How to Do Halloween Decorations

25 years to build, a week to set up! It’s my third year decorating this beautiful old mansion.
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Redditor UptonDide is a cosplayer at Ren Faires, a model airplane enthusiast, a dad, and is doing renovations on his very old home. He is also very much into Halloween decorations. His collection of tombstones is north of 100 stones now, all handmade. You can look through his post history to see closeups of some of them, with their pun epitaphs. (via reddit)

Left Lane

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Osprey Tangled in Fishing Line

Man rescues hawk tangled in fishing line
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This guy was frightened, but he stepped up to do what he had to do, to free a juvenile osprey from certain death when he was wrapped up in discarded filament. You can see his hands shake as he reaches into those claws to cut the line. The osprey is too exhausted to fight, and over time comes to understand he is being helped. A wildlife expert in the comments says he did good, but urges anyone else in this situation to put on gloves first.

Drivers

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An Honest Trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

The Tim Burton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was released about six weeks ago and has so far made back more than four times its production budget. Audiences liked it, and so does Screen Junkies. This Honest Trailer gives us more insight into the film in case you haven't already seen it. Like the original 1988 Beetlejuice, the title character isn't the main character because he's just too chaotic and better in small doses. Also like the original, most of the characters are dead, yet the creepiness is all so over-the-top, you never forget they are in a comedy. The main idea of the Honest Trailer seems to be that it's very much like the original, which was fun, but there's no real glory in doing something that has been done well before.

Miss Cellania's Links

Watch dash-cam footage of police officer attacked by giant pumpkin. 

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is 900 pages long. But you can read it in condensed comic book form, subject by subject, in your own time, at Stop Project 2025. (via Metafilter)

5 Inventions That Came Out of the Great Depression.

Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children. 

Star Wars Geek Builds Rideable and Fully Functional AT-AT.

The pickled dragon hoax that fooled the world. The way to pull off a hoax is to claim it's someone else's hoax. (via Damn Interesting)

"It's Election Day, Charlie Brown." The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug. 

Atmospheric phenomenon Steve spotted over south-east SA following Aurora Australis. (via Metafilter)

Alarm Clock

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Princess Cumulus

You recall the LED Stickman costume that Royce Hutain made for his toddler daughter Zoey in 2013. He improved on that to make it a Minnie Mouse costume for her in 2014. In 2016, he and Zoey collaborated on a new costume: a thunder cloud! She is “Princess Cumulus.” The costume is an adapted inflatable suite with Arduino-controlled LED strips underneath. The fart sounds for thunder are Zoey’s contribution. While they had fun with this one, it was impractical for going door-to-door, so she trick-or-treated as Wonder Woman. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Tweet of the Day

this made my day 😂 pic.twitter.com/vW5JKpSOvz

— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) September 30, 2024

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Pig Dog

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The Superbowl Shuffle

Nothing says 1985 like the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew doing "The Superbowl Shuffle." (via Metafilter)

Brake Pads

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The Exchange

In an action movie, this simple exchange would be handled by experienced professionals who are practiced in their mission. Real life doesn't work like that. We know that any story from Birdbox Studio is going to go completely sideways from what we would normally expect. In their latest production called The Exchange, we see a suspicious meeting from a distance through binoculars, so we can't know what was said. But we can imagine based on what we see. Sure, you feel sorry for the participants, but you have to keep telling yourself it's just a fictional story. We hope. (via Nag on the Lake)

Undecided Voters

A classic from Cyanide and Happiness.

Broken Peach Halloween Video 2024

The Spanish band Broken Peach is really into Halloween. For this year's Halloween special, they are once again on their spooky skeleton get ups as they do a rockin' mashup of Blondie's "Call Me" and Kiss's "I Was Made For Lovin' You" that is so seamless that you realize they are basically the same song. Also mixed in is a bit of the song "Joker and the Thief" by Wolfmother. You might watch this video and think there's some stop-motion shenanigans going on, but watch the fog machine effects on the floor. It shows they are just that well-rehearsed in their jerky skeleton dance.

Brains

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Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

Cities are all cities, but they differ greatly in everything else. You know European cities are older, but you probably don’t know how much that affects everything else about them. One big difference is how dense they are. Modern technology, particularly in transportation, affected how cities grew. Wendover Productions tells us all kinds of interesting things about cities that you never thought about before. (via reddit) 

Tweet of the Day

Bro was waiting for the cat to get up pic.twitter.com/D93xBFaiOx

— No Cats No Life (@NoCatsNoLife_m) October 2, 2024

(Thanks, WTM!)

Hotel Amenities

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Look at This Thing

At the 2024 XOXO Festival, Cabel Sasser told the story of how he discovered a forgotten artist. This is delightful. You can skip the first two minutes, but you'll be glad you stayed for the ending. (via Metafilter)