Drunken Pumpkin

Mac-O-Lanterns - More cool how to projects

I know I always wondered. And now there’s a periodic table of the elements in pictures to help you sort it out.

And you thought lighter flints were actually made from flint. Silly.

A few years ago Terry Pratchett released a book of recipes from the Discworld. (If you haven’t read any Discworld books I highly recommend them.) Most of the recipes I can’t sort out, as they seem to require some odd British ingredients that are completely alien to us folks in the U.S. However, an awesome Halloween-ish recipe is for Sheep’s Eyes.

Ingredients:
Eyeball sized pickled onions
Stuffed green olives
tube of cream cheese.

(You can probably see where this is going.)
Remove the inside of each onion, leaving the outer skins intact except for a hole at either end. Carefully insert the green olive into the pickled onion skin so that the pimento is visible through the hole in the onion. Fill the remainder of the onion skin with cream cheese with a little “tail” of the cream cheese sticking out the other end. Repeat until thoroughly repulsed. Feed to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters if legal in your area.

from Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby.

Great googaly moogaly we’ve had a lot of visitors lately.

Actually, I don’t have Ten ways to get traffic. Really, I only have two.

Number one, claim to have a list of something in your title. That’s an awesome way to get links, especially if it’s supposed to be some way to get something for nothing.

Number two, have a domain name that is conceptually linked to a popular holiday, like Drunken Pumpkin. In October our numbers always go a little nutty. In retrospect, it’s probably a good thing we didn’t go with one of our original names, “Deer Pimp”. Maybe if it was “Reindeer Pimp” we would have been set for December. But who knows.

Anyway, tune in next time for some content vaguely related to Halloween. No, really.

Former NHL goalie recovering after shooting
Oct 9, 5:35 pm EDT

MINDEN, Nev. (AP)—Clint Malarchuk, the former NHL goalie best known for having his jugular vein slashed by a skate in a 1989 game with Buffalo, is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the chin with a rifle.

Wife Christy told sheriff’s deputies that the .22-caliber rifle discharged after her husband placed the butt on the ground between his legs. He had been shooting rabbits.

The 47-year-old former player, now a goalie coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets, was flown by helicopter to a Reno hospital for treatment Tuesday.

“Our concern is with Clint and his well being,” the Blue Jackets said Thursday. “We are optimistic that he will have a full recovery very soon.”