The current queen of teen screams, lover of all things fanged and sparkly, Kristen Stewart is here to explain Halloween to the uninitiated.
K. Stew's gonna school you on the facts- All Hallow's Eve is Latin for ancient festival where sexy nurses honor the dead, and Halloween got it's name from hollowing out a pumpkin.
Sounds like trueness to me!
--via Tastefully Offensive
Things are tough all over, and Halloween is so close you can already sense the spirits becoming restless, so what are you gonna dress up as this year?
Maybe you should check out this list of 15 last minute geeky and inexpensive costume ideas and make up your mind, before you're left out in the cold with an empty pillowcase and a belly full of regret...
Talk about dry humor! If you're the kind of person who wears the same costume as your cat on Halloween then this is the costume for you! Don't loaf around, get slicing and put that bread on yo head! Squee!
Keep your costume clean this Halloween- dress yourself up like a bath pouf! It's not only a cute idea for a last minute costume, it's incredibly easy to put together.
Check out the Instructable by Carley Jacobson, and resist the filth that hits the streets around Halloween.
Link --via Laughing Squid
The days of stirring a cauldron full of witch's brew with a large wooden spoon is over.
The crones have found a newfangled technology that does the job in half the time, and brew production is up five hundred percent.
Do yourselves a favor this Halloween- don't drink any bubbling brew you didn't conjure up yourself!
It's a darn shame to see pumpkins picking on each other, especially around Halloween. Pumpkins that make it out of the patch need to stick together.
Your orange skinned kin aren't the enemies, the humans with the knives that carve funny faces into you are the real enemies.
Can't we all just get along?
The yearly tradition of celebrating All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween as we know it today, is thought to’ve begun in the 19th century when Scottish and Irish immigrants brought the holiday with them to North America.
Today it’s more than just a harvest themed holiday, it’s a day of wearing costumes, getting your neighbors to give you candy and decorating your house to show you’re the spookiest person on the block. Let’s take a look back and see how Halloween became the holiday we know and love today.
Photo: ABC Television/Wikimedia Commons
Let's start things off with a Halloween themed publicity still from the 1970 television series Nanny and the Professor. Not sure if the kids were intentionally trying to look creepy, but if so then they've succeeded!
Photo: Johnny Cupcakes
What a cute bunch of bunnies! Or are they bats? Naw, they're cute little bunnies, you can tell by their fluffy little tails. How…adorable?!
Photo: Shorpy
Imagine trick-or-treating in 1957 and being greeted at the door by this terrifying goofball...does this count as a trick or a treat?
Photo: IMLS Digital Collections & Content/Wikimedia Commons
A whole bunch of folks from the High Point Housing Project in Seattle, Washington celebrated Halloween, 1943 in the community hall. Where are all the men? Possibly off fighting overseas, as this picture was taken in the era of World War II.
Photo: Ruth Edna Kelley/Wikimedia Commons
“No Hallowe'en Without Jack-o'-Lantern” is the title of this photo from The Book Of Hallowe'en, circa 1919. These guys are so proud of their handiwork that they’re setting their pumpkins on the roof for everyone to see.
This Philip J. Fry pumpkin cuts right to the chase, and when trick-or-treaters are given an order they listen, or else they get no candy...
Silly humans and their holiday traditions, flaming pumpkins are for dancing not handing out candy!
Monsters have gone from grotesque to gorgeous, due largely to Hollywood horror movies, but what caused this shift in appearance?
Read on true believers, and you'll discover how gross ghouls and bat faced bloodsucking freaks have become today's misunderstood loners and sparkly little sex symbols.
Tim Curry has certainly been typecast throughout the years as a bad, bad boy, and movie lovers wouldn't have it any other way.
Take a look at Mr. Curry's wide range of wrong, from the terrifying Pennywise to the laughably androgynous Frank N. Furter, and you'll see why Tim really floats our Halloween boat!
If you're tired of throwing away all those pumpkin seeds after carving up your pumpkin then you should take a gander at these delicous recipes that involve, you guessed it, pumpkin seeds.
Making these delicious pumpkin seed enhanced food items will give you a break from all that candy you've been gobbling up on a daily basis, so maybe there'll be some left over for the trick-or-treaters!
Puppet films with an all puppet cast are few and far between, and puppet horror movies are virtually unheard of, which is why Chompers is such an important film.
The puppet community will finally have their chance to show the world that they can die dramatically like everyone else, perhaps forcing the Oscars to add a few more categories...
By the way- this trailer is in 3D so if you happen to have a pair of those old red and blue lens 3D glasses sitting around put them on and prepare to be wowed!
--via Super Punch
Be forewarned- this isn't a very fun article, and it kinda goes against the Halloween traditions of munching on gobs of goodies and sampling all sorts of sweet treats, but since health and diet are a big issue for a lot of people these days we've decided to play devil's advocate and share these healthy tips on resisting Halloween candy.
Whether you choose to heed this advice or not is entirely up to you, but if not then let's unite and eat candy!
Here's a world record for you to file under "Mathematical" and/or "Why?"-the most digits of Pi ever carved into a pumpkin.
Tai Star managed to carve 66 digits of Pi into what is now officially the world's nerdiest pumpkin. I've heard of making pumpkin Pi but this is ridiculous!
Those of you who can't wait until Thanksgiving to bring a big old turkey home with you should keep an eye out for anyone wearing this costume.
Once you get past the ridiculous exterior you might find that Tom isn't such a turkey after all...
Link --via Laughing Squid
