I used to do a better job of this, forelighting it a little bit so you could see it was a pumpkin. See my "President Palin" for a good example:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/10/31/boo-two-spine-tingling-tales-of-terror/

You can even see two mini-pumpkins in the foreground.

But it requires a lot of work in Photoshop to balance the colors and brightness, and a good camera and a lot of attempts with different lighting.

This year, because I was playing around with the color scale so much, I didn't even attempt to make the rest of the pumpkin visible. But I'll keep your comment in mind next year...

:-)

-CW

"It sounded better in the original German."
-Molly Ivins (in reaction to Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 GOP convention)

Heh. Don't know why that popped into my mind, just after watching Trump's announcement on immigration...

-CW

I already voted, and they informed me last night that my vehicle has taken 378 other people to the polls and still counting. :)

Awesome! Well done!

:-)

-CW

I had not noticed that, so thanks! I will check it out...

-CW

Das ist es, was ich dachte, jetzt, dann und in der Zukunft, es ist alles Schuld der Demokraten.

Das Orangefarbene Blasloch... das größte Opfer der Welt.

Just get the fuck out and vote. Lame-duck Trump, then he can actually tell the truth that the Dems are ruining his 'grand design.'

You're right, of course, and we're working on, JTC. I already voted, and they informed me last night that my vehicle has taken 378 other people to the polls and still counting. :)

As to subject matter: Witch Hats? Sorting hats from Hogwarts? Can I object if one plops me into the middle of Republican Slytherin?

*laughs*

Reminds me of that time a huge group of my crew got together and were being questioned by some of the younger ones who were asking us questions in order to:
(1) sort us into our house, and then (2) discover our Patronus.

So my turn arrives, and I answer the questions truthfully, and..... (drumroll)….. I got sorted into Gryffindor. Okay, awesome, everybody said; I can live with that, no problem. Many more questions followed, and my Patronus was revealed...………. a badger. You should have heard the peals of laughter and making fun of me and my "puny" Patronus, and I'm like: "What, are you kidding?! I'm a Honey Badger! This is awesome! The most fearless animal in all of the animal kingdom. It runs backwards. It gets bitten by a snake, it passes out and then gets right back up. Then it eats the Slytherins!"

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade... and lemon pie. ;)

Und jetzt etwas ganz anderes… (And now for something completely different...)

I see the stock market is having its own jog down memory lane; being that it had its worst month of October since 2008...

Could it be that same subtlety that swept Obama into office, has karmically come full circle for Trump and his rabble?

GTFO and vote.

LL&P

Apologies... been a rollercoaster of a fortnight personally, whole family sick with every illness two grubby children can drag home. Universal healthcare counts for shit when the flu is in town.

;)

LL&P

When, and it will, the stock market readjusts, it will be the Democrats bull to bear.

When, and they won't, the horde of women and children slog their way across Mexico, Trump will have his gestapo mow them down.

Why, and what the hell, if your parents aren't registered Republicans, you're not an American, even if you're born in Cleveland.

Trump's not an American by his own 'birthright citizenship' scale, his father had no American parents, in fact his father even tried to leave the US to return to Germany and they rejected him on the grounds that he was a draft dodger. Trump's mother was, to her grave, a citizen of the UK, just as I am and my kids...the UK allows dual citizenship and considers you 'Volke' from cradle to coffin. Of Trump's kids, no American kids...Ivanka and Melania, neither born in the US, Martha Maples begot Tiffany, is the closest to American in the Trump gene-swamp...but her father isn't a Yank.
Who is an American? Trump certainly isn't, neither of his parent's were, and his mother could never be. Why is it I wake up everyday, turn on the TV, and discover that it's 1956, then a few days later it's 1938 and the Bund League running ads on CBS?

Retrograde society.

Just get the fuck out and vote. Lame-duck Trump, then he can actually tell the truth that the Dems are ruining his 'grand design.'

LL&P

"Or perhaps in Slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means,
To achieve their ends."
—The Sorting Hat(HP and the Sorcerer's Stone)

OK, I admit it, I decided on a theme that allowed me to be lazy and just carve one this year. So... does it look like some alien creature out of "The Blob" or is it kinda wave-like? Inquiring minds want to know!

:-)

-CW

Far out, man. Heh.

Kick [3] -

Didn't even notice that acronym, but thanks for pointing it out!

As for Pence's family, well, I was picturing his announcement in my mind and that just naturally sprang into view.

Heh.

nypoet22 [5] -

Yeah, I strive to make them extra-scary by limiting myself to what sounds almost plausible...

:-)

[8] -

"It's a floor wax! No, it's a dessert topping!"

Couldn't resist. Especially after quoting that learned philosopher Emily Litella...

LizM -

I was a wee bit worried about what you'd think of the tens of millions of liberals streaming across your southern border, I have to admit.

:-)

Happy Hallowe'en to all!

-CW

P.S. - I may not even do a column today, or may post it very late, so this holiday column can remain first on the list until the festivities are largely over. Just to warn everyone in advance.

i think the people deserve to know about pie, and it's your responsibility as a supposedly reality based blogger to inform the public about the reality of pie, not some bizarro cartoon or poem by george bush. bush may have had pie-sympathetic leanings, but was not a true pie candidate. fewer than 10% of his speeches mentioned pie. you too have yet again failed to address the issue of pie, preferring instead to buy into the parties of big cake and canned whipped cream topping.

the truly scary part about the red wave scenario is how utterly plausible much of it is.

I just vaped it, then read the column - a very great experience!

Thanks CW - especially for the "His family looks on, in horror." line.

Needed that.

Re-education camps will be necessary to handle the sheer number of people to be arrested, where they will be indoctrinated into The World According To Dear Leader Trump.

Indoctrinated into *double checks* TWAT DLT?! *laughs*

Pence gives a formal statement that backs Trump up, and says he's stepping down "to spend more time with my family." His family looks on, in horror.

His family looks on, in horror. !!! <----- *ROTFL* :)

I'll have whatever he's smoking. ;}