Random crap with Uno.

[Unorthodox]

I could generally do with less blood at Halloween.

Blood is lazy. 

[Buster's Uncle]

MY blood is lazy.

[Buster's Uncle]

Mummy Brain Imprint Found Inside 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Skull

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=11932.0

[Buster's Uncle]

Gene plays key role in monarch butterfly's miraculous migration: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=11976.0

[Unorthodox]

Teaching my son to drive is going to be the death of me. 

[Buster's Uncle]

  See that it's only figuratively...

[Unorthodox]

Indoctrinating my niece (the blonde), taking her to her first haunted houses at the local amusement park.   

They've utterly ruined the prison haunt this year (I originally designed, remember).  You travel through the cells as normal, laundry, cafeteria, but gone is death row and the execution chamber complete with theme appropriate firing squad and electric chair.  In their place?  Yes, a chainsaw (which makes 3/5 haunts there ending with a chainsaw, btw) makes PERFECT SENSE.  WTF? 








In fact, a lot of the place looks like they just had the teenagers throw things together this year half assed. 

Seriously, why bother building this if you're not lighting it?  (and we've been there 3 days over 2 weeks, so it wasn't just a broke for the night thing)



Stretchy webs...seriously?  Sure they look ok...after this week's storms though, I'm sure this is going to look a lot different.



In the past they've always had the fog blast into bushes or bales of hay to disperse and cool it for more atmosphere.  They are just blasting it out...

Worse yet, though, is that is a food stand and seating off to the left there.  ALL the seating in the park has a fog machine near...because you want that while your eating...



And perhaps most egregiously, lighting 101...DO SOME!

[Unorthodox]

2014, harsh white spots on the graveyard scene...



2011, not only better staging, but actual mood lighting.

[Buster's Uncle]

Giant Butterfly Study Unlocks The Monarch's Most Mysterious Traits

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=12075.0

[Unorthodox]

Peter, Peter Pumpkin-eater,
He will hungry go.
For Joe and Ed and Bob and Ned
And Phil and Fred and John and Jed,
And even little Tom and Ted
And every boy I know
Has made a Jack-o’-lantern
(And some are making two).
Poor Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-eater!
What will Peter do?



ruminating on possibilities...

[Buster's Uncle]

Bath salts and face-eating.

[Rusty Edge]

Well, I can imagine his ribs are showing from the starvation...

Will Peter turn zombie?

Or cannibal?

Or vampire?

Become a hungry ghost?

Let's go with stark, raving, mad-


Peter  stood rather tall,
Then he raised a large maul,
And turned  to a young carver named Josh.

"Since you used all the pumpkins,
I'm forced to chew the next bumpkin,
I can capture, and fracture, and squash!"

[Buster's Uncle]

Cincinnati Zoo's Gorillas Go Wild on Pumpkins
By ABC NEWS
1 hour ago






No pumpkin was spared at the Cincinnati Zoo this morning when the zoo’s gorillas got hold of the Halloween treat at their annual Pumpkin Party.

Around eight of the zoo’s gorillas trick-or-treated in search not of candy, but of pumpkins filled with their favorite snacks, including granola, raisins, sunflower seeds, peanuts, grapes, popcorn and apples.

The Gorill-A-Lanterns, as the pumpkins are called by the zoo, were spread throughout the animals’ enclosure, known as Gorilla World.



Courtesy Cincinnati Zoo


“Trick-or-treating for the gorillas not only offers them a nutritious treat, but is a great enrichment activity,” a spokeswoman for the zoo said in a statement. “Searching for a variety of treats is actually a lot like the behavior these animals would display in the wild while foraging for food.”

The gorillas’ pumpkin party kicks off HallZOOween, an event in which the zoo opens its doors on the weekends to trick-or-treaters and others who want to enjoy “animal pumpkin pandemonium.”

Today’s pumpkin party was open for visitors to watch, many of whom could be heard oohing and aahhing in the background as the gorillas tore through the pumpkins.

The Cincinnati Zoo was in the headlines last month when it took in a girl gorilla named Kamina who was rejected by her mother immediately after her August birth at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Cincinnati Zoo officials are now taking Kamina through a “gorillification” process in which she will spend three months with human surrogates who dress up like gorillas and mimic the actions of a mother.

https://gma.yahoo.com/cincinnati-zoos-gorillas-wild-pumpkins-205900743--abc-news-Halloween.html

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Perhaps Talia would enjoy this story?

[Buster's Uncle]

Experts expect rebound in monarch butterflies  http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=12075.msg57651#msg57651

[Unorthodox]

I remember when our local zoo would pick up jack o lanterns to feed to their animals, but no longer.  Guessing insert health scare here is to blame.  Pesticides, various 'preservation' techniques, etc.