We just wanted to share Alex Aiono’s Halloween Song with you.

He’s a singer/songwriter/musician that is only 16 and talented beyond his years.

As Halloween nears, many families will gather around the old television set for the annual viewing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

In celebration of Peanuts®’ place in history and pop culture, Lionel Trains is offering a chance to win one of four Peanuts® Boxcars valued at $69.99 each. Between October 15 and November 22, a digital Scavenger Hunt will take place on www.lionelstore.com. To participate, just go to Lionelstore.com starting October 15 and begin the hunt! It might be Snoopy’s house, a carved pumpkin or Charlie’s infamously sad Christmas tree. Each week, participants in the promotion will receive exclusive coupon codes for product discounts, free domestic shipping or other promotions. By entering every week, participants can increase their chances for the final prize. The winner will be selected in a random drawing from all the weekly participants, and that lucky person will receive a Peanuts® Boxcar.

The winner will be announced on Lionel’s Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Lionel-LLC. See www.lionelstore.com for official sweepstakes rules.

CNN just launched a project called CNN Celebrates http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn-celebrates

They are going to celebrate a bunch of big events coming up this year and Halloween is first up! They are after photos and videos of the coolest, weirdest and spookiest Halloween costumes and decorations to showcase on CNN. They are using their user generated platform CNN iReport to do it so people can easily upload the best photos and videos they have taken: http://ireport.cnn.com/topics/856991

The best ones will be featured on CNN.com and some will be shown on TV as well.

It’s time to face the facts: the Zombie apocalypse is now and the undead are shambling among us. They’re gruesome, they’re hungry—and they’re bloody sexy with their brain-ravenous charm and a Keith Richards-like stagger.

For expert advice on how to cultivate the look, attitude and lifestyle of the undead, Zombie Eye for a Living Guy: Look Undead, Cook Undead. Dress Undead & Live Undead (Marion Street Press, October 2012) by J.M. Hewitt, with photos by Alexander Colby, explores the myth of the zombie sex appeal, investigating what makes these tattered, single-minded creatures so alluring. Written by an actual “zombie whisperer,” the book’s advice promises to release the average guy’s inner undead in one week, teaching him how to dress, groom, exercise, eat, date, decorate and shamble just like a real zombie. Acknowledging that one’s family may not understand the repulsive diet, tattered clothes or foul odors, these pointers contend that such sacrifices for popularity and seductiveness are all part of the program. Makeup tips, horrifically delicious recipes and practical lessons to be learned from zombie “life” all pair with striking photographs for an outrageous self-help guide just in time for Halloween.

Whether going through an experimental phase, blending in after the apocalypse or seeking out a killer Halloween costume, Zombie Eye for the Living Guy contains the essentials for acquiring that debonair, decomposing chic and mystique.

J.M. Hewitt has published short fiction featuring horror and fantasy themes in a host of online outlets, including The Harrow and Velvet Mafia. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Alexander Colby is a photographer, a writer, and an editor for popular media, lifestyle, technology, and culture publications. He is a contributor to Guyshop.com, Movieline.com, Penthouse magazine, NewYorkCool.com, and Fangoria magazine. He covers male interest subjects for leading men’s magazines and menswear for online retail distribution. He is also a hairdresser and makeup artist. He lives in Astoria, New York.

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Universal City, California, September 6, 2012—The artistry that transforms mere mortals into the most frightening creatures imaginable was revealed today at Universal Studios Hollywood, as extreme Hollywood horror make-up masterminds offered a sneak peek at this year’s bone-chilling “Halloween Horror Nights” event, which takes place on select nights from September 21 to October 31, 2012.

Extreme Hollywood horror make-up artist Larry Bones and his innovative special effects team partnered with “Halloween Horror Nights” Creative Director, John Murdy, to demonstrate how many highly dramatic, morbidly disturbing creatures will come to life during the event.

As the skilled professionals created the illusions of severed heads, oozing wounds and slashed throats, an additional team of experts showcased other effects employed to craft the many scare-actors featured throughout “Halloween Horror Nights.” Costume designers were on hand to distress and customize wardrobe, wig makers teased and twisted locks, and a graphic artist adeptly illustrated original “Halloween Horror Nights” concept art.

The extreme Hollywood horror make-up showcase helped set the stage for the September 21 launch of this year’s thrilling “Halloween Horror Nights” event. For more information and to purchase tickets, including options for Front of Line tickets that enables priority access at each maze and theme park attraction, and special Killer Deal Nights tickets to save up to $25, guests can visit www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/hhn. Advance purchase is recommended as event nights will sell out.

This year’s “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood brings together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in the living, breathing, three-dimensional world of the most notorious and terrifying creatures. Featuring a slate of unrivaled film production quality mazes, terror-filled Scare Zones and a new “Terror Tram” experience, uniquely themed to today’s most definitive horror properties, “Halloween Horror Nights” will taunt, terrorize and torment guests with incomparable spellbinding and spine-chilling haunted attractions.

AMC’s Golden Globe®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning TV series will have a significant presence during “Halloween Horror Nights” when the critically-acclaimed hit takes center stage in a riveting new maze, “The Walking Dead: Dead Inside.” It will also headline the event’s signature backlot experience, “Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead” featuring hordes of roving, flesh-eating zombie “walkers.”

Other haunted attractions will include “Welcome to Silent Hill,” based on the popular video games and film franchise; “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D,” a new 3D maze inspired by the legendary shock rocker’s classic concept album; a reimagined experience, “La Llorona: Cazadora de Niños,” based on the terrifying Mexican and Latin American legend that has terrified children for centuries; “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is The Law,” maze based on filmmaker Tobe Hooper’s notoriously unsettling 1974 horror film classic; and the “Universal Monsters Remix,” walk-through attraction featuring Universal’s legendary horror monsters of yesteryear, re-defined for the 21st century along with the pulse-pounding sounds of dance and electronic-fusion music.

The ever-popular “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure” will also add to the dynamic “Halloween Horror Nights” event, joining such theme park’s favorites as “Transformers™: The Ride –3D,” “Jurassic Park® In the Dark,” “The Simpsons RideTM” and “Revenge of the MummySM – The Ride.”

Details on “Halloween Horror Nights” are available at Halloween Horror Nights, on Facebook at: “Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood” and on Instagram @HorrorNightsHollywood or #UniversalHHN. Updates from Creative Director John Murdy can be found on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights, as he reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. “Halloween Horror Nights” maze announcement videos can be seen at Universal Studios Hollywood’s YouTube Channel.

“Halloween Horror Nights” kicks off on Friday, September 21, 2012 and continues on select nights through Wednesday, October 31. Event dates are: September 21, 22, 28, 29 and October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.