In September, Funtober was selected as Philadelphia Startup Digest‘s first Startup of the Week. As part of that honor, I’ll be the first entrepreneur at the weekly Meet the Founders series they are cosponsoring with Benjamin’s Desk, a shared office and coworking space in Philadelphia. So, if you would like to meet me and learn […]
Author Archives: Mr. Funtober
I owe a big thank you to a number of people that made Funtober possible this year. Sarah Ehman, Kris DeGraeve and Megan Applegate shared some fantastic craft tutorials and recipes on the Funtober blog. It would have been a pretty quiet blog without them. The costume store couldn’t have happened without my parents. They […]
It’s October 31st! If you are on the East Coast, your attention over the past few days has understandably been on Hurricane Sandy. It’s impact on Halloween this year has been tremendous, causing many cities in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York (NYC postponed the Halloween Parade), Pennsylvania and West Virginia (snow) to delay or […]
My last Saturday in October started with a trip to the grocery store. Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is bearing down on the East Coast and it pays to be prepared. So I’m now the proud owner of 30 bottles of water. It eerily reminds me of last year, when a nor’easter deposited snow for Halloween […]
With Halloween parties starting next weekend, there’s been a lot of coverage recently from retailers, search engines and reporters on the most popular Halloween costumes for 2013. It seems like everyone wants to weigh in on what you should be for Halloween. I’ve been asked a few times what trends I’m seeing. It’s still a […]
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There’s two weeks until Halloween party season kicks into high gear. So I spent yesterday building massive lists of links to recipes for pumpkin drinks and Halloween cocktails. But what good are drinks without delicious food? I happened upon a collection of pumpkin recipes. Started organizing them into different categories. My research obsession kicked in. […]
I’ve seen a number of advertisements lately for costume contests. Hopefully, I’ll have the time to put together a monster list of costume contests in each geography next year. That’s part of my plans to list Halloween parties in the nation’s largest cities on Funtober. In the meantime, I’ve put together the following list of […]
Let me make a quick plea to you right now. There’s three weeks left until Halloween 2012. Take a few hours out of your day and decide what costume you are going to wear. If you do not spend the time now to figure out what you want to be when you grow dress up, […]
Sadly, the last litre of beer was served at Oktoberfest 2012 in Munich yesterday. Over the course of the celebration, 6.4 million people consumed 6.9 million litres of beer. But that doesn’t mean that the fun has to end. There are still a number of beer festivals to enjoy in October. Yesterday, I took advantage […]
I ran around town to do a few errands this morning and it was obvious that it is October and Halloween is quickly approaching. The first stop was CVS – where there was an entire aisle of Halloween candy. My local pet store, Doggie Style, was ready for Halloween as well. They had dog costumes […]