IT HAS BEGUN
You may be having trouble forgetting this image, which I posted here a few weeks ago.
You may also recall that shortly after posting it, I put out a call to knitters to make me a handful of these balaclavas. My intention was to recreate the shot, only with considerably more alcohol.
Well, we achieved that goal on Saturday night.
If that were the end of this story, I think we’d all be feeling a tremendous amount of satisfaction right about now.
But there is more. Much, much more.
When I put out the call to knitters, I got many more responses than I imagined. After the first 6 or so, I was going to start declining your generous offers. But I started to see a lot of comments here and on Facebook from people saying they would buy these things, and I decided to just get as many as you wanted to make.
So now I have a terrifying collection of these things sitting on my dining room table, and starting tomorrow, they are all going up on Ebay.
HALLOWEEN COSTUME DILEMMA: SOLVED.
Imagine showing up with three of your friends, dressed exactly like the photo above. With a pie.
Or, if you’re like me and have no friends, you can just buy one of these things and go to any party, even if you weren’t invited!
Every balaclava will come with extra special bonus gifts, including an amazing custom T-shirt that I can’t tell you about yet so just stop asking because you’re giving mommy a headache.
WHO BENEFITS FROM THESE AUCTIONS?
This is Aidan.
Aidan loves monsters. And masks.
Aidan is fighting Leukemia. All proceeds from these masks will go directly to Aidan’s family, and will help offset the cost of his chemo treatments.
Because people tend to be very generous when bidding on our charity auctions, the things we sell often go way out of range for a lot of you. And that can be frustrating, because you’re all pretty amazing people, and you generally want to help in any way you can.
So if you click on the link below, you will be taken to a Paypal page for Aidan, and you can contribute a few dollars directly to his family.
We’ve also created a special section in our Zazzle store for Aidan, featuring his artwork on a variety of products.
You can learn more about Aidan and his family at their web site.
Please join us for the fuckery tomorrow, when we go live with the auctions, and help us spread the word.
UPDATE: I forgot about Aidan’s Etsy store! Click here to see his artwork for sale.
October 18, 2010 at 10:10 am
Scary masks, pie sodomy, family photos, fuckery, yes. But no drinking milk out of the carton!
October 18, 2010 at 10:13 am
Nice work… on the pie, too.
(BTW, I’ll be in LA this weekend!)
October 18, 2010 at 10:29 am
What a precious & talented little boy.
Let’s all do the monstermash to help stomp out the Lword.
October 18, 2010 at 10:31 am
Anyone else feel itchy?
Also, I’m getting an error clicking on the zazzle store link.
October 18, 2010 at 10:32 am
Are you auctioning off the used, snotty, sweaty ones? Does that make the starting bid a little higher?
October 18, 2010 at 10:51 am
Their etsy shop has been posted on my facebook page, and I really want the vampire.
Aidan’s artwork rocks!
October 18, 2010 at 10:53 am
AAAAHHH I love Regretsy so freaking much. It’s like you crawled inside my brain and synthesized exactly what I love and produced this site!!
October 18, 2010 at 10:56 am
With great masks come great responsibility. I hope you drank that entire half gallon in 30 minutes or less.
October 18, 2010 at 11:23 am
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October 18, 2010 at 11:33 am
Thank fuck for the creepy shit because that kept me from… you know, getting something in my eye after reading all that.
October 18, 2010 at 11:44 am
I just bought some of his art- but the new Etsy checkout is NOT WORKING. of course.
October 18, 2010 at 11:47 am
You are amazing.
October 18, 2010 at 11:50 am
The stegosaurus is MINE, bitches!
Actually, its going to my 21 year old daughter who is away at college. When she was 11 years old, we had a cancer scare. For ten days, we lived in fear and worry while trying to keep everything happy and light for her. We got lucky as the lump they surgically removed from her back was nothing more than a cyst and it has never come back. So, I understand only a miniscule part of what the family goes through and hopefully, my small contribution from buying the drawing will help. And my daughter told him (via text message when I told her): “Keep on rocking the art!” (she’s going to art college).
January 28, 2012 at 6:02 pm
I thought it was a Gorn.
ps. glad it was only a cyst.
October 18, 2010 at 12:05 pm
i work outside. in the winter. occasionally there are children in my general vicinity. i’m not the biggest fan of some children, and my face often gets very, very cold. i see nothing but win in this situation.
