C'mon, Brendan Fraser. You won a Screen Actors Guild Award. For crying out loud.
Aside from the silliness of her show, Martha does Halloween right. She drills holes in pumpkins with actual drills. She glues spiders to her face (though my mom was doing the same some 20 years before anyone knew who Martha was). She makes fantastic costumes out of coffee filters and tin foil.
She makes pumpkin cookies and breadsticks that look like fingers. And I remember an episode of her show years ago where she made gigantic eyeballs that rolled around in her front yard while trick-or-treaters rang her doorbell. I couldn't find a pic of those, but I did find these other, horribly gross, eyeballs on her site.
Those front yard eyeballs would most certainly put Martha on our House of Crap Map.
Oh, the House of Crap.
Every neighborhood has one. There's one down the street from me. It's been lit up for weeks now. And, for those of you in Portland, you know my obsession with the True House of Crap, the one at 51st and NE Alameda. I have a friend that believes that those people just make up holidays to decorate for.
The other True Great House of Crap in Portland is, of course, the Davis Graveyard. Please, please, please check out their site. They have pictures of past displays, their event schedule (open house next Sunday!) and t-shirts and coffee mugs 'n stuff to purchase. I wholeheartedly encourage those of you who have seen their display to purchase something because I KNOW it can't be cheap to put on a show like that.
They also, along with none other than Rob Zombie, helped out with an episode of ABC's Extreme Makeover show with an episode filmed at the Oregon School for the Deaf. It'll air on Halloween.
And for those of you wondering what a House of Crap is, think Clark Griswold. Think "Deck the Halls". Think all-the-holiday-decor-goes-on-sale-the-day-after-the-holiday-and-has-to-wind-up-somewhere.
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