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Standing Skull Man & The Halloween Art Challenge!

Meet my very special new bestest friend in the whole wide world, Standing Skull Man. A once expensive and absolutely gigantic Halloween decoration marked down to comparable peanuts during the final days for stores to milk our holiday spirit, Standing Skull Man topples in at nearly seven feet tall and serves as the perfect gift for you know, that guy, the one who has everything.

Physical Challenge: Draw a picture of a pumpkin with Dracula's hand coming out of it, somehow incorporate a goldfish, and attach a small flag to the pumpkin's stem with the slogan of your choice. Send them to me. (alternate address for bouncebacks: click here) No prizes, but all but the most vicariously embarrassing submissions will be posted this weekend as part of a half-assed Halloween X-E bash. You must follow all the directions stated or I will print out your entry and dare someone to shit on it. Feel free to scan crayon/marker pics or just use whatever comp progs you've got going.

Posted by Matt on 10/25/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 52 comments

Matt, this is a few days late, but keep your eye on the Food Channel. I saw a special on there 2 days ago about how they make halloween Peeps! No shit, it was all about Halloween candy, and a solid 5-10 minutes was about peeps. It even showed how the facial features are applied by hand, that’s why they’re all different.

AND, to top it off, it was hosted by Mark Summers.

Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 10/26/2004 10:59 AM

Update, here’s a link to the episode.

http://www.foodtv.com/food/show_cw/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9955_20997,00.html

Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 10/26/2004 11:10 AM

Matt, the article was good… but the "poem" at the end made it perfect. Great stuff–pure, concentrated X-E.

That Standing Skull Man does look pretty sweet. I don’t where I would store it after Halloween, though… and you just know some snotty kid would ruin it if you used it as a porch decoration.

But for $35 you can have a skeletal coat rack? Count me in.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 10/26/2004 12:08 PM

But is standing guy of bones a corporate whore(A.K.A….a ho.)of halloween present and future….?
P.S Goin’ to San Andreas tonight! who’s with me!?

Chestnuts roasted by evan @ 10/26/2004 12:26 PM

The best revenge is to be the last skull standing! Or having mental control over all the Ramen noodles on Earth.
re:evan: Welcome to the jungle, baby!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/26/2004 12:41 PM

HOw awesome are generic Halloween costumes/decorations? Try to think of a standard halloween costume company that stands the test of time.

Chestnuts roasted by Tenacious Tate @ 10/26/2004 1:01 PM

it was funny seeing this article today. i actually have one of these exact decorations, and i fixed the pole to a large remote control hummer, concealing the hummer part of course. Of course, it’s for flying out of the back yard and making kids shat themselves on halloween. pictures by tommorrow!

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 10/26/2004 1:37 PM

*howls at poem*

Chestnuts roasted by Zorbs @ 10/26/2004 2:49 PM

Andy Rooney beat me to it. I thought it should be called "Skull on a Stick"…but maybe that’s because I’m currently addicted to a tasty treat served at my local Chinese restaurant called Steak on Stick. I kid you not; this is what they call it. They won’t tell me what they put in there, and they just laugh when I come back for more every couple of days. I think they marinate it in heroin. I’ve been calling everything "…on a stick" for days now.

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 10/26/2004 3:48 PM

SSM is very cool and all but why the hell is he not wearing black? Or at least a nice charcoal gray? I’m afraid the white robe washes him out.

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/26/2004 5:18 PM

Sent my entry!

Chestnuts roasted by Math is for Dummies @ 10/26/2004 6:33 PM

Entry sent!

Chestnuts roasted by Xmas @ 10/26/2004 6:35 PM

Standing Skull Man posing as Mary is now my wallpaper on the computer.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 10/26/2004 6:48 PM

remote control hummer to scare the shit out of kids, classic halloween gag. i should do someting like that but there aren’t enough kids around here that go trick or treating, so i’ll have to save it for the mailman!

Chestnuts roasted by Randy @ 10/26/2004 7:37 PM

Sorry for the no-able-to-post shit. Blame an asshole. Works now.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/26/2004 8:25 PM

Both my entries are in, one MSPaint and one old fashioned. I can’t wait to see everybody’s.
(As much as I’m looking forward to San Andreas, I’ll miss that whole "interacting with the outside world" thing I’ll be skipping out on. At least there’s two player action.)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/26/2004 8:32 PM

Asshole!
Today in Chicano studies there was a group presentation that handed out examples of "prison art" or "pinto" and one of them was a Virgin with her hands posed exactly like SSG. I didn’t even bother trying to explain why I burst out laughing at a picture of the Holy Mother.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/26/2004 8:35 PM

I too was looking for an article on the various masks of Jason over the years. I haven’t seen all the movies, so it would be interesting to see how his mask went from good to bad to worse to whatever.

The SSM was pretty cool, he would look scary if you put him in a barrel or something so you could only see the top half of him.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 10/26/2004 8:50 PM

The picture of you with the Michael Myers mask suspiciosly peering around the skeleton guy thing nearly made me piss my pants out of fear/laughter!

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 10/27/2004 4:04 AM

NO, SAN ANDREAS!!!

*weeps*

I forgot to preorder…

But I have to be strong… I’ll pick it up in a few months when everybody else has finished with it and everyone will refuse to talk to me about how cool it is.

Me: "Hey, I just played San Andreas! It kicks ass!"

Other Person: "Dude, that game’s been out since late October."

Me: "But it’s so cool."

Other Person: "No. We will not discuss the relatively old-news game."

Me: "But I love the part–"

Other Person: "NO."

And to tell the truth, I don’t need another distraction right now. I have a little over half a semester to go and I have to buckle down. I’m already having trouble thanks to the brand-new $20 copy of MSG2: Substance I picked up not long ago… isn’t that sad?

Other Person: "Yes… yes it is, you gaming caveman."

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 10/27/2004 9:44 AM

Screw semester, caveman… *grunt*… buy GTA now.

Chestnuts roasted by Rein @ 10/27/2004 10:27 AM

I like that Skull-on-a-Stand thing. Very creepy. With some proper lighting, that would scare some trick or treaters good and proper. But I think your cat was just making sure the fabric wasn’t another pet costume. "It’s safe! Dad’s not gonna make us wear it!"

Chestnuts roasted by Divaah46 @ 10/27/2004 2:16 PM

A half skeleton impaled on a stick, eh?

Tsk, tsk, the things that pass for decoration these days…

Chestnuts roasted by Trout Spanker @ 10/28/2004 1:27 AM

Everybody should’ve heard of Unwrapped by Marc Summers by now. If you haven’t, you’ll be forced to marry the Standing Skull Man. Wait, you’re not supposed to see him in his wedding dress yet! Quick, Matt, delete the pictures!

I demand Standing Skull Man showing up in the manger scene when Christmas hits X-E. He’s officially the fourth Wise Man. His gift to Jesus shall be ghost comics. And plenty of ‘em!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 10/28/2004 8:30 AM

Your cat is so cute!

LOL at the Virgin Mary pose!

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 10/28/2004 4:27 PM

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