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October 28, 2024

31 Days of Halloween: October 28

Good evening, friends,

It’s the greatest day of the greatest season: the return of jimi Halloween, the celebration of mundane Halloween costumes organized by the Japanese website Dailyportalz.

Here are a few favorites; you can see the rest on their Twitter account (or check out a thread of selects using this alternate Twitter viewing link), and by looking at the hashtag #地味ハロウィン2024.

Here are some of my favs!

A woman holds up a large, blurry picture of a makeup compact
A person who can’t get the camera to focus on the product they’re showing off.

A woman turns to see why her pocket is caught on something (in this case, an invisible doorknob; the pocket is held up with wire or something similar)
A person whose cardigan got caught on a doorknob.

A man dressed as a salaryman holds up a fake pizza and pizza cutter
A person sweating bullets because he’s been asked to cut a pizza into five equal pieces at a business lunch with a new client

A man holding a prop sterring wheel leans far to one side as if reaching out of a car window to try and reach a ticket machine
A person who’s 5cm too far from the parking ticket machine

A person lies on the floor wrapped in a grey blanket. Someone holds up a picture of a specific blobby grey fish next to them
Sacabambaspis (an ancient fish that went viral in Japan a couple of years ago)

A person wearing a white shirt holds a tray with a bowl of curry udon
The person who ordered curry udon despite wearing white clothes.

A person holds two airport trays full of jackets and other belongings. Their shoes are off of their feet and in one of their hands
Person in the queue at the airport security checkpoint.

A person holds up a cardboard box painted to look like a low, overhanging ceiling, with a warning sign and yellow and black striped caution tape. The person crouches underneath it as if they can't stand up fully.
A low-ceilinged area at Ueno Station. (The low ceilings in question)

And some wonderful ones posted by fans on Twitter…

A corgi wearing a transparent cuboid outfit so that it looks like a loaf of bread in a package
A loaf of bread

A person in a living room on their phone pets a sleeping dog
Someone who enjoys a low-key Halloween at home using their smartphone.

So good!! Do you have any favs from this list or the ones posted online? If you had to dress in a mundane Halloween costume, what would you be? Hit reply and let me know.

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Wow, this Tiktok of a scary interactive, electronic Halloween costume! (Thanks Tess!)

Two people dressed as American Puritans. The man holds a torch with an electronic flame

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Two sheet ghosts having a tea party in a cemetery
Tea Time Ghosts by Drew Rausch

I’m going to settle in for a hot cup of cider and a spooky movie. Thanks for all the recs so far, and please keep them coming!

Til tomorrow,
Laura

Laura E. Hall
@lauraehall
lauraehall.com
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