Tired of carving the same old pumpkin year after year? Want to really shock, horrify and disgust your neighbors? Or are you just the kind of person who loves Calvin's (of "Calvin and Hobbes") snowmen and want to accomplish the same thing with Pumpkins at Hallowe'en? Well then, these two books are your ticket to accomplishing that.
With Pumpkins ranging from the black, but still sedate "Punk Rock Pumpkin" to the cannibalistic "Property Defender Pumpkin" and even, yes, "the Cannibal Pumpkin", these aren't the same old Pumpkins you are used to seeing on your neighbor's property and front steps.
For one thing, forget the kitchen knives, these babies often require power tools in their construction. And forget the candles! That is *so* last millenium! These pumpkins are lit with everything from kerosene-soaked rolls of toilet paper to road flares, to those light sticks that keep kids safe as they are trick-or-treating.
Couldn't find a nice-looking pumpkin? There are suggestions for that, from the bumpy (pimply nerd pumpkin) to the extremely tall (pumpkin hat), long stemmed (pumpkin with a nose, anyone?), Cracked Pumpkins (crime scene victim) and more!
Want to play a prank on someone? From the blood-filled Pumpkin to the one filled with coins, you'll have the recipies for pranks galore! Imagine the look on that not-so-special someone's face when they stick a knife in their pumpkin and it starts bleeding! Or the expression of a child who cracks open their pumpkin and change starts falling out with the seeds!
Despite the extreme recipies and the use of power tools, the books are also filled with cautions and reminders to always be careful when you cut into, immolate or otherwise turn a pumpkin into an instrument of terror. And each book also provides the web address of Tom Nardone, http://www.extremepumpkins.com so that interested readers can go and find more ideas and more extreme pumpkins to rock their world and those of people on their block.
Each book is filled with 20 designs ranging from the humorous (Mooning Pumpkins, Godzilla Pumpkin amidst a small town) to the disgusting (Rotting Beard Pumpkin, Worm-filled Pumpkin- using fishing lures) and everything in between, along with instructions on how to carve it, move it and even get rid of it afterwards.
These are amusing books that, even if you aren't going to carve the pumpkins in question or something like them, will amuse you highly. And they may just give you your own ideas about the pumpkin you are about to carve the next time that Halloween rolls around!
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