In order to satisfy my childish urges, I sliced up some pumpkin. Nothing is better to do pre-halloween than to take a knife to the orange flesh, tear up something artistic, and put a candle in it. Very family-safe, right? Anyhow …. Jazmine and I got together with a neighbor to carve up some little monsters. Our neighbor made a very scary jack-o-lantern … probably the creepiest of the traditional jack-o-lanterns. Jazmine and I made an equally creepy Stewie Griffin (from Family Guy).

I saw this pumpkin at Rouse’s and thought “THAT’S STEWIE!”. That’s when I decided that I was going to carve the little green sucker. Turned out that non-traditional orange pumpkins are very little tough-skinned, making Stewie a bit tough to carve. While carving the pumpkins, we joked how Pumpkin Stewie’s was going to smash other pumpkins on Halloween night and then yell his famous line “Victory is mine!” I won’t take an responsibility for any pumpkins smashed by Pumpkin Stewie on or around Halloween night.

Jazmine and I first set aside some time with our neighbor to go pumpkin shopping at some local pumpkin patches. When that failed, the three of us went to Rouse’s, the local grocery chain. I grabbed the green pumpkin, and an extra orange pumpkin. The next day I carved up Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat into the orange pumpkin while watching the Saints game at a friend’s house. Of course the Saints beat the Dolphins. It was really good game … so good that I couldn’t pay attention to the pumpkin and only finish half of the pumpkin at my friend’s place. I ended up having to finish the pumpkin at home.

3 creepy faces and the other jack-o-lantern at the neighbor’s turned out making our neighborhood the scariest in New Orleans this Halloween.

Also, making this post slightly food-worthy… I saved the pumpkin seeds, which still needs to be toasted.

Although our neighbor’s pumpkin was an original, I still want to give the credit for the Stewie Griffin pumpkin to this GameSpot page and the credit for the Cheshire Cat pumpkin to Cinquain. I found both through a google image search.

Oct 27, 2009 correction: Credit for the Cheshire Cats pumpkin was originally given to Band of Cats. This has been corrected since the credit should go to Cinquain.