Halloween often is better than those December holidays for nerds and geeks. It’s wicked fun and a source of pride to design a costume with precise measurements and structural integrity, something that will hold up all night and stand out in a sea of Balloon Boy and Slutty Nun clones. Plus, it’s the one time some of us get to pretend to be Buffy, so that’s cool too.

That’s why I feel no qualms about posting this piece of awesomeness, even though we’re a half-month past Halloween:

Your eyes are not deceiving you — that absolutely IS a furry tauntaun with a mounted Luke — and it moves via stilts! This Scott Holden guy used plaster, wire, foam and more in his masterpiece, and honestly, it looks good enough to slice open and warm yourself in.Visit cockeyed.com for his story on how he built the creature, as well as this lovely tidbit:

He literally almost had to spend the night trapped inside the tauntaun’s body!

Thanks to geekology.com for the heads-up on this find, which should be inspiration for all of us next October.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL  THE NERDBASTARDS OUT THERE! BEWARE TRICK OR TREATING! THE TRICK WITH APPLE WITH THE RAZOR BLADE IN IT MAY SHOW YOU “HOW HE GOT THOSE SCARS”

Fully licensed Star Wars Yoda Costume for….Your dog? Pretty cool, now can you get him to laugh like him? That would fully capture the essence of your geeky pup’s favorite (or yours) SW character. BuyCostumes.com also has Doggy Leia, and for your Evil, Tyranical, Sith Lab, the Darth Vader outfit!

Cool cool. Now if only they made full sized Stormtrooper or Vader outfits for us that were as affordable as these. 16.99? “What a bargain!” (Eddie Murphy’s stereotypical asian food owner voice)

Somewhere in the middle of Cleveland, OH there is a small family who decided it would be fantastic to invite the Autobots to come over for dinner. Actually, the family decided to create a Halloween display of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime and proudly display them on their front lawn. Bumblebee took 2 months to build and stands 12 feet tall and Prime took 6 months to build and stands 17 feet tall. They are made out of wood and foam. I want them on my front lawn! Check out some close up pics after the jump…

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HAIL TO THE KING, BABY!

Here Is a little photo gallery to boost that Martha Stewart in you. Let the carving begin.

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October is almost here and that means, come October 31, which we all know so well as Halloween, skanky females will be trotting around wearing as little clothing as possible and having almost every nook and cranny of their body accentuated. So, to all you women out there, here is my list of the Top 10 Sexy Costumes I think you should wear in order to help my nerdy-self feel as though you are showing off just for me.

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AOL has reported that “The Final Destination” has earned a totally unexpected (to me) a decent 28.3 Million this weekend. It was a shocker to me anyway with the unexpected success of Rob Zombie with Halloween in 2007, and the follow up of his sequel, Halloween 2, this week. So in a one on one competition I would have expected the stronger “Halloween” to have bested the wavering “Final Destination” franchise.  But to my surprise and dismay, (I was rooting for my homeboy, Zombie) it came in 3rd right behind “Inglourious Basterds”. AOL also said;

Weinstein also had the No. 3 slot with the horror flick “Halloween II,” which opened with $17.4 million. The movie is Rob Zombie’s sequel to his update of the slasher franchise about crazed killer Michael Myers.

It’s unusual for two horror movies to open over the same weekend. While “Final Destination” and “Halloween II” competed for the same audience, both managed solid receipts.

“They got their $17 million, we got our $28 million. That’s a lot of business all around,” said Jeff Goldstein, general sales manager for Warner Bros.

What are you gonna do?  Be happy, TRUE BLOOD AND ITS SEASON FINALE ARE ON NOW AND THIS WEEK!!!!

Is there a scene in a movie you can’t watch? A scene that is so blatantly disturbing that it comes back and haunts you. Maybe not in your dreams, but something that even during your waking hours you slip back to and get bothered by. If you really think too long and hard on those scenes you can discern that while yes, it isn’t really happening, you have that graphic visage burned like a brand onto your brain.

Your thoughts twirl and come and go like smoke, and no matter how hard you try, no matter what if anybody even brings it up you feel as if the best solution would be corking your ears and screaming “La la la!!!”.

My number one slot is something that has bothered me for ten years now and I don’t even want to write it. I don’t want to rethink about it while committing it to screen. Yes, it ain’t real, but it certainly left its scent on you, and regardless of scrubbing, you won’t get it’s filth out of your mind. That either means the film is EXCELLENT or absolutely TERRIBLE.

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