In time for Halloween, here are some bat wings for your ceiling fan:

• Craftzine.com blog: Bat/Dragon wing fan blades

• Skipped Simplicity class to go to Ikea. Learned more there anyway. #
• @ Ladanea Maybe it’s alright to just exist somedays. Save the world tomorrow. #
• A thoroughly unproductive day. Tomorrow I’ll kick butt, but today I’m just surviving. #

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I grew up watching shows like H. R. PuffnStuff. Witchie-Poo was the villain in that show and embodied all that I equate with witches.

As an adult, I cannot bear to watch these shows. The dubbing is so horrible that I wonder if they were originally filmed in a foreign language. Jack Wild was the object of a childhood crush and part of me still wishes I could meet that boy.

Witchie-Poo, however, is still the embodiment of being a witch. Good form, Sid and Marty Krofft, good form!

Do They Know It’s Halloween? I can’t find this song anywhere. It looks a little like a collaborative effort from a bunch of bands. I wonder if it’s a parody of Do They Know It’s Christmastime?

I don’t care. It’s awesome and I want to buy it! Where do I buy it?!

• Thai Garden was disappointing for me. Bad beef ruins a Nom Tok. Should have gone to Pawit’s. #
• Halloween costume shopping. Twitter off. #

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• Thai Garden was disappointing for me. Bad beef ruins a Nom Tok. Should have gone to Pawit’s. #
• Halloween costume shopping. Twitter off. #

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The black smoke was billowing over our heads, so we had to find out
what was on fire. The smoke lead us to 400 East and about 4000 South.
It’s amazing how far smoke can travel. We all stood around gawking as
the fire truck flashed.

“What’s burning?” I asked an onlooker.

“Apartments,” she replied.

Mike noticed, “Here are the news.” The van pulled past us, blocking
the road for the ambulance.

“We should leave.”

I have never found a Weight Watcher meeting that I’ve felt comfortable
in. They are filled with retirees and women. I never am able to find
people there that I have anything in common with. I come anyway
because I gain if I don’t. I’m not here for socializing. I’m just here
for the show.

With my choice of skull cupcakes or pumpkin cupcakes, I think I have a chance at the prize for best potluck this year.

• Skull Cupcake Pan – Pushin Daisies

• Pumpkin Cupcake Pan – Pushin Daisies

Now, I just need to learn how to do the frosting so it looks spooky!

Via: Popgadget Personal Technology for Women: Skull cupcake pan

• Hello, Twitches. I’m trying Twitter again because I miss you all so much! #
• @ ThomAllen Halloween! I thought I knew what I was going to be, but now it’s all pear shaped! #
• @ JesseStay I feel for ya, man. Sending good Karma your way. #
• Where should I go to dinner? Twitches to the rescue! #
• @ ThomAllen Chimes? What’s that? #
• Thai Garden for dinner. Nom Tok for me and a curry for Mike. #

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I love to see Halloween costumes from when I was a kid. Wil Wheaton shared his Darth Vader costume from 1977 and his memories of it:

• WWdN: In Exile: Halloween, 1977

These costumes always seemed one dimensional to me. They look good from ONE viewpoint, but add a couple more dimensions to the mix and they just look dumb. Plus, Darth Vader would NEVER wear a costume with Darth Vader on the front. Geez, Mom!

I never got to wear a Halloween costume like that. I really didn’t get to celebrate Halloween until I was an adult and they just don’t make those kind of costumes for adults. Now that I think of it, they really SHOULD. I bet they would be a hit for one year while all the grown-ups reminisce about how it was when they were kids.

I can’t really reminisce about that, though, so I just have to imagine that they were uncomfortable and a pale comparison to REALLY dressing up like Darth Vader.

Every year, we have a contest at our Halloween party for best potluck dish. Anyone who brings these cupcakes gets my vote, no matter what else everyone else brings.

• Wisdom of the Moon: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The variety of cute and funny cupcakes that she had made just makes me smile and be excited for the Halloween party this year. I can’t wait to see what everyone will be bringing!

Via: Craftzine.com blog: Monster Halloween Cupcakes

• Don’t forget CodeAway today. #

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When I was a child, we were Jehovah Witness. We didn’t celebrate Halloween and we certainly didn’t decorate for it. I remember passing the windows of the decorated homes and wishing my house was like theirs. In retrospect, it was just paper. Seriously, all those houses in the 70’s just taped a couple of die-cut prints on their windows. There were no graveyards on the front lawn. There were no fake spiderwebs. There were no animated ghosts or spiders. It was just paper, yet it meant the world to me.

Looking at The Rod Lange’s Halloween Collection, a flood of memories passed over me. This witch, in particular, was one of the scariest to me. I wished I could go Trick or Treating because I just knew that a house with this witch would give good candy. How could it not? She wasn’t just a piece of paper. She was a piece of paper with JOINTS! Her body was so misshapen compared to her head. Scary and enticing at the same time!

