4 posts tagged “geek prom”
I have a costume conundrum. It is one month (minus a day) before Geek Prom. I want to be Princess Leia going to the prom. No, I do not want to go in a Princess Leia costume. I have a pair of awesome buns (that I put on my head) which were made for me a couple years ago when I was a Princess Leia PEZ dispenser for Halloween ( And again was a PL PEZ at the Minnesota PEZ Convention and won third place in a costume contest).
But the PEZ costume is very difficult to move in. So difficult, in fact, that at a Halloween party a couple years ago I asked Geek Prom founder to move my car out of a tight spot. This was a favor gone bad, as he was equally impaired by alcohol as I was mobility impaired; end result was a scratched car. Never let your friends drink & drive. Or drive in PEZ costumes.
Anyway, I don't want to be an imperfect replica of the movie Star Wars Princess Leia and nor do I want to be a mobility impaired PEZ dispenser. I want to be Leia going to the prom. I'm pretty sure they didn't have proms a "Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".
Or maybe the 80s, when I didn't go to the prom in high school, suffices as a long time ago, but now is the galaxy where a girl with cinnamon rolls on her head goes to the prom.
Dress suggestions are welcomed.
I already posted this here, but since this makes me laugh and this is my blog, I'm reposting. Besides, I get to test Vox's You Tube capacities. This post includes extra hyperlinks, for you web-sters who like to know more about things.
The other day LP said that I should be Starfire for Halloween "because
she dresses in purple." Since we don't have cable, it took some
questioning before I learned that besides being a Duluth hipster,
Starfire is also a female superhero on Teen Titans. So I went on You
Tube to do some Starfire research and found the You Tube video.
I found this pee-inducing FUNNY! See, in September I read at Laurie's wedding, and what I read were verses from Total Eclipse of the Heart. I kept envisioning myself at the woodsy wedding in Starfire attire, belting out the song. I really, really wish I would have belted the lines at the wedding, even though I would have been off-key and scared Laurie's older relatives.
In regards to a Starfire costume, I would not wear such an ensamble. Unless I was 50 lbs skinnier and going to Stargate. I bet cartoon Starfire would hang-out at Stargate. And she's in love with a "titan" Robin? Really? I was always more an aquaman (orange-sweaterd Super Friends version) kind of gal. Local hipster Starfire was Aquaman at Geek Prom II. Not saying I have a crush on the in-the-flesh Starfire, just bringing this full circle.
Every Friday the 13th I think of my high school friend & foe, Nate Forneris. We went to a small & private college-prep school, which had an even smaller group of theatre geeks. Nate & I were the theatre geeks of our class, sometimes great friends and other times we hated each other. Ahh…DRAMA!
Nate was born on a Friday seven days after me, August 13th. When a Friday the 13th fell during the school year, Nate would skip school. He’d skip other Fridays as well, but made it known, well I guess to us in the know, that he would not be in class on Friday the 13th. One Thursday the 12th our Junior year, a friend’s parents were out of town so she & I and others stayed up late raiding their home bar. We were understandably in no condition to attend class the next day, and I decided if Nate could skip and get away with it, then we could also. We met-up with Nate that Friday the 13th and spent a delinquent afternoon in downtown Duluth.
My friend and I got caught. We received a lecture from the parent bar owners about how “moderation is the key to drinking” and in-school detention for skipping. Nate, on the other hand, got away with that truant day.
The last time I saw Nate was in April 2004 at Geek Prom III (photo above). He committed suicide the following July -- his final truant act. Not sure what Nate’s beliefs were; his parents were Catholic but know Nate definitely was not. Wherever he is, I’m sure that today he’s shirking all responsibilities. Ahh...nate, nate, nate....
