No Nixon Halloween mask? Say it ain’t so
A colleague of mine scoured the central Contra Costa Halloween costume stores this week and could not (insert gasp here) find a Richard Nixon mask.
This is not right. We can’t have Halloween without bands of trick-or-treaters roaming the suburbs wearing Tricky Dick masks.
Instead, Times photographer Karl Mondon found this Veep Dick Cheney mask, which doesn’t even look that much like Dick Cheney. (Bernie Madoff, maybe? Or Rush Limbaugh?)
At least it was cheap: On sale for $7.97.
The Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton masks cost $19.99 each, a tad pricey for a prop. At $29.99, the Sarah Palin mask was way too dear for the paper’s paltry illustration budget.
What about George W. Bush? No mask of him either.
But there’s a big shipment coming next week to the Halloween Spirit stores. All is not lost just yet.
Posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Under: political humor | 3 Comments »