No matter when you were a child, Rod has something for you to enjoy. His collection is wide and varied:

• 1900’s to 1920’s
• 1930’s to 1940’s
• 1950’s to 1960’s
• 1970’s
• Unknown origin or year

Considering that paper of the early twentieth century had so much acid in it, Rod’s collection is amazing. We are so lucky he’s willing to share it with us. Enjoy!

I’m sorry to interrupt this Halloween Fest, but I just HAVE to tell you about these guys:

Dragonette – I Get Around

They are HOT! I’ve been waiting for a long time for a band like this to come around!

Here I come when I betta go,

I say yes, when I oughtta say no!

Via: Discopop Directory – Britney’s back

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Courtesy of The History Channel, here is the history of Halloween:

The History Channel has even more Halloween videos here:

• History of Halloween – Creepy Video Clips

This is totally AWESOME!

A little late this year, but Halloween is coming! The rest of the entries this month will focus on Halloween crafts, parties and other fun!

If you’re a fan of Halloween, enjoy this month. If not, I’ll see you in November for my regularly scheduled kvetching!

Jack Kirby’s monsters! Enjoy the scariness!

• Kirby Monsters Never Reprinted

These are the kinds of comic books I used to read as a kid. My view of what the future would be like was so skewed by comics that I am continually disappointed by the future…

Via: Just Some Guy on Twitter

• Playing Animal Crossing. I have been playing for over a year now. Still love it! #
• Waiting for noon when the turnip prices change. #
• Shucks only 65 bells… #
• @ Ladanea Not when you’re playing Animal Crossing. Turnips rule! #
• Need food. #
• Lunch with Strebe! I’m so happy! #
• Letting Strebe take the Prius on the freeway. #
• @ msjen Try Benadryl. #

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• Finished with my chores and ready to get to work and get my Twitter on. Good morning, Twitches! #
• It’s warm enough today to leave the window open. Fresh air in the house. :) #
• I’m a little late for lunch. #
• A juicy nectarine for lunch. Wipe the drips off the keyboard. #
• @ apperceptions you need a special cable that’s not available yet. #
• @ missrogue Were you being sarcastic? #
• I think I’ll go crochet something. #

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There is a local photography club that does something like this, but they make me pay a fee and join a club of film snobs, so Rich Legg’s Photowalk here in Salt Lake City sounds 100% more fun.

• LeggNet’s Digital Capture: Photowalking Salt Lake City – October 6th

He is having it this Saturday 10-06-07 at 5pm. That’s right when CodeAway finishes this week, so I’ll have to book it downtown to catch up with everyone. Sounds like fun, though!

Via: Photowalking comes to Utah | Thom Allen Weblog

• Dinner where? #
• Dinner at McD’s. Real healthy,I tell ya. #
• Consuming an Entertainment Weekly while eating a burger. Junk food for my body and mind. #
• @ whyisjake Yeah. Mine was the one with Jim & Pam. #
• @ whyisjake Couldn’t bear to read the article, though. I don’t care about the actors. #
• STOP DEACTIVATE #

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• Just bought my iPhone at the Apple store. Last Twitter from the Treo. #
• Just saw Critical Mass SLC ride by! #
• @ ashbuckles Thanks! I may not be the first, but I got mine for half of what Mike paid for his. #
• @ jensimmons I’m sure there are cute girls there. You just need to go out find ’em! #
• @ JesseStay Already getting shit from AT&T to set up the iPhone on Mike’s plan. #
• This is my first tweed from my iPhone! #
• @ JesseStay That is so true! AT&T was SLOW. #
• Trying to remember all my passwords. #
• Thinking of leaving the house. Where should I go? #
• Snow in September. I hate Utah sometimes. #

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Mike, could you make this iPhone camera flash for me?

• iPhonexe Forums :: View topic – iFlash How-To *56k-Unfriendly

Thnx, bye!

Via: DIY iFlash for the iPhone – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

It was so strange to wake up this morning without Linda there to boss me around:

Wake up.

Let the dog out.

Wake up Mike.

Feed the dog.

Give me my medicine.

I’ve never known a cat who could communicate the phrase:

It’s time to feed the dog, but he’s not here. Maybe you left him outside?

Unfortunately, she could never understand that we had taken Sid to the kennel.

What am I going to do without my autistic cat?

• @ kitykity I’m jealous! I’m too tired for any more travel, but I wish I was in SF right now. #
• Hey video freaks! New Xacti camera soon! http://tinyurl.com/25wdtg #
• @ basykes Bring a movie on your iPod. It does take that long. #
• @ alizasherman Now, I’m interested in going! #
• @ alizasherman The grid is down while we bang on things… Maybe that’s why the Armani store is empty. #
• Time to run. Twitter off. #

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We had to have Linda put to sleep today. I feel like crap. This year has been hell.

