Gothic Home Maker

I love Halloween, but I really can't stand carving pumpkins. It's smelly and squishy and makes your pumpkins rot so much faster. Then putting a candle in one? That's a little big of nausea for someone who can't stand the smell anyway. So in recent years I've bought a pumpkin and put it on my porch au naturale with a few candles around it.

For this year, I'd like to do something with my pumpkin beyond sitting it unadorned outside, and luckily I've found some lovely ideas that will work great.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that local amusement park King's Island dropped its Halloween homage to recently deceased celebrities. Included in the display were a skeleton dressed like Michael Jackson (surrounded by empty pill bottles) and one dressed like Sonny Bono (tied to a tree wearing skis.)

Is this distasteful? Sure. Might it offend people? Obviously since they pulled the display because of the controversy. But King's Island turns its park into a huge haunted house style attraction during the Halloween season, and that display was not only in the Halloween spirit, but it has been done hundreds of times before with so many other celebrities. I'd be surprised to not see the like in a haunted house.