By Malloreigh

I didn’t grow up vegan, but I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to go trick-or-treating and come home with a bag full of candy you can’t eat. Now that I’m too old to walk around the neighbourhood asking for candy, I sit at home and give it out. While vegan kids can’t eat – and vegan grown-ups don’t give out – miniature chocolate bars, there are a few types of common candy that are “accidentally vegan.”





[Rigel & Chloe in Trick Or Treat]

Here’s A List of Some Hallovegan Candy:

• Airheads taffy


• Blow Pops


• Cherry Blasters


• Dots


• Fuzzy Peaches


• Jolly Ranchers


• Laffy Taffy


• Mike and Ike


• Regular, BBQ, and All-Dressed Lays Potato Chips


• Smarties


• Sour Patch Kids


• Swedish Berries


• Swedish Fish


• Sweet Tarts


• Twizzlers

You can find more at PETA’s Accidentally Vegan page.

Keep in mind that white sugar (which is the kind used in most of this candy) is refined with bone char, which actually isn’t vegan, but PETA doesn’t seem to care about that. You could give out boxes of raisins, but then your house might get egged by angry sugar-hounds – a high insult to a vegan!

by Tara Diane

Yummmm, hummus is one of my favorite snacks. Here is my favorite hummus recipe, tuned specifically to my veggie hating, lemon-loving taste buds. Oh and I also included a festive way to serve it that will make your friends make fun of you behind your back!



What You’ll Need

• 2 16 ounce cans of garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained and rinsed


• 6 oz. feta cheese (yummy!) OR a half teaspoon salt


• 1 tsp -1 tbsp crushed red pepper, to taste


• 1/3 cup lemon (less if you don’t want much citrus flavor)


• 1/3 cup tahini


• 2/3 cup water


• 1/3 cup olive oil

You probably have most of these ingredients in your house, but tahini might be harder to find. All GOOD grocery stores I’ve looked for it at have had it, but it might take some searching. Look in the Asian/Indian/International section. Sometimes they have it by the peanut butter (that’s where I found it today). If in doubt, just ask. If they have no idea what the fuck it is, tell them it’s Middle Eastern, ground sesame seeds that look like runny peanut butter.



1. Drain and rinse your garbanzo beans (chickpeas) and put them into a food processor or blender. A food processor is preferable, but if you use a blender it just might take a bit longer and not grind as finely.



2. Add in all of your ingredients except the feta cheese (if you used salt go ahead and put it in). It’s going to look like a gross pile of weird vomit. Turn on your processor and blend for about two minutes to make it super creamy, scraping the sides if you think you need to.



3. Add in the feta cheese and mix for about ten seconds.



For a super cute way to serve it at a Halloween party, carve out a small pumpkin and pour in the dip! Sprinkle a little bit of feta and red peppers on top and serve it with some yummy pita chips.

All of your friends will like it. Just don’t leave it out for more than a couple of hours or your pumpkin will start drooling its nasty pumpkin juices in there.

Have a good week :]

Missy and Rambo are back in this weeks video blog! Tomorrow we’ve got a new interview going up: with the creator of CSI, Anthony E. Zuiker. Check out his new book (out Thursday) and Level26.com for a video sure to put you in the mood for Halloween and “scare the pants off you”. We also had an interview with Janeane Garofalo go up this week, and Missy talks about the day she met her. Ohio SGs are throwing a party on November 6th to wrap up the Halloween festivities. We’ve got some new sets going up with some new SGs and some familiar ones too! Oh and Missy and Rambo made it to Disneyland this past weekend! YAY!

by Tara Diane

I’ve been itching to do a project involving caulk (mostly for the jokes, obviously) and finally came up with something! Last year for Halloween I was zombie Hermione Granger and I had a headband with a bloody wand stuck through it. So we are going to recreate that in this entry (substituting 7 inches for a wand) for all of you aspiring zombies who want to have shit sticking in/through your head.



What You’ll Need

Some sort of fast-drying glue. I used a hot glue gun.

