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Each year, Chelsea Market livens up for Halloween with some usually spectacular and just plain fun Halloween decorations.
I walked through quickly yesterday, and things are starting to shape up very nicely.
Awesome and terrifying.
You may or may not have known that the Devil’s Demons is originally from North Carolina. Believe it or not, North Carolina is an awesome place.
North Carolina is also home to loads of awesome haunted houses, many of which I remember fondly from growing up. Like most ruralish areas, there’s just a lot of open space, woods, and crazy people to make really awesome and genuinely frightening haunted houses/barns/schoolhouses/etc.
One place that didn’t exist when I was living there is the Myers House. What’s the Myers House? It’s a replica of Michael Myers of Halloween fame’s house. And there’s all kinds of cool stuff going on there.
31. FOR OCTOBER 31ST, WHICH IS HALLOWEEN, WHICH IS THE MOST AMAZING DAY IN HISTORY.
Now it’s officially early Halloween. Matt, of the inimitable X-Entertainment.com, has started his 2010 Halloween Countdown. Covering everything from Halloween Pop Tarts to Creepy Halloween My Little Pony’s, Matt has been doing this for 9 years and it’s always the best in town. Check it out.
She’s baaaaaaaaack. My favorite homemaker Martha Helen Stewart has released the 2010 edition of her fabulous magazine, her Halloween Handbook, and I am FUCKING STOKED.
Let’s recap. I have recently started compulsively buying any and everything I see that is remotely Halloween themed. This includes magazines.
I’m just discovering these guys, I have no idea. But thanks to the Downtown Dame for getting the 8th of September started off swimmingly. She knows how much I like pumpkins, so she pointed me to the Maniac Pumpkin Carvers.
The Maniac Pumpkin carvers are a couple of friends who have obviously discovered their passion in life, spending the autumn months carving ridiculously badass pumpkins. They’ll carve anything apparently, from portraits to brand logos to characters from movies to just about anything you can imagine. There are some great examples in there of more “3D” pumpkins too, with displays of amazing craftsmanship.
There are zombies, vampires, skeletons, Michael Jackson’s, people I don’t know, ad agencies, and bars. All good.
Bonus points that they’re located in our locale of Brooklyn. If only they had a store, they could totally take advantage of me getting drunk and buying all of their pumpkins (not that they’d have trouble selling them anyways).
They also won serious bonus points with me because of their “how-to” section, which features some videos of Muppets carving pumpkins. And everyone knows how much I LOVE Muppets.
You can follow the Maniacs on Facebook too. Do it.
So every year, I visit what I think is the best amusement park in the world, Cedar Point. They have bone-shaking roller coasters like the Millenium Force that give me the chills and the best kind of natural high. It’s a no-frills park, as people are only there for the rides. Not for stupid parades or theme rides.
Every year, they have HalloWeekends in the fall. I have yet to go, but apparently they transform the park into one huge haunted playground, with several haunted houses and other attractions.
Probably the most amusing aspect of the events is their hiring policy. During the summer, CP is manned by young college kids or foreigners visiting for the summer. All clean-cut for the most part, wearing standard-issue uniforms.
There are signs posted throughout the park indicating that given the nature of Halloween, “normal” hiring restrictions like tattoos and piercings are OK in this sense. Let the freaks come out and play.
Anywho, they’ve began to advertise HalloWeekends throughout the park, and they do so by clever little displays featuring skeletons, coffins, and corny phrases.
Here are some pics from one such display, the C.O. Fin Used Casket Emporium.
HOLY SHIT YES. Even though I won’t buy any of these, they are pretty goddamn awesome. Clive Barker has a new line of Halloween costumes for 2010. Just having the name Clive Barker floating around makes me happy.
This is a great post over on Evil on Two Legs, featuring some of the best/worst/weirdest/ugliest/sad dog Halloween outfits he could round up.
