In honor of everyone’s favorite Autumnal commercial holiday (Halloween, right?), my friends and I carved pumpkins!
Even though this picture is just of a bowl of pumpkin guts, I think its really beautiful. Would you say so?
This was a really satisfying way to spend an evening. I wonder where the tradition of carving pumpkins started.. Anyone know?
Blurrrrrrr! Kelsy, one of my roommates, took this picture of my brother and I.
Autumn is a great season – who doesn’t like pumpkin pie, pumpkin carving, pumpkin flavored baked goods, or, you know, anything related to the carving and consumption of members of the squash family?
Ben and Ross, taking a microbiology break.
This was my pumpkin. Yes, you are seeing that correctly, it is a brontosaurus chasing a little girl. The most irrelevant pumpkin carving theme ever? Possibly. I based it on this comic, which made me laugh at least 30 times that day (and still did today, as a matter of fact):
HAHAHAHAHA. Ah, kills me.
This is Simone, showing that pumpkin who’s boss. This knife action reminds me of a story from high school: A few weeks after that book “Stitch and Bitch” came out knitting became the trendiest thing a girl at my high school could possibly do (did NOT see that one coming!). One of my male teachers was complaining about it and one day and said, “Seriously, knitting? What if all the guys at the school took up whittling, would the school allow that?!”
At the time I remember thinking, whittling, really?? But you know what, wielding that knife against the pumpkin was damn satisfying! Simone’s face doesn’t seem to suggest otherwise either, does it? : )
Well! On the subject of Halloween, what are all of you going to be for (if you plan to dress up)? I’m not going to tell you my plan, you’ll see afterward though, I promise.
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Oh yeah, thanks for the music rec’s! Keep them coming if you have more! I actually spent some time over the weekend looking for new stuff (new to me, at least) and I’m really into The Temper Trap. Give ‘em a listen and let me know what you think.
5 Comments
2009/10/28 at 04:10
Sorry the picture was so blurry! I wasn’t even sure the picture took. Haha.
2009/10/28 at 04:30
haha I saw some of those pumpkin carving pictures on facebook and was wondering why your’s was a dinosaur
AND I’ve only baked something with pumpkin in it (a pumpkin pie) once this fall! ayyy. This needs to change SOON!
I haven’t carved a pumpkin yet this year
I’m excited to see pictures of your costume!!! : )
2009/10/29 at 16:47
i don’t think i’ve ever carved a pumpkin before.
2009/10/30 at 04:29
woahhh. i guess you don’t really grow them in hawaii, ne? : P
2009/11/03 at 20:00
that comic is the best thing i’ve ever seen ever.