November 6, 2004
Titling this post would take some of the fun out of it
What the hell is that?
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I'll tell you what it is. It's FLOG's A Week After Halloween Rotting Pumpkin Spectacular! Last night at Rennie's I was latched onto by a tall, probably heavily drugged man in a zombie afro clown costume. He explained that he had forgotten to dress up on Halloween, so he figured he'd do it on November 5. The way he was drinking his beer with a straw, and his offer to "just come over and sit with you guys until I go to the dance," creeped me out pretty good. And I realized: Halloween is even spookier when it's not Halloween. In that spirit, here are some rotten Jack o' Lanterns. You were looking at the inside of one.
This cute lil fella was the first to give up the ghost. FLOGette carved it to look like a tiki god. Now it's an elderly tiki god. Scary!
Structurally, this one has held together pretty well. And it's a pretty classic look from FLOGette there. But wouldn't you just love to sink your teeth into all that mold? Jeepers Creepers!
The ants would, apparently. C'mon, can it get any spookier than ants picking apart a smiley-face? Boo!
This was my big Jack o' Lantern. It hasn't been touched since Halloween. All that damage is self-inflicted. Chilling!
I was trying to reinvent the Jack o' Lantern on this one. It's a goddamned Mondrian-disco tour de force. Was, anyway. Eee!
The only one that has kept it together is my Robo-Jack 3000 here. I built it to last. And it's pretty sharp lookin' with fire inside it. If you're really nice, I'll show you later.
Yes, Mom, of course we threw them out immediately after this! Honest!
Posted by FLOG at November 6, 2004 4:56 PMAll in all, those are pretty disgusting but not nearly as pretty disgusting as the pumpkin ear you posted last year. Now *that* was pretty disgusting.
You should post shots of the pumpkins lit up in all their glory. The tiki and robot ones need more context, dammit.
Posted by: Blog at November 8, 2004 10:04 AMWhaddaya mean, context? They're Jack o' Lanterns! What the hell else do you need to know?
Posted by: FLOG™ at November 8, 2004 10:19 AMThe only way I can enjoy these moldy pumpkins is to know what they looked like before nature took its toll. This is like seeing a smashed car AFTER Truck-a-saurus got a hold of it.
Posted by: Blog at November 8, 2004 1:29 PMYes, well, that's the bitch of it: I didn't take any "before" pictures.
Posted by: FLOG™ at November 8, 2004 4:29 PMYou built a robo-pumpkin and didn't take pictures? For shame! You could have patented that thing.
Posted by: Blog at November 9, 2004 10:28 AMSee last picture. It's the only one still in good shape.
Posted by: FLOG™ at November 9, 2004 5:03 PM