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So the contest just ended, and…

HallowMeme 2010 Results

Hi Aaron,
Congratulations! Your excellent Keyboard Cat costume won first prize in Urlesque’s HallowMeme costume contest! As outlined on the voting page, you are the lucky recipient of a computer key seat from Great Big Stuff (and other assorted Urlesque goodies).

Send your mailing address to me (Kelly!) at [email] and I will get the prize-fulfilling wheels in motion.

Thanks for entering and reading Urlesque! We love you!

Kelly

Happy Aaron

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Michael Lohan. Yup, totally stole this image.

I think I’m going to be Michael Lohan for Halloween next year.

Costume

  • V-neck polo or ugly knitted sweater
  • Light-wash dad jeans
  • Cell phone clipped to belt
  • Penny or tassel loafers

Demeanor

  • Obnoxious voice (check)
  • Talk about Lindsay nonstop (won’t be hard)
  • Constantly interrupt people’s conversations and get into their photographs (check)

Plus I already have the hair pattern for it. Brb, crying into some ice cream

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The best comments I received while dressed as Keyboard Cat for Halloween:

  1. “That’s a really big keyboard!”
  2. “What are you, Satan playing a keyboard?”
  3. “Are you like my cat that falls asleep on a keyboard? My cat does that at like 2 a.m. when I really need to type something.”

(For those of you who have no idea who this is: the original YouTube video, the background info, and the meme it inspired.)

I actually first wore this costume for Halloween 2009, when I made the entire costume start to finish on the day of Halloween with the help of some awesome friends. I enjoyed it so much that I brought it out again this year. The coolest part by far was the keyboard, into which I carved several hidden recesses that would hold an mp3 player, portable speakers and the connecting wires. This allowed me to actually play people off with the Keyboard Cat song. It was a huge hit and I had a blast!

This year I went back to Athens to hang out and walk around downtown with my friends there and won the Best Costume award at 283, one of our favorite bars. It’s silly, but it actually meant a lot to me that people enjoyed the costume so much. I even got a trophy.

I also entered myself into Urlesque.com’s 2010 HallowMeme Costume Contest. We’ll see how it goes.

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