#12 - Lemonheads - 1988
The Pitboys planned and threw a great, great Halloween party in 1988. It included dancing on the roof, the band Oxygen Myth playing, police reports, etc. It was attended by Greg as the Original Captain Cabbage, Chuck as the Penguin, Jim P as the Riddler, Steve Likken as a convict, Brent as a mad scientist, and many others of you. It had a hilarious moment when I introduced Carter to Matt's sister and she said "You're Carter Stack? My mom told me never to talk to you!" and fled the room in fear. Many other fun stuff happened at this party.
BUT my memory is not of that party, in fact it's of the night before that party. Jeff and I decided to go as Lemonheads, we spenT 8 hours paper macheing large lemons to wear on our heads. The night before the party we decided to try them out. We painted our faces yellow, and donned our Lemonheads and went to meet some people at Woodstock's pizza. We walked in the door and to our great joy someone on the 2nd floor of the pizza place stood up and yelled "Hey look, Lemonheads!" We were so proud because we weren't sure anyone would have a clue what we were.
The night went downhill from there as we got trashed and toured Davis on our motorcycles dressed as Lemonheads. At one point Dan trapped me in a closet. Finally we headed back to the Pit stinking drunk and met up with Jim P and his (now my) Gaucho friends.
2 Notes:
- I left the Lemonhead in my room at the Pit over Thanksgiving break. When I returned it had been completely eaten by the rats that lived in the Pit. All that was left was the chicken wire frame.
- The Lemonhead reappeared (well a duplicate) at Jeffstorm.
I've never been more proud of a Halloween costume, and the highlight of the weekend (at least for me) was that stranger yelling in joy "Hey look, Lemonheads!"