You need to have lots of space and be REALLY good friends. One year, Batman picked up Dracula (chair and all) and nearly threw him across the room to dislodge him.

AHHHH! I love you for this!!!!

AWESOME. The expression really sells it!

Or we could make it even easier (but it might get chilly).

That's awesome! I think we'd end up disheveled anyway, as our friends are into full body contact musical chairs...

I'm kinda digging the Macbeth one, since I have a long spooky robe I could wear for Lady M. (and maybe not have to spend much money). Blood on the hands is cheap enough... KY + red food coloring?

In theory, it seems like I could just find a floor-length plaid skirt and maybe improvise that weird roll they tie around their waists under their skirts, and the fichu's not difficult (it would give me an excuse to get one of those crocheted ones from Etsy!). The difficult bit would be the bodice. Those seem…

He teaches girls to step lightly, right?

That. Is. Awesome.

Dude and Walter could totally work! Mr. Dotty could definitely rock a Walter vibe, and I could wear pajama bottoms- everybody wins! That would be a pretty easy one, too, if I could find somebody with a bowling ball they'd let me borrow!

Nobody wants to see me and the mister sluttin' around, trust me. We're more like Ralph and Alice Kramden (but I can't do that with all the DV stuff going on).

I had hoped to do Claire and Jamie from "Outlander," but I don't have much hope for that. It's not so hard or expensive to find a shirt and kilt for him, but where would I find an eighteenth century tartan dress? It would cost a fortune to rent or to get one made, even if I could get it by Halloween.

Somewhat O/T, but anybody have a suggestion for couples' Halloween costumes?

Oh, my god. I am so sorry that this happened to your family. You are so right that making our feelings "taboo" or "wrong" just leads to shame and isn't healthy for anyone. I hope other women feel empowered, these days, to seek out professional help with these deep struggles of identity and fulfillment.

Hsu's words really rang true to me, and I'm going to repeat them over and over to myself: I love my kids, but that doesn't mean I have to love motherhood.

I don't want to be around people who do those things, and I sure as hell wouldn't want a relationship with them.

At first I thought the same thing, and then I realized that NO, it is NOT normal to grab someone (unless they're falling off a cliff). There is no context in which it would be okay for me to shove someone (unless he were between me and my endangered child, hypothetically). Ditto shoving someone- unless a piano were…

You know, I was just thinking how lucky I've been that even though I've had some crazy relationships, none involved even a hint of physical violence. Then I remembered the guy who shoved me against a wall because I turned him down.

One thing I think the TV series is accomplishing which the books didn't is making the viewer more understanding of Claire's eventual real love for Jamie: by casting the same actor as Frank and Jack, we share Claire's inability to distinguish between them. Just as she "sees" Frank in Jack and therefore tries to…

This sounds like a topic Mark would cover.