How to: haunted house silhouettes

By Mark Frauenfelder at 5:55 pm Thursday, Oct 6

This project from CRAFT shows how to make paper silhouettes for a terrifically spooky Halloween effect.

The author has a book of silhouettes you can punch out. It's reviewed (by my wife Carla) here.

How To: Haunted House Silhouettes

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Pop-up, flat-pack camping house for transport on your car’s roof

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White House blog: Obama’s American Jobs Act, innovation, and crowdfunding

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Jungle Brothers’ “I’ll House You” (1989)

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Video trailer for new book: Crap at My Parents’ House

[Video Link] Here's the trailer for a funny book called Crap at My Parents' House.

Crap at My Parents’ House is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our moms and dads accumulate without our knowledge or consent. Comedian Joel Dovev has compiled and commented upon the best (or would that be worst?) items submitted by folks from around the globe in a very funny—but fair—way, revealing all those dirty secrets that range from deer hoof bottle openers and plush Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles to soccer-playing Jesus ceramics and grizzly bear toilet paper holders. Whether you’re 15 or 65 and still shaking your head at your mom and dad’s decorating choices, Crap at My Parents’ House is a reason to be thankful for parents being so unintentionally hilarious.

My parent's have a collection of crap, too, which they keep in their basement in a cabinet of ugliness, but they do it intentionally. They have exquisite taste in home decor.

Crap at My Parents' House

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Montana Couple builds “Hobbit House”

by Mark R - on August 18th, 2011

If there is an award for biggest fan of Lord of the Rings, I believe that husband and wife Steve and Christine Michaels would take the prize.

The couple have built a house in the hills of Montana that would fit in to the Shire. I would imagine that if you entered in the address for Bilbo Baggins on Google Maps for Middle Earth, you would be led here.

Granted, it does not have the circular door that J.R.R. Tolkien emphasized in both The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it is designed for the world of the “big folk”.

You can see a series of photos from my Source that reveal that the house is bigger than it looks. There is no way that Gandalf will be hitting his head on the crossbeams here. There is one door that is so small that it is downright impractical.

Still, this entire place looks very cozy, even though the dwellers have to mow the roof every once in while. Perhaps Peter Jackson should have filmed The Hobbit movie here, assuming that hasn’t already. The whole house cost a price of $410,000, which I’m sure would have been a fraction of a Middle Earth movie budget.

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