Some fun times in some fake haunted places. This is Lisa and her sister posing with a guy at Dungeons in Delhi. It was a part of a haunted house alliance called Cincy Haunts. It was a neat idea because if you went to all four, you could be elligible for some prize, including free passes to these places next year. We hit three of the four, but didn’t make the fourth because it seemed like some kind of hayride and the weather was crappy the nights we wanted to go.
We did go outside the Haunted Conglomerate to hit the USS Nightmare. It’s apparently one of the top 15 haunted attractions in the country so you’ve got to see that.
I may not have hit all the Cincy Haunts but I got to a good number of them this year. So I know which ones I have to hit next year and which ones I need to hit again. Anyone else go to any of these kind of places or are you just too grown up for that kind of silliness?
“This is a skeleton, this is bones! Would you run from Callista Flockheart?”
Had a chance to start a new October tradition this weekend. Lisa found this site that showed how you could spice up your standard jack-o-lantern. Not only did she want to try it, but she wanted to come up with a whole holiday theme in order to incorporate such a crazy idea. Something like Festivus. So, I called the whole pumpkin burning thing Burnicus and let her do all the work. She even hosted Burnicus in her backyard! She soaked a couple rolls of toilet paper in kerosene for 24 hours. During the soaking process, we carved our pumpkins. Lisa’s is there on the right, you can see that she did a real good job. She came up with that off the top of her head. And it lit up real well, as you can see. As near as we can tell, it was lit for about a half an hour.
On mine, I tried to make him look like Firestorm. In the past I went for characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Homestar Runner. Since I knew his head was gonna be on fire, I figured I should pattern it after a guy who’s head is on fire like the popular DC character. Okay, maybe popular is a bit of an overstatement. But I thought it was appropriate. I almost botched the face by carving out the whole face but fortunately I figured it out before I completely cut the face off, leaving a blank slate and looking like a dumb pumpkin hole. Maybe it would have helped if I did the OMAC version. Oh, well. I think it worked even as a generic face. Besides, who’s looking at the pumpkin with a three-foot plume of fire jumping out the top of his head?
And here’s video proof that I didn’t go up in flames when I started the fire.
Yeah, Cincinnati didn’t get the job done. But it wasn’t a total disaster. A little better on third downs and things would have turned out differently. And all is not lost. A win next week in Baltimore against the division-leading Ravens and the world will be right again. Well, at least the Bengals would be back in the driver’s seat. So, what should I do to fill space and try to entertain you fine folks? Make fun of the Steelers!
Pittsburgh was a team that ESPN “experts” deemed the best in the AFC North. Despite their crappy record, Merril Hoge, Sean Salisbury, and Eric Allen went on the record and said the Black and Gold was better than the Bengals and Ravens who each had superior records. Today, the World Champions went out and lost to the worst team in the NFL. Let me just recap what these guys said about Pittsburgh last week:
Hoge: It's the Steelers in a landslide.
Salisbury: The Steelers, who have the right combination of offensive and defensive excellence to contend.
Allen: This team would beat the Bengals and Ravens with Batch or Roethlisberger leading the way.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if these yutzes kept saying this kind of crap, even though Cowler’s boys are three games out of first place and tied for last with the Browns. And did I mention they lost to the Raiders? Ha!
Standard Sunday Sock Point rules apply. Talk about what your team did this weekend and get a point. Hopefully, they did better than mine.
Have you seen the preview for Season 6 yet? Jack Bauer becomes even more Jesus-like as he must sacrifice himself for the good of his country. Who would have thought I’d actually look forward to wintertime January?
“People don’t wanna help you when you insult them. That’s why that troop of ‘flat chested pygmy sluts’ won’t deliver girl scout cookies to you anymore!”
After a few weeks of mild life, Chad Johnson returned to his boisterous self this week. He gave himself a new nickname in honor of Hispanic Heritge month and called out DeAngelo Hall of the Atlanta Falcons. I doubt it’s a coincidence that this coincided with Ocho Cinco Being on the SI Cover. I don’t mind Chad being Chad again as long as he, and the rest of the offense, can get back to their vintage form on Sundays.
“I’m celebrating. I’m going to score. I’m going to score more than once. I’m tired of being quiet. I’ve had no motivation, I’ve had no energy. I’ve had no drive. Nothing to look forward to on Sunday. I don’t care if they put five people on me, I’m going to get it done this week.”
Than to post a picture of the birthday boy or girl. Preferably one they would not choose themself. Even better, something from the days when they rode around sporting a mullet. Aw, yeah. Great present. It better be, cause I’m not actually getting him anything other than this half-assed gesture. I know, I know. I’m a good friend.
So, Happy Birthday to Eric! And a Sock Point to everyone else who does the same.
I finally got around to posting a bunch of pictures from a 2003 Halloween party I attended. It was one of the best parties I attended in terms of people dressing up. I mean, look at MOe there as the Joker. Go check out the pics, lots of good stuff. That includes the Goat as King Pimp who had to clash with another pretender in a dynamic turf war. It’s good stuff to look at and will hopefully distract you from my lack of preperation today.
“Hey, look over there! It’s a newly married inter-racial gay couple burning the American Flag!”
I know no one really cares about my Flickr pictures but I did see a semi-recent change to my account there. This here picture is now my most “interesting” picture. According to Flickr’s formula, here’s my most interesting pictures. I tried to show it to you before but it didn’t seem to want anyone other than me to see. This link looks to change that. Anyway, it’s becoming clear that some of my most popular pictures are from my time at the AVP Cincinnati Open. Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised that women in bikinis seem to get more attention than, say, a giant statue of Jesus. Actually, bad example. Lots of people seem to like that, too. I guess the point is if you want people to look at your pictures, shoot scantily-clad women, giant messiahs, or billboards that tell you that you are going to hell. Folks seem to respond well to stuff like that.
My NFL team won. My college team won. The Steelers lost. Good day. That and my laziness are putting a damper on this blogging thing. Sorry. I feel bad especially considering the qualit ywork you guys were pitting into the comment section yesterday.
“I Feel Sorry For Everyone Who’s Cooped Up Inside Watching Game 7 Of The World Series.”
No time for deep discussion on my part cause, right now, I have to root on another Cincinnati football team tonight. I feel sorry for everyone else stuck inside watching Game 2 of the World Series.
Standard Sunday Sock Point rules apply. Talk about what your team did this weekend and get a point.
