Remember my last Halloween Countdown post, Vincent Speaks!, where I referenced the wonderful Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit? Well, this Monday Boing Boing posted a pic of one for sale at a Brooklyn flea market. Check out the bonus link:
"Imagine little kids back then sitting on Santa's lap at the mall, innocently asking for Vincent Price's Shrunken Head for Christmas. I dunno, it probably came cheap enough, but I don't think any mothers would get full of Yule tide cheer sticking that thing under the tree. 'Well honey, looks like Santa brought you just what you asked for. A tricycle, army men, and the means to forge a shrunken head without learning the ancient art of voodoo.' "
I'm thinking I should add this to the annual Xmas List.
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For some reason, this puts me in mind of the biggest souvenir I brought back from the big family cross-country trip in 1967, which included, of course, Disneyland. Not only did I NOT purchase a pair of mouse ears (that would have to wait until I actually moved to CA and took my second trip to the Magic Kingdom) in favor of an ostrich-feather bedecked straw hat, but I spent most of my souvenir allowance on a plaster glow-in-the-dark skull with long, straight, black hair flowing from it. It had a loop--it was meant to be hung.
I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It only occurs to me now that my parents might have had a different opinion of it.
And where is this (incredibly cool-sounding and probably lust-worthy) plaster glow-in-the-dark skull now and why isn't it being stored in a safe Skull Depository in, oh, I dunno, Richmond, VA?
Parents just don't understand, but I do!
Oh, I think it probably went the way of my old 16 and Seventeen magazines... into the trash. I know it seems that nothing that comes into that house goes out of it, but...
It could be in the attic (an ungodly mess, as you may imagine!), in which case I'll come across it someday. And If I do, it is yours!
Thanks for the heads-up, Rev., on the Mongo books. My dream, should I live long enough, is to eventually look like a bald Vincent Price.
@The Cathster: Oh, it'll be there; I just know it! Magazines are one thing but glow-in-the-dark skulls are something else entirely!
@Wayne: That image haunts me. And, apparently, I'm beginning to look more and more like Ozzie Osbourne.
Cathy, was your hat sort of shaped like a triangle?? If so, I got an orange one at the Cal Expo way back when! An orange trianglular hat covered in little orange feathers...little girl heaven! :-D
Gosh-o-gosh I wish that I had my old Seventeen magazines! :-(
No, Capcom, but I think I recall the hat you're talking about. Mine was a big broad-brimmed white straw hat with fucshia bows and ostrich feathers. Very ostentatious!
And I hear you on the Seventeens. I actually found the August '67 issue on ebay, but it isn't enough. I want ALL that I lost! Wah!
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