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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

It really helped me get thru yesterday and I’m hoping it’ll do the same today. I have a nice 14 1/2 hour day ahead of me today. Any big plans for the time off Andrew?

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:01 AM

got nothing really going on, my girlfriend is going to her cousins wedding so i’ll be stuck home without her for a couple days.. i’m thinking about buying a Wii… i also need to get a new phone, i want one of the Sprint Moguls, they look pretty awesome….

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/05/2007 10:04 AM

Annette – Seriously, you’re the only one you know who’s heard of Space Ghost? I was up taping that show for at least a year before Adult Swim was even announced, and bought the action figure… it’s still one of my favorites. And I concur of Firefly.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/05/2007 10:08 AM

I need to break down and get a Wii, if nothing else it seems like the majority of the posters here have one so it’d be cool to already have contacts online. That was one of the coolest things I miss about my old Dreamcast, playing Phantasy Star Online with friends.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:09 AM

And as far as shows that were cancelled that I miss, I really like Dead like Me. They show it on Sci-fi every now and then but it’s usually not in order. And the Blade tv show was pretty good. And yeah I miss Red Dwarf too.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:12 AM

i love playing online with my friends, i have a xbox 360… the Wii seems like so much fun….. and its pretty cheap too!!

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/05/2007 10:13 AM

I need to catch up with my gaming gadgets. I’d love to get a 360 and a Wii but the wife….not so big on the gaming. She likes the Mario Kart and Mario Party games but thats about it.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:19 AM

yeah, my girlfriend isn’t so much into the games either… sigh, eh, what can you do? on a side note, i need to go to the comic book store sometime this week and get some new reads. it’s been literally months since i’ve last gone down to the one in my town and hung out with the guy who works there. sigh, he probably thinks i’m dead.. haha.. up until a couple months ago i went in there every week.. it’s great, we talk about star trek, dungeons and dragons, magic the gathering. ugh.. i’m such a nerd.. — anyone remember the old board game “DARK TOWER”??!!?… awesome game, i actually happen to own one. its in pretty decent condition too!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/05/2007 10:22 AM

Yarr. Terror Claws Cole tried to be like everyone else and stay up all night. Made it to 2:00 then woke up at 6:00 with allergies. Guess i’m just an XE misfit.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 09/05/2007 10:23 AM

I haven’t been to a comic book store in awhile either. It seems like every time I do I come out with a lot less money than I went in with. At one time I actually used to work for Mile High Comics out here. Great job, got me hooked on Magic and all kinds of new comics I’d never read before. Too bad it didn’t pay better. And as for the Dark Tower, I actually came across a site not long ago that lets you play it on-line! I’ll have to see if I can find it again and post it if anyone is interested.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:31 AM

whoa, play DT online? thats awesome! oh, and i think we are both in the same boat as far as going into a comic book store and coming out with A LOT less money.. whenever i go in there i come out with tons of junk i don’t need. haha… mile high comics? thats pretty awesome..

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/05/2007 10:34 AM

Terror Claws you made it longer than I did. I came home from work, read the article and the replys up to that point and I was out by 12:00.

And Andrew I think this is the link, http://www.pbmcube.com/pAS/games/Dark-Tower.
It’s hard to NOT come out of the comic store with all kind of extra goodies. I just wish I had the will power to not get that extra graphic novel or that hard to find action figure.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:40 AM

Arrested D and Home Movies are definitely on my list for awesome but underappreciated. Right now one that I wish more people were into is My Boys on TBS. I think it’s the name, it makes it sound like way more of a chick show than it is. You’ve got Jim Gaffigan being hilarious as always, plus Johnny Galecki as a recurring character named Troutie, what’s not to love?
I’m glad I’m not the only one tempted into Hamlet impressions when faced with anything from sugar to shrunken werewolf skulls.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/05/2007 10:41 AM

Jones Soda doesn’t have new flavors or can designs for the 07 Halloween season? Damn that sucks. It’s like finding out candy corn is made of people.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 09/05/2007 10:41 AM

Candy corn is made of people?!?!?

