And In Those Days...

The bowels of the earth and all that which is foul and unholy shall vomit forth.  The abomination that spews forth will horrify and consume, laying waste to all that is good any holy.

The prophesy has begun. (And yes, it was tempting to gut punch him but I didn't want to listen to it sing)

If I have to suffer, you do too!

I was in Las Vegas last week on vacation.  If any of you live in Las Vegas, let it be known I'm jealous.  Since coming home, I find that I have been on a mediocrity slope/rut for some time now and have been in a generally nasty mood.  My friend Sausage and I went to a Mexican restaurant last night for dinner and the 3 margaritas helped soothe the pain of living here in Alabama...a little.  I'll be better, once I get all the 4 letter words out of my system and forget what a good time I had.  In the meantime, join me in my suffering by watching this, it's in Russian but there's subtitles so you can understand what he's singing about.   Feel free to sing along!  And when the song is fully lodged into your head and has infected your mind to where it's playing over and over, know that misery loves company and you and I are sharing this pain.



Ms. M says that this guy is creepier than the clown in IT.  I have to agree (although I dig the head dance).

My Fun New Toy!!!

Parents, buy your kids a flamethrower for Christmas! They WILL tell their friends that you are the coolest parents on earth!



If you get the air/gas mixture just right...5 FOOT FREAKIN' FLAMES!  Your kids NEED a flamethrower!  YOU NEED a flamethrower!  Trust me, this is da bomb!

I'm going to Las Vegas for vacation tomorrow, I wonder if they would frown upon me taking it with me on the plane?

AWWWGGGGGHHHH!!!! Pains with Windows Live Movie Maker!!!!

For the past MONTH I've been fighting with Windows Live Movie Maker and it's been a pain in the #*$&%!!!!!  Why can't Microsoft leave well enough alone (I say this with Vista in mind, XP was sooooo much better but 7 is pretty good, just a hiked up XP)?  Missed the deadline for a couple of home haunt contests too because of it!  %$#@!!!!!!

Just found a wonderful link from another disgruntled Windows Live Movie Maker user that makes the old version of Movie Maker work on Windows 7 (so far, it works like a charm, I didn't like the other version anyhow, it was harder to deal with).

Here's the link (but like Uncle Gates says, proceed at your own risk [although I had good luck with it]).

And yes, I'm too %$*@& cheap to go out and buy legitimate video editing software.

Historical LOL's

Just a little Tom Foolery from the people who bring you LOL Cats!


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DO WANT!!!

If someone gets me this, I will be their love slave.  The miniature Pepper's Ghost effect is stunning!  Be sure to see what this guy goes through to make these pieces, it's incredible!

Breaking Silence--Halloween 2010, A Restoration of Faith

I've kind of kept quiet this past week as I didn't know who may or who may not be reading this blog from the West Alabama Humane Society and I didn't want to spoil their surprise.  Halloween was great, nay, fantastic! Through the kind generosity of the visitors to The Final Unresting Place Cemetery, we collected:

$840.44!

I didn't know quite what to expect and my hopes would have been fulfilled if we had reached $500.00 but the generosity of the people visiting was amazing, above and way beyond what I expected.  We presented the money Saturday and they were surprised, very surprised.  The Humane Society being a non-profit organization here, all of the money will be used for food, medicine, vet bills and shelter for kittehs and puppehs until they can find a good home (8 of my 10 pets are either strays we picked up on the side of the road or adopted from the shelter; it's against my religion to allow an animal to suffer if I can help it).  Here's some shots from the Cemetery:

Unfortunately, I didn't take a lot of pictures but I did take video out of the wazoo.  It'll take me a couple of days to compile it.
I didn't tell anyone but I was secretly testing this year to see if it was all worth it. One person putting all this stuff up is a lot of work, much less creating it during the year.  I was tired, whiny, and had to take the yard down for rain once and reinstall everything and wasn't really sure if this was going to be appreciated or not. All I heard and saw all week was 'Fall Festival', 'Harvest Festival', 'Trunk or Effing Treat' (well, creative license added on the effing) and the like. Was Halloween dead?  Was the magic gone?  Did people need Halloween anymore? Would people come to my little neighborhood and see what I did? And would they like it?  It's not gory, it's playful and almost Disney-esque.  I knew my own brother wouldn't bring his kids (if it's an inconvenience to him then forget it) and my folks had bribed me before with a week's all-expense paid vacation to Disneyworld...that week (They hate Halloween, people worship Satan on Halloween, put razor blades in apples, poison children, worship the Celtic god of death Sam Hain with human sacrifices, and do all manner of evil to good church folk on the devil's birthday).  Would it be worth it?  Do people still care? 


