Fox” but purist should go as Stonehenge or Jan Egeland. – Tristan

I’m lazy with costumes. Because my name’s Drew, my go-to quick costume is medical scrubs, a stethoscope, and a nametag that says “Dr. Ew.” Last year I was PTSD Captain America, complete with sign asking for donations to a veteran. It was in bad taste, I know. I got what I deserved – everyone at the party kept saying they loved my “Fat Captain America” outfit. – Drew

My favorite costume in recent years was when I went as Jareth the Goblin King from Labrynth. It was amazing. And also slightly revealing. This year I’m thinking of going as Walter White circa Season One, Episode One. That’s right… Tighty whities. Of course this all depends on the weather and whether or not a grown man can walk around Denver without his pants on. – Nate

I’ll dye my hair red, throw a Powder Keg brewing tee on and go as Phil Joyce since he vetoed my previous idea of going as Shaun Hill. – Gabe

Year before last I was the Centaur for Disease Control.  Bottom half horse, top half surgeon (the hazmat costumes were too expensive).  I think I’m the only one who laughed at the joke, which is how Halloween usually goes for me. – Sue

Gabe going as Phil is pure genius. In College, I found a costume that my mother had made for 1 of brothers when we were kids. It was a Skittles bag & I rocked that costume for like 6 or 7 years. I gave it to my sister when she entered college, thus continuing the Skittles bag tradition on UK’s campus. – Justin

Well this makes it easy… If I count as a halloween costume, I’ll just go as myself and beat Gabe for one of Josh’s Blue Ribbons. Gabe, even if you can pull the hair off (have you seen my hair?!) good luck matching my dreamy blue eyes and chiseled physique.
I really like group costumes. The best costumes I’ve seen have been in this order.
1. Mario Kart. About 5-6 friends dressed up as characters from mario cart and had matching kids pedal carts. They rolled around town as a pack and had a red dodgeball and bag full of bananas that they threw at each other.
2. Fruit of the loom. One guy in tighty whities (Nate, fulfill your dream with friends involved) and the rest dressed as various fruit.
3. Pac Man and Ghosts. – Phillip

So last year, my friends had a HallowMEME party, in which everyone was requested to come as a recent meme. I went for the throwback to original meme/internet nonsense and went as Strong Bad. I even printed out scenes from Trogdor on a board and carried it around. Also present at the party was, Double Rainbow (a couple’s costume), Success baby, that effed up Jesus painting, and one of my besties was the ErrMahGerd Gehrs Bermps! girl. Plus lots more. Other previous costumes I’m proud of: Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) and Lilu Dallas (5th Element) and Sexy Lobster because of that college humor sketch. – Marie

(Editor’s note. Cory’s response was a wordless photo-only submission of winning.)

Here I am, age 3???, as a hobo clown? Not really sure. I wasn’t in charge of my costumes, much less anything at that point. Mom used to make all of my costumes. – Justin

 

 

 

 

I’ve always wanted to do a couple’s costume- Where’s Waldo and Carmen San Diego. Works on two levels: childhood nostalgia, and if you don’t end up going to the party, you can say “we were Waldo and Carmen San Diego- couldn’t you find us?” – Laura

My fiancee and I have done a bunch of ridiculous couples costumes the past few years. The best one by far was Katy Perry and Russel Brand for a Halloween Phish show in Atlantic City a couple years ago. Best Halloween ever. – Nick

Good ole college days + a pic of the fast food chain gang. And while this isn’t Halloween per se, this is a group shot of our annual beer olympic crew 2 years ago (Can’t find a group shot from last year yet). We will be celebrating our ninth year this upcoming January/February.

 
And in case you were wondering, the second picture is of our own  badass Chris Knost repping Kissmyanthia when he came to town with delusions of Gold Medals. – Josh

The delusions were real, the gold medal was never within our reach. Thankfully, the spirit of Kiss my Anthia lived on nonetheless. – Chris