Sure there are your princesses, football players and  superheroes, but this year there seems to be more of the year of the wink-wink High Concept Halloween. Coming to my door tonight was a kid dressed as Comedy Central, another kid dressed as Obama (accompanied by his father, Bill Clinton) and a Lady Gaga who looked to be about 8. Across the street a teenager who’d been to the Rally to Restore Sanity yesterday carved a pumpkin of Stephen Colbert, and not from a stencil. Our own correspondent Kristie Cattafi camed dressed as “Lois Lane” (“Modern day lois lane is a blogger..true story,” she posted on Facebook.)
Then there were the unintentional ironies, like the kid whose cellphone went off while waiting for his candy.Â
Unsurprisingly, with a whole weekend of build-up starting with Friday afternoon school parades, trick-or-treating started early. Baristanet’s first official sighting, reported by Annette Batson in Montclair — came in at 1:57 p.m. Between 4 and 5 p.m., the crowds were out in earnest — with peak doorbell ringing coming in between 6:30 and 7 p.m.
Jon Bonesteel reports from Montclair:
Book lady shuts down at 7:00 PM, “Quite the operation” at Bobbi Brown’s says my daughter, with “Mr.” [that would be Steven Plofker] handing out wine to adults. Montclair Ave a very crowded. HIgh density candy zones being targeted effectively.
Does anybody know what the Colberts were handing out?
Add your Halloween pictures to our Flickr group or send them to tips@baristanet.com.
Is the use of the word ‘ironic’ in your headline supposed to be ironic?
“Does anybody know what the Colberts were handing out?”
Does anyone really care?
I’ll certainly sleep soundly tonight, knowing that the Brown-Plofker residence was especially generous.
How the heck did he/she carve that pumpkin like that? It looks like a relief sculpture. Thats amazing.