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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...photograph, preferably from a three-quarter angle, because the shadows are better. Reduce it to a pure black and white copy by repeatedly increasing the contrast on a photocopier, outlining the dark areas that are going to be uncarved, making sure they all connect to the outside of the pumpkin...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...Pumpkin carving instructions...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

Duct tape the pattern to the cleaned and hollowed pumpkin—it’s best to scrape the pumpkin walls down to a width of about three-quarters of an inch...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

Transfer the pattern onto the pumpkin by punching along the lines of the cut out areas with a nail, golf tee, awl, or commercial pumpkin tool. Remove the tool, and if the outline is hard to see, rub flour into the punch holes, or outline with a waterproof...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into a large fruit in his back yard. (I say “large fruit” because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven off the fringes of his party; on the contrary, they made him chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Hollywood Hypocrisy vs. Neo-Liberal Neurosis | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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