October 18, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I messaged the Etsy page. I’m hoping they’ll print another one of the “Scream” pictures.
It’s totally not my art style; but it’ll totally rock a little plaque that’ll read “Aiden; 5 Years Old; Leukemia Survivor”
October 18, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Is Aiden going to draw his rendition of the masks? Because that would be so epically awesome.
October 18, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I have a nephew with the same name- what a CUTIE.
I just posted a link on FB on my wall- hope this helps his cause in some small way.
Also, that reinactment is much better than any of those Civil War ones…the pie makes it epic.
October 18, 2010 at 1:05 pm
as always, this is the type of fuckery i can really get behind! Let’s raise some funds for Aidan and kick Leukemia’s ass!
October 18, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Oh regretsy! You make it so easy for me to love you.
October 18, 2010 at 1:43 pm
You know, this is the kind of stuff that warms my cockles.
October 18, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I have linked to this on my Facebook wall. I hope that helps a little.
Thank you so much for doing stuff like this.
October 18, 2010 at 1:57 pm
yah! they restocked so I was able to get a third- now the vampire is mine too!
October 18, 2010 at 2:03 pm
*wipes eyes* Yeah, I’m buying a picture. *wipes eyes again*
October 18, 2010 at 2:19 pm
His store is awesome. I’m loving Purple Monster No1 but the SpongeBob cast is pretty good too. Decisions, decisions.
Why does his hair look exactly like the hair on the clown mask? Clowns are scary.
October 18, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Yay! Helen, are you going to tag them with the Whimsicle tags I sent you? I would be so honored if you did.
October 18, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Hahaha! I am now the owner of a copy of “Scream”! I intend on putting this by my front door. A daily reminder that I have it easy – and thus I should be greatly thankful.
October 18, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Also, if you see something that you like, but isn’t for sale, write the store; they’ll make a special posting just for you… they did for me.
October 18, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Yeah, I’m not even a little freaked out by those balaclavas, and I won’t have nightmares about them.
October 18, 2010 at 3:28 pm
What a great auction! I will contribute to Aidan and hope to duplicate masks in crochet.
October 18, 2010 at 3:55 pm
ME WANT BACLAVA – I mean the liquor stores won’t rob themselves…
October 18, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Oh, Helen…once again you’ve made me go a big rubbery one…
October 18, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Poor kid. I have a Aidan too. Breaks my heart to see kids in the hospital.
October 18, 2010 at 6:45 pm
aw goddammit Regretsy, why’d you have to go and let me see Aidan’s sweet face? GODDAMMIT. now i love him and will do whatever i can to keep him out of the clown’s house.
October 18, 2010 at 7:00 pm
that pie looks shopped
October 18, 2010 at 7:54 pm
As winter approaches as well as the snow, I am *really* hoping to snag a balaclava to shovel in. Since we are new in the neighborhood, I think it will most helpful
October 18, 2010 at 9:40 pm
i am a card-carrying clown-o-phobe.
somehow, aidan knows exactly what they look like in my head.
it’s really uncanny.
will purchase the stegosaurus if somebody *ahem. i’m looking at you, patty got abducted* hasn’t beaten me to it…
October 18, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Man, look at that awesome kid. LOOK at him. So cool. I wish I’d been that cool at the age of 5. I wish I were that cool NOW.
I love the “crazy guy” picture. Keep up the awesome work, Aidan!
October 19, 2010 at 12:13 am
I’m so lame. I can’t find the auction on ebay.
October 19, 2010 at 12:46 am
I just bought the vampire and frankenstein! they’re such cool drawings, i can’t wait to put them up!
What a rad kid.
October 19, 2010 at 2:41 am
Kittykatt, don’t worry I don’t think the ebay auction has started yet.
HK is just teasing us, getting us all hot and bothered with anticipation.
October 19, 2010 at 5:40 am
So, you’ve seen the horror of those balaclavas – NOW WITNESS THE ULTIMATE BALACLAVA HORROR: http://poppalina.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/armed_robbery_f.html
October 19, 2010 at 5:41 am
**Pattern is included with the ultimate horror….
October 19, 2010 at 7:59 am
Wow mousey house wife…the clown one was really creepy.