Scarydad Rant

Scarydad September 5, 2013 No Comments

I need a hug.

My Nightmare Before Christmas project is giving me pains tonight. Literal pains in which my hand hurts from pinching it in a folding saw horse. But the pinching is not the problem. Crappy plywood is the problem.

Plywood is not cheap. Or rather, it’s not inexpensive. The last couple sheets I got, despite costing the same as it ever does, are damn cheap. It’s brittle and knotty and has a tendency to split or crack for no good reason. So, basically I’ve been working my tail off the past two evenings with the result of having a bunch of useless wood scraps and a half-ass looking Jack with no arm, hand, bow tie, or coattails.

I’m going to have to get a whole ‘nother piece of plywood and start over tomorrow afternoon. Which sucks because I had hoped to be done with that phase by now.

This is why I always suggest you start early on your projects. You never know when the hand you’ve been working on for an hour will decide to split off and shatter on the ground for no apparent reason.

Live and learn.

Nightmare Before Christmas Yard Decoration Project Part 1: Sally

Scarydad September 2, 2013 4 Comments

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Happy Labor Day everyone. Recently I spoke of a ginormous project I had undertaken and how it was taking up more time than expected. What it will eventually be is several large plywood cutouts of various characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas. So, rather than wait however long it’s going to take until this project is complete, I’m just going to show you each character as I complete it. The first of these is Sally the rag doll.

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Wednesday Weirdness

Scarydad August 28, 2013 No Comments

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Good evening everyone! Man, have I been busy. If you are a friend on Facebook or follow on Twitter you may have seen a hint of the project I’ve taken on recently. Needless to say it’s the most ambitious Scarydad project so far! It’s also very time consuming. Because it’s taking up so much of my time and current estimates are at least another week before it’s done, I’m going to post it in three parts. I’ll begin when I finish the first part. Paint takes a really long time to dry sometimes.

In the meantime enjoy your weekly dose of weirdness!

SD

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Interview with Alex Gianinni, Author of the Gothic Children’s Book: Sarah Faire and the House at the End of the World

Scarydad August 27, 2013 3 Comments

Sarah Faire One

 

Back when Victoria interviewed Amber at Southern Gothica, you may have noticed the picture of the bear and the book. The bear is a character in a Gothic childrens’ book entitled Sarah Faire and the House at the End of the World. Now, I didn’t realize this when I was posting pics for that article. I just thought it looked cool. Well, Amber put me in touch with Alex, and he and I chatted about Sarah Faire.

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No Post Tonight. Doing Stuff.

Scarydad August 26, 2013 No Comments

Hello there. This post is meant to inform you that there will not be a post tonight. This is because I am busy making things to inspire, and amaze you and I can’t be two places at once. I know some of you cannot survive a Monday evening without a new post from Scarydad, so that’s why I made this post explaining the lack of a post.

I don’t want you to die. Yet.

 

I hope you understand.

Reel Scary: How The Conjuring Raises the Bar for American Horror

Scarydad August 23, 2013 No Comments

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Good afternoon Minions!

Today we have another guest post from our good friend London McGuire! Enjoy!

After watching a great deal of horror movies over the years, my standards for a truly frightening film have been raised considerably. It becomes second nature to dismiss all of Hollywood’s attempts in the genre as meaningless reboots and blood-drenched farces. Perhaps that is why it seems impossible not to take notice of the few films which tell an original story worth hearing, that utilize the best elements of classic horror and are actually scary.

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First signs of Halloween

Scarydad August 20, 2013 No Comments
Blurry like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. But I assure you it's real!
Blurry like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. But I assure you it’s real!

I was in a Walgreens today and saw the first signs of eventual October. I don’t think you people realize how happy this makes me. It means several things.

First, that I’m that much closer to the end of another deadly summer of sweating and heat and murderous hatred for the world and everything in it.

Halloween DecorationsSecond, that frickin’ HALLOWEEN is looming and that means projects and parties and scary movies and dark beers and cigars and caramel apples and candy and costumes and makeup and renaissance festivals and turkey legs and outdoor concerts and pumpkins and pumpkin spiced coffee and pumpkin pie and new season of Walking Dead and the scents of latex and paint and plywood and Charlie Brown and Jack o’ Lanterns and ghosts and goblins and witches and devils and so much more!

Third, that I’m that much closer to meeting my little Spawn of Scarydad Part 2!!!

It’s going to be an awesome season. Projects will resume shortly!!!