recent halloween costumes of David Young

Toucan Sam, my most recent costume, has a head made from a batting helmet and fiberglass from a car and boat repair kit. I bought the stuff for the Karzai costume in Uzbekistan and Chinese Turkestan, whitening my specially-grown beard with condensed Mylanta. I made all the other costumes myself, usually by buying stuff fabric store and putting it together with a hot glue gun. Making Mr. Peanut, my most ambitious effort, was more than I bargained for. For Colonel Sanders, getting a 1970s-style historic chicken bucket was tricky -- it required researching old wacky-pack stickers and spending a few hours with Corel Photo Paint! You'd think such an effort would earn me the right to have my girlfriend start referring to me as "The Colonel", but tragically, that hasn't happened.

Toucan Sam (2007)	Chef Boyardee (2006)
Mr. Peanut (2005)	Jolly Green Giant (2004)
Colonel Sanders (2003)	Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai (2002)
Pope David I (1995,2001)	The Hamburgler (2000)
Cap'n Crunch (1999)