So this is what Carter wanted to be for Halloween. This is a guy from Naruto named Zetsu. There is a huge Venus Flytrap coming out of the guys robe in the manga. Turns out you can’t just buy this from your local Target and there was trick or treating at the West Seattle Junction on Saturday. So Vickie bought a bunch of wire, material, and glue sticks for her hot glue gun and we got to work a few days ago. Here are some step by step construction pics…
Cutting some wire screen
Trying on the cage – the wire were super sharp
Vickie laying down the material and hot gluing it down
Trying on the Venus Flytrap – Note the belt holding it all together
Black and white face and Green Hair
Ta Da.
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Sunday night is usually Family Game Night for the Peterson’s, but tonight we spent our time cutting up squash fruit. I opted for a pentagram and 666… You know… Satan Stuff.
Carter and Vickie went with your classic scary face pumpkin. Carters pumpkin has another smaller pumpkin in its mouth. Very Brutal! Claire did a rather abstract version of a pug dog.
So no yahtzee, pictionary or sorry tonight, but all in all a pretty successful game night. I think.
ed’s handy work. Hail Satan.
carter going at his gourd. BRUTAL!
peterson’s hard at work
outside the pad
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The family went to pugoween out in North Seattle today. Crazy. 100 or so Pug’s dressed up in Halloween costumes. A bucket of pugs dressed as Lobsters, various pug spidermans, pug princess leah, pug skunks… We brought our pug, Sergeant Frank Oxnard, and our weiner dog, Waffle.
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GodDamn things are in the house somewhere… Aren’t they?
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1068182-heat/news/1683382
Looks like Michael Mann is stepping in to take over directing duties from Scorsese… Oh well, Heat was good.
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I get my comics sent to me through the mail. I combine my order with a couple of other guys at work so we end up getting free shipping, free bags and boards and 15% off all our books. It really a great deal through Mayhem Comics in Ames, Iowa… We get the deal because we order a lotta stuff… The only downside would be that they bundle our order and ship it out every week. Shipping the comics weekly is awesome. The bundling the order, not as awesome. It just means that all the comics go to one guys house and then he has to play delivery boy. sucks, especially now that all three of us work in different buildings on the Microsoft campus. Anyway, Don was on Vacation and we sorta slacked on picking up the books from him before he left. So now I have a months worth of comics to get through… And here they are…
- 9/27/07
Criminal #9 by Ed Brubaker – I love this book… Comic Pulp Noir Crime Stuff.
Iron Man #22
Marvel Adventures IronMan #5
Cartoon Network Block Party #37
Ultimate Spider-Man #114
Sub-Mariner #4
Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder #7 – Frank Miller Crazieness
Avengers The Initiative #6
Ultimate Fantastic Four #46
Wizard Mag
$29.84
- 10/03/07
Midnighter #12
Futurama #33
$5.08
- 10/10/07
Superman #668
30 Days Of Night #1 (5th anniversary issue)
The New Avengers #35
Justice League Unlimited #38
Runaways #28
Wolverine #58
$14.62
- 10/17/07
Powers #26
The Mighty Avengers #5
Captain America #31
Ultimate Fantastic Four #47
Ultimate X-Men #87
Ex Machina #31
Marvel Adventures The Avengers #17
Cartoon Network Action Pack #18
Batman Strikes #38
$22.43
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I picked The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow up because I heard that Scorsese was going to be directing it with DeNiro in the main role. The book spans ~30 – 40 years of this guys life, so I don’t know what they would do for the young DeNiro… Computer DeNiro? Yuck. I don’t really think Scorsese is down with them computers anyway. He did a good job of casting a young Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, so maybe he’ll just find another unknown kid. Anyway, the book was pretty good and fits in with the Goodfellas / Casino movies nicely. The main character in this book loves to surf. That would be great, DeNiro on a surfboard.
I also finished another Richard Stark novel, Flashfire. The premise is pretty much like Payback (or The Hunter). Cons, steal from Parker after a Con. They think its ok. He doesn’t. Bang Bang. The End. Awesome.
I also just started Kill Now, Pay Later, a pulp novel from 1960 by Robert Terrall. It is put out by Hard Case Crime books. I love Hard Case Crime. Cheap Cheap Pulp Novels with awesome covers. They are sorta the Rhino Records of Pulp Fiction. A lot of there stuff is older, like Kill Now, but some is new like The Colorado Kid from Stephen King, also on Hard Case Crime. I am hoping for a subscription to their monthly book club for Christmas. Hint Hint.
Updated 2007 Reading List:
- The Winter of Frankie Machine By Don Winslow
- Flashfire By Richard Stark
- The Shotgun Rule: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
- The Name Of The Game Is Death By Dan J. Marlowe
- Caught Stealing: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Six Bad Things: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- A Dangerous Man: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Already Dead: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- No Dominion: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Money For Nothing By Donald Westlake
- Slayground By Richard Stark
- The Man With The Getaway Face By Richard Stark
- Colorado Kid By Stephen King
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I went to see the Tokyo Police Club last night at Neumos up on Capitol Hill. They were pretty good and the place was fairly packed for a Thursday night show. I didn’t have the “Holy Shit! That band is awesome!” moment during the show, but they were entertaining and I really like the EP they have out. A big selling point for me with this band? They have a song that references themselves. The Thermals have a song called Everything Thermals, love it…
The opening band was White Rabbits who were pretty interesting. They had 2 full time drummers and at times 3 or 4 guys banging on various drums strewn on the stage. For the first song the bass player didn’t actually play bass but occasionally drummed on stuff, banged a tambourine, and sang… I like a band that has a guy in it who doesn’t really have a job in the band, kinda like that guy in Pavement. Maybe they just like him so they let him jump around, scream into the mic occasionally and shit like that. Turns out this guy in White Rabbits actually played bass for most of the other songs, too bad.
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