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My 2 best friends, and former roommates, Justin Shady and Kathy Bryja tied the knot this weekend at the best wedding Chicago has ever seen. I wish them the very best, and hope to see them again very soon.

They asked me to make a 3-D statue of the artwork that renowned artist Marla Campbell made for their wedding invitations. Figured I would share a pic of the final statue with you all. With the candle, its about 14 inches high.

I miss you guys already, and I hope to see you again real soon.

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I watched Halloween 3 tonight on AMC; and you know what, I just do not understand all the hatred spewed at this movie.

Dr, Loomis was blown to smithereens at the end of Halloween 2; and Michael Myers, for that mater,  was burned to a crisp. There would have been nothing but ashes left of him. He was dead. THE END. So unless they decided to continue the story by sprinkling his ashes on the shores of Lake Michigan, causing all the bathers in the vicinity to absorb fragments of his soul and go on a killing spree, that was the end of Michael Myers. So John Carpenter, pressed by Moustapha Akkad for another sequel, did the only logical thing. He decided to turn the series into an anthology. Every single Halloween from that point on would be a fresh, brand new concept and not simply be a sloppy retread of the original like the sequel was. And Holy Crap, Halloween 3 had one heck of a hook.

An elderly, irish toy maker, who made his wealth making cheap gags and masks, goes over the deep-end and decides to use an ancient celtic curse to murder all of the children in the world. Yeah, that’s right. This movie wasn’t going to just kill a kid or two, something that remains relatively taboo to this day; but ALL the world’s children were going to have they’re heads hallowed out by conjured bugs and snakes — that would then turn on their parents and eat them alive. Gees, if that isn’t the most insidious plan ever devised, I don’t know what is. And you know the kicker; even though the old guy is killed, he freakin succeeds. That’s right, at the close of the movie, the bad guy wins and everybody dies. If you are a horror fan, how could you not find the plot an absolute home run.

But NOOOO, you people weren’t satisfied. “Where’s Michael Myers”, you all said. Hollywood actually came through for a change; and instead of regurgitating the same movie you all have seen twice now, you got something different and unique. But you all didn’t want that. So Akkad, being a typical brain dead producer, realized if he wanted to keep making money, he had to keep pumping out films with Myers. So, 30 some years later and I don’t even know how many sequels at this point, Michael keeps on truckin’ on the edge of tedium — still stabbing the same teenaged archetypes with the same boring butcher knife. I don’t know whats more insulting. A “nearly” indestructable man coming back again and again, or a simple Doctor being blown to kingdom come returning with only a facial scar and a slight limp.

Who knows how many different Halloween movies John would have made if Halloween 3 was succesful ; but in the end who really cares, I guess. If he was stuck in Halloween Land, we wouldn’t have gotten The Thing and Escape From New York, both of which still kick all kinds of ass. I’ll get down from my soap box now.

Sooo, after I watched Halloween 3 again, I decided to draw Silver Shamrock Novelties’ weapons of mass destruction, the 3 creepy Halloween masks. Enjoy, and give Halloween 3 another chance, will ya.