Mr. ShellHawk's Halloween

It's entirely possible that Mr. ShellHawk will be Good, Bad and Ugly on Halloween. I believe he will look even sexier than old Clint, here, if he chooses this costume.
Click on the pic for a random treat.

The Zombie Workout

I was talking with BFF Ghoul Friday last week, and the topic rolled around to zombies. She'd had a convo with a teenageer regarding surviving The Zombie Apocalypse (maybe she'll share that with you one day...) and I mentioned the Zombie Workout.

I subscribe to Wired Magazine, and had been flipping through a couple of months back when I ran across this article on ZombieFit, a workout program in St. Charles, Illinois. (If you click on the link, the little numbers in the picture will make sense.)

Since I've just started an X-Bike workout program a couple of times a week, I was enthralled with an exercise regime that may actually prove useful one day. I mean, all of us know that fatties are the first to go from watching our informative zombie apocalypse movies, and I just am not for being a chunk of zombie nosh. If this program came to my gym, I would sign up instantly, and actually show up consistently.

Avast, Scurvy Dogs! It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day!

It's here again, folks! National Talk Like a Pirate Day.

What started as a fun quirk among friends has become a nationally noted day, complete with its own instruction book. Join in the fun if you can, and spread this silliness in a world that needs it!

To get you in the mood, click here for a more modern pirate flick, then click on "play all!"

Yahoo's article on pirates.

Yellow

Click the image to watch.

Martha Follow-Up #1: The Auto-Generated Response Note

Hello,
Thank you for contacting Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

We appreciate your interest in the Martha Stewart Omnimedia family of
publications.

We value your feedback. We have shared your message with the Martha
Stewart Omnimedia editorial team.

We have also forwarded your message to Martha Stewart.

Thank you once again for taking a moment to share your thoughts.

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O.K. You gotta give them full props for extreme politeness, a quality far too often bypassed in today's society.
 
We shall see if this is the only response I get. I truly do not expect anything else.

Mood Music

Click on the picture to listen.

Etsy Treasuries

Not to toot my horn overmuch, but my pumpkins are in a couple of treasuries I didn't know about!

Pumpkins Scream in the Dead of Night!
Got Jack?
Illuminate the October Night.

I'm really grateful to be included!

Martha, Revisited

I just wanted to let everyone know, I'm sending my note of disappointment in to Martha Stewart on Friday. If you wish to comment on my original post about the latest Halloween edition of Martha Stewart Living, please do so in the next couple of days. I'm hoping a few more of you will post your opinions, either good or bad, before I send off my note, so that maybe next year, we can look forward to an actual new Halloween edition, rather than the recycled drek we've been getting the last few years.

My "I Tilt At Windmills" bumper sticker will be arriving in the mail shortly.

The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree. Artist: Ray Bradbury.

Lucky You

I'm too busy to change the shipping profile on my Etsy items, so enjoy free shipping until Sunday the 19th.

Come on. You know you want one!