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Halloween

Halloween rolls around once a year which seems hardly enough. There are few things in a childs life as important as candy. I was five or six the first time I became truly cognizant that Halloween was a day that all of my neighbors, including the old lady that yells at me for running across her lawn, were obligated to give me FREE candy. As we get older the candy is less of a draw. Halloween in your 20s and 30s becomes a day to live like a child, to play dress up and be a monster, ghost or slutty cop.

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Chris Catalano

obsessions: costumes, costumes, Halloween

filed under: outtakes

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Zoe Kravitz has the Face of a Dragon

We all have a costume that we tell tales of... the Halloween costume that inspired spontaneous applause from passers-by. Zoe has one that she loves so much she recycles it year after year. Whatever you do, don't call it a dinosaur. She will adamantly tell you, it's not a dinosaur, "it has a face." I'll admit that we may not know exactly what a dinosaur looked like with it's skin on, but Hollywood and the bones in museums have led me to believe that they do have faces.

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Chris Catalano

obsessions: costumes, Halloween

filed under: outtakes

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Year of the Dragon

Zoe can’t help wearing her dragon costume all the time because she was born in the year of the dragon. A person born during a dragon year, according to the Chinese horoscope, is a non-conformist, beautiful, and flamboyant. The normal rules and regulations don‘t apply to them. They’re free spirits, gifted, and utterly irresponsible. We spent the whole day following her around the streets of Brooklyn, NY dressed up in her dragon costume. I can report she’s also extremely confident and fearless. All that is fairly obvious here.

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