Halloween links: Costumes, pumpkins and monsters, oh my!
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:00 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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I'm of the opinion that no holiday offers as many fun Web links as Halloween. Here are five fun time-wasters with spooky, scary, monstrous themes. Boo!
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• Kids today have such fancy-shmancy costumes. In my day, we had the cheapie plastic ones with the masks whose rubber bands would inevitably break and snap right in your face. Retro Crush remembers, and offers a photo gallery of the costumes I knew so well, from Rubik's Cube to Chachi to that super-creepy robot girl from "Small Wonder." Don't see your favorite retro costume on that page? Check this amazing gallery of old costumes and if you find it, e-mail it to your sister and remind her of the year she got to be Cinderella and you had to be Soupy Sales.
• Few people online wait for Halloween with the same anticipation that Matt of X-Entertainment does. Every entry in his Halloween countdown blog is worth reading, but this year, I especially liked his Whatever O Lantern contest, where he invited people to find a substitute for a pumpkin, give it a Jack O' Lantern type face, and send in a photo. The winner? A swimming pool. I also liked the Pop Tart O'Lantern, but you may have a different fave.
• Don't feel like getting your hands all gunky and carving a real pumpkin? There are plenty of online pumpkin carving sites, but I kind of like this one for its clean looks and simplicity. Here's a more cartoony one, if you prefer that look. And if you just want to look at amazingly arty pumpkins other people carved, check out Extreme Pumpkins. I kind of love the Nerd O Lantern.
• The San Antonio Express-News has a fun online Monster Maker. But one major flaw: You can't save and send your creation, you can only print it out. Hello, it's 2008, Webmasters of the Alamo City. (Via Pop Candy.)
• This link is from last year, but I love it: Expensive purses that scarily resemble movie monsters. This melty face dude and his handbag twin may be my favorite.
Share your own favorite Halloween links -- from pumpkin carving ideas to candy to costumes to scary movies and more -- in the comments.
