Halloween 2013!

For as much as I love Halloween, half-assing costumes really gets my goat. You know what else is annoying on Halloween?

• Overly trendy costumes. People think they are being original, maybe funny? when they dress up in super timely, probably pop-culture related costume. Example: the Miley Cyrus VMA performace costume this year. Not funny. Too many people did it. Even worse, too many uncool people did it- Paris Hilton, Kelly Ripa. Just seems really, really lame.
• Costumes that are confusing. I saw a camouflage bodysuit. Is that a soldier? I don't understand.
• Boring skanky costumes. Why do so many people want to be slutty kitty? Especially when they can be something funny and less obvious, say... slutty Frodo. Be slutty, but don't be boring slutty.
• Unspecific Costumes. Come up with a backstory if your costume doesn't have one, its so much more fun! Take Heidi Klum's "elderly woman". Why wasn't she a character or a classic Hollywood person? Halloween is about being someone else for the night, in a fun way. How can she just be an elderly woman? What is that expressing? Its not as bad the above faux-pas, but still.

Lots of boring this year. Lots of unspecific. Lots of stupid trendy. But there were still some fun costumes by celebrities too! I don't even feel the need to bother with a worst of list right now, maybe I'll add that later. If you want to look at some boring Halloween outfits, any gossip site will do.

Here is some of the awesome:

Yes this is a pop culture costume (Lil' Kim from some award show several years back), but it is original and not timely! It is recognizable enough to recall the reference, but not too recognizable that everyone would get it. It's also fun and colorful! I'm a fan. Of the costume-not naked Miley. Gross.

I like the old school costume thing when people commit! I especially like that Dracula. You go NPH and family!

LOVE both of these!!!! Original, committed, specific. It doesn't get much better! Elizabeth wins this year. Unfortunately, I don't recognize these people...

So there you have it. 2013 Halloween. Mostly disappointing, but it was a Thursday! Why can't we have it on every last Friday of October? There can be one united weekend of everyone dressing up, rather than two weeks of noncommittal costumes leading up to it. Let's just make that official now.