Let me tell you guys something about dressing up as a banana. Last Halloween, I dressed as ‘Aladdin Sane’ David Bowie and more people recognized me as ‘Braveheart’ (not William Wallace, just ‘Braveheart.’) than Bowie. Still scorned from that experience, I decided to go for a performance angle this year instead of a conceptual one. Being a banana is meaningless but truly acting the part of ‘banana’ is exceptionally powerful. The responsibilities of being a party banana include: wear sunglasses indoors drink a lot dance to ‘peanut butter and jelly time’ at least once every 30 minutes make an awkward fist-pump roof-raise anytime someone yells ‘banana’ If you accomplish that, you will be endowed with special halloween superpowers that I highly recommend. These include: lots of free drinks your karaoke performances are well received regardless of actual merit (I am leading a crowd in a raucous but poorly rapped rendition of 99 problems in the picture above) a 30% increase in dancing ability your entrance into any room is heralded by some complete stranger yelling ‘banana’ children immediately love you In addition to that, my photobombing habit was considerably more tolerable to strangers and I got cat-called by the deli lady at my local supermarket for being ‘una banana tan lindo.’ 
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Let me tell you guys something about dressing up as a banana.

Last Halloween, I dressed as ‘Aladdin Sane’ David Bowie and more people recognized me as ‘Braveheart’ (not William Wallace, just ‘Braveheart.’) than Bowie. Still scorned from that experience, I decided to go for a performance angle this year instead of a conceptual one. Being a banana is meaningless but truly acting the part of ‘banana’ is exceptionally powerful. The responsibilities of being a party banana include:

  1. wear sunglasses indoors
  2. drink a lot
  3. dance to ‘peanut butter and jelly time’ at least once every 30 minutes
  4. make an awkward fist-pump roof-raise anytime someone yells ‘banana’

If you accomplish that, you will be endowed with special halloween superpowers that I highly recommend. These include:

  1. lots of free drinks
  2. your karaoke performances are well received regardless of actual merit (I am leading a crowd in a raucous but poorly rapped rendition of 99 problems in the picture above)
  3. a 30% increase in dancing ability
  4. your entrance into any room is heralded by some complete stranger yelling ‘banana’
  5. children immediately love you

In addition to that, my photobombing habit was considerably more tolerable to strangers and I got cat-called by the deli lady at my local supermarket for being ‘una banana tan lindo.’