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:54 AM

Andrew, I’m sure once my deep fried Mountain Dew wears off I’ll be crashing.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 10:55 AM

My list of favorite underappreciated shows:

John Doe
Dresdan Files- Can’t believe they cancelled it.
Cupid
Friday the 13th, the Series
Night Court- I know it was on for 9 years, but it seems to be the one that gets forgotten when talking about classic NBC comedy shows of the 80s.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/05/2007 10:58 AM

This bag of skulls will only entice more kids to join their brothers in a nightmarish epidemic that’s sweeping across the nation. Ocular penetration. Check out this link for more info:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vav6b5F-_64

xD

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 09/05/2007 11:08 AM

Night Court….what a great show. It’s one of those that if I see it on in reruns I’ll still watch it.

Friday the 13th was kinf of hit or miss for me. I never understood how the cursed items tied in with the franchise. But in it’s defense it’s been a long while since I’ve seen it.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 11:09 AM

Ooh! I got one! “Madigan Men”. I actually found it entertaining. I believe it was one of the last attempts at a TGIF lineup (long after people had abandoned ABC Fridays.) John Hensley was fabulous in it as the son. I also think “Married to the Kellys” got a bad rap. It looked like another silly, stupid sitcom, but the couple of times we watched it we laughed out loud. I was sad when “Freaks and Geeks” got cancelled. Luckily, I finally got the box set for my birthday this year. I really enjoyed “Studio 60″ and felt like, with another season, Aaron Sorkin might finally get in the groove (I can’t argue with the critics complaints, but I saw the bones of a great show.) I think it was so built up that people took pleasure in exclaiming it a failure and worthy of cancellation. I could go on and on…

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 09/05/2007 12:00 PM

So as it turns out I did stay up really late last night, but I didn’t happen to sign in to XE. Instead, I was reading through the entire run of Transmetropolitan trades, which I borrowed from a friend’s boyfriend’s roommate. I’d never read it before, but I think I’m in love. Expect future posts to be liberally sprinkled with Spider Jerusalem quotes.

I don’t really watch a whole lot of TV, and most of what I do watch is the History Channel and the Discovery Channels, but I’ll jump on board the Firefly train. A friend of mine in high school finally forced me to watch it, despite my reservations. See, she was a Buffy fan to begin with, while I saw that show as a nigh-bottomless maelstrom of suck. Firefly is something completely different, and it’s beautiful. If you haven’t watched it yet, do yourself a favor and rent the DVD set. Make a weekend of it. You won’t regret it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/05/2007 12:04 PM

For underrated tv shows, I’ll head back to [adult swim] and say Frisky Dingo.

If there was an underrated [as] show, it would be this one. It’s one of those shows that seemed totally random and lame at the beginning, but by the 4th episode, it was revealed as a serialized cartoon, so every episode got better when you tuned in each week to see what will happen to Killface, simon, Xander/Awesome-X, The Xtacles, etc.

The 2nd season started last week and already it’s so freaking awesome. No one I talked to that likes [as] hardly even watches it, let alone heard of it. Thanks to Television Without Pity’s message board, I found dozens of fellow fans.

As for Space Ghost & Brak Show…they, along with Harvey Birdman, ATHF and Sealab 2021 (Sealab’s creators now make Frisky Dingo) MADE [adult swim] what it is today. And I never really got into Home Movies, but I like John Benjamin and he’s great in every show he’s on.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/05/2007 12:22 PM

Invader Norbert your right, Frisky Dingo is a great show. I wasn’t sure about it at first but once I actually watched it I was hooked. I wasn’t aware the guys who did Sealab 2021 did Frisky Dingo but looking back on it I can see the similarity in the humor.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/05/2007 12:45 PM

I think my favorite show (that was?) on the swim would be Aqua Teen. Although it’s not exactly underrated… now that there’s a movie and all.

But I think I’d say the 3rd season of ATHF on Adult Swim were the best times. It went something like this;

Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Home Movies, and then it would repeat.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/05/2007 12:45 PM

Ah, I miss the first season lineup, even with all those Brak repeats.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/05/2007 12:50 PM

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