And the winners of the Quantum Costume Contest are...
1 st Place - Paul Wright
It’s 1967, I'm 6 years old in a writhing puppypit of four brothers and four sisters. I catch a TV show with kids EXACTLY my age. (Family Affair) I was hooked for the next four years. As the show went on I began to realize it wasn't about Buffy or Jody or their hottie big sister, Sissy. It was about a British "Gentleman's Gentleman"(never butler), Mr. Giles French. I thought he was cool. He could cook, fix cars, was always quoting the greats. He sprang into action, unflustered whether the emergency was a scout merit badge (fly fishing) or Sissy's Home-Ec project (cheese souffle). We find out he was college educated and a soldier (Higgins wished he was Mr. French). Between my brother's wedgies and family fart rippin' contests, Mr. French gave me an icon of culture and quiet competency. He now resides in my Pantheon of Personal Gods among peers: Frank Zappa, John Steinbeck, William Shakespeare. I'll get to them some other Halloween. Long live homemade costumes!!!
Love your work. Best regards, Paul Wright
And long live personal icons and paradigm shifts. Thanks for playing Paul!
Editor
2 nd & 3 rd Place - Christy Harlin and Dan
My fondness of the basic elements compelled me to be FIRE, and my boyfriend Dan is WATER. We attended a costume/dance party in Sedona with fiery and watery props such as my flaming fingers, and he carried a squirting unit. And in dancing together of course, we made a hot and steamy couple of elemental proportion!
Thanks for an awesome conference in Scottsdale last month!
Bleepingly yours,
Christy Grace Harlin
