Boulder and the Beautiful

Need Halloween inspiration?
The Ritz has released it’s favorite costumes this year:

* Rockstar
* Political candidates, especially Sarah Palin
* Sexy firefighters
* Beer girls
* Golden Buddhas
* Queen of hearts
* Punk rock
* Gothic
* Tattoos
* Indiana Jones
* Heavy metal rocker
* Batman
* Poison Ivy
* ’80s
* Vegas swingers in white platform boots with goldfish in heels
* Funky disco and pimp daddies with velvet and animal-print. Lots of gold chains over a fake hairy chest.
* Plenty of Elvis sightings and the ever-popular Marilyn
* Fairies
* Drag queens
* Superheroes
* Naughty school-girls
* Pregnant nuns

Then the other night, my friends and I were trying to brainstorm ideas for our friend, Molly. Here is what we came up with:
* Susan, George Castanza’s fiance from “Seinfeld,” who died licking envelopes.
* The mom from American Dad
* Towlie from “South Park” 
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* Ms. Pac Man
* Ren and Stimpy
* Rocky and Bullwinkle
* Rock of Love
* A character from “Lost” (but mostly because we’re obsessed with the show)
* Sarah Silverman
* A midget in a bucket (don’t ask)
* A lion, with ratted big hair and gold body paint
* Flava Flave
* Mr. T
* Alf
* Marge Simpson
* A poodle
* Rainbow Bright
* Someone else at the party

Then we started thinking about costumes we could make out things we already have in our closets. We came up with:
* A can-can girl
* A ballerina
* A motorcycle racer
* An ’80s prom queen
* “Carrie” the bloody prom queen
* A Vargas cowgirl
* A hot dog.

OK, not a hot dog, but somehow hot dogs always come up in our conversations.

One of my favorite costumes of Halloween pasts was a friend who dressed up like a carnival game: a piece of carboard with balloons stuck all over it. He carried darts and let people play his game/costume for $1. Fun, yet dangerous. Although no one lost an eye.

Replace your Southwestern-print vests, apple applique sweatshirts, wacky buttons and sweater vests!

 Fresh Produce is having a special teacher shopping promotion 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. Teachers receive 20 percent off the entire store and are eligible to win a $100 gift certificate.

 
See? Look at this nice lady. She could be a teacher. But she’s hot. Hot for teacher. It’s a song. Learn it. Sing it.  

Check out www.freshproducesportswear.com for some fashion ideas.
Oh, and before you get mad at me for knocking teacher style, please know that once I sat in and sort of helped a class and stuff, so I’m pretty much a teacher, so I have the right to make fun. (I did wear a sweater vest with a special kitty cat design on it that day.) (Another teacher had the same outfit as me; it was soooo awkward.)

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www.coffeecover.etsy.com

Cute and reusable coffee covers made by two Boulder roommates.
I guess the only irony is: Why use reusable coffee covers on disposable cups?
Instead, just buy them for the cute factor. And the fact that the cardboard ones never fit right and slide around and have a gross texture.

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A Dutch town has decided to help prostitutes off the streets, one makeover at a time.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/10/10/prostitution/index.html

Work Hot, defined:
When someone appears to be hot, but upon further investigation, you realize they are not really hot; they just appear to look hot in the context of the office.

People can be “Work Hot” but not hot in real life. It is a byproduct of being bored here in the office, plus the limited supply of humans in the confined space, plus more boredom.

Example:
Dude: That intern is hot.
Dude’s coworker: No, dude. She’s not. Look closer.
Dude: Oh, dang, you’re right. She’s just Work Hot.

Work Plain is another phenomenon, whereby someone appears to be average at work, because they dress down and are sabotaged by the fluorescent lights. Then you see them out in public and become entranced by their striking good looks and wonder how you never noticed them at work before. But then the next day at work, they are Work Plain again.
Note: This is a VERY, VERY RARE phenom, so don’t get all excited and think that your Work Hot coworker might actually be Work Plain and even better looking than you are imagining that they are even though they’re not because it’s just office-altered. See, it is very complicated. This is why we do not advise dating someone you work with. It is difficult to know what you are getting into.

Check out this event:
Purse Huggers: Women’s Intimate Relationship With Their Purses
Guest speaker Karie Koplar will discuss women and their relationship with their purses, 6 p.m., Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, $5; 303-449-3464.

DIVAS in Drag

To benefit Boarding for Breast Cancer, a drag show that showcases the latest in ladies winter snowboarding attire and accessories while earning money for the B4BC Foundation. The cause is worthy, though the men may be girly.
The event will include snowboard video games, beverages, extreme raffle prizes and a stylish fashion show, 7 p.m. Oct. 30, Outdoor DIVAS, 1133 Pearl St., Boulder, $20. Details: 303-449-3482 or www.outdoorDIVAS.com.

Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous!
“A Drag and Fall Fashion Show,” to benefit the Boulder County AIDS Project, to promote HIV awareness, prevention, and testing. Local drag performers and models will entertain, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, $18-$25. Details: 888-512-7469 for ticket information, 303-444-6121, ext. 119 for event information or www.thedairy.org.

This is an example of when my job becomes very difficult.
Do I want to share this info with the public?
Oh no. No no no no no. I want to keep this to myself.
But will I?
Yes… begrudgingly.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre will hold a costume sale, open to the public, Saturday Oct. 11 from noon to 4 p.m. at the theater located at 5501 Arapahoe Ave. The theater will hold a pre-sale for theater companies from 10 a.m. to noon that day. If theater companies are looking for something specific, they are urged to call Michael Duran at 303-449-6000, ext. 120.