Liquid Lunch Drink of the Day: 11/05/10

Here's your Liquid Lunch drink special for this week.  Fall is here, so I'm pouring The Baileys Caramel Apple.

Drink Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Baileys Caramel Irish Cream (25 oz. per bottle)
• 0.5 oz. Smirnoff Green Apple Flavored Vodka (25 oz. per bottle)
• 1 dash(es) Goldschlager (25 oz. per bottle)

Drink Recipe Preparation:

• Pour Baileys® and Smirnoff® Green Apple into an ice-filled shaker
• Shake and strain into a collins glassed filled with ice
• Float Goldschlager® on top
• Garnish with a cinnamon stick

Courtesy of TheBar.com

Blue Zombie Chicks

Halloween is here!

Please enjoy our first annual Halloween post. This year is featured Blue Zombie Chicks.

Zombie Girl is a Canadian (yeah, I know, ay) Electro-Industrial/Industrial rock project. I reckon this zombie here is Renee Cooper. I'm not sure she is technically blue, since at her myspace page there's a picture of her and she is notblue. But, there's another picture of her blue so I don't know if it's the lighting...

Do we care? Really?

Not I. Blue is blue.

Check out her music too - it's pretty creepy and industrial electronic just like the description says. I have to say this is my favorite Zombie Girl this year. Not just for the blue-factor, at that!



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Scary Zombie Girl

I found this Zombie Girl on flickriver. The page she's on is like 8000+ pictures and I don't really understand what it is. It's like flickr but it just loads picture after picture. So I can't properly credit her because I didn't have the patience to wade through to figure out who posted her up.

Maybe when I am bored I'll properly credit her, but for now I just call her Scary Zombie Girl.



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This Zombie Chick was at Comic-Con 2010. I don't know what kind of statue she is but there's a couple other pictures out there of her. And she's more on the blue/green shade of the spectrum, but I figured there was enough blue in her to color her for this year's Blue Zombie Chicks post.

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Custom Zombie Doll

Yeah, you thought I was sick. Right. You need to check out this guy's custom horror dolls. Zombie girl here is pretty much the tamest of the bunch.

I wouldn't exactly call them "hot", unless you're into stripped flesh and lots of blood. Hey, it takes all kinds, right?

I ain't judging this guy, but next time you are inclined to think a blue skinned fetish is sick, just re-visit this guy for a lesson in relativity.


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Some last random Zombie Chicks

Slutty Girls in Slutty Costumes

How am I not surprised.  With 91% of the vote, Slutty Costumes beat out candy and scary movies for the best part of Halloween.

Slutty Girls in Slutty Halloween Costumes 2010: A Tribute -- powered by Cracked.com

My Three Songs: 10/29/10

1. Candlebox - Far Behind
2. Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun (from the album "Pump")
3. Aerosmith - Mama Kin

Theme :: A Jack-O-Lantern.  Also known as a carved pumpkin (pump-kin, get it?) with a candle inside.  Happy Halloween!

Best Part of Halloween?

Well, WAPL's first texting poll is taking your votes.  What's the best part of Halloween?

1. Candy
2. Scary Movies
3. Slutty Costumes

Text "WAPL" and your choice (1, 2, or 3) to 50352 to vote.

I'll post the results at 3pm

Ghosts Aren't Real: the Science

That's right, as you're watching scary movies this weekend and freaking yourself out about the creaky house, strange chills, and odd visions, just remember: Ghosts are B.S.

Here's the science.

My Three Songs: 10/20/10

1. Def Leppard - Love Bites
2. Foreigner - Hot Blooded
3. Y&T - Summertime Girls (from the album "Down for the Count")

Theme :: Count Dracula.  Bela Lugosi, who played the Count in the original Universal Pictures Dracula from the 1930's was born on this day.

My Three Songs: 10/01/10

1. Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me 
2. Living Colour - Cult of Personality 
3. Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs

Theme :: Night of the Living Dead.  George A. Romero's zombie masterpiece had its world premiere on this day in 1968.

Chapter 84: What Happened to Halloween?

The evening's festivities are over, and my wife and I are settling in for our annual Ghost Hunters live event. I don't know if it was the drizzle and rain or something else, but this year's Halloween was disappointing.

Not many kids stopped by in their costumes. We have too much candy left over. And even the costume creativity seems to have taken a nosedive. I'm just not that impressed.

I used to look forward to Halloween as a kid. It was a night to go out after dark, explore, get candy, and goof around. I looked forward to seeing what others would wear and, in case I forgot to mention it, getting candy.

This year it was a Saturday night. I expected more children, not fewer. Are people afraid to let their children roam a neighborhood?

Now that I'm a father, I look forward to taking my girls around the neighborhood. I think I might even enjoy dressing up to give people a little scare as well. Forget the associations with paganism and satanism that some people place on this celebration of individuality, Halloween is Mardi Gras for children. It should be cherished and enjoyed.

Is it Halloween Yet?

