If you're looking for some weird and wonderful Halloween music download, please check out this blog:



Scar Stuff has a ton of free Halloween music downloads to suit every taste. I've been busily scooping up stuff ever since I found this site. Please make sure to thank him in his comments section for everything you get.

Here are some listening suggestions to make it a musical Halloween this year:









Severed Heads - City Slab Horror



Terror Tales - Martha Wentworth



Gayle House Records "The Haunting"



Skinny Puppy - Mind, The Perpetual Intercourse



Tino's Breaks Volume 6 - Halloween Dub



Spike Jones In Stereo"Spooktacular In Screaming Sound"!

Actually, there are a bunch of free Halloween albums here:

http://dw56.250free.com/ForbiddenCryptsOfHauntedMusic.html

It's hit and miss though.

A couple of weeks ago, my child's last fish died. Until then, I had been using his aquarium light as a night light for the room. With the tank being empty and future plans being made to use it for hamsters, I decided to drag out my old, dusty lava lamp I had packed away in the basement. A friend bought it for me from Trivet's in Cincinnati, way back in my hippier days. I used the heck out of it and now I'm glad to see it back. I pulled it up from the basement , dusted the incense dust off of it and set it up on a timer in my kid's room. It burns from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. and it still works great...even after being boxed up for 7 years. The kids love it too. It lights up the room with a cool, blue light and the baby will stare at it as I rock him to sleep.

So you can understand why this blog entry by Blogger "The In Crowd" struck a chord with me:

http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2007/09/love-for-lava-lamp-and-box-it-came-in.html

Check out these cool mushroom lamps. I'll take all 3 thankyouverymuch.

O.k. I was looking over a list of:

10 Epic Halloween Costumes

I didn't think many of them were epic, but one guy in the list blew my mind. He's done 3 robot costumes that are just wonderful to behold.



An Aliens Powerloader



A Battlemech



And a Matrix APU.

Check out these and other projects on his site: http://hallert.net/

I bow down to this guy's costume making skills. He's truly a Halloween Geek after my own heart.

Blogger Chris Jart has some hillarious entries about Johnson Smith Co. rubber masks from the 70's

Here

and

Here

Good stuff for anyone who grew up wishing they could afford to buy the crap they sold at the back of the comic books with their meager allowance.

...I want this in my room



A Steampunk Fishbowl.

My wife just called. She just got me tickets to see David Sedaris this Saturday night for my birthday. I'm pretty happy about that. I knew he was coming to town, but I didn't really think about getting tickets because our babysitting options have been pretty crappy lately. Those tickets are expensive enough, but throw 30 bucks worth of babysitting in and it really hurts. Fortunately, she worked something out with her mom.

I can't wait to see him though. We saw him about 5 or 6 years ago when he came to town with Sarah Vowell. We laughed so hard our faces hurt. I love that guy so much...I wish I could keep him in my pocket.