The Witching Hour is upon us!

  Taking a break from politics, I thought I would share with you the two pumpkin carvings that we did yesterday. I decided to do one traditional carving and one 3D carving.

  Earlier this year heavy metal music lost one of its icons, the man with the most powerful voice in heavy metal music of all time–Ronnie James Dio. It only seemed fitting that the man who sung so often about the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, demons and gods, and heaven and hell should be remembered on a day such as Halloween. So without further adieu, my traditional Jack-O-Lantern: 

  I do have to admit that this idea was not mine; my oldest son, Andy, came up to me with a picture that he had saved as his wallpaper on his laptop for the Halloween season, it was a Dio carving in a pumpkin so we decided to copy it.

  Last year I made my first attempt at a 3D carving of a pumpkin and for a subject I chose General Patton. To be perfectly honest the pumpkin carving looked nothing like General Patton except possibly his trademark scowl, but after all it was my first attempt at something like this.

  So this year–returning to politics, I guess–I decided to try to carve an image of Jimmy McMillan, now known throughout the cyber world as “the rent is too damn high guy.” If you don’t know who he is, just go to youtube and search “the rent is too damn high.”

  Here it is in all its glory?

 Not very good, I know, and it really doesn’t look like him but the important thing here is that we had fun.

As we approach the witching hour, I leave you with this: