Mike Craghead

Pumpkin carving: Four Eyes, One Mullet

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Same

This was a weird-shaped white pumpkin that already had a distinct "face," so I couldn't resist plucking it from the patch! I was tempted to go with making a character with a giant brain, but instead I thought about other folks with extra cranial burdens and landed on Medusa.
(Music by Melodus).

Hepa-what?

A very frightened pumpkin guy: wide-eyed, biting his lip

Cyclops with one fang and one horn

Bearded, mulletted zombie

I made 3 friends tonight

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Troll pumpkin with a mullet. He’s got one big fang and one big tusk

Extra-smiley pumpkin face with one eye closed and too many corneas on the other one

Troll face, showing “hair” made of pumpkin skin, and warts.

Smiley guy’s closed eye. And warts.

A couple weirdos who showed up in my living room tonight

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Hey right on cool thanks

Pumpkins prevail “I love pumpkins because they’re objectively cool. Each new carving is an opportunity to tell a story or a joke. Each pumpkin is a new challenge, and Halloween is the best excuse for all this…

Sometimes it’s a slow enough news day that journalists resort to talking about weirdos like me.
Thanks to Heather Shelton and the Times-Standard for doing that!

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Additional, either good or bad news: MS will still update for one more year for free if you opt in. That’s good news right? No, maybe not. Or maybe?

Same

I opened for Fart Rapture in 1997

Eyeball guy, with eyeball cat.

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Skeleton in a hoodie, with a balloon...

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I’m opening for Meat Cybertruck at SXSW ‘26

Redwood pumpkins: Extra Eye, Not Sure Why" (~4") plus a little smiley dude (~2.5").
Both extracted from a very old fence post.

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For historical context, here's my "Extra Eye" (pumpkin version) from 2018: youtu.be/Wt0Du-OQEIk?...

Comfy as Fuck is hereby the name of my next album. Or memoir? Tattoo?

Two pumpkin-headed guys in skeleton costumes.
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I don't want to alarm anyone, but these two sinister pumpkin guys were lurking inside some old redwood fence posts. Proceed with caution!

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Based on preliminary testing I'm starting to believe that wooden pumpkins might last longer than real ones. Big if true!

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Noted, thanks

Plus, none of the people claiming to be famous authors that I’ve slept with who promised to blurb my book have done it yet

VISIT WEIRDO PUMPKIN CARVER Mike Craghead OCTOBER 2025 As seen on TV: Halloween Wars, SEASONS 7 & 14, FOOD NETWORK & HBOMAX Oct. 4: Fortuna Apple Harvest Festival 10 to 4 p.m., 9 Park St., Fortuna, CA Oct. 5: Organic Matters Ranch – with Special guest weirdo ALAN SILVA 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6821 Myrtle Avenue Oct. 11: Sequoia Park Zoo’s OctoBEARfest 4 to 7 p.m., 3414 W St., Eureka. Oct. 12: Eureka Natural Foods, McKinleyville 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 2165 Central Ave, McKinleyville Oct. 18: Organic Matters Ranch 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6821 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka Oct. 19: Eureka Natural Foods, Eureka 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1450 Broadway, Eureka Oct. 26: Sequoia Park Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo noon to 4 p.m., 3414 W St., Eureka. Visit mikecraghead.com for pumpkins and other silly things.

Join me this October as I weirdify pumpkins! Point and laugh! Throw things!

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LowArtHighCraft.com Low Art, High Craft and Exquisite Spatulas - Destroying the barriers that separate us from art and from each other, by Mike Craghead. Print, digital and audio formats available.

Don’t read this book, the author is a real jerk
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YouTube video by Mike Craghead Democracy, Leonard Cohen (1992) cover by Mike Craghead

From a simpler time… not sure I could sing this unironically at the moment

Halloween-themed wood carvings. Grumpy pumpkin faces, a skull guy holding a balloon, an eyeball guy walking an eyeball cat on a leash…

I’ve got some painting to do…

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In progress: two carved redwood pumpkins (almost done), one with big scary teeth and one that seems happy but… untrustworthy. They’ll get a little paint and join me at my pumpkin carving events this October!

On it ;)

Oh no thanks Todd!

Verse averse, versus vice versa