{"id":6241,"date":"2016-11-05T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepsicks.com\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2022-06-18T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T19:22:46","slug":"halloween-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2016\/11\/05\/halloween-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halloween saw me a pumpkinhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deepsicks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MEG-is-Scary-as-hell-process-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6424\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first I mourned that this was a workshot, complete with drop ceiling. But the double monitor and security mirror have grown on me. This is damn scary. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m pretty proud. It&#8217;s unexpected, it&#8217;s creepy, it&#8217;s cheap as hell ($1 at HEB + what I had on hand: old nylon, a steak knife, a lighter, a sharpie), it&#8217;s devilish in its simplicity and has a touch of nostalgia. Who didn&#8217;t rock a pumpkin candy bucket growing up, before graduating to a pillow case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined the Dead Music Capital Band for their 10th annual Halloween parade around East Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dead_music_capital_band.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dead_music_capital_band.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dead_music_capital_band-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_parade-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_parade-2.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_parade-2-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_ghouls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_ghouls.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_ghouls-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam2.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DMCband_jam2-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hand out candy but collect it, too, sugar-high all week straight through to my birthday. Thirty-six now. All right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Been trying to gather words around our national nightmare but they turn on me, turn to water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/H5FkrZDLhfgnS\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween saw me a pumpkinhead.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,11,21],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts","tag-angst","tag-austin","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}