church of awesome: Take Back Halloween
Ladies: Are you tired that all the commercially available Halloween costumes for us are sexy-whatevers?
Month: October 2011
Frankenstein (1931 retro trailer)
In which women but not men are shocked into uncontrolled hysteria!
Saturday cute: zombie cupcakes
Undead baked treats.
question of the weekend: What meaning does Guy Fawkes hold for you?
This weekend’s question may be mostly for my U.K. readers… though I suspect my readers elsewhere are likely crossculturally aware enough that they’ll have something to kick in here, too.
London photo of the day: Tintin, life-size
Life-size statues of Tintin, his dog Snowy, and Captain Haddock at the Odeon West End cinema…
Friday night fortune cookie: Lucy Van Pelt says…
“A person should always choose a [Halloween] costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
must reads: “The Real Scare Is Not Being Scary”
Brooks Barnes at The New York Times looks at how scaring folks at Halloween is vexing amusement-park designers… because we’re getting more and more desensitized by outrageous horror movies…
cute animal videos: Nakke the African gray parrot speaks and sings (in Finnish)
Nakke sings a children’s song, whistles the theme from The Bridge on the River Kwai, and does a little dance…
Doctor Who thing of the day: new Tennant’s Timepieces T-shirt, on sale today only
rtofirefly, who has given us some very cool T-shirts this year, is back with another…
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (trailer)
It’s like every cherished holiday movie wrapped in one festive fantasy package.
