31 October 2011
My Halloween costume
Posted by Callan
Here’s what I did for my Halloween costume this year. I decided to be a frog egg mass, with spawning frogs spewing gametes all over in a big orgiastic mess. Start with one ‘normal’ Callan:
Switch to frog-egg colored clothing:
Don a pair of foam packing bubble wrap “trousers:
Add a “tunic” of bubble wrap, hot-glued into a blobby mass:
Add a spawning frog in back, and another in front:
Add a headpiece of bubble wrap with a third spawning frog, and bubbley goggles over the eyes:
Side view of the finished product:
Halloween is great fun. I love costumes.
Callan Bentley is an assistant professor of geology at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. He is particularly interested in structural geology and the evolution of the Appalachian mountain belt. Callan draws cartoons and writes for EARTH magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C.
ha thats awesome! you just need another person hugging you to complete the ‘amplexus’