Creepmas-Day Two! Santa the Man

So, yesterday we considered the elf issue. Let's get to the heart of the matter--the meat, the main dude--Santa himself--Santa the man. Some food for thought from the same little book by John Updike and delightfully illustrated by Edward Gorey. After you read this, take a look at an alternate version of the dude in red via YouTube.
Chapter one reads, "Loose-fitting nylon beard, fake optical twinkle, cheap red suit, funny rummy smell when you sit on his lap. If he's such a big shot, why is he drawing unemployment for eleven months of the year? Something scary and off-key about him, like one of those Stephen King clowns." Updike goes further in chapter two, "...a man of no plausible address, with no apparent source for his considerable wealth, comes down the chimney after midnight while decent, law-abiding citizens are snug in their beds--is this not, at the least, cause for alarm?"









by D3RX

Creepmas Day One! Some Thoughts on 'Santa's Helpers'

So, just for fun, I'm participating in "Creepmas: A Celebration of the Hallowdays". This little movement, this uprising, this "...reaction to the continuing incursion of Christmas into Autumn and Halloween, CREEPMAS is a good-natured chance for Halloween lovers to exact revenge by bringing some spooky good cheer into the holidays or, more appropriately, the Hallowdays."

For Day One, I thought I'd share an excerpt from a lovely little book I own entitled, "The Twelve Terrors of Christmas" by John Updike and illustrated by the inimitable Edward Gorey. Available at Amazon


"Chapter three reads, "...what is REALLY going on? Why do these purported elves submit to sweatshop conditions in what must be one of the gloomiest climates in the world, unless they are getting something out of it at our expense? Underclass masochism one day, bloody rebellion the next. The rat-a-tat-tat of tiny hammers may be just the beginning...."

Of course, I can completely understand these guys. Elves have it rough and I can empathize with them so much that I envisioned what one of the guys might look like on the day of the great rebellion. I offer up my own sculptural rendition of an "Elf Gone Mad"....not that I'm trying to foment revolution or anything like that...just showing my support for the downtrodden and repressed.


Go ahead and try...

The Demise of Hauntcast

This is a damn shame...I shake my head and wonder why folks weren't willing to shell out the buck-an-episode that could have kept this fun Halloween-Haunter-Haven to continue on. Sigh.

Published!

In the midst of my "Halloween From Hell" experience, a ray of sunshine managed to poke through--I discovered that one of my sculpture pieces was selected for inclusion in the new book, "Vampire Art Now" by Jasmine Becket-Griffith and Matthew David Becket and published by HarperCollins. A very cool book with some gorgeous vampire art in it...and I ain't just sayin' that 'cause one of my sculptures is in it; it really is a beautiful coffee-table-lots-of-big-pics-kind of book. Available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

A Few More!

More Pics

Last of the decent pics--be working on the video soon!

Halloween From Hell Pics

Got a few pics from my haunt--actually I called it "Deadwoods", not Halloween From Hell. Working on a video but that will probably take a bit of time. Not the best pics but one has to bear in mind my state of being at the time...