{"id":45155,"date":"2020-04-29T23:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45155"},"modified":"2020-04-30T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:23:53","slug":"what-wendy-wore-you-cant-unsee-the-babadook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/what-wendy-wore-you-cant-unsee-the-babadook\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: You Can’t Unsee the Babadook"},"content":{"rendered":"

While making final logistical arrangements for\u00a0yesterday’s protest action with multiple banner drops around the city<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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Photo by George De Castro Day of a curious passerby taking a photo of our giant Trump Lies All the Time banner. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

… photographer George De Castro Day emailed me, “You know, the world might need a portrait of you with a mask and in that top<\/span> hat<\/span>.” For a moment, I was like, “How does George know I have a top hat?!” Then I realized I hadn’t updated the profile photo on my email account since 2015.<\/p>\n

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Photo from November 2015. Click for full outfit.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I’m always up for an amusing fashion statement so I wore my mask<\/a> and carried my hat with me on the bus downtown. On the short walk to my group’s meeting place near Wall Street, I stopped to take a test photo with the hat on. Wow! I looked like an international woman of mystery.<\/p>\n

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I really like this angle, don’t I!<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Later in the day, outside Mt. Sinai Hospital, George took this photo, in which I have a bandana-print mask from Hair Glove<\/a> over the original filtered mask from RZ Mask<\/a>. Even more mysterious!<\/p>\n

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Photo by George De Castro Day. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I was feeling pretty good about myself — out of my neighborhood for the first time in 45 days to do something meaningful and wearing a top hat as a bonus! Then George sent me this photo of my comrades Laurie and Barbara consulting.<\/p>\n

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Photo by George De Castro Day. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I first saw this on my phone and had to take a closer look at who or what was lurking in the background, looking like the Babadook<\/a>. It is me. I am the Babadook.<\/p>\n

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It got good reviews.<\/p><\/div>
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The Babadook<\/em> was a 2014 horror movie that I have never seen, but I still<\/em> recognized the character immediately.<\/p>\n