There are only 301 days left until next Halloween!

Get the best deals on your costume for next year by ordering now. Annie's Costumes is offering complete child costumes for under $25 and complete adult costumes for under $35. 

Every Pumpkin Counts

Halloween is only a few days before Election day.

Support your candidate by carving a Barack-o-Lantern!



Stencils and inspiration are available at Yes We Carve.

Free scary makeup videos

Whether it’s for Halloween or just a fun costume party any time of year, realistic horror makeup can make or break a costume. Here’s a great website called Expert Village (The self-proclaimed “World’s Largest How-to Video Site”) with a whole variety of video tips on how to do scary makeup. And the best part is they’re all free. Videos include supplies, fake stitches, fake bullet wounds, fake bruises, missing eyes, rotting flesh—all the classics! Check out the scary makeup videos here.

Chapter 69.5: Got Candy?

Chapter 69.3: Happy Halloween!

My wife and I, who both enjoy a good horror film or episode of Ghost Hunters, went with some friends to the Nightmare Haunted House in New York. It was a blast! The Lower East Side venue looked like an old church, though I don't believe that's what it was.

Groups of twelve were allowed into the haunted house at one time. We wove our way through cramped hallways, never knowing when a masked person might pop out. In many rooms the the looming presence was quite obvious, standing before us or waiting in a corner for the right moment to make a person jump or scream. Each room had a different theme. In one, we had to walk over a bed that looked like someone it had been the scene of a bloodletting. I was in the lead at that point, and a woman dressed completely in black jumped upon the bed; there was nowhere to go, so I had to follow her up over the bed. In another room, at least a dozen bodies in white shrouds stood blocking the path; the room was filled with them. I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to walk through them or if they'd eventually open up some space. When I tried to go around one of them, he moved into my direction -- several times. He wouldn't let me go. It wasn't scary so much as it was confusing. But it was fun.

Also a lot of fun was the bar. Once you had your ticket, you could pre-game in the bar and get a pleasant buzz before entering the haunted house. (In addition to the basic generic beer choices, a nice touch was the brand of wine they served: Gato Negro -- black cat.) But if you're looking for a nice scare, get your tickets soon; the house closes after November 3.

Free Pumpkin Stencil Maker

Design and print your own jack-o'-lantern patterns at Better Homes and Gardens website—FREE. Choose from thousands of possible faces or let them create one for you! In five minutes or less you’ll be ready to print out your pattern and carve a Jack-o-Lantern that’s truly one-of-a-kind. Click here to get started.

And for great Halloween costumes and accessories, remember to visit anniescostumes.com.

Halloween Hall of Fame

Halloween Hall of Fame opened its "creaking" doors this week. Honoring the extraordinary folks who make Halloween popular, the Halloween Hall of Fame recognizes the amazing talents of Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Lon Chaney Jr, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Elvira "Mistress of the Night".

The inspiration for the Halloween Hall of Fame actually came from Harold Maxwell, founder of Annie's Costumes. After hearing that Bobby "Boris" Pickett passed away, Harold remarked, "He really should be in the Halloween Hall of Fame." And when he did a little research and found out that there wasn't one, he helped form a Board of Directors to get the Halloween Hall of Fame going.

The exciting part of the Halloween Hall of Fame is that the public gets to express their opinion on who should be in it. Check out the list of nominees and vote your favorite celebrity into the Halloween Hall of Fame.

Rob Zombie Halloween Movie Remake

The horrifying return of Michael Myers through the eyes of Rob Zombie! The movie will be released on August 31, 2007.

You might have seen the previews already and this remake looks even scarier than the original. Granted, the original movie is a classic and was quite scary enough, especially since I was pretty young when I first saw it.

The voice over on the Halloween trailer says, "This August, Rob Zombie unleashes an extreme vision of terror and reinvents a legend." Some critics, although fans of Rob Zombie, are asking why? Why remake a classic? I personally think the trailer is spooky as is and has intrigued me enough to want to see the movie. Although, I am a movie fan, contrary to what you might imagine, I am not a huge horror movie fan. I guess growing up in the Halloween business has somewhat desensitized me to some things, and at the same time, some recent movies are just too sick or gory for my taste. I guess I live in a world of costumes, makeup and horror, so I like something different in most of my movies. But I will go and see this new Halloween movie, I'm kind of excited about it, actually.

The new Halloween movie trailer, I feel, is actually too scary to post here on my blog, since I want to keep my blog PG and family oriented about things related to Halloween and Halloween costumes.

There is an interesting interview with Rob Zombie posted on Final Girl's blog. I just linked to it, rather than post it here along with a warning that you might find a few bad words there - doesn't bother me, but just in case it might bother you. : )

I almost forgot . . . for any of you avid fans out there, http://www.anniescostumes.com/ carries the official Michael Myers Mask as well as the Michael Myers costume for adults. If you get it now, you can wear it to the premier and at Halloween so that you can get double the fright time out of it!