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(The following is information about next month's breast cancer fundraising event, Haunters for Hooters, which will be taking place at Midwest Haunters Convention in Columbus, OH! )
HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS UPDATE -MAY 22nd 2008-
Haunters for Hooters has some very exciting news! Lola Davidson, who appeared on "SEARCH FOR THE NEXT ELVIRA" has agreed to donate her dress she wore on the show! This item will be one of the SPECIAL raffle items with money going to Kathryn DeSautell. Another raffle item will be an ORIGINAL GRANDPA MUNSTER DOLL from 1964, signed by Al in Gold. This item was given to Jen Sharlow when she was Al Lewis' personal assistant.
We have also received a GREAT item from Ernie Hudson from "The Ghostbusters". Not only did he send a signed photo, he has donated a signed "GHOSTBUSTERS #1 COMIC" in mint condition!
Camden Toy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel will be donating autographs as well as the beautiful Pat Priest AKA Marilyn Munster! Dee Snider will also be sending some KILLER things our way!
Tom Straub has created a BEAUTIFUL art print of Nancy Allen, AKA Elmyra the Hearse Chic. These prints will be available at the Haunters for Hooters Booth at Midwest Haunters Convention in 11x14.
Silent Auction Donations are Rolling in by the Coffin load, but we still need Monetary Donations. Please go to http://www.hauntersforhooters.com to donate!
Also...Natural Charm has introduced a new line of jewelry to its product line...the Nancy Collection! 100% of all proceeds from this line will go directly to Haunters for Hooters!
http://www.naturalcharm.com/awareness_nancy.html
HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS
OFFICIAL RELEASE
-MAY 2008-
The Haunted Attraction Industry joins the fight against breast cancer. Some of the most prominent names that make “Scary” their business are pulling every skeleton out of the ground to raise money for Nancy Allen, a fellow Haunter/previous Haunt Owner/current Castle Blood cast member. Allen, who is also known as “Elmyra, the Hearse Chic”, was misdiagnosed in August 2007 with doctors stating “only a cyst”. On December 25th, Allen was diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer, causing her to have one breast removed with no insurance. The Official Drive, “Haunters for Hooters”, will take place at Midwest Haunters Convention in Columbus, Ohio June 13-15th. Included in the sponsor list are BIG names like Midnight Syndicate Films and Soundtracks, IAHA, Haunted Attraction Magazine, Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, The Ghoulish Gallery, Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, Pat Priest from “The Munsters” and Camden Toy from “Angel" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer” just to name a few. More information will be available on the Haunters for Hooters website www.hauntersforhooters.com , hosted by Sinister Visions, the premier web designer for the Haunted Attraction Industry. HAUNTERS FOR HOOTER EVENTS AT MIDWEST HAUNTERS CONVENTION INCLUDE: *FRIDAY, JUNE 13th 2008: Friday Night Party Fundraiser with walk through inflatable Haunted House, sponsored by Bad Boys Scenic Design and Midnight Syndicate. *SATURDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2008: HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS BOOTH. Selling T-shirts and Haunters for Hooters memorabilia AND Appearance by the “Hooters Girls”. -ALSO- *SATURDAY, JUNE 14th,2008: Raffle tickets will be sold to yet to be announced Movie Items. 100% of Raffle tickets profits will go to Kathryn Dessault of Lafitte’s Landing. Kathyrn, a Haunt owner from Texas, will receive 100% of the profits. *SUNDAY, JUNE 15th, 2008: HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS BOOTH AND SILENT AUCTION. Auction will take place from 10am-12pm. *HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS IS A NON-PROFIT FUNDRAISER WITH 100% OF PROFITS GOING TO BRAVE BREAST CANCER FIGHTERS NANCY ALLEN AND KATHYRN DESSAULT. FOR MORE INFORMATION: CONTACT Jen Sharlow 651-592-1585/hauntersforhooters@yahoo.com
MIDWEST HAUNTERS CONVENTION: www.midwesthauntersconvention.com
HAUNTERS FOR HOOTERS: www.hauntersforhooters.com
Tags: Nancy Elmyra Breast Cancer Hearse Haunter
 Cody Reuwsaat was a great many things. He was a Castle Blood cast member; he was a graduate of Tom Savini's Special Make-Up Effects Program; he was an incredibly talented sculptor with a wicked sense of humour (as evidenced by his sculpt of his son as a dead baby). He was a member of the Portland area bicycling group ZooBomb. He had a brother, Jarad; his parents were Tina and Tim Reuwsaat, of Darkwing Manor - better known as the Baron and Baroness from varied Halloween-related online communities. Attendees of events such as TransWorld could hardly have failed to notice Cody - he was over six feet tall with gorgeous long brown hair - but his shy sweet nature was often disguised (in more than one way!) by his choice in often-intense costuming. He was a regular on the trade show floor for years, and yet I am like most people - I didn't really know him. I was too shy, he was too somehow remote and intimidating because he was so very talented and (perhaps as a result) so very guarded. But I was lucky, in that I was able to know him a little. Though I'd met him at TransWorld, and we had several mutual friends, I can't say I started to know him until I joined th cast of Castle Blood, where he looked a little like this: 
cody - mbw 2007
Cody was an amazing haunter. I saw him work as a guide, rather than a scare actor (though his work as a scare actor is legendary at the Castle!) - as a guide, he had the ability to analyze the timing of the show and improvise in ways that I've seen very few others manage. He had helped create much of the maze, and his brain worked quickly enough to be able to give each group the absolute best tour he was capable of providing. Sometimes his improv could be a little hard to keep up with (!), but I never saw him not do the best he could at any given moment.
