Wonderboy - A superhero for the new millennium - Halloween 1999

Everyday of my life there seems to be a crises of some sort. Something is broken. Something isn't there that needs to be there. Somebody needs a better way of doing something. A plaintive call of distress rings out...And Wonderboy appears! Will he save the day once again?

It's doubtful.

I believe I can fly

Whoa, these things are tight.

This Halloween was really fun. After seeing all of those great pumpkin designs on the internet (I shared many of those links in the log), I just had to try it myself. I decided that I would use the finished pumpkins as centerpieces at my annual Halloween party. It took about an hour and a half to do each pumpkin, and I didn't do them all by myself. It's more fun to carve them with other people. The Daffy Duck pumpkin is an original design, and you can see what it looks like with the lights on by clicking here. I present to you now, the pumpkin line up for 1999:

1. Get a s*load of pumpkins.

2. Open em up and instead of scooping out the guts madly, carefully hold a wad in your hand and cut it away from the wall of the pumkin with a long knife.

3. Hold the seperated seed/goop cluster over a bowl and gently squeeze the seeds off. They will pop or fall off with relative ease, and is much faster than trying to seperate them in a messy bowl. The goo you can toss out since you don't make pies or anything out of that part. And we all like pies, don't we?

4. Rinse off seeds well. Soaking them will help remove goo.

5. Prepare a cookie sheet by covering it in foil, and preheat your oven to 350. Spread seeds over sheet, covering sheet completely, but not by piling seeds. Add salt to taste.

6. Place sheet in oven, and go watch some tv. Eventually, you will smell the first batch burning. Repeat step 5.

7. Taste a few of the less burned ones from batch number 1 to get an idea as to how fast your oven cooks and how much salt to use. Then repeat and adjust as necessary.

8. You now have a car load of pumpkins seeds to share at your next party! After 2 weeks, it is advisable to throw away the 3/4's of a bowl you have left over cause no one really loves these things, anyway.