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Bag Of Skulls.

The woman enjoys autumn much the same as me, but for her, I have to think it's at least partly due to my increased agreeability to random trips to Michaels. If you don't live near one, Michaels is a chain of arts & crafts stores. I've already complained about the woman's obsession with this place, and it hasn't let up.

During the Halloween season (Christmas too, to a lesser extent), I only raise my Michaels hate flag at half-mast, because the chain offers a spooky smorgasbord of booing bric-a-brac, and it's often stuff that none of the other stores around here carry. They also get a gold star for being one of the first places in town to sell anything Halloweeny, and the proof is in the blood pudding: It's barely September, and I'm already buying bags of skulls.


(click here to see the WHOLE bag!)

In fact, that's what the product is officially titled. "Bag Of Skulls." The shoe (or skull) fits, as it's five bucks worth of little menacing skulls neatly nestled in a black net sack -- which itself has a bunch of smaller skulls built in! So many skulls!

What I really dig (ha!) about them is that they don't kowtow to society's usual call for all toy skulls to look perfectly gregarious. These are some seriously mean-faced skulls. After closer inspection, I noticed that they all have gigantic fangs, so they're not even supposed to be human skulls. It's a bag of monster skulls! I was on the fence about buying these, but a sack of monster skulls is definitely worth a fiver.

I can't find my giant Spider-Man figure, but picture him palming one of these babies. Totally sincere Shakespearean Yorick pose just waiting to be designed. I so need to do it. Where'd I put that guy?

Posted by Matt on 09/04/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 279 comments

Bummer! Well, Goonies is playing this month! lol

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/07/2007 2:09 PM

I’m actually hoping to go see my fav 80s movie ever this weekend there, Back to the Future, but hopefully I can find somebody to go with me as the lady is getting her “hurr did” so that’s out and nobody else I hang out with is that nerdy to go see a movie that comes on TBS 10 times a day.

Of course I’m the geek of my group anyway, somebody tells me I’ll be the only one in my group tonight at Oktoberfest wearing a Marvel shirt and Nintendo boxers. I will also mention I’ve used “X-E” in that same context, Special K

Any of you Okies heading out to Oktoberfest tonight? If so, I’ll be the dude wearing a green Marvel t-shirt, come up and say hi if you see me. Look for me standing in the beer and food lines.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/07/2007 2:47 PM

You know, I even proof-read that last post and I STILL f’ed up. “somebody tells me” = “something tells me”.

Sorry guys for always doing this. Matt’s going to start charging me rent before too long.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/07/2007 2:54 PM

Honestly, I can’t really go anywhere because I only have 20 bucks to my name and no car.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/07/2007 3:33 PM

Any other XE’ers in Indiana?

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 09/07/2007 3:56 PM

Hey! I got my stickers! Yay!

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/07/2007 4:47 PM

::Jealous of Annette!::

And bored at work, apparently…

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/07/2007 5:26 PM

I can’t wait until Halloween! YAY!!

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 09/07/2007 7:53 PM

I’m sure somebody here remembers Jello 1-2-3. I think I may have found a product that’s the exact same thing. It’s called Trio Treat by Dr. Oetker and it looks pretty similar! I am so excited!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Beth! @ 09/07/2007 8:30 PM

God. Abc is showing the weirdest charlie brown ever second only to that one where linus’ girlfriend gets cancer.

Chestnuts roasted by DRWoRM @ 09/07/2007 8:58 PM

I remember that that one, when Linus’s girlfriend has cancer. That was so depressing. That and when Snoopy ran away. Was that the same one? Which ever one it was I had to fake something in my eye to hide sissy tears when I was 7.

As for under rated shows I must go with Dexer’s Lab. For some reason I love that show. Especially when they slowly move their eyes to the raise of a violin note.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JnBGIW7tdpQ

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 09/07/2007 10:11 PM

Thanks for the heads up on the Charlie Brown. I’ll have to throw that on to record. I’m going out to see Shoot ‘Em Up now. The reviews seem to be either love it or hate it, so hopefully it’s good. Anybody know anything about that new slasher movie Hatchet? I heard the director talking about it on the radio and it sounded really interesting.
Something new I’ve learned today: It is virtually impossible to leave the house when “The Hot Tub” episode of Seinfeld is playing. That wake up guy was trouble!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/07/2007 10:59 PM

just popped in to say “hey”. – how is everyone tonight?

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/07/2007 11:25 PM

I’m alright, just lazing around and reading a Hendrix Biography.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 09/08/2007 12:07 AM

Ghost Dots! Ghost Dots! Ghost Dots!