Cody moved to the west coast a few years ago. The next step in my 'getting to know Cody' involved me tearing down a scene he'd constructed. I can't claim to have said very many kind things about him at that time - mostly, I think I was heard muttering, "Someone needs to fly his butt out here and have HIM tear this stuff down!" :) He built things very well indeed. I developed a grudging respect for his construction skills and his creativity with foam!
I believe the last time I saw him at the Castle was while he was in town to visit, and I was finally able to see Cody out of make-up and character. The man sitting in Ricky's living room was sweet and gentle, quiet and a little homesick. At some point during his visit, he ended up out in the Castle where I was working on some small project. We smiled at each other, and I offered him my tools. "Come on...you know you want to go work on something..." He laughed, and I could see he wanted to say yes - (haunter!) - but he did manage to resist. Barely.
Looking back, I wish he hadn't. I wish I could claim the experience of having worked side by side with him on the haunt he loved so much.
He may always be one of the people in haunting I hold as a personal
standard of quality...though I'll never come close to being on his
level.
It is impossible that he won't be in Vegas in a few weeks. I keep waiting for Ricky to call and tell me some new completely ridiculous Cody story. It seems absolutely perfect to me that, two weeks ago, he was making plans for TransWorld, talking to Kevin about future projects, helping develop plans for Portland's haunted attraction Fright Town (he was instrumental in the haunt known as "House of Shadows"), and that February 25th was spent participating in a ZooBomb bike ride.
Cody passed away in his sleep from smoke inhalation in a house fire started by a smouldering cigarette on the first floor of the house he shared with two housemates at roughly 11:30PM. His was the only fatality.
He touched so many lives, so many communities...I truly hope he knows how much he was loved.
Rest well, dear prince. Robert Cody Reuwsaat: March 6, 1979 - February 25, 2008
Articles:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/02/courtesy_of_wwwzoobombnetcory.html#more
http://simmantics.blogspot.com/2008/02/cody-reuwsaat-1980-2008.html
My computer, overrun by spyware and viruses, became little more than a glorified paperweight several months ago. This past weekend, I cajoled a friend into taking it home and trying to bring the machine back to life. Tonight, Rich set it up on his dining room table and started working. As he took the side of the case off, his youngest son (Cameron, 5 years old) wandered into the room and stopped to watch. "Whose computer is that?" Cameron asked. Rich replied, "Aunt Dusti's." Cameron looked inside the computer's case for a minute. "Why is it so dusty?" Rich smiled and said "Because it's Aunt Dusti's computer." "Oh! Ok, that makes sense." Then he looked inside again and asked, "Why is there a spider web inside?" Without missing a beat, Rich answered, "Because, knowing Aunt Dusti, she probably put it in there. She likes spider webs." *d'oh*!!! 
Midnight Monster Hop LIVE showings at Conventions this spring and summer! * We're pleased to announce that Midnight Monster Hop will be officially part of the fun at Cinema Wasteland in 2 weeks (March 30-April 1)! Come to the Horror Host Underground area to met Professor Scrye and Madam Spooky. They'll have our new dvd's , T-shirts, and other MMH goodies to tempt you with. plus some freebies as well. Please visit Cinema Wasteland at http://www.cinemawasteland.com/show.html * Friday May 25th at Midnight, Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention, will host a special screening of Midnight Monster Hop episode 7 Revolt of the Zombies Cast members will be on hand to greet the crowd. DVD's T-shirts and other goodies from the show will be available for sale. This event is free with your regular convention membership. And all who come see the event will receive a special little premium from the show For more info about Balticon, please visit http://www.balticon.org * Friday July 13th, yup Friday the 13th at Midnight The Midwest Haunters Convention will host a special screening of Midnight Monster Hop. Movie still to be decided. Cast members will be on hand to greet the crowd. Dvd's T-shirts and other goodies from the show will be available for purchase. This is a free event to convention goers, and all who come see the event will receive a special little premium from the show For more info please visit http://midwesthauntersconvention.com 
