'Cause 7 ate 9

Just a slightly more twisted version of the children's joke...

The Dead Walk Again!

You can do this here.

Decoration update

Sorry, still no pictures.

The money hasn't been there to buy anything else new. I really want a fogger and some bluckys and more tombstones and secondary accessories like lighting and moss and so on. But no dice.

I was able to pick up the parts for a few things though. Some PVC pipe to make my one current blucky stand up and hold out his right arm and more PVC pipe to make a scarecrow, plus a 'costume' for it and a black funkin painted green inside. I still need to assemble the scarecrow; I've cut the PVC and so on, I just need to put it all together and spray it black.

All told though, I think I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to put together. It does look pretty cool outside and I do get a lot of strange looks from people as they are driving or walking by. And that's awesome.

Some Halloween pin-ups

I've seen these scattered a few places...I think they are pretty cool.

It's the Haunting season!

Okay. So I've gotten all my Halloween stuff out of storage and catalogued it so I know what I have.

I've scouted Spirit of Halloween, Target, the Dollar Tree, Big Lots, the 99 cent store, Michael's and Lowes.

I've mapped my little apartment backyard and taken photos for the obligatory "before" picture.

I've managed to pick up a few new items, like a new tombstone and a raven.

I've designed the scarecrow I'm going to build and I've priced out the primary parts for it.

I've registered on a yard haunter forum to connect with other yard haunters and pick their brains.

And I've already driven the wife crazy with all my Halloween talk. And it's not yet October by my watch.

Not much to say...

So I haven't posted in a while...I do have new pictures of Lorelei to post...but haven't been motivated. It's been a tough August and September so far. Being stone cold broke to the point of having to forgo payment on things like cellphones and hoping they won't shut them off before I get paid Oct.1 tends to make things rough. It hasn't been easy on Amanda or I. Thankfully, we have two wonderful families that are helping us out until I finally get paid again.

Amanda has been working at the LA County Fair to help out a little. She also got a part-time elementary school librarian position that starts in another week. So October will be okay...not enough to go to the Paso Robles Harvest Festival like we hoped, but that's okay, we always have fun things to do in October...Knott's Scary Farm, Queen Mary Haunted Shipwreck and the apple ranches out in San Bernadino somewhere.

I am starting to plan out Halloween decorations though...I'm going to start small as a newbie yard haunter. Gonna try to make my own scarecrow, get some eerie lighting, some extra props. I've made a 20 minute sound loop to play on outdoor speakers. I'm real excited about that stuff...I'll have to start posting my plans and the before pictures and some shot of the props I plan on using.

Honestly, I think I'm obsessing so much about Halloween as a means of distracting myself from the current financial straits...but that's human nature I suppose.

Off to surf more yard haunt websites!

Watchmen trailer

This deserves another Holy Shit. The Watchmen trailer was in front of The Dark Knight (as was the crappy 'teaser' for Harry Potter...waste of time and film). It looks incredible.

Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/ right now and watch it. Again and again. I'm pissed I won't be at Comic Con to see what else Zach Snyder has in store for fans...probably extra footage, smiley face buttons, the actors...damn it!