As is my obsession come September, I was at Target today checking out how their Halloween section is coming along (almost complete w00t), and these immediately struck my eye.
Ghost Dots! Click my name to see a scanned box.
I am without a working camera right now, so there are no pics of the actual candies and I didn’t think smashing one into my scanner would do the translucent little blobs justice. As that ol’ Homestar Runner cartoon said, “They taste the same, but look different!”

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin\\\' Funny @ 09/08/2007 12:16 AM

>:( What the hell happened with my name back there?

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/08/2007 12:17 AM

I am getting anxious for Target this coming week. I think I may just buy an early edition of the Sunday paper tomorrow to see if they have anything in the ad.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/08/2007 12:26 AM

Went to Party City and Michael’s tonight and I’m even more jazzed about Halloween than usual now. I was like a kid in a candy store with hardly enough money to enjoy it, but I’m going to start getting stuff soon. I got word yesterday that I got the job I applied for last week and they want me to start training next weekend. It means moving back to Columbia (an hour and a half away), but I can get back to my dj’ing duties including my radio show so I’m pretty jazzed about that.

While all the Oakies are forming your own little Oakie army, I gotta ask, are there any more South Carolinians out there or am I the only one here?

fistpittingnork Be not ashamed of your geekness. I at one time owned over 2500 comic books before I made the terrible mistake of selling most of them. I’m slowly building that collection back up and have no problem with it. I too share your love of “Back to the Future”. That’s one of my can-just-about-quote-every-stupid-line-of-it movies. God, to see that on a big screen now would be pretty sweet!

“Hey you…get your damn hands off her!”

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 1:03 AM

Late to the obscure show party, but I just remembered one show that lasted maybe 5 or so episodes that has stuck in my mind for years. It was called ‘Quest’ and consisted of five or so people who were selected by some rich (possibly dead) guy to complete a treasure hunt throughout the world. The main thing I remember is that John Rhys-Davies was the butler-type guy running the contest.

I hated ‘Snoopy Come Home’, which was the one where Snoopy’s former owner had cancer so he ran away to go see her. Every time I’ve ever seen it I friggin’ cried at the end…and I usually LIKE shows that make me cry. I think I was mad at Snoopy for being a disloyal little bastard.

Oh, btw, I notice that neither of the new Advent Calendars seems to have a Santa…

Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 09/08/2007 1:04 AM

“I’m your density.”

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/08/2007 1:19 AM

Wow, I don’t remember these episodes you guys are talking about but you’re starting to make me see Snoopy in a whole new light. Jeez…You keep this up and I’ll start looking at him the same way I look at Scrappy Doo, that obnoxious little bastard. On second thought….no, I don’t think I could ever hate Snoopy that much.

I am so ignorant of this whole Advent Calender thing. I’ve only just discovered what one was from reading X-E. What’s the origin of the tradition. Is it related to the Adventists (just guessing there)? Is it a Catholic thing? I don’t have a clue. But I gotta say, you’re making me want to go out and get one. They look like a lot of fun.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 1:27 AM

DJ,

Scrappy-Doo deserves some credit. Valid that “Puppey Power” is the cheesiest line in Scooby history, Scrappy has helped the Scoobs get out of some pretty awkward situations.

I’m sorry, but just try and tell me this isn’t awesome with a straight face;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fMWfq2hwvjU

Look at that cousinly love.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/08/2007 2:38 AM

Ok, I’ll give you that he’s pretty brave and has a huge set of “kibbles and bits”, but I still say that his arrival on the scene officially marks the “jumping of the shark” of all things Scooby related.

Great theme song though.

And I wasn’t kidding about the whole Advent Calender thing. Can anybody clue me in on if there’s any significance or symbolism to it?

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 2:48 AM

From Wikipedia: The origins of the Advent calendar come from German Lutherans who, at least as early as the beginning of the 19th century, would count the days of Advent physically…In December, 1839, the first verifiable public Advent wreath was hung in the prayer hall of the Rauhes Haus (relief house) in Hamburg, although it had been a family practice in parts of German-speaking Europe since the 17th century.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/08/2007 3:05 AM

Thanks squee!

Sort of on topic, but not really–when I was a kid, every year we used to get a December calendar that had Santa’s face on the top half and the bottom half was the calendar and it was in place of his beard. Every day of the month you would glue a cotton ball on the square for the day and when the month was over you had a big Santa head with a square shaped cotton ball beard. Good times.

Also, I used to be able to decorate the apartment we lived in from top to bottom with loads of Halloween decorations but then later my mom got super religious and wouldn’t allow it. To this day she thinks anything and everything Halloweenish is of the Devil and I get constantly reminded of how I’m going to hell for celebrating it.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 3:13 AM

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