Sunday seems to have become scary/weird/creepy/yucky picture day. I didn’t plan it, but I never feel like writing much on Sundays for some reason. People are always sending me weird pictures that they have found on the internet and it just seems like the perfect day to post them. Plus today I am knee deep in a Hitchcock marathon on TV. With that in mind here’s today’s contribution. Not really sure what to say about it or where it even comes from for that mattter, but here it is anyway. I find it creepy and cool at the same time. Enjoy and keep sending them!

*Thanks Lisa!

Years ago I saw the movie Mystery Men and became obsessed. I absolutely loved the movie and still do. Janeane Garofalo plays the Bowler who uses her bowling ball as her weapon. The bowling ball that she uses supposedly has her father’s skull encased in it. After this movie came out many people became obsessed, like me, with owning a Skull Bowling Ball. Luckily a company started making them and I snatched one up. I love it to this day and constantly get compliments on it. I’m a sucky bowler and I don’t play very often, but when I show up with Henry, that’s what I named him, people get scared and think I must be amazing. Quickly they find out that is not the case. I’ve always wanted a backup one in case it gets stolen or something, but by the time I got around to that they were not making them anymore. You could only find them sporadically on eBay for big money. Well, after years of waiting my dreams have come true and they have rereleased it! Still can be hard to track down one because stores are often sold out, but you can usually special order it from any store that carries the Ebonite brand.

Today is about advice not a product. Have you ever gone to a new hairdresser to get your hair dyed and come out with the scariest thing you’ve ever seen? Well, I did. My regular hairdresser moved away and I had to find someone new. Never a fun thing to do. I’m very weird with my hair. I like to do funky things with it, so I need someone that’s not afraid of color. I usually have long black hair with colored highlights. This time I just wanted to redo what I had last time which was platinum highlights. I was in a hurry on Tuesday and thought I’d try one of the cheap chains (Fantastic Sams). MISTAKE! The guy could easily see what my hair should look like, he just needed to touch up the roots and freshen up the color. Easy, right? I came out with orange hair and three different shades of blond highlights! It was horrible, to say the least. I would post a picture, but even I don’t want to scare anyone that bad. I then got a recommendation from a friend and went to a professional salon to get it fixed today. It took three hours, but it now looks gorgeous again. You get what you pay for. Lesson learned. If I can get a decent picture of my fixed hair I will add it later.

I get so excited whenever I find something new with a skull on it. Especially when it’s something different instead of a scarf or pajamas or something like that. Those things are a dime a dozen. Well, not really, but you know what I mean. Every few months I visit the Hot Topic website and check out their new stuff. Once in a while I get really lucky and find something cool like this Skull Mirror. It’s a small mirror at 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″, but that will fit nicely into your purse. This mirror is just so cool and only costs $6.99! You can’t beat that. I’ve never seen anything like it before. They have a few other mirrors available, but I thought this one was the coolest. I guess it’s not really for the guys, but do they really spend any time looking in the mirror after that quick glance in the morning? Judging by their usual disheveled look, I doubt it.  Time for a trip over to Hot Topic to pick myself up one.

This week’s T-Shirt Tuesday is the I Live Under Your Bed t-shirt. I don’t know about you, but what’s living under my bed is a lot scarier than that guy! It reminds me of Cat’s Eye which was a movie that had three scary stories and they were all linked together by this cat. In “The General”, which I think was the third story, there is a little girl played by Drew Barrymore that is being terrorized by this tiny horrible troll that lives in her room. Technically it does not live under her bed if I remember correctly, but it does spend a good amount of time under there. Anyway, he’s quite scary and the cat saves Drew Barrymore from him. It was scary when I was young and when I think about a monster under my bed that troll is the one I think of.

