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While it's still Halloween, I'll point readers to a lovely "Cat and Girl" cartoon with a potential costume idea. I do worry, that the joke might apply to me.

I don't particularly care for Halloween, and I have a hard time coming up with costume ideas. Last year, I went as a "binary opposition," wearing a black t-shirt with a zero ironed-on the front and a one on the back. I had to explain it to a bunch of people, even a communication professor. In 2000, I decided to dress as "a dot-com guy," wearing khaki pants and a polo shirt with a computer company logo. I didn't know the people at the party, and they just assumed I wasn't wearing a costume.

This year I decided to go as a LARPer. I made a foam-and-PVC-pipe "boffer" sword, plus a dorky felt hat. I chickened out before the big party Saturday, realizing that, yet again, no one would get my joke. I just went to party wearing a hoodie and shorts - normal McChris clothes - and I didn't feel out of place. One of my friends confronted me about my lack of costume. I explained that I had started a costume, saying, "I guess it's like conceptual art, making a costume, then leaving it home." My conceptual art costume was comfortable and unobtrusive, which suited me just fine.