As some of you know, I don’t dress up for Halloween, but I admire and honor those who do. As part of this annual celebration, I’m searching for this year’s raddest costume ideas.

Here’s one list of dress-up ideas, most of which are quite commercial and lame.

But what would be better?

This year’s most lampoonable real-life figures (Paris, Britney, Lindsay, and Larry “Wide Stance” Craig) are more walking tragedies than icons of joy.

This year’s scariest real-life figures (the Bushies and their wholly-owned media advocates) are blustery and certainly larger than life, but have a rigidly anti-fun, soulless undertone to their personalities. They’re not the funnest people to pretend to be.

So what else is out there?

If you want to be really tasteless, you could go as a smoke-inhalation-vicitm Malibu Barbie and Ken, complete with charred-out surfboards.

You can prove your up-to-date popcult awareness by being Hannah Montana, Ugly Betty, Stephen Colbert, the horny healers of Gray’s Anatomy, diet-book hawker Dr. Oz, Hiro from Heroes, an iPhone, a flat screen TV, an unemployed mortgage broker, Dennis Kucinich and his tall uber-bride, the I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER cat, a YouTube video clip of somebody doing something stupid, or a fat-n’-sassy Al Gore.

Or, of course, you could band together with fellow partiers and go as the most monstrous, most frightening sight imaginable.

I speak, of course, of the High School Musical cast.

As always, please send in your pix and scene reports from costume events over the next week.