The WWE RAW recently broadcast a Diva Costume Contest to celebrate Halloween.
In the true spirit of Halloween, the women wrestlers dressed in costume and then proceeded to beat each other up. Here are a few photos of their costumes and also a video clip from the broadcast.
PARAMUS, N.J. (CBS) - West Brook Middle School students celebrated Halloween last Friday by wearing costumes to school. But 13-year-old Alex Woinski was kicked out for showing up in a Jesus costume. Alex has long brown hair and bears a striking resemblance to Jesus, his friends say.
According to the school principal, his costume was offensive to some students, and this was the first time any student had dressed like Jesus.
“I don’t think I overreacted,” Principal Joan Broe told CBS news.
CLICK HERE to watch the CBS news video.
What do you think? Is the costume offensive? Did the principal overreact? Feel free to share your opinions in the comments below.
So, did everyone have a good Halloween? For the folks in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it was killer.
Over 3,000 zombies gathered in the streets, apparently breaking a world record. This is awesome.
Video Blogger Brigitte Dale has some helpful advice regarding social situations at a costume party. She also shows off her costume, which is incredibly simple but somehow she makes it work. Her video blogs are fun, enjoy!
Most Halloween stories are usually scary…and fictional. How about some amusing true Halloween stories for a change? These real accounts were sent in to Reader’s Digest. LOL!
Playing With Fire
Firefighters are required to wear their full bunker gear on all safety calls, even to advise homeowners of a county ordinance against burning leaves after dark. One Halloween, two fire workers waited on the porch of one such offending household, helmets in hand, until a woman finally opened the door. Promptly dropping a candy bar into each helmet, she remarked, “You boys are a little old for this sort of thing, aren’t you?” and closed the door.
Picture This
For Halloween, one child wanted to be the The Incredible Hulk. Using food coloring and a washcloth, his hands, face, neck and blond hair were dyed the same green shade of the TV monster. After his bath the next morning, a faint green tint still remained. As he was heading out the door for school, the child handed his mother a note he’d forgotten to give her the day before. The mother quickly opened the note to find, with dismay, that school pictures were going to be taken that day.
Right place, Wrong time
On Halloween night a driver called a road-service dispatch office complaining that he was locked out of his car. The dispatcher forwarded the information to a locksmith, along with one more detail: The car was parked at a nudist colony. Of course, the locksmith arrived in record time. But when he called the dispatch service later to report, he wasn’t amused. “Figures,” he said. “I finally get to go to a nudist colony, and they’re having a costume party!”
There’s no sense having a Halloween party if you’re not planning on creeping people out with horror films, monster mashes and eerie appetizers.
You can have your very own Fear Factor Food Fest with these yucky and yummy snacks:
Eerie Eyeballs
Bleeding Heart
Decaying corpse flesh with entrails
Head on over to britta.com for the recipies to enjoy eerie eats this Halloween.
Need some last minute Halloween costume ideas? How about a Pun Costume?
ThatCostumeGirl has a fun list of pun costumes that are easy and affordable to make.
To name a few: Pink I, Black Eyed Peas, Dust Bunny, Cereal Killer, Bird Flu and Static Cling. Ha! Those are great.
Check ‘em out at ThatCostumeGirl.com!
I love watching all the free TV shows and clips on Hulu.com. I can spend hours on that site watching both old and new shows, and best of all, it’s 100% legal - Yay!
Today I browsed Hulu looking for Halloween related video clips. I found some great stuff by Howcast, perfect for this time of year.
This is a great instructional clip on how to get the most Halloween candy. Very funny and insightful!
Is your house haunted by a ghost? Here’s a handy tutorial to help you get rid of your unwanted guest.
Don’t get caught unprepared by a vampire. These helpful tips will keep you and your loved ones from being bitten.
Speaking of vampires, why not treat yourself to a full episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? In this Halloween episode, people magically turn into whatever costume they are wearing. It’s frightfully hilarious.
Hulu has full episodes of Angel, too. Everyone loves this vampire with a soul. Here’s the pilot episode of the Buffy spin-off.
Ah, wonderful stuff. If you have the time, Hulu is a great place to discover old and new TV shows for free, plus loads of clips featuring the best of the web. Unfortunately, I don’t think Hulu.com works for folks outside of the U.S. Hope that changes soon.
If you know of any great Halloween-related clips, please share with us in the comments below.
Here at MyDisguises, we are deadly excited for World Zombie Day on Oct. 26th. I thought it would fun to look back on a few of our posts regarding Zombies.
Costumes of the Dead
If you’re interested in learning how to make fake blood and wounds, Camilla wrote a great piece about DIY zombie makeup.
Who knew that corn syrup, cotton balls and marshmellows could be used so effectively? This is a great read for all wannabe zombies. [link]
Zombie Haiku
Everyone enjoys good Haiku poetry, and zombies are no different. Check out this post for some fun zombie Haiku examples, a link to a zombie Haiku website and a few submissions from our own commenters. [link]
moaning and groaning
walking dead are chasing me
but i run faster
Stevil and his Zombies
In an application to join the Evil Leage of Evil, Steve demonstrates his abilities to conjur zombies with a snap of his fingers.
Heh, I love the song he sings with the zombies. [link]
Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
This is one of the funniest Youtube videos I’ve ever seen. The poor kid is nervous about being on live TV, and when the reporter asks him about his zombie makeup, he blurts out, “I like turtles!”
The many parodies that cropped up in response are hilarious as well. [link]
Good times here at MyDiguises. I hope everyone gets an awesome facepaint job for World Zombie Day. We like zombies!
And so do turtles… 
Waylou.com has a great collection of geeky Jack O Lanterns made by master pumpkin carvers. The talent and creativity of genre fans never cease to amaze me. These are fantastic!
Great stuff! Head on over to Waylou to view all 34 Geeky Pumpkins.
1932: Premiere of White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi. Capitalizing on previous voodoo zombie themes, it is regarded as the first legitimate zombie film ever made. Zombies are portrayed as mindless, shambling henchmen under the spell of an evil magician.
1930’s – 1960’s: Zombies, typically still voodoo-inspired, continue to appear in cinema periodically. Notable films include: I Walked with a Zombie (1943), the notorious Plan 9 from Outer space (1959) and EC Comics’ Tales from the Crypt. 
1954: Publication of I am Legend, by author Richard Matheson, the story of a future Los Angeles overrun with undead bloodsucking beings, influences the zombie genre with the portrayal of a worldwide apocalypse due to an infestation. Although classified as a vampire story and referred to as “the first modern vampire novel,” it has an authoritative impact on the zombie genre through the work of George Romero. Romero, by his own admission, was greatly influenced by the novel and its 1964 adaptation when writing the film Night of the Living Dead. 
1968: Night of the Living Dead crushes former horror film taboos to became a genre-defining classic, proving more influential on the zombie archetype than any other literary or cinematic work (see Zombie Evolution: Part 1 below)
1978: George Romero follows up Night with Dawn of the Dead. The film tells the story of four survivors of the expanding zombie apocalypse as they take refuge in an abandoned shopping mall, in Monroeville (Pennsylvania), where they intend to wait out the crisis. They clear the mall of the undead and barricade the entrances with tractor-trailers. But they have more than the undead to worry about. They also have to contend with a band of looting bikers and their own mounting tensions. Here’s a look at the trailer:
Make sure you check back for more zombie goodness, including tutorials on how to do zombie makeup on the cheap and information on the official World Zombie Day!
