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Creative Loafing and Sarah Palin’s doppelganger wish you and your gun-toting baby mamas a Happy Halloween. Check out more scintillating costume ideas for tonight from the L5P Halloween Parade and Netherworld photos.

And while you’re nursing your monster-themed-martini induced hangover tomorrow morning, check out all the photos from tonight’s Halloween parties on the Sideshow Atlanta photo blog. It’s the cure for what ails you.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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HALLOWEEN IN L5P: When it comes to making a Halloween costume that’s truly frightening, sometimes less is more.

I get why Sarah Palin costumes are funny.

She’s a real-life caricature of the Republican Party’s worst know-nothing, jingo-istic, gun-fetishing, Bible-abusing impulses.

Nevertheless, I have an increasingly difficult time laughing at Sarah Palin-themed humor, whether its Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, or the great Palin mimic who marched in Saturday’s Little Five Points Halloween Parade.

Despite L5Palin’s perfect coif, her assault rifle, and prop-baby, it’s hard for me to look at Palins (real or simulated) and not be frightened at how worrying close Sarah Palin is to real power. Remember, George W. Bush’s idiocy was manifest in 1999, but he still got elected twice. Well, sort of twice.

Luckily, the Palin-look-alike was just a small part of a parade dominating by zombies, burn-victims, chain-saw wielding murderers, ghosts, grims reapers, and white guys in afro wigs.

To see more photos of the Little Five Points Halloween parade, including the Sarah Palin look-alike, click here.

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1) The Little Five Points Halloween Festival rages on, with the parade launch at 4 p.m.

2) A Place to Bury Strangers plays Drunken Unicorn.

3) Woodruff Arts Center celebrates its 40-year anniversary with Art Fusion 40.

4) Graveyard Tavern raises cash money for the Breast Cancer 3-Day with Zombie Prom.

5) Mmmm … beer … at the Great Decatur Beer-Tasting Festival.

(Photo courtesy Little Five Points Halloween Festival)

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