While a handful of my fellow Canadians decided that it might be funny to dress up for Halloween as disgraced former radio host and accused abuser Jian Ghomeshi, I chose to go with a suggestion I’d made earlier on this blog and dress up as Canadian hero and Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.
For those of you who don’t know about his recent act of heroism, I’ll let Stephen Colbert tell the story:
And for those of you who want more details, here’s Evan Solomon from the CBC explaining how Vickers saved the day:
I assembled a quick Sergeant-at-Arms costume on Halloween afternoon, and here’s how it turned out:
Here are its constituent parts:
When I showed up at my friend’s Halloween party down here in the Accordion Bay area, I was both surprised and pleased to find out that people recognized the outfit, thanks to the tribute piece that Stephen Colbert had done the night before.
Mr. Vickers, I hope I did you proud.
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I agree.
The Jian costume is inappropriate.
It's making me wish someone would put a camera and microphone
in front of Rob Ford for comic relief...
too soon.
I loved your idea. Inspired, Joey, inspired.
Keep a little Canadian in front of them for us...