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Gambit playing poker with dogs

Gambit playing poker with dogs, one of several very random images by Kelly Tindall. This Halloween invitation is also great.

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Turning pumpkin carving into a horror movie

There's nothing particularly horrific about the content of this video by Orange Core Films, it's just someone carving a jack-o-lantern and baking pumpkin seeds. But the manner in which it's presented turns a mundane instructional video into a creepy thriller. As if Food Network hired Eli Roth to host a late night cooking program.

Krampus paper toy (and more)

Lots of great paper toys at Uncle Ghastly's site. Via.

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Picasso jack-o'-lantern

Picasso pumpkin by Tim Broderick, who has comics on sale at Amazon.

Human jack-o'lantern

"Everyone's Favorite Holiday" by Mark Elliott for MF Gallery's Halloween show.

Graveyard cake

Graveyard cake.

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Link roundup

1. "Quentin Tarantino got into the spirit of Halloween by dressing as a Mexican wrestler and crashing a series of parties on a bus packed with hot women." Via.

2. Interesting interview with Sara Moulton about being fired from the Food Network. (She's pretty bitter about it.) (And she manages to emasculate her husband, too.)

3. I mentioned yesterday that Spin was giving away a Bad Religion tribute album. Well, the accompanying article, about the history of Epitaph Records is a great read. You can read the first two pages here.

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Link roundup

1. Little kid dressed like Edward Scissorhands.

2. Funny video of a tremendous screamer walking through Universal Studio's haunted house.

3. I greatly enjoyed the first half of David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, which details the turn of the century adventures of Percy Fawcett as he explored the unforgiving jungles of the Amazon. Grann does a superb job describing a jungle that perversely is both full of life of all sizes that could quickly and painfully kill a man, while at the same time almost bereft of easily obtainable food. But the second half of the book, about Fawcett's last, disastrous adventure, and the miserable and penniless wife he left behind, was drudgery to complete. And the ending of the book, devoted to lamenting the loss of jungle to modern progress, is laughable in light of all the time Grann spent explaining that the Amazon is hell on Earth.

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The old-fashionedness of my PDA echoes the marginality of the work I do. I rely on a technological castoff to search through other people's castoff merchandise. Thrift stores and even library book sales often present books jumbled in boxes on the floor. I root through these. If there's another guy scanning near me—a competitor—I go faster. (And it's almost always a guy, notwithstanding the pair of redheaded, cheerleader-type twins I see at book sales around Chicago.)

Can't you picture it?

3. Annie Leibovitz is still having money trouble:

It's not entirely that collectors find Leibovitz's portfolio too commercial or focused on shallow celebrity, Gapper writes. It's also that Leibovitz has consistently failed, throughout her career, to sufficiently kiss the asses of the sort of people who would spend $3.5 million on a bunch of photographic prints. "She had very little interest in the art world for most of her career," a gallery owner who used to rep Leibovitz told Gapper. "She suffered from not caring about it, not paying enough attention."

4. Monstrous house.

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