Here are some pictures of Linda when she looked better:

• Pick Me! » Why, yes… Yes, I can.

• Pick Me! » Linda Posing in the Sunbeam

• Pick Me! » A Bath For Linda

• Pick Me! » Kitty Litter

• Pick Me! » Sleeping on the Clutter

• Pick Me! » Maggie Cleaning Linda

• Pick Me! » I’m a Hider

• Pick Me! » Taking Linda to the Vet

• Pick Me! » Linda’s New Hiding Place

Do you want to eat?

Oh… I could eat the planet right now.

How about just one meal.

I could eat the planet in one meal.

Okay, whatever you want. Just figure out which restaurant has it.

• DM Missbhavens Happy Birthday, cutie! Have a great one! #
• I am back in SLC. Finally dried out from the humidity in D.C. Home is the best of all! #
• @ ashbuckles WHEN is the Blogger Dinner this Thursday? It doesn’t say on the entry: http://tinyurl.com/25lghy #
• @ danieljohnsonjr Freakin’ Engadget bumps my unread items in RSS up over 1000. #
• @ MediaJoltz What does that mean? #
• @ libel_vox Yeah, I’m just about ready to throw Twitter out. #
• @ ashbuckles I’m about sick of Twitter’s unreliability. #

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• I’m trying to care about the bomb group, but I’m just tired and cranky. #
• Forgot it was Sunday. All my Twitches are at church, I guess. #

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This is the best turnout we’ve ever had at the 303rd Bomb Group Family Meeting ever. It’s the last one they will have for this group before it’s disbanded. We can go to the 8th Air Force Reunions in the future, but the 303rd must disband this year.

Why did everyone (including me) wait until the final year to attend a family meeting?

“You’re backing up. Do you need me to send out another shuttle?”

“No, I just had to pick up a family that packed their entire house, but I’m moving along now.”

It wasn’t our shuttle driver who said it, but I hung my head in shame.

I’ve seen it so many times on television that it felt like I had been there before. When I saw it on TV, however, there wasn’t a huge crowd of rude tourists pushing me around. Aren’t elevators for strollers and the aged? You wouldn’t know it from the twenty people who pushed themselves in front of our stroller.

The National Mall needs crowd control, more benches and food vendors. Disney should be in charge of The National Mall. They understand how to handle impolite tourists.

I saw the rain this morning and thought it would be cold. I keep forgetting that the rest of the world isn’t the same as Utah. Rain means hot and mugging in D. C. I imagine that I can predict the weather, but it turns out that I can only predict weather in SLC.

After a noisy day at the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian, the blissful silence of Borders makes me want to hide here for the rest of the trip.

What does it mean to be American when I feel more at home in the shopping mall than my nation’s treasured monuments?

Washington D.C. has The Onion available for free. I’ve never seen a newspaper machine for The Onion. Every time I visit a big city, I realize that I live in a town that’s too small for me.

A hotel in my nation’s capital looks very much like a hotel anywhere else. Wireless and wired Internet for $10 a day and my gadgets spread out over the table.

Mike reaches for a Certs as he researches our excursion to the Smithsonian tomorrow.

This morning, I was in Salt Lake City. Tonight, I’m in Washington D.C.

Play Tetris with the states of the U.S.A.:

MapMSG.com – Statetris-USA

My first try, I did easy in 4:56 minutes. Most of my errors came from trying to use the keypad correctly. It doesn’t repeat if you hold down the button like most tetris variants do, so keep punching that button if you want to move it quickly.

Via: Statetris: “Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position… (kottke.org)

• Good morning, all! #
• Inspired to run because of the Runner+ challenges. My name has no miles next to it yet. http://www.runnerplus.com/challenge/135 #
• Going for a run on the treadmill. #
• Back from working out. Nike+ sensor battery is low. Surgery or buy new one? #
• @ CammonRandle Your website doesn’t tell me what you DO on the first page. #
• @ alizasherman http://tinyurl.com/yvh5sc #
• Converting GP entries written by our writer in San Diego. I LOVE it when he sends me new stuff! #
• &@!?$!!! Twitter IM is down AGAIN! Why do I keep playing this game?! #
• Twitter off!!! #

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• Good morning, all! #
• Inspired to run because of the Runner+ challenges. My name has no miles next to it yet. http://www.runnerplus.com/challenge/135 #
• Going for a run on the treadmill. #
• Back from working out. Nike+ sensor battery is low. Surgery or buy new one? #
• @ CammonRandle Your website doesn’t tell me what you DO on the first page. #
• @ alizasherman http://tinyurl.com/yvh5sc #
• Converting GP entries written by our writer in San Diego. I LOVE it when he sends me new stuff! #
• &@!?$!!! Twitter IM is down AGAIN! Why do I keep playing this game?! #
• Twitter off!!! #

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