A thin plastic headband.

CAULK. Small caulks work better for this project, but I used an average sized caulk and just added a pastry tip onto it to make the tip smaller. Just make sure you don’t get the caulk that requires a gun!

Red and brown acrylic paints (and paprika, optional!).

Something to stick through your head. (I used a 45 of effing LOVERBOY. Why did I have that?!)

Something to cut aforementioned object.

1. Cut your object so that it fits on the headband. It can be a rough cut. If you’re doing something like a stick or a knife you can just cut a straight line, but if you’re doing something like a record you have to trace the headband and cut around it. I used a shitty wood burner to cut mine. Albums are very easy to cut. If you have an old knife you don’t mind ruining, just get it very hot (hold a lighter to it) and it will slice through like buttah.

2. Glue the object to the headband with fast drying glue. Hot glue guns work best :]



3. Slowly rub your caulk all over the edges of the headband. Your caulk doesn’t have to look perfect, it’s the little imperfections that make it great. Your friends aren’t going to point and laugh if your caulk is a little lumpy or crooked. And if you mess up your caulk, you can always cut parts of it off later. This was my first time handling caulk and I felt like I did a pretty okay job with it; definitely satisfied with my caulk job.



4. Once youre satisfied with your caulk, let it dry overnight.



5. When you feel your caulk and it’s nice and stiff, you can start painting it. First paint all of your caulk red. If you get messy with it don’t worry, it shouldn’t look perfect! Add in brown paint spots and kind of just try to make your caulk look as much like bloody brains as possible. I actually put paprika on my caulk to give it some more color and texture.

6. Let it dry. When you put it on, add some fake blood on the headband and in your hair around the area.





Don’t worry; I’m still working on my zombie face. Have a good week :]

Tomorrow morning at 11:00am PST log on to http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ to chat with Missy in her very first IAMA. You can ask her (almost) anything… and welcome her to the Reddit community (you can friend us here)! There might even be some video.



Check out a few shots of Boom Suicide, who drove 8 from Georgia to shoot her set! “Bombshell!” Missy let’s you know where our photogs will be heading next, and you can email rambo@suicidegirls.com for more info!

Missy and Rambo wanna know what you think they should start watching on Thursday nights, now that the Jersey Shore finale is fast approaching. Put your suggestions in the comments!

The girls talk about Halloween costumes, and wanna know if any of you know of the perfect (reasonably priced) catwoman costumes. Anyone? Bueller? Post your links or send them to missy@suicidegirls.com.

xo

SGs

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Are you a girl? Is it Halloween? Be a sexy 1900s steel conglomerate tycoon!

Or maybe a sexy anorexic? Sexy institutionalized mental patient? Sexy convict--in traditional stripes or modern orange?

Or, I know! A sexy lady bug! Perhaps a sexy bumble bee? A sexy gardener! (I swear I *made that one up*, Googled it, and voila.)

Sexy girl scout! Sexy tin man! (Think I'm joking? Click that link.)

My favorite, though, has to be the sexy clown. I can see where one might be tempted by that, if only because it's so fucking revolting that it might just kill the whole "sexy costume" thing dead.

There's nothing wrong with the odd sexy costume, mind. Elvira's been around forever, and everyone likes the vampires. The unitard-wearing cat costume is timeless. But look what's happened to the cat now. Subtlety, people!

Sure, I myself once went to a party as a vampire victim, which involved a white cotton gown, red lipliner bite mark, and a candleholder--'twas sexy, though I admit the primary impulse there was "I already own all these things." And it wasn't basically a lycra mini dress, with or without a foofy tutu of some sort attached.

But jeez louise, enough is enough. I realize I am going to sound like the most prudish mom ever with what I am about to say. Too bad. I keep getting these costume catalogs in the mail, and all the little girl costumes--every single one--has a short skirt on it and is some sexy girled-up version of something or other--fairy, pirate, princess, etc. Oh sure, the catalog copy calls them "cute" but we know that "cute" is often (as in this case) a euphemism for "sexy, on a little kid."

