If you're working on Halloween (that's a Wednesday), you may want to have a three-martini lunch. Cheri from The Watering Mouth has the perfect recipe. You'll need olives and radishes to make the eyeballs.

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From the marvelous webcomic Pusheen. Link -via I Can Has Cheezeburger

Too lazy to care what you wear to that costumes-only Halloween party your friend is throwing? No problem!

Consult this list, courtesy of Gamma Squad, and you'll find twelve costume choices, many of which can be thrown together with the clothes in your closet.

Spandex workout wear + leather belt = Lara Croft, sleeveless white shirt + red headband = Ryu. It's all in the attitude, folks!

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TV shows love to create holiday themed episodes, and the best of the bunch are the ones which air around Halloween because we get to see our favorite characters all dressed up for a night of trick-or-treating.

Here's a mighty supercut with 50 TV show characters sporting extremely silly Halloween costumes for the sake of amusing the home viewers. Watch in good humor and supply your own laugh track!

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Chuck and Beans have the right attitude about Halloween- it becomes more fun as you get older, and not just because of the skimpy outfits and laughing in the face of death, but because kids and pets are so darn cute in their costumes, and after trick-or-treating ends you get to eat whatever's left in the bowl! Note to self: buy extra candy this year...

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A zombie walks into a comic book store and scares the living daylights out of the clerk.

When the clerk calms down he tells the zombie "Hey, we have a few comic books named after you, wanna buy one?"

The zombie replies "You have a comic book called Gyaaaaggghh?!" 

--via Topless Robot

Cupcakes seem like the most unlikely way to spread knowledge about diseases such as herpes, lung cancer and foot fungus, but try telling that to Miss Cakehead, the creator of these disease ridden delights, and you might go home with more than you bargained for.

Miss Cakehead wants to use word of mouth, as in put these delicious works of anatomy art into your mouth then tell others how good they were, to spread disease awareness.

Sounds like a good idea, if people can bring themselves to eat these gross looking things I'm sure they'll spread the word!

Link  --via DesignTAXI

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The Man In Black is back from the dead and ready to rock a show at Brooklyn's Jalopy Theater on October 27th, as long as his rotting limbs hold out.

Okay, it's not actually Johnny Cash, but rather a performer named Steve Sasso who'd clearly been out drinking all night when he came up with the idea to perform as a zombified Cash.

Sounds like one hell of a show though, with hits like "I'll Eat Your Brains" and "Die, Die, Die" the fans are sure to litter the stage with undergarments, and body parts...

Link  --via AnimalNY

Got a child's birthday party coming up? Instructables member canida has the perfect recipe for an entertaining time. You'll need either a human head or a model of a human head as a mold. Wrap puff pastry over it, bake it, then fill the inside with jam and ice cream. All it needs is some birthday candles and it's ready to serve!

Link -via That's Nerdalicious!

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The Dark Shadows and Sweeney Todd movie adaptations have one major thing in common- Johnny Depp.

The iconic actor has such a recognizable face, no matter which character he portrays, that he is a perfect subject for pumpkin carvings. 

The first jack-o-lantern is rather simple, yet you can still tell quite clearly that it's Johnny playing Sweeney Todd, and the Dark Shadows themed masterpiece on the bottom looks like someone took Mr. Depp's head clean off and dyed it orange. Squash-tacular!

Let's face it- most Tusken Raider themed kid's costumes pale in comparison to this epic getup created by super dad Ward Jenkins.

Whether it's the attention to details, clever use of well-made accessories or the acting skills of young Ezra those other Sandpeople wannabes can't hold a candle to this amazing act of kid's costuming! 

Link  --via BoingBoing

Halloween is the time to watch horror films, but there are some old ones that you probably haven't yet seen, because they go back over a hundred years! Balladeer's Blog has a list of 31 silent horror films going back as far as Georges Melies' 1896 short film Le Manoir du Diable (The House of the Devil).

Unless an earlier example turns up this is the very first horror movie with a semblance of a story. This 3 minute film from THE Georges Melies features the Devil setting up housekeeping in a creepy mansion and conjuring up his infernal lackeys like witches, goblins and a living skeleton man to keep him company. Much as the early film world owes to Melies we all know if you’ve seen one of his flicks you’ve seen them all so this will be the last work by him that I cover for this list.

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PS. This movie is available at YouTube.

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The Green Ruby Pumpkin is a delightful (but still scary) Halloween tale told in rhyme. The short film was produced by visual effects artists Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma. You can see a making-of video as well. -via the Presurfer

I don't know that having his axe will do much to help protect the realm, but at least he's sure to slay any scary ring wraiths with pure cuteness.

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I admit it, I hate candy corn. That being said, as a pineapple upside down fan, I can see how if you like it, this cake would probably be heavenly, so you guys might like it -if you like candy corn.

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