{"id":2266,"date":"2009-11-16T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2009-11-16T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T05:27:37","slug":"godzilla-vs-mothra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/godzilla-vs-mothra","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Vs Mothra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mothra<\/a>A tradition has evolved over the years in which Mrs. Spookyblue and I keep our Halloween costumes under wraps until the night of the annual bash. This year, the cloak-and-dagger routine worked so well that not even we knew what we were going to be until the last minute.<\/p>\n

It’s a great strategy for keeping secrets, but it makes for some late nights and frazzled nerves when you decide to pull off Godzilla Vs Mothra. In just two weeks.<\/p>\n

\"Forces<\/a>While a full-body suit was never seriously considered for ‘Zilla, green sweats and a (Gahh!) green jogging suit were both flatly rejected. Nervous necessity eventually revealed the obvious answer, and we became Godzilla and Mothra …on vacation.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Spookyblue raided every craft store in town for moth wing material while I carved a reef of spines out of construction foam<\/a>. The Panama hat, Mrs. S’s idea, was a nice touch. That blue blur buzzing angrily around\"Godzilla<\/a> my head in some of the pictures (check the new gallery link<\/a>) is a carved F-86. Mothra’s wings were an engineering miracle mixed with my wife’s mad sewing skillz.<\/p>\n

And on the night of the big reveal… <\/p>\n

“So, he’s a dinosaur and she’s a butterfly, right?” .. “Gozzla? What’s a Gozzla?” .. “Oh, yeah! Moffra! Hmm… that’s nice.”<\/p>\n

Nobody got it. Gaar.<\/p>\n

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More pictures of Gozzla and Moffra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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