And the boys aren't a whole lot better off. All they get is the oh-so he man stuff. Cop, yawn; firefighter, yawn. Pirate, superhero, astronaut, yawn. Luke Skywalker, Buzz Lightyear, ninja. Yawn.

About the only costumes that aren't revoltingly gendered are the Harry Potter ones. But really, would it be so strange to have a girl dress as a (non-anorexic) skeleton? Or a boy as a clown? Are girls allowed to be Spiderman, or boys to be cheerleaders? Aren't monsters and magical creatures supposed to come in, you know, both sexes?

Bah. The point of the carnival should be to invert conventional expectations, not to dial them up to eleven.

Bitch_PhD is proud to report that her son wants to be a ghost this year. In the traditional sheet-with-eyeholes.

To celebrate next month's After Dark Horrorfest film festival, a contest to find the next "Queen of Scream", Miss Horrorfest 2006 is happening right now at YouTube.

Hopefuls have been posting videos to the Horrorfest YouTube page and voting on finalists starts today. After viewing the finalists' submissions, go here to vote for your favorite.

The After Dark Horrorfest is a weekend of 8 new horror films playing over three nights (November 17-19) only in theaters. Advance tickets for Horrorfest go on sale tomorrow, October 31st.

It's official. Halloween has become a celebration of freakdom worldwide. No longer a pastoral harvest fest or day to frighten off the dead, the modern world views it as a pass to extensively decorate our bodies, dress slutty and partaaay. Hell, let's just call it Suicide Girls Day.

For tattooed and pierced folk, the problem in Halloween dressing lies in just how much freakier we can be. I mean, there are polyester costumes in our honor and articles on how to look like Kat Von D of Miami Ink, so whom are we supposed to emulate to frighten people into giving us candy. If only there was an Ann Coulter costume. Indeed, Satan herself could scare anyone Commie, and holiday booty would be evenly distributed among the masses.



Being that I'm more for dressing seductive than sinister, I'll opt for going as The Lizardman as this woman did. Nothing says sexy like two tongues.

However you decide to dress, just make sure not to anger anyone's sacred ancestors. Case in point: Maori leaders have been fighting against an LA store selling Halloween Moko tattoo kits. New Zealand's One News explain the Maori's complaints on the issue:

While there are numerous arguments on both sides of this debate, it all comes down to cultural sensitivity in your part of the world. For example, many white people dress up as Native Americans without anyone saying a word, but put on blackface and an afro and you'll get your ass kicked. I've witnessed it first hand in Brooklyn, NY. But even in Brooklyn I wouldn't chance pissing off an age-old culture known for being fierce warriors. I'm sticking with my Lizardman idea.

Beyond temporary costumes, Halloween is probably the biggest holiday celebrated on skin. Just check out BMEzine's gallery of Halloween-themed tattoos. My favorites, though, are less literal and even spookier: horror tattoos. TattooNow has galleries of film-inspired horror tattoos or ones that are just plain evil. For even more inspiration, view the portfolios of masters of the dark art, such as Bob Tyrrell, Robert Hernandez, Benjamin Moss, Dan Henk, Shane O'Neill, and of course Paul Booth and the Last Rites crew including SG's own ymonster, Tim Kern.


Tattoo by Bob Tyrrell.

But please don't spend all of Halloween online trolling tattoo portfolios. Especially when there are so many people in porn-star-like Bo Peep outfits outside. My usual haunt on October 31st is the Village Halloween Parade but as we're in Europe, I'll be hosting a horror flick fest, using Chris Gore's movie picks and adding one of my own to the mix: Tattoo, the 2002 film about a killer who harvests the skin of tattooed people for underground collectors.

It's my ultimate nightmare, losing my preciously decorated skin to some dude on eBay. Quelle Horreur!


Marisa_DiMattia is a lawyer and editor of Needled.com, a blog on tattoo art and culture.