Ghost Of A Cereal Killer
Each Halloween, we are haunted by a familiar phantom.
He sits there on the front porch all night, barefoot in his pajamas, eating Reese's Puffs cereal, scaring the shit out of our hastily carved Jack O' Lantern.
He's cute -- in a creepy, "why do they always throw in these cracked out pre-schoolers in horror movies?" kind of way.
It'd be great if we could get him to hand out the candy while he's there, but somehow I think he's all about the cereal.
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That's hilarious. That Jack 'O Lantern is seriously afraid of that crazy kid.
For real, is that your son? It's a funny picture!
Alright, dish. How did you get that crazy/cool shot? :)
Hell yeah he's all about the cereal, it tastes just like Reeses peanut butter cups!
Nah, I don't really know. But that's what the commercial says.
jay ... i don't know why, but i carve the same damn jack o' lantern the same way every year. my son told me to add the teeth, though.
welcome, sheri. yes, that's my youngest boy, aden. he's 3. and, in case you were wondering, he's not a ghost. :)
tom ... do you think i ought to circulate it around in those forwarded email hoax things?
tink ... maybe you could tell me. the thing about photographing the pumpkin every year is that when you use a flash, you can see all the gooey shit and the lines i used to mark where to cut. it just doesn't look right.
so i turned the porch light on and tried to get some softer light with him in there.
i know he ended up standing up. i have no idea how it showed the things behind him. i just don't understand all that stuff. maybe it capture him sitting, then captured the background when he moved. i really don't know. but it seemed like a funny picture. i should probably brighten it a little more.
cindy ... i've tasted it. i don't like it. but then again, i don't like peanut butter stuff. buzzkill, i know. you would think if a ghost were all into it, it would have to be off the chain.
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man, i didn't even get so much as one knock at the door last night and i'd stocked up on chocolate and everything.
maybe i went too far with draping a goat's intestines over the porch, and the pentagram with cows eyeballs at each point could have something to do with it.
anybody want a kit-kat?
Great picture. Great text. What comes first, the picture or the text?
dan, we got rid of all but a 5 pieces from a bucket full of candy. of course, part of that might have been that we left it on the porch for most of the night on the honor system while we took our boys around the neighborhood. you can still trick or treat to houses tonight and give your candy away instead of asking for it. :)
toraa ... that's a good question. the answer would be picture first. i couldn't conceive that and take it if i tried. in fact, almost every post based on a picture is reactive.
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I'll trade you a kit-kat for a pack of tootsie rolls Dan.
Eric: OK my guess is that your camera auto-adjusted the aperture and shutter speed because of the low light. The camera was probably still taking the picture when your little boys stood up. So it overlapped an image of him there and of him not there, getting the see-through shot. Kind of like when you move your hand and it makes a trail. I'll have to play with it. Regardless of HOW it was done, it's a really awesome photo.
i figured it was something like dealing with shutter speed. every now and then, i try to take things in low light just to see if i can get it natural instead of flash.
the cool thing with this (by pure luck) is that you see hardly any trail. he stood up so quickly and, probably most importantly, moved completely out of the way before the camera took another image of it.
anyway ... thanks for helping me understand.
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Nice pic. The pumpkin looks like he wants some cereal. Feed me Aden, feed me.
thanks for the compliments on my pumpkin. the only problem i carve one roughly the same as that every year.
the vibrating ... what superhero does that to pass through stuff. didn't the flash get to the point one time where his molecules vibrated so much he was fading away? do you know the answer, your dorkness?
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Probably the sugar in the cereal turns kids into Dash from the Incredibles.I'd start checking your chairs for tacks if I were you.
oooh ... superhero cereal. i've got to eat a bowl of that (even though it tastes like shit).
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tink, it's a deal.
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