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I’m writing this from the road on the way back to New Orleans for our baby shower this weekend. So this one is going to be pretty brief. But I just had to share with you one of the coolest DIY Halloween projects that I’ve ever seen.

Do you have tape? Do you have baby paper? How about a few spare trash bags? Well if your answer is yes, yes, and let me check…yep I have that too! Then you can make one of these bad ass paper mache pumpkins!

Click the link to go to the site for step by step instructions with pictures on how to make one of these for yourself. But the over all gist is…

Fill a plastic trash bag with crumpled newspaper until it is the desired size and shape for your pumpkin.

Wrap twine or heavy cord around the newspaper filled bag to form ridges. Apply masking tape over the twine to further define the ridges.

Apply three or more layers of papier mache strips over the entire pumpkin.

Use homemade papier mache clay to further define the ridges on the top of the pumpkin. A stem was added by inserting a small tube of rolled up newspaper. Empty paper towel or toilet paper tubes can also be used for the stem.

Apply papier mache clay to the stem and sculpt in the texture. Allow to dry.

Cut a hole in the bottom of the pumpkin using a sharp knife or blade.

Carefully remove the crumpled newspaper and plastic bag.

Draw the face pattern onto the pumpkin and cut out the eyes, nose and mouth with a sharp knife or blade.

Paint.

Pretty easy, right?

Well with only two weeks left until “All Hallows Eve”, there probably isn’t too much time left to do one of these for myself personally. Not with all the Halloween shows I need to catch up with on TiVo at least. But I am ABSOLUTELY making these suckers next year for our house. I’m talking like…10. Or 11. Eh screw it…a bakers dozen! Why not right?

So how about you? Want to make some of these too?

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P.S. Since I’m out of town, that means there isn’t going to be a new MRR this weekend. But we will be back for our big Halloween blow-out episode next Sunday, so get ready! It’s going to be AWESOME.

Well…maybe…we’ll see. I don’t think I can take that kind of pressure.

Why is October 20th an awesomely spooky day on your Halloween advent calendar? (Besides being the day that Junk wrote up an AWESOME post about his favorite Worst Zombie Films that is…)

Because it’s Bela “Drac” Lugosi’s birthday!

I think in honor of Bela we need to invent a new word to replace “Spooky”. And it’s totally NOT because I’ve just now realized how many times I’ve used that word in the past two weeks and only want to pay tribute to the spookiest Dracula ever.

Yeah…that’s the ticket…

My diabolical plot to have a post for all 31 days of October is looking like it’s already falling a bit short. Every year it seems I’m the de-facto cheerleader for this holiday around these parts, so when I get hit by an increasingly late work schedule and an exhausted brain, the spooky posts just seem to taper off.

But after a cup of dangerously extra strong studio coffee, I’m determined to lead by example and get to that bloody Boozinga finish line.

So…let’s talk about dead babies. They’re very big this year.

I’ve been meaning to write about this since all the way back in September actually when the first Spirit Halloween’s started opening up around the country. At the time I hadn’t been to one yet, but a friend of mine went opening day and brought back video of something he said I just “had to see”.

The video below isn’t the actual clip he showed me on his phone, but you’ll get the gist…

Zombie Baby Circus, both the name of this new demented product line and an awesome punk rock band name, the overall concept I assume is a “what-if” thought experiment about C.H.U.D. meeting the Dead Alive zombie fetus and getting into the Halloween animatronic game.

Or maybe it’s just someone’s overly elaborate way of FINALLY getting a bunch of zombie babies onto that giant in-store merry go-round that’s been gathering dust in the warehouse since the Killer Klown bubble of ’88 burst. Either way…it’s kind of awesome, kind of twisted, and I kind of love it!

I want to applaud and also shake my finger at Spirit Halloween at the same time, so you know it’s good. It’s the classic litmus test for most Halloween decorations actually because the line is very thin between fucked up and brilliant. And these dolls walk that line wonderfully.

I do wonder though if these are going to be big sellers for Spirit this year. I mean who has the balls to walk through the check-out with one of these under their arm. Let alone put one on their front porch! I sure as hell don’t, and I’m a Halloween nut.

Anyways the caffeine is wearing off, so let’s hear from you now. Would you pick one of these up and feel comfortable with it living in your attic for 11 months out of the year? Sound off in the comments below while I try to think up something else to write about for tomorrow.

I feel like the haunted “Little Engine That Could” right now. I think I can, I think I can, I think I…need some sleep and a In Search Of marathon.

So what if I told you that the city you’ve lived in for the last two years is home to an exact 1:1 recreation of the Munsters House? Well if you’re like me then you probably thought, “Thank god, because I was really starting to run low on Halloween shit to talk about for Boozinga!” But since you’re not me then you probably just think I’m a liar. Well my momma didn’t raise no liar, and thankfully the family that built this treasure also has a website! Albeit one that looks like it was made on Geocities. But a website none the less…with photographic proof!

I also dug up an old news story about the house and the Halloween event they do each and every year. How cool is that?!

You just know that this is the house that gives out those over-sized Hershey’s bars too.

Now personally I was never a fan of the Munster family. I was more of an Adam’s Family kid growing up than anything else. But I respect anyone who gives into that demented voice in their head and does something amazing like this. Especially during this time of year!

Closing Fun Fact: Right next door to the Dallas Munster House is also home to the Dallas’s most tolerant next door neighbors!

Seriously those people have to be sheer saints. If we tried to turn our house into…lets say…an exact 1:1 replica of the Ghostbusters firehouse (believe me…I’ve thought about it) the old lady next to us would probably keel over and haunt our asses out of sheer spite.

I’m feeling a bit lazy today, being my day off and all, so I wanted to put forth the most minimal effort possible while at the same time telling you about this awesome candy maker I found on ThinkGeek yesterday! Now I don’t know how you could possibly look at this and NOT see that it’s a Halloween toy. But I guess their crazy candy business model needs kids to buy this toy year round, because it’s described at a Science Teaching Tool.

Uh huh. Sure. Pretty sneaky sis. “Science”.

But you don’t have to trick me into buying this Doctor Dreadful! You already had me at “Zombie Lab”.

Check it out

Doctor Dreadful here, ready to teach you about the value of science. Science is a very useful enterprise. Advances in science help better every aspect of our lives – but none as important as candy. Because candy, as we all know, is the cornerstone of human civilization. Without candy, we’d all be just a bunch of sad, bitter zombies. Which is funny, because I’m here to tell you about my Zombie Head Candy Maker.

The ultimate in disturbingly delicious experiments, my Zombie Lab gives you tons of terribly tasty treats. Up for brewing bubbly brains? Maybe peeling off some zombie skins? You can even inject spiders into eye sockets or drink down a cup of chunky zombie barf… if you dare! The good news for Mom & Dad is that everything your wee mad scientist needs is in the box, except for water, wax paper, and the willingness to eat some downright disgusting-looking candy. The Zombie Head Candy Maker will be a real hit at your next Halloween party!

Alright everyone, what do you think of my Halloween costume for this year? Just got it in the mail!