And here's my most recent I-Was-Busted-By-Airport-Security story. I'm in line at the airport with a friend, hoping our flight out of Chicago isn't cancelled. Bored, she reads a sign on the counter aloud. "Do not joke about having unapproved things in your luggage. You WILL be taken seriously." She glances over at me and wonders aloud about people that would joke about having explosives in their luggage. I, on the other hand, have to try to not giggle, because the sign sorta makes me want to tempt Fate. And, lo! The brat god Loki perks up his ears, says, 'Oh, really...?', and rubs his hands together gleefully. Earlier, someone had given me a gift at TransWorld for my boss. Not thinking, I had dropped it into my obnoxious green pilot case and not bothered to check my luggage because - hey - I don't have anything in there that the TSA has said you can't have in your carry-on luggage. My friend is craving a cigarette, and so we agree to meet up later at our boarding gate, and I move on ahead to go through security. "SHOES!" a security guard bellows at me. "Oops! Sorry!" I drop them onto the conveyor belt, walk through the metal detector thingla, and stand next to the belt hoping my flight's not too badly delayed. And then I hear it. "Is that a....HEAD???" Uh-oh... "Ma'am! Is THIS your suitcase?" "Yup." "Is there a HEAD in your suitcase?" "Yes." "Is it REAL???" The female security guard looking at the scanner is freaking the heck out. I am too busy censoring my reactions to reply at first. One gentleman calmly asks, "Is it made of metal?" "Um. I'm really not sure. It's a prop." Several guards pull the suitcase off to the side and open it. And there, nestled amidst catalogs, magazines, and black satin is the item in question: a rather grisly, juicy-looking decapitated head. "C'mon," I laugh. "You know this is the high point of your day." A Kodak moment, if there ever was one. One fellow pulls a water bottle out from under the magazines. "You can't bring this into the airport." "Oh, geez! I forgot that was in there. I'm sorry." The guards are still staring at the head. "It's a gift for my boss," I explain. "It's your BOSS?!??!" Miss Hysterical Guard looks like she's going to pass out. "No no no..it's a gift. I was at TransWorld, the Halloween convention at the Rosemont. Ya know..happens every year..?" The guard that had asked what the head was made of nods. Everyone else is still wigging the frig out. One guard starts to close my suitcase, then stops and looks at a guard that has just shown up to witness the freak show. "Dude, this is, like, my uncle's head," he improvises, and slowly reveals the head. "So it's NOT real?" I'm asked again. "Is it wet? What is it made of? What's it for?" "It's for a haunted house. It's latex, I think." Someone mumbles another question about what it's made of, and I lose control of my speech filter - not to mention my sanity and my memory of the sign saying Taunt Not Security - for a second. "Do you want to LICK my skull?" (No, I have no idea why I said that.) (But if that's not proof that I should not speak in public AND that I need a nanny? I don't know what is.) As one, the guards all stare at me. They carefully zip my suitcase shut. I reach over and pull the suitcase over to me. No one protests or has any other questions. ...Actually, the silence was kinda deafening as I walked away. Go figure. So. Um. Yeah. Bottles of water in your carry-on luggage? Bad. Decapitated heads? Ok. 
How to Hang Camo Netting Need to create the illusion of a ceiling? Camo netting may be the answer to your pseudo-ceiling needs! Let's pretend you already have some of this lovely faux plant stuff, and you have, say, a hallway in an outdoor maze to hang it over. You will need: * camo * an industrial strength stapler * a box of staples * a bag of cable ties * a ladder * alcohol 1. Carry camo netting container to the area you plan to cover. 2. Release the camo from its container. 3. Attempt to untangle the camo from itself. 4. Curse a lot. 5. An hour later, finish stretching the camo out along the path of the area you wish to cover. 6. Lift end of camo up to the top of the wall with the aid of the ladder and, using the stapler, fasten an edge of the camo to the wall. 7. Stretch the camo to the other side of the hallway. Staple the camo to that wall. 8. Start to pull the camo along the tops of the walls, stapling as you go. 9. Drop your stapler. 10. Curse. 11. Go get your stapler and start working again. 12. Drop your box of staples. 13. Curse. 14. Pick up the staples, move the ladder while you're down there, and start to work on a new section of camo. (Extra points if you put the ladder on top of the camo.) 15. Realize you've left the stapler at your last work location. 16. Curse. 17. Go get your stapler. Hug the camo netting to your chest and climb back up the ladder, moving the camo further down the hallway. 18. Discover, as you're stapling, that the camo is somehow working its way diagonally down the hall instead of straight across as you'd planned. 19. Keep working anyway. 20. Realize your arms are starting to itch from bare-skin contact with the camo. 21. Keep working anyway. 22. Staple through a power line, speaker cable or airhose that was running along the top of the wall and cleverly hidden by the camo. (Extra points if you staple through all three at once.) 23. Curse loudly and with much vigor. 24. Fix the holes in whatever the hell you just stapled through. Keep working. (Extra points if you manage to fall off or slide down the ladder at any point during this adventure.) 25. Reach the end of the hallway. Climb down off your ladder. Look up. 26. Discover that, because the camo went off on a funky angle, you have a huge section of hall with no camo covering it. 27. Contemplate redoing the hallway. 28. Curse. 29. Begin to strongly suspect that the camo is actually a sentient being. That hates you. A lot. 30. Go find a scrap of camo. Using the ladder, staple gun, and LOTS of cable ties, connect the scrap of camo to the full sheet to hide the hole. 31. Drink the alcohol, scratch your arms, go take a shower. Rinse, repeat. Welcome to haunting!
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