Yes, a resounding glorious yes!


I had people thanking me for bringing back the feel of the old Halloween times, of making it so their young kids could come and see it and not be scared and mostly for helping the Humane Society (they lost a lot of funding recently which is sad).  People would crawl in the coffin to have their picture taken (although a LOT of people were genuinely creeped out by it no matter if I told them I made it or not).  Lots of kids were too scared to come into the yard at first but after a bit of coaxing came in and then didn't want to leave when it was time to go.   I met some other Halloween enthusiasts and saw tons of smiling faces, it was wonderful!
So I'm sitting there on our retaining wall and I see a mom and her daughter approaching me, the little girl having something in her hand...she handed me this:

THAT alone made it all worthwhile and more so.  Have already started planning for next year, hope yours was as happy as mine!

Mr. Macabre

Skeleton Fever

People who know me and those who may know only my reputation know that I love skulls and skeletons.  I collect skulls and have 3 skeletons, Bob, Jean-Claude and Frank.  And the doctor says that I'm doing better and for me to use the blunt scissors when I need to cut something.


Don't you want to scream "RUN YOU DUMB BROAD! RUN!!!"  If I saw a skeleton walking towards me, I would get the $^#&% away from there.  But that's just me, I'm funny that way.



A little long but interesting, a guy gets dumped and gets someone new, and in my opinion, much better!


These people have the appropriate response to seeing an approaching skeleton in contrast to the first lady.  Might have to consider the motorcycle prop, that is soooooo cool!  I also LOVE this guy's voice!  Don't understand what the heck he's saying but whatever it is, it's good!


One more from the same show.  This must be a sort of Candid Camera show.  Whatever it is, they play hard ball!  Love it!

Lose 70 years in 2 minutes!

This guy can stay at my house...provided that he shows me his techniques!  Someone from the haunt industry should snatch him up!

Pumpkins and alcohol don't mix

This has to be a frat house's pumpkin...
I like the second one, the stoner, "like mannn, I am soooo wasted"

Let's go the the crazy cat man's house!

Hey!

What?

Let's go trick or treat the crazy cat man's house!

That guy that decorates like his whole yard?  No way, I heard he's a witch or something. Mama said to stay away from his house, he ain't right!

Awww man, as crazy as he is about Halloween, I bet he gives out full size candy bars and junk like that!

...you think so?

Yeah man, he's got to!

Awww man, he gave out stupid bank suckers!  What a cheapass!

Hey, let's egg his house after he goes to bed!

Naw, my older brother says he sits in a bathtub on his roof around back and chants stuff at the moon!  He said that he'll put a curse on you if you cross his path!

Really?

Yeah man, my older brother said that the reason he has so many cats is that they're like more eyes for him to see stuff with so he don't have to be there!  Then he can tell who to put a curse on!

Nuh uh!

Uh huh!  My older brother said it and he's in the tenth grade!  He knows!

Mannnnnnnnn!

So These Women Are To Blame For Those Stinkin' Raisins!

Hilarious!



via Bentspac

Guilty Pleasure #835, The Time Warp!

I was going to go on a long whine about how I've had to take down the whole graveyard twice because of rain but I've decided to post one of my favorite guilty pleasures behind Rob and Marilyn...The Time Warp!

You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, WE'RE ALL LUCKY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  

(I so love Magenta, and that skeleton grandfather clock!!!)

