October 2011 NYPL Blog Highlights
It's time for scares it's time for screams IT'S HALLOWEEN.
This month on the NYPL blogs we have all just been gearing up for this one special night. Our costumes were as varied as our blog subject matter, can you guess what we dressed up as?
- A person from 1988 with a boombox
- A skeleton with butterfly wings
- A favorite anime and comic book character
- Frankenstein
- A photographer
- A supervising hairdresser to the third assistant director
- A magician with a magic wand
- A steel suspension bridge
- A whale on stilts
- Olivia Newton-John
- An IRS agent
- Zaphod Beeblebrox and Billy Pilgrim
- A 138 pound dictionary
- Pippi Longstocking and Caddie Woodlawn
- A protester
- Pygmalion
- A top model
- Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
- A fause knight with a guitar
- A big "R" in a circle
- A Corinthian column
- A ghost of a former tenant in your apartment building
- A theatre-related stub
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