It's back [goats.com]!

Avatar Halloween is coming up soon!

Prepare to dress your avatar up in a costume! The fun will be had, the hilarity will ensue!

This year, Avatar Halloween runs from Wednesday the 26th of October through Wednesday the 2nd of November!

Will there be prizes? Not to suggest that the admiration of one's peers isn't reward enough.

In Response to mkinyon (#29860):

I'd think that seeing Gauss in Mickey Mouse ears would be prize enough!

No, this is just a community thing.

In Response to zamphir (#29861):

Confound your prescience! Now I have to come up with another costume.

I was going to feed you another straight line and ask if we would bob for apples, but that's just too easy.

In Response to mkinyon (#29862):

I was going to feed you another straight line and ask if we would bob for apples, but that's just too easy.

Neil is the one that likes apples.

In Response to mkinyon (#29862):

"Is South Bend Indiana some sort of giant cave or something?" -- Deathalicious

Woo!! My second sig! Must be a goats record!

In Response to zamphir (#29864):

Neil is the one that likes apples.

Neil Gaiman certainly did write the story "Snow, Glass, Apples", a dark and gothic take on the tale of Snow White. It is featured in his short story collection "Smoke and Mirrors".

I was going to feed you another straight line

Sorry, I don't do cocaine. This is to be contrasted with the song "She's your Cocaine" by Tori Amos, ostensibly about a man driven to transvestism by his obsessive desire for a manipulative woman. This song is featured on her album "From the Choirgirl Hotel".

Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman, famously, are close friends and in fact often reference each other in their respective works. In fact, there is a reference to the story "Snow, Glass, Apples" in Tori Amos's song "Carbon" from her album "Scarlet's Walk". Tori Amos is part of the inspiration for some of the character of Delirium, one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.

I guess I'll be cruising around neked for a few days. Not that it would particularly surprise anyone.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#29896):

I guess I'll be cruising around neked for a few days. Not that it would particularly surprise anyone.

It's Monday. Avatar Halloween doesn't start until Wednesday.

Also, you appear to be using the same [goats.com] costume you used last time, with a different name.

Slacker.

In Response to snipergirl (#29893):

Neil Gaiman certainly did write the story "Snow, Glass, Apples"

I am too embarrassed to admit how long I spent on search engines looking for some other famous Neil (Young, Armstrong, etc.) with a connection to apples. I bow to your superior pop-culture/literary name-dropping skillz.

In Response to zamphir (#29897):

Slacker.

Damn straight. I should have known somebody around here would call me out on it.

In Response to mkinyon (#29902):

Takes a bow

Years of honing my Jedi skillz, my son... perhaps you too are strong in the force?

(Too much KoToR)

In Response to snipergirl (#29916):

perhaps you too are strong in the force?

Sure. I'll levitate you and this box and those rocks and R2D2, while I stand on my head and bend this spoon.

But the Cat in the Hat has us both beat:

"I can hold up the cup
And the milk and the cake!
I can hold up these books!
And the fish on a rake!
I can hold the toy ship
And a little toy man!
And look! With my tail
I can hold a red fan!
I can fan with the fan
As I hop on the ball!
But that is not all.
Oh, no.
That is not all...."

Zombie Zamphir in da Hizzzowwwwse!

In Response to zamphir (#29955):

Zamphir, oh! Zamphir, say have you seen Zamphir?
Zamphir, the Punctured Zombie ...

Groucho Gauss is in the house!

In Response to zamphir (#29955):

In keeping with Zamphir, I too am a zombie.

In Response to Deathalicious (#29957):

(Get it? BSOD. lol!)

In Response to snipergirl (#29893):

Delirium is so cool. I would totally be her friend, but I would never lend her pencils.

I am made of POISON!

Also, because I worked so hard on it, the full-light version (on my kitchen counter):


 

In Response to Deathalicious (#29959):

Like everyone else I am in love with Death. Guess that makes me a whiny goth on LJ, right. Heh.

But Rose Walker is pretty spunky too.

I would also be friends with Delirium, but I would totally sleep with Tori Amos.

I don't really have a redhead fetish, honest!

In Response to gtyrrell (#29963):

Dude...

I hope that's water...

In Response to zamphir (#29965):

So he can electrocute himself? And then turn into a zombie too?

Meanie.

In Response to snipergirl (#29966):

So he can electrocute himself? And then turn into a zombie too?

No... I mean, there's some sort of ... liquid... on the front of the pumpkin and leaking down the counter.

Meanie.
You've known me how long?

In Response to zamphir (#29965):

I hope that's water...

Duh.

It's poison.
 

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