My big project idea for this October is to create a 1940's-esque Spookshow.  I'm still not sure how it's going to end up but like all my project I have sort of started in the middle and finding my way to both ends.  I've began construction on a stage and on various puppets.  I've also made a request for music from a musician friend.  We'll see how it turns out.  Updates on this project throughout the Summer....

Ben loved scary movies....

some new images of tiny skeletons up at the PoMoNoBo Flickr.

hrmm

In mid-October, before Hallowe'en actually gets here, I am usually already thinking about what I want to do the following year. Then I gradually let ideas brew for a while and take time to enjoy the rest of the holidays. Contrary to popular belief I actually do like Christmas time. I like to refer to it as "Yule." Not in a completely contrary manner but I don't wish to celebrate the birth of Christ. I also don't acknowledge Yule in a neo-pagan sense even though it is a pretty solid pagan idea. All the evergreen decor (even the tree, yes) is tree worship. For some reason I believe it is important to know this things. Just as it is important to know where your surname comes from. Which is to say most people don't care about these things. Anyway..as with all holidays I get swept up in the romance of the mythmaking and storytelling. Discovering the Krampus opened up a whole new way to look at the yule-tide season.

I've also recently discovered Walpurgis Night. This is one that deserves a revival/recreation for the 'States.

happy hallowe'en

i always have a feeling that i'll blog nearly every day in october but i always
get carried away with everything else. i did take the time to try something
new. i've never done any zombie material. until now.

good ol' days

this is probably my favorite video on all of youtube.
it makes me think of what it was like not to have
access to everything at hallowe'en time. back when
you still had to be creative and make your own fake
blood if you needed more than a tube. it's also
pitch-perfect on how i remember hallowe'en growing up.

strange fruit

he grows in the garden every year
(scarecrow made of jack-o-lantern, vines and roots)

Belsnickle

I want to revive Belsnickling. Look it up.