Happy Sinister Saturday! Baking is my second most hated chore, right after cooking itself. It’s just evil when you don’t know how to cook or bake and why can’t we make ai robots cook and clean for us instead of stealing our ideas??
I don’t do from scratch. Three ingredient boxed cake is hard enough as it is for non-baker. There’s just so much stirring!
Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines, baking’s favorite couple
Anyways, perfectly moist lemon supreme is a lie and the word moist should never adorn a box of any kind.
In the oven.
I used my Wilton’s pumpkin-shaped pan, which you can pick up online or a Michaels store near you, and for the rest of the batter, my Nordic skull cakelet pan came in handy. Although, their faces didn’t quite make it out of the pan. Note to self, grease the pan!
A few drops of yellow and red food coloring turned yellow lemon frosting orange and my latest creation was now a full-fledged pumpkin-shaped Halloween lemon cake.
Happy Friday! It’s the return of Friday Fright Nightcaps! Not gonna lie, I’ve spent two weeks chasing purple, a perfectly purple cocktail that is.
Unfortunately, my experiments have rendered every color but purple. In any event, I present to you the Tropical Void. It’s not purple. It’s not black. It’s something inbetween.
Ingredients:
2 oz. Grapefruit soda 1.5 oz. Dark Rum .5 oz. Blue Curacao .5 oz. Grenadine 1 oz. Pineapple juice 1.5 oz. Cranberry juice Splash of lime juice
Mix ingredients well. Garnish with Maraschino cherries or fresh fruit. Serve chilled.
My appreciation for old timey Halloween Collectibles began with vintage Halloween postcards. I loved going to paper shows and perusing thrift shops and antique malls for vintage Halloween items.
I find the fact that these items have been on the planet longer than I have completely intriguing. If an item could talk…
Tally’s Vintage Halloween Party Tag, circa 1940s
Postcards often do talk, especially those from the golden age of postcards. Some people only collect blank vintage Halloween postcards, which are rare and uber-expensive, but I don’t mind used Halloween postcards. I like seeing the postmarks and reading the messages on the back. It’s a snapshot in history. It’s kinda fun to hear what people were up to back in the day.
Vintage Halloween postcard, circa 1911
I don’t own many antiques simply because I don’t have the money to be a serious collector. I’m more of a Halloween window shopper and recently, I’ve been looking for authentic Halloween metal clankers, noisemakers and toy tins. Unfortunately, two little words have really dampened my spirits, Sold Out!
Halloween Vintage noisemakers or old metal clankers, particularly those in good condition, are hard to come by and expensive, especially those sold online by Collector websites and eBay.
Most online sellers these days are hip to the fact that their items are rare and desired. I encourage people to definitely do homework first to get an idea of the current values of vintage items before putting in a bid or making a purchase.
Vintage Halloween Postcard, circa 1912
A few years ago, this antique T.C. Weygandt Three Witches chocolate candy mold, from the 1940s, inspired by the German candy mold maker Anton Reiche, was seen online for around $100. It’s nearly impossible to find these days.
T.C. Weygandt Three Witches chocolate candy mold, New York, NY, USA,, circa 1940s
A vintage collectible is truly only worth the price you’re willing to pay for it.
Last week I got a little discouraged by all the AI artwork, more specifically the hoarding of information and promotion of ads and bs in search engines. It seems like the world wide web is now locked behind paywalls and prejudices.
Just when I was about to give up, I came across the Hero Complex Gallery. Today we pay tribute to the illustrator and graphic designer John Dunn, who pop culture artworks and alternative movie posters can be seen on hcgart.com
Why we love it: John Dunn’s artwork and alternative movie posters are exquisite and anyone who pays tribute to Hammer Horror is a super cool dude in our book.
Horror movies are the backbone of Hollywood. From Universal’s classic monsters to Hammer horror, 80s slashers to A24’s psychological terrors, every great horror movie has unforgettable characters, whether they’re vile villains or hopeful heroes. Can you match these totally awesome tubular 80s horror classics with their best characters?
Laurie Strode hides out from the Bogeyman, again, in Springfield, IL.
MacReady and others come face to face with unknown alien species in Antarctica.
Alison and Suzie fight off bogus killer robots at the mall.
Freddy, Burt, and local punk rockers fight off zombies in the cemetery.
Donna and Tad get trapped in their Ford Pinto by a rabid St. Bernard.
Frank brings home a strange puzzle box to his daughter Kirsty who then gets targeted by demonic Cenobites.
Charley Brewster and Peter Vincent just aren’t buying Charley’s new neighbor is an everyday average guy.
Nancy and friends can’t sleep with child killer Freddy Krueger running around in their dreams.
Caleb and Mae are just bloodier version of Romeo and Juliet in Oklahoma.
Ash Williams gets lost in time in his neverending battle against the Deadites.
Match these ten character clues to their respective scary movie titles and post your responses in the Comments Section.
Odd yearly tradition: I wear Halloween pins in October. A different pin for every day.
Feeling like you just dont have time or energy to go all out for Halloween this year? It doesn’t matter why. Stop feeling guilty for being too tired to celebrate your favorite holiday. You are not alone. People are busy. There’s work. There’s kids. There’s zero bank account. Life happens and spoils our good time. Don’t get down! Get creative!
Here are 10 low-effort ways to celebrate Halloween that don’t take up a lot of time or energy.
Watch a spooky movie on free streaming service. PlutoTV, Tubi, Film Rise, YouTube, WatchFree, or Amazon with ads.
Watch one episode of a spooky TV show a week.
Carve a pumpkin.
Read a spooky novel from the library or local book shop.
Write your own spooky story!
Listen to a free spooky story podcast or old timey radio broadcast.
Create a Halloween centerpiece for your dining room or coffee table.
Color Halloween free printables or pages from a coloring book.
Make your own Halloween art.
Surf Halloween web blogs and comment on their posts.
Walk around your neighborhood and look at all the Halloween decorations
Halloween window shopping never goes out of style!
Plan and make a Halloween costume out of whatever you got.
You don’t need fancy costumes, big parties, haunted houses and lots of money to get your Halloween fix! Just setting out the tiniest pumpkin will warm the little black hearts of the Halloween gods. There’s no wrong way to do Halloween. Just do what you can.
Happy Friday! Tonight’s Friday Fright Nightcap is a deep blue concoction called the Boo-Scary Margarita. It’s only got 4 ingredients and it’s highly customizable to taste.
Ingredients: 2 oz. Tequila Blanco (white) 2 oz. Cranberry juice 1 oz. Blue Curacao 1 oz. Sour Apple
Garnish: Rim salt or sugar or fresh lime
Pour chilled ingredients into a mixer and shake well. Then, pour into a glass with a salted rim.
Amateur bartender and it shows!
I tried to make my own black rim salt and it turned blue-green. It could’ve been cool but my glass was too wet or the salt was too cheap, who knows, it didn’t stick right.😄
There are three witches that live in the house and rolling the die during their turn will direct a player to pick a card for either Ghoulish Gertie, Wanda the Wicked or Glenda the Good, each with instructions on what to do next.
Moving through this mysterious house isn’t so simple as it seems, as there are spells and traps, loose floorboards, moving walls, danger spaces, and some type of swinging broom.
Sadly, I never got to play the game back in the day, but everytime I see one on eBay, my inner seven year old tries to possess my wallet! If you’ve ever had the chance to play, hit me up in Comments with some stories!
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