Category Archive: Halloween
In Case You’re Interested in the How of Things
While most parents dash out to a drugstore to fulfill a narrow expectation of what is acceptable as Halloween apparel for their children, we design, craft and construct complex costumes which we seal our son into like a mummy in a sarcophagus whether he likes it or not. Yesterday I wrote a post regarding our …
Halloween 2011
In past few years, Joe and I have cooked up increasingly complex costumes for our son Lloyd. It started with the robot costume which had lights which everyone loves. We took what we learned constructing the robot and went with a vending machine theme. There was a candy machine that also lit up followed by …
The Chicken Heart
No video today. We are going to do something a little different and return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Follow me as we enter the theater of the mind with a vintage radio drama! I first heard about this episode of the classic radio program Lights Out like a lot of people did – …
Frighteningly Tasty!
It’s been a tradition of mine to give the children in my son’s class a head start on their Halloween sugar rush by sending cupcakes to school. Jimmies are involved, as are pumpkins, black cats, witches, skeletons, aliens, and the occasional bloodshot eyeball.
The Greatest TV Show EVER – Condorman
It’s sort of a delirious combination of the 1966 Batman series, Gatchaman, The Space Giants, James Bond and maybe Yo Gabba Gabba.
Goblin’ Up Cake
It certainly wouldn’t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion! This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror – a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and lots of fang rotting, wax lip licking sweet orange icing. Just one question – what …
Dawn of the Regional Do-It-Yourselfers
I wasn’t going to include George A Romero’s 1968 classic because it is too much of an obvious choice. Because of the spate of zombie movies, comedies, remakes and particularly due to the success of The Walking Dead television series, George Romero and his zombie movies are more popular than ever. Reanimated corpses are lurching …
I find your lack of faith…disturbing.
Walking to work on trash days I’m noticing a certain disenchantment with my favorite of all holidays before the day has even arrived!
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