We also went to a couple of "haunted houses" - big warehouses converted into horror mazes with loads of live actors. One of them ("Dream Reapers") was really good, very big and long, very disorienting , and lots of weird sick stuff (a big redneck house where the inbreds were chopping each other up in the bath, strange clowns muttering stuff in your ears, horrible kids speaking in tongues in the corners, stuff like that) - not (just) for kids, really! The other was a bit shoddy, you never really felt like you were anywhere other than a big caravan in a carpark, with black curtains everywhere.
At the weekend we scoured some bars and parties. There was a $200 prize at the first bar we went to,
decided by audience cheering - we thought we had it in the bag, 
'til all the jocks (rugger buggers) started chanting for some guy in a sweatshirt smoking a cigar.
Turns out his "costume" was "Ditko",
coach to the Chicago Bears, who are winning the league right now, so the competition was over, we were
lucky to even get the runner-up $75 bar tab.
There were a few good costumes at the parties we went to - the best one I saw all night was a giant
cardboard "MySpace" page, with the guy's head sticking through a photo square, and he was adding to
his "friends" with a polaroid camera all night. I don't even have a picture of him, but I plagiarised
the whole thing for Halloween at work. Yes, Halloween costumes are acceptable in the office over here,
it seems.
MAKE & DO
Full instructions - if your appetite for papier mache literature continues to gnaw.
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