PotD – Fellow Grinch
December 31st, 2008 ryan
Not Pictured: 6″ of red ribbon consumed in the making of this fine portrait.

Not Pictured: 6″ of red ribbon consumed in the making of this fine portrait.
It’s funny what insomnia breeds, especially with 24-hour access to cadaver-white gourds and a tackle box of clay carving implements. Though admittedly a hare-lipped template was in the works.

The Ectobee, lovable mascot of the ephemeral juggernaut Ectoplasmosis, was birthed from the brain meats of one E. Gauger (BUY STUFF).
Not even 12 hours later the thing looks a bit peaky, I’ll have to keep an eye on it.
8 weeks to go and yet, here we go.

So kitsch, so trite, encompassing quite a bit of what I can’t stand of the American upper white middle class (where I grew up, for the record).
But truth be told I love this crap.
It’s likely produced in some horrid sweatshop, mouldering in musty warehouses for the off season only to be reborn as soon as summer starts to strain. No clue how the holiday’s origins have mutated in to the animatronic orgy you see above but pirate themed miniature haunted houses? A campy Egyptian roundabout?
I mean, damn, they have me pegged.