So you’ve been bitten by a zombie? Bummer. What do you do now? Well, you go out and buy this Zombies for Zombies book immediately. This book will tell you there is no need to panic. Yes, your life is undergoing a major change, but it doesn’t mean you can’t adapt to your new life with style. It’ll tell you how to dress for your new lifestyle, fitness ideas, how to overcome the zombie stigma, dance steps, delicious brain recipes and the all important skin-care techniques to ward off “rotting flesh syndrome”. It even covers the Koma Sutra for those of you that aren’t ready to give up on sex just because you’re a zombie. It’s basically advice and etiquette for the modern zombie and a book you can’t be without. Makes a perfect gift for that special someone that has just been bitten and looking to you, a seasoned zombie, for advice.

I’ve seen many skull cakes over the years, but this one really takes the cake. Ha Ha! Anyway, it is actually the best one I’ve seen. Unfortunately, with this particular cake no one seems to know where it came from. It appears on many websites and a reader actually sent this one to me, but I can’t find anything out about it. I would love to know more. I particularly want to know if that is chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream inside. And what makes the shell? It just looks delicious.

*Thanks Lisa for the picture, but not the craving.

Here is something I can get really excited about. This is a Skull Key that comes on a keychain. The neat thing about this is that you can take it to any key cutter guy and it can be cut to fit. I don’t know what a key cutter guy is called. Is he just a locksmith? Well, anyway you can get it to fit your house or whatever. I’ve only ever seen skull covers that go over the key, but this one has the skull built right in. Makes me think of those big skeleton keys from the old days. I used to buy them at antique stores and wear a bunch of them around my neck on a black ribbon. I always thought that was pretty cool. It’s also reminding me of that movie with Kate Hudson called Skeleton Key. The skeleton key in that story unlocks a secret attic room that…well, maybe I shouldn’t say in case you haven’t seen it. It was a pretty good movie that had some good scares without being gory. Of course, now that I’m writing about it I want to see it again. If I could just stay on topic this wouldn’t happen all of the time!

I know I mostly cover scary things on this blog, but once in a while I come across something gross that’s worth talking about. Actually this is just beyond creepy and gives me the heebie jeebies. Artist Aganetha Dyck works with honeybees to create sculptural objects that end up coated and filled with precisely formed honeycomb structures. This just gives me the complete creeps. It reminds me of those old horror movies from the ’70s that were about killer bees taking over the world. Killer Bees, The Bees, The Swarm etc. I just remember in one of those movies somebody being found dead covered in honeycomb. That scared the crap out of me as a child and gave me nightmares for weeks. I really see no reason anyone would ever want to put this art on display, but maybe that’s just me. I swear I was just looking at the pictures again and my gag reflex kicked in. ICK!

OMG! OMG! OMG! I’m so excited! Okay so not only is Burn Notice with Bruce Campbell starting up again tonight, but I just got the most awesome news. If you are as much of a Bruce Campbell fan as I am you will be thrilled. If not, well frankly your an idiot and should not be reading this, so go away. A few months ago I blogged about the My Name Is Bruce movie. As usual it was hilarious and Bruce Campbell was brilliant. Well, Mr. Campbell just announced a sequel to that movie called Bruce vs. Frankenstein which will begin shooting in the fall. Here, you can read it for yourself:

“Hello everyone. Bruce Campbell here. This urgent message is short, because my keystrokes are monitored and I fear for my life. My partner at Dark Horse comics, Mike Richardson (normally a very rational and talented man), threatened to have his foot soldiers “crush my spleen” if I did what I am about to do. But the fans deserve to know, so with great trepidation I officially announce Bruce Vs. Frankenstein, the sequel to My Name is Bruce. Principal photography begins this fall in Oregon. I’d like to live long enough to see the cameras roll, so please, for the love of God, do not tell anyone – I can’t risk this announcement getting back to Mike! Thank you.”

Mike Richardson’s response to this hilarious letter:

“As a result of this leak, Mike Richardson has Bruce bound and gagged in a secret room of which only he knows the location. We did learn that Mark Verhedien will return to write it and Ted Raimi will play a KEY role in the film. Richardson says he will release Campbell sometime in the near future when “Bruce learns to keep his big mouth shut.”

I am beyond excited and even more so knowing that Ted Raimi will be in it again as well. Hail to the king, baby.

*Thanks Angelia for the heads up! You made my day.