A quick way to become a chicken for Halloween involves orange leggings and flip flops, a really big sweat shirt (at least double your size) and lots of white and yellow feathered boas. Glue the boas to the sweatshirt using the white boas on the...

For scars and sores: Combine pink or green face tissue with corn syrup. For facial hair: Use the hair from an old stuffed toy or hairbrush and attach with double stick tape or fake eyelash adhesive. For blood: Combine red food color and corn...

For poultry and meat prep and food safety:*U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat and Poultry Hotline:1-888-674-6854 or www.fsis.usda.gov . Food-safety specialists answer calls 10am-4pm weekdays year-round--except Thanksgiving day, when hours are...

I'm home--a day late from the boyfriend's (where I had NO Interwebz) and leaving again a day early (back to where I haz no Interwebz) staying there a day, then heading to DaishoCon, an anime convention in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. (Who may or may not...