There is rumor that Ryan Murphy is going to remake Rocky Horror.   I saw snippets of the Glee version...I wasn't impressed but then again, I don't care for Glee (I know, I know, but this is America, I'm entitled to not care for Glee.).  Nevertheless, I personally think that they should leave Rocky Horror alone.

What do you think?

My turn at 15 minutes of fame...

The Tuscaloosa News ran an article on me and my Hallowe'en addiction.

They SEVERELY edited what I had to say about Trunk or treat.  The words blasphemy, abomination, idiotic, obscene, filthy, stupid, asinine, ignorant, or &%^$#@!!!! weren't even mentioned.   I feel censored. 

The link...

Trick or Treat Studios, When Only The Scariest Will Do!

See this dapper fellow?  Now what about looking like him for Halloween?

A face like this says, "Give me the Fun Size chocolate bars.  Give me a box of raisins and you'll never be able to find your front door for the toilet paper!"

Enter Trick or Treat Studios (with a name like that, what's there not to love?).  Don't you get tired of seeing the same old same old mask that every store has on their shelves?   You won't be seeing THESE masks anywhere except here!  Does the above mask look familiar?  It should, it's taken from the delightfully dark twisted drawings of Eric Pigors or Toxictoons!  This one is particularly disturbing to me...

I don't know why...this one scares me.  But look at the detail!  Amazing (and may I add that ALL of their masks are VERY reasonably priced!).

One of my former teachers must have posed for this...this would explain a lot about me. 

This one could be called Little League Dad, but instead it's called Hyde.  I think Little League Dad is scarier personally.

Go on over to Trick or Treat Studios and have a look around...scare your inner child to death!

Late Again...T Shirt Winner!

Sorry folks, the High Holy Season is upon us and I've been swamped with getting the yard set for the trick or treaters.

The winner of the Write on Riot tee shirt is.....

SalemMomma!  And since your kids will NOT share their trick or treat goodies with you, you have my permission to NOT share this tee shirt with them!
Make THEM rake the leaves, it builds character (at least that's what I was told when I was growing up).

Congratulations from Write on Riot and me, Mr. Macabre!

Fun Facts about Hallowe'en

Got this from the folks at Halloween Express.  Some of the facts I didn't know, but I WAS RIGHT ABOUT HOW TO CORRECTLY SPELL HALLOWE'EN!!!  YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! (victory dance with booty action)


[Via: HalloweenExpress.com]

How to ruin your life...my Axeworthy Ghost

If you want to ruin your life, and destroy your sanity all in one prop, then make an Axeworthy Ghost system.  However, if you build one and get it to working, it's about the coolest thing you can imagine.


The second part (would have made it all one movie but didn't know I had Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7 until this morning) showing the tension wheels...


I cranked it up last night...it was mesmerizing.  I placed a black light pointing upward in the ghost's path and as it approached, it recharged the glow paint and glowed bright green and then slowly faded as it rounded the loop (about 225 feet), before recharging again when it got to the blacklight again.

Then it derailed and I went inside and watched I Love Lucy.

Coupon Heads Up! CRAZYDOG TShirts

Everybody loves a bargain and I have one to pass on to you!   From now to Hallowe'en, you can get 5 bucks off their wide selection of Hallowe'en tees (I'm right partial to the Charlie Brown one myself, might just have to get that one for me), Zombie tees (and zombies are tres chic right now!), and even Hallowe'en costumes (if you don't want to spend 2 months sewing a frock coat like I did).  Some of my personal favorites:                                                                                                                                                      

The code to use is HALLO5 at checkout for your 5 bucks off!  

Good old fashioned Jack O' Lantern, you can't go wrong!

THE HOFF!

Charlie Brown classic (and this one is officially licensed!)

The code to use is HALLO5 at checkout for your 5 bucks off! 

If you don't visit their site, I'll come trick or treat YOUR house dressed like THIS:

You have been duly warned.

From their costume selection, I'm guessing horrible gruesome horror genre.  The Burger King scares me, and not in the good way.
Crazy Dog Tee Shirts

Haunted Rocking Chair

Just a little semi-how to on how to animate a rocking chair with a wiper motor.

With Puss Puss, the big fluffy furball.