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Last year for Halloween I carved two Jack-o’-Lanterns: one of U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul and another of larcenous school board member Ron Price. The Ron Paul pumpkin garnered some “oohs and ahhhs” on the Internet and local schookids came by in droves to look and laugh at Ron Price’s visage carved large and orange.

So… what was I going to do this year?

I juggled around lots of concepts, and in the end decided that I wanted to take a shot at doing Big Daddy from the video game BioShock. Here it is after two hours of work…

In BioShock, Big Daddies are the protectors of the Little Sisters (click here for the Big Daddy entry at the BioShock Wiki). They used to be human, before radical gene therapy took away their minds. Their skin was then flayed-off and the bare flesh steam-sealed to ...

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Apparently, Ron Paul is a big theme for Jack-o’-Lanterns this Halloween 🙂

Here is one made by im_a_pepper. Look at the amazing level of detail on this pumpkin!

And then there is this one (of two) made by Mustardseed (click to see more photos):

I’m about to go light my own Ron Paul Jack-o’-Lantern (along with that… other thing). They’ll be on display on our patio throughout the night. So if you’re in Reidsville and are driving around Sherwood Drive, come by and take a looksee!! 🙂...

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Tonight I set to work on carving a Ron Paul Jack-o’-Lantern, using the pattern that I came up with a few days ago. I’ve been a longtime admirer of Dr. Paul and I am definitely supporting him for President in next year’s election (as I’ve said here before: I’m voting for Ron Paul or I’m voting for nobody at all). So I thought it would be fun to do something in keeping with the spirit of the holiday for when the trickster-treatsters in the neighborhood come around for candy on Halloween tomorrow night, and do my part in promoting Dr. Paul.

(Here’s Ron Paul’s official campaign website and I’ll also recommend the Ron Paul Forums, where I hang out a lot.)

I started carving it a little before 7 p.m. tonight, and finished just before 9:30. Like the Jack-o’-Lantern I made of local politician and admitted ...

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Just as I threatened to do a few days ago, here is the Ron Price Jack-o’-Lantern. Yes, I actually went ahead with my plan to carve a pumpkin in the likeness of Rockingham County’s most larcenous, arrogant and condescending school board member! Ron Price is now immortalized in pumpkin… or at least until the thing starts to rot and decay (to match Price’s moral principles).

Here’s a shot of it on our kitchen table. Note that Monday Night Live on WGSR is playing in the background. Yup, even in our home, I make darn sure that Price cannot escape the scrutiny of WGSR, which Price once said was “bad for the community” (and click here if you want to hear Price say it himself)…

Here’s a shot of the “Ron Price Political Protest Pumpkin” on our front porch…

With a bit of the light inside coming out…...

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Okay, this will be the last post I make before getting back to my much-needed break from blogging! Because after making and publishing the Ron Price Jack-o’-Lantern pattern, I couldn’t in good conscience leave things dangling with something that scary.

So here’s a Jack-o’-Lantern pattern of the candidate for President that I’m backing: Ron Paul. Same basic instructions as the original: Click on the image to get it full-sized and print it out. Use pins or tape to secure it to the side of a pumpkin. Then use a Pumpkin Carving Kit from Pumpkin Masters, and do with this as you would do with any other pumpkin pattern.

Happy Halloween! 🙂...

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It’s on right now. Again. This is the seventh or eighth time that Cujo has played on WGSR here in Reidsville during the past few weeks… at least.

After so many times of watching Cujo try to kill Dee Wallace-Stone and that kid from Who’s The Boss?, I don’t know if I’ll ever pet another St. Bernard for as long as I live.

C’mon guys: I know that I’ve seen Psycho II in there somewhere. Howsabout giving us something new? ‘Cuz right now I’m starting to feel like Hawkeye in the “Adam’s Ribs” episode of M*A*S*H …


“WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!”
“WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!”
“WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!”
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