| November 2, 2009 | The (Frog) Princess and the Pea(pod) |
 It's hard to believe that I blogged about our Halloween costumes this year, and neglected to mention the dogs' costumes. What good is Halloween if you don't get a chance to dress up dogs in costumes? Any excuse to dress dogs up in outrageous outfits must be visually documented. Searches for "Dogs in costumes" needs to give "Funny cat viral videos" a run on Google trends, right? This year, we dressed Maggie and Bocce up as the (Frog) Princess and the Pea(pod). Bocce was a Dalmation puppy sidekick to my Cruella De Ville for her first Halloween in 1998. This is Maggie's first time dressing up. Labels: bocce, chris, costume, dog, halloween, pics posted by Jess Barron @ 7:27 AM 
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| 'The Crazy Eights' - Nadya and Kate |
After much deliberation this year for Halloween, Chris and I dressed up as "The Crazy Eights" (I was Octomom Nadya Suleman and he was Kate Gosselin).  We packed up sixteen of our children and went out to meet Bri and Derek at a Halloween party at the W in Westwood. Bri and Derek wore traditional German outfits -- she carried a giant beer stein, and he wore lederhosen. There were two Michael Jacksons and plenty of scantily-clad ladies, but we were shocked to find that I was the only Octomom in the entire place, and Chris was the only Kate!  We made out at the bar and made up a story of how Kate and Nadya went from catfights to kissing and became lesbian life-partners and started their own new reality TV show called "Nadya and Kate Plus Twenty-Eight."
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| October 15, 2009 | It Takes Two |
Chris and I have two great ideas for our costumes this Halloween. Unfortunately I can't tell you what they are so that you can help us decide, because that would ruin the surprise. We take Halloween VERY seriously, and we don't like to announce our costumes ahead of time. It would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it? Last year we dressed up as Sid and Nancy and imitated their classic poses. When we were out at a party in Santa Monica at Joanna's house, to complete the effect, we made sure to shout key lines from the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy: Love Kills." Of course, this meant I was saying things like, "Siiiiid! They wouldn't send us any money! They said we'd spend it on DRUGS!" Check out our pics from Halloween 2008 in LA. For Halloween 2007, we dressed up as Rick Deckard and Rachael the replicant from 1982's "Blade Runner." We are both HUGE fans of the film, so we didn't forget the important details. For example, I don't even smoke, but I held a clove cigarette during the Voight-Kampff test "interrogation scene" photos. See our pics from Halloween 2007 in LA. For Halloween 2006, we dressed up as Britney and K.Fed. They were still married at the time. And we had the babies, and everything. No detail was spared. Chris wore huge diamond (well, Cubic Zirconia) stud earrings and white sneakers, and I drove the car with the babies on my lap. See our pics from Halloween 2006 in LA.For Halloween 2006, we made a video of trying to decide what to wear. We posted it on Yahoo! Video and YouTube and it went viral and received over 13,000 views. Check it out: Labels: chris, halloween, pics, video posted by Jess Barron @ 8:16 AM
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| October 31, 2006 | Birtney and KFed Do Halloween 2006 in L.A. |
Chris and I dressed up as Britney and KFed this year.  Check out this video showing how we decided what to wear. We started Saturday night at the Halloween Vlog Fest party in honor of Amanda Congdon in the lobby of the Yahoo! Center in Santa Monica, and then we were headed to West Hollywood to a fabulous bash at Court's place. My two favorite costumes of the evening were Strawberry Shortcake (a.k.a. Sam of daily online video serial show Sam Has 7 Friends at the vlog party) and a seriously decked-out Marie Antoinette (in WeHo). Check out the photos. Labels: britney, chris, halloween, kfed, la, party, photos, video, vlog, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 11:40 PM
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| October 27, 2006 | Getting 'Sexy' for Halloween |
 Last Friday, October 20, I went on MSNBC's "The Most" with Alison Stewart to talk about popular Halloween costume searches this year on Yahoo! If you play a drinking game and take a shot of tequila every time I said "sexy" during the 60 second interview, you might get sick. Pirate costumes are popular this year, particularly sexy pirates. I'm not revealing what my costume is this year...yet. But from 1997-2004, I've been Aeon Flux, Cruella Deville, a vampire, a devil, a bumblebee, a bad pilgrim, legally blonde, and most recently, Jackie Kennedy. Labels: costume, halloween, msnbc, photos, sexy, video, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 6:11 AM
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| October 31, 2003 | 'A Girl As Brave and Dangerous as Aeon Flux' |
He said, "I want a girl as brave and dangerous as Aeon Flux." I said, "I dressed up as Aeon Flux for Halloween one year." After that it was silence, and sometimes I think I just don't get it. Today Andy and I drove to work down the 101, and it was cold and there were enormous clouds everywhere all around us. It felt so strange -- like a completely foreign planet. It's been sunny and warm forever now, so when I saw the clouds they made me feel weird. There was even a patch of rain, and I realized I hadn't seen rain in months. Rain -- even 30 seconds of drizzle -- snapped me out of the amazing, sunny, warm and seemingly neverending California summer we had this year. (Unusual for San Francisco.) As you would imagine, rain is completely out of place in Sunnyvale. Up until today our daily weather was pretty much always this. Labels: andy, commute, costume, halloween, sanfrancisco, sf posted by Jess Barron @ 4:07 PM
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