oogie boogie costumes are exactly what they sound like: a costume that looks like something out of a cartoon. They’re usually made out of black and white striped fabric, plus a couple of bright colors thrown in to make it look more realistic. But they also have some other features: horns, beards, and teeth.

In the oogie boogie tradition, you don’t really need these things to make a costume; any old clothes will do. That’s because the real oogie boogies aren’t characters from cartoons. They’re celebrities or politicians or people who have done something memorable. The real Oogie Boogies have faces and personalities and voices behind them; their fame is not just the result of a costume.

So actually people who wear oogie boogie costumes are often not trying to imitate celebrities or politicians or people who’ve done something notable. Rather, they are imitating the behavior of celebrities or politicians or people who’ve done something notable. The costumes are an attempt to look like famous people in a way that is socially acceptable; but they still seem like costumes, even though they look good enough to fool professional photographers and camera crews.

The professional costume designer is a person who makes things look good. When you’re trying to make yourself look good, it might be easier if you’re not so invested in being good. Instead of trying to be perfect, try being oogie boogie.

It’s not the kind of costume you could wear to work, or to a fancy party. But it’s not the kind of costume you could wear to the laundromat either. It’s that happy medium between surprising and embarrassing.

It’s the costumes that make us happy, not those that make us comfortable.

So what kind of costume is it?

It’s a little bit like life; there is no one-size-fits-all answer. You want it to be impressive without being over-the-top, and subtle without being unmemorable. So what you want is not just a costume, but a whole outfit: shiny shoes, sparkling jewelry, and so on.

If you are going for the subtle effect, then maybe your jewelery should be discreetly hidden under your clothes. If you are going for the loud effect, then maybe your clothes should hide most of it.

Why are the costumes so different from what we see in the movie? It’s partly because of animation, which is a specialized skill that takes lots of practice. But I think it also has something to do with what you know about the characters.

I remember when my children were little I built a Batman costume for Dave and made one for myself. We did a lot of research on how to make them look authentic. We spent a lot of time on the finishing touches, like making sure the mask was glued down on both sides to keep it from flapping around in strong winds.

I really wanted to get it right. You can imagine how much worse it would have been if I’d just bought a cheap costume and slapped Batman’s face onto one of my old T-shirts. The art director at Warner Bros. must have felt the same way, because she or he had a very detailed idea of how everything should look, down to whether or not you should draw lines around the eyes in that particular style of drawing. It was amazing how long they worked on each little detail, trying to get it exactly right. This was especially true for the characters from Looney Tunes, who had been designed by people who studied their work over many years and had thought deeply about

We live in a world of information. We can find out just about anything. If we have a question, there is some reliable source that can answer it.

But a lot of the information we have is unreliable. It falls, for example, into two categories: we can find it out because someone has already published it — or it has been deliberately kept secret and therefore not published.

In the first case, you might ask yourself why do people write things down? Why not just keep your thoughts to yourself? But then you start to see how important writing is as a way of preserving records, especially if you want to make sure everyone gets an accurate version of what you say. You need writers to take down your ideas and put them on paper (or in a book, or on the net). You also need writers for all those things that record-keeping makes possible: laws, contracts, insurance forms, wills, sales receipts, and the like.

In the late eighties, I was working in a restaurant that had a live band playing for dinner every night. That band included a singer and guitarist named Randy Rogers. You couldn’t help but like Randy, who was very young and very friendly. As it happened, he was also very talented: the band played songs by everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones to Neil Young (who had just gotten a lot of press in America because his song “Heart of Gold” had been used as the theme music for our television show “Cheers”), and Randy could play them all with equal skill.

After we closed each night, Randy would come over to the bar and play songs for us until closing time. He’d start at the top of his repertoire: he knew all their hits, and he’d sing along with them.

One night I asked him what inspired him to start singing when he was so young. He said that one day when he was five years old his dad gave him an audio tape of Elvis Presley singing “Love Me Tender.” From that moment on, Randy wanted to be Elvis.