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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 25, 2018 21:18:39 GMT -5
Those are both epic! I'm only just now seeing more Halloween stuff up in area yards, but it's mostly just the perfunctory carved pumpkins and lights. Maybe a grave or sheet ghost. Nothing that put serious thought into it like your fellow Michiganders. Sadako looks terrific head-on. I haven't been able to get a good photo yet. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 28, 2018 11:30:29 GMT -5
On a very Halloweeny note, today was the day in 1589 that Peter Stubbe, his daughter Beell, and an associate named Katherine Trompin were convicted of werewolvery.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 28, 2018 17:51:31 GMT -5
Here's that storefront display I mentioned...
I think they've swapped it out a couple of times this season. I was sure I saw Lily Munster and Lurch earlier this fall, for instance. I remember them all -- especially the NASA zombie -- of old. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 28, 2018 17:54:07 GMT -5
And here's the office costume factory I'm sitting in the middle of as I type this:
L are the heaped cricket legs; center are the gossamer cricket wings and un-asembled leg components; and at lower R is the manila folder showing the fanged cricket masks I finished making over the weekend. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Oct 28, 2018 19:22:53 GMT -5
Thumbs up, Dr. Kobb.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 29, 2018 9:52:08 GMT -5
On another Halloweeny note, today, Oct. 29th, is the 195th birthday of Francois Bertrand, who was the reason somebody first coined the term "necrophilia." Happy birthday to Sergeant Bertrand!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 29, 2018 11:28:16 GMT -5
And here's the office costume factory I'm sitting in the middle of as I type this:
L are the heaped cricket legs; center are the gossamer cricket wings and un-asembled leg components; and at lower R is the manila folder showing the fanged cricket masks I finished making over the weekend. Holy...is everyone in the office going to be a cricket for a day? I think you had said you're operating on some "Cricket" system, now? Is it a play on that? I'm not sure if this will be prudent for your more schizophrenic patients. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 29, 2018 13:02:08 GMT -5
And here's the office costume factory I'm sitting in the middle of as I type this:
L are the heaped cricket legs; center are the gossamer cricket wings and un-asembled leg components; and at lower R is the manila folder showing the fanged cricket masks I finished making over the weekend. Holy...is everyone in the office going to be a cricket for a day? I think you had said you're operating on some "Cricket" system, now? Is it a play on that? I'm not sure if this will be prudent for your more schizophrenic patients. This is very much a statement about our feelings about the CRCT system. And the number of schizophrenics in treatment at Children's Services -- none of whom will be at our staff luncheon -- is small enough to count on the fingers of one foot. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 29, 2018 23:39:10 GMT -5
I know it's probably impossible, but I'd thrill to see a photo from the luncheon. I'm just imagining everyone hunched over their plates in cricket outfits and can barely contain the sheer delight its brought on.  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 30, 2018 0:06:04 GMT -5
My, how the weeks fly by. The last time I accomplished anything towards the "Yard of Spooky Fear: 2018" was a week-and-a-half ago, when my nephew gave me a hand with some ideas. Finally got back on things today (with only a couple of nights to go). I tried for the third time to anchor the eyestalks in place, so they'd be peering over the hedges at cars passing by. Once again, it fell flat. I could not solve the mechanics of the plan to make it work. That plan not panning out is a bit of a let-down. But, I wrapped them up and threw them in the back yard for next year, when a better way to display them may come to mind (and depending on how they look a year later, wrapped-up in our ungodly heat).
I had to wait for nightfall to have a go at the lighting, and I can honestly say I'm pretty pleased with what I have going on there. And: This will be the first year for the fog-machine! I tried it out earlier, dragging it further and further away from the house, until it's across the yard. This causes the light from the bright-ass streetlight across the street to take on a creepy look when the machine bellows out a cloud of new fog across the beam. I've got an eerie blue light for my porch light, and a swirling "fire-&-ice" light pointed just above the porch so the creepy-crawlies we stuck on the roof are visible.
So, the above is creating just the right ambience to for visitors passing the grave markers on the pathway up to the porch. About all that's left is bringing out my two caged beasties, adding some candles and lanterns and dead bouquets around the headstones, and sprucing down the porch with some cobwebs. I finally had the hang of that bagged webbing a few years ago while still arenter. I can't remember any of the tricks I learned (through much trial and error) NOW, though.  |
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Post by Mayzshon on Oct 30, 2018 13:47:30 GMT -5
I think I linked to this last year. WKBW's 1968 re-make of War of the World's. I actually think it's better than the original.
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Post by Choconado on Oct 30, 2018 17:34:04 GMT -5
Me last weekend. I think I even did the anime-ish smirk well.  |
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Post by Deeky on Oct 30, 2018 18:21:10 GMT -5
Who is that?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 30, 2018 19:13:59 GMT -5
To Halloween and Beyond! Awesome costume, Choconado! Actually, I have no idea what character you're playing in the pic, but I'm going to go back and re-read all the "31 Nights"-thread posts now imagining you in the super suit!
In other news: I pretty much locked down how things will look around the yard and house-front late last night. I still have props I could add, but sometimes there's just no point in overdoing things when just a few eerie elements can carry a "scene".
And, I began to remember some of what I'd previously learned about working with that infernal decorative webbing. Too late to save myself from some typical mistakes, but I'll live with the outcome. I'm of the "less-is-more" school of thought with the web. I try to stretch it as thin as I can. I think that looks more cobwebby than laying it on thick. I was trying for the look of the cobwebs in the movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - and failed miserably. I "may" lay on a little more tonight. That'll either really help...or end up looking like total shit. The big thing I re-learned is not to fuck around with the web much once you've initially spread it over your area. Fiddling with it usually just makes it look worse and worse.
Finally - I drove by neighbors' house today who must have just tossed their Halloween decorations up in the last day or two...and they look better than mine.  |
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Post by Choconado on Oct 30, 2018 21:06:02 GMT -5
You guys are seriously going to try to tell me you've never heard of Mega Man?
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Post by Deeky on Oct 30, 2018 21:30:54 GMT -5
I have not.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 30, 2018 22:22:17 GMT -5
Mmmmaybe?
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Post by Mayzshon on Oct 31, 2018 9:13:30 GMT -5
Meg-a-man is a super hero. He was bitten by a radioactive Meg Ryan, giving him the proportionate strength and abilities of a man sized Meg Ryan.
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Post by Mayzshon on Oct 31, 2018 9:15:17 GMT -5
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