Saturday, August 31, 2013

A Bowl Of Frute

Local supermarket had those two creature comebacks...Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy.  Purchased both, but only tried Frute Brute.
Sometimes the quest is way more important than the treasure.  But only when the treasure is pink cereal and not treasure.

Eh.  It's ok.  All of the monster cereals are shiny, and different than in their early years.  And this stuff looks toxic, and doesn't have the toxic fruit flavor I was expecting (and wanting).

Found some Halloween It'll-Turn-Your-Milk-Green Captain Crunch, so it wasn't a total loss. 

I'm officially a child.


Growing up, we had a sticker in the basement of my parents' house...of the Frute Brute (spelled Fruit Brute back then).   None of us remember putting it there, and none of us could remember actually eating Frute Brute back then.  And my parents were the first occupants of the house, so it was strange indeed that a sticker had been stuck in a monster cereal's honor.

And it's still there.  Tonight, my mother called and said blood tears were dripping from it.  At the precise moment that I shouted "This cereal tastes like piss!"

That last bit was a lie.


Here's a shot of the 2013 Frute Brute cereal.  Which I swear has given me dry-mouth.


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Halloween Matinee

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Spirit Halloween 2013

Cheesy Halloween fun...




















Friday, August 30, 2013

Now Playing: Night Music

From Calabi Yau.

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Fog

At my wake/funeral, I'm going to insist there's chilled fog pouring from my casket.

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Deadly Blessing

THAT scene...

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Pure Love

By artist Matt Peppler.






















More of his works here.

Willard Stiles

Tear him up!

Image by girl6.

Begging For Candy


Thursday, August 29, 2013

Now Playing: Fragments Of A Lost Battle

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Halloween Morning

This painting felt like a clear blue October 31st morning.  An older couple inside having coffee, with a giant uncarved pumpkin on the table.  With some newspaper, a stubby candle, and a knife very nearby.
off-neck by Dan Graziano Oil ~ 5" x 7"

Painting by Dan Graziano.

Halloween At High Noon

My personal favorite Halloween music when we're not listening to seasonal soundtracks or dark ambient stuff.  I've mentioned the guys at High Noon records before, and I figured a re-post was in order after finding out a new Halloween album will be released shortly.

Click below for some of their older stuff.
We play this one all year long.  The ancient version of Internet Explorer at work butchered these samples, so try to open them in Firefox or Chrome if you have it.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Return Of The Creature(s)

I'm way too excited about this news:  General Mills is bringing back two monster cereals from the past - Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute, for the Halloween season.

I shall indulge in these fruity cereals.

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The Lantern Out Of Doors

Sometimes a lantern moves along the night
That interests our eyes. And who goes there?
I think; where from and bound, I wonder, where,
With, all down darkness wide, his wading light?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ye Olde Eve

From Notforgotten Farm's Etsy shop. 
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Punch Needle Pattern from Notforgotten Farm-Olde Hallows Eve

Actias Humanias

At 10:30 on the evening of the fifteenth, Newell Partridge, a building contractor who lived outside Salem, West Virginia (approximately 90 miles northeast of Point Pleasant), was watching television when suddenly the screen blanked out, a "fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off, as if you were on a musical scale and you went as high as you could and came back down and repeated it.... It sounded like a generator winding up." The Partridges' dog Bandit began to howl on the porch, continuing even after they turned the set off.


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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Something Wicked This Way Comes

...from artist Eric Pigors.
Looking forward to this.


Skeletons Abound

From a soon-to-be-released video short by Haunter Rania of The Haunted Garden.

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Now Playing: White Lions

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Monday, August 26, 2013

Euthanasia Coaster

The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.  In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".  As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned "euthanasia" or "execution".  John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the ideal roller coaster as one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead".  As a hypothetical means of euthanasia, the design led to concern from anti-euthanasia association Care Not Killing.



Thanks, Jon!

From Scarecrow Alley

An annual scarecrow event in Cape May, NJ...

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It's Coming

Funny. Been seeing this around the interwebs.


Old School Ghouls






















Image by misterhalloween.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Halloween 2013: A Teaser

From the Scarecrow Catacomb of Mr. Jones...


Friday, August 23, 2013

Trick Or Treat Candle

Bought this guy at a local store.  From the McCall's company.

Trick or Treat:  A haunting blend of delectable black licorice laces with traces of sprinkled anise and a warming touch of sweet vanilla.

Click here for their Halloween scents.

Dunkin' Donuts

Heads up...we stopped into a Dunkin' Donuts today for coffee and they had Pumpkin Spice on tap.


HomeGoods Overload

Took some more shots at HomeGoods....this'll be the last of them.