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Whew, august has come and nearly gone, and thank god camps are over for me. Its time for afterschool programs to set up which means, ITS TIME TO LOOK FOR MY HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS.
Look, Michael's started their halloween section in July. JULY, PEOPLE. SEPTEMBER IS NOW TOO LATE.
That said, my sister starts the first day of september, so I better get my ass in gear and make my flowers up. I got googly eyes to stick in them.
This month's pack came as an envelope so while I lack tissue paper, I gained a nifty sheet of spooky items (shown left, if you're desktop, shown first or whatever if you're mobile cuz google sites). LOOK! The McDonald's pails!!!!
Also, lol Ghoulies.
So appropriately for DD's celebration of early halloween, here's a stack of stickers. One is from Goosebumps, and actually are window clings. Yes, I'm putting them up for Halloween. I'd be silly not to.
The second is a huge stack of Charlie Brown stickers. Its one sheet really, with a lot of copies, and I can't wait to put them onto stuff, like pen holders and my desk. And maybe Luna's back. Because I'm a terrible pet parent.
My Dino Drac sticker book is half full already of all the stickers I've jammed into it, though the thickness is also due to the puffy stickers and foam stickers from the boxes. I put the thickest ones on the cover with the bootleg pikachu holographic stickers. Cuz apparently I'm like 8 years old. DON'T JUDGE ME.
The card packs are ones for NASA (a generous 12 card pack, with awesome pics from previous space missions), Baywatch and "Wild Bill Shatner's" Tek World. I've never read TekWar but apparently Doc has and fanboyed over these cards. They're pretty neat all things considered. I might have to look up TekWorld. It seems like a wild ride.
The aforementioned Space Shots card have a lot of really nice pics of astronauts in space or rockets. I love space related things so these were really special to me. That and its one of the few packs I've gotten that gives you more than 9 cards per pack. If I remember correctly, the Operation Desert Storm ones are also really generous on cards though to be honest, getting cards on war efforts from the military was a mite strange.
Baywatch had some sweet pics of the ladies in those wonderful suits. Damn, I'll bet red one pieces took off when that show was on. I also have a card with the Gilligan's Island ep on it. That was....interesting. Sit right back and I'll tell you a tale.
Another sticker book for a tv show, this time, I got a pack of sticker cards for The Tick. Anyone watching the new show? That trailer was pretty epic, and so far, as of the end of august, the eps were pretty good. I'm pretty hype for the rest of it. The lines are hysterical, and true to form.
"That pain behind your eyes? That's me, nailing up my black light posters!"
Step aside, "We'll always have Paris", I have a new favorite cinema line.
In any case, the book has huge pages and totally make me want to collect the rest but as there's over 100 stickers to get and the packs come in packs of 6, I'm kinda screwed. Still something to think about when I retire in like 60 years. That could be my hobby besides Nintendo games and turning trash into flowers.
Here's a poster book with pictures and behind the scenes looks to Nightmare Before Christmas. I love stop motion films, especially Laika's filmography so far (if you haven't seen Kubo you need to. Do yourself a favor and enthrall yourself in the film, you'll thank me for it).
I once saw an exhibit for Coraline, and the final Other Mother's model was half my height. Very impressive. Stop motion models really are fascinating and beautiful as well as amazing. Kinda makes me want to try it; though the patience level required is god-like.
The specimen this month is a film cell from Beetlejuice. In one of the older funpacks, I got a stickerbook that came with all the required stickers to fill in, and it was a summary of a party Liz wanted to throw. I remember that cartoon rather fondly. I never thought the movie would spawn a kid's show but then a lot of movies ended up doing just that. I mean, The Mask and Ace Ventura did, why wouldn't Beetlejuice.
The visuals in this movie still hold up pretty well, still creepy and hilarious at the same time. There are a few effect that still give me some pause, but then I'm a puss. XD
I remember Harry Belafonte being my hero after that movie came out for awhile. Shake shake shake Senora.
Starting out Halloween early and appropriately, here's the mini-poster and sticker. I gotta say, Dino Drac on a hill of skulls is pretty fucking badass. I need a hill of skulls. Though knowing me, they'd be sugar skulls and I'd eat them all.
One of my fave pictures for the mini-poster, the layout of the figures was really well done. Its got a "the gang's all here" vibe I totally dig.
Closing out the pack is the newsletter and the essay, which is more like suggestions for making the most of the halloween season, much like the first few packs had a checklist to do to get you in the mood. The hardest one will be getting someone to go with me for visiting a haunted place in town. I haven't found any takers for Hicks Road yet. But one day.
The challenge this month was to draw and color a monster on its first day to school. I chose something outside the norm, using a dullahan on his first day of high school. I used a monster from my series Misfit Demon Manor, one of the new season characters, Sean O'Gann, whom starts high school shortly in season 2, because I wanted a headless kid to play football with. Not really. Well kinda. XD I'm more amused by Akiva's nonchalance at the bus stop. Its not a bad pic all in all, though I think its a little rough around the edges. It's good practice for the following months of spookiness.
Until Septermber, keep it spooky, Lunies.
--Dio (8/31/17 lol)
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