Mike Craghead

Pumpkin carving is dangerous business. Stay safe out there, folks! #halloweenwars #pumpkincarving #halloween

“Does anyone know a good dermatologist?” By Mike Craghead. Carved Oct. 22, 2026. #pumpkincarving #halloween #HalloweenWars Music by Melodus Be sure to stop by Eureka Natural Foods this weekend to see gross things like this! Eureka on Saturday, McKinleyville on Sunday.

I’m not sure whether it’s an octopus, but I do know it’s dressed up as a ghost and it’s sitting on a pumpkin. Carved from butternut squash, Oct. 17, 2026. #pumpkincarving #halloween #HalloweenWars Music by Melodus

OctoBEARfest 2026 at the Sequoia Park Zoo: Three bears! Two with eight legs ("Octo..." GET IT?!): a tardigrade ("water bear") and an Octobear (with tentacles!) both carved from butternut squash, and a life-sized pumpkin bear cub. #pumpkincarving #SequoiaParkZoo #HalloweenWars #OrganicMattersRanch

There's clearly a story behind this one, I just don't know what it is. You tell me! #pumpkincarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

Such a treat to carve alongside my fellow vets of Halloween Wars season 14, Sarah "Bloodstain" Blostein and Alan Silva! #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #halloween #foodnetwork #halloweenwars #humboldtcounty

A great start to the season! See y’all tomorrow (Sunday) Organic Matters Ranch, with fellow weirdos Alan J Silva and ahead.of.the.carve (Sarah “Bloodstain”)!

Live pumpkin carving at Organic Matters Ranch, Sunday, October 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join Halloween Wars veterans Sarah "Bloodstain" Blostein (Toronto), Alan Silva (LA) and Mike Craghead (Eureka), all weirdos from 2024's season 14 of Food Network's Halloween Wars! #Halloween #PumpkinCarving

Obie, beans, Halloweens.

I’m not on Halloween Wars this season, but some of my favorite weirdos are, so I’ll be watching on Sunday, September 13! Here’s my “Road to” segment from season 14 (2024): youtu.be/JLTdvoxo2wQ?... #HalloweenWars #PumpkinCarving

Got October plans? Cancel them and watch pumpkins get weird! Actually no, that would be bonkers, don’t do that. But should your plans fall through organically, here are like a dozen ideas of what to do instead! #PumpkinCarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

Reminder: if you miss this, you will have missed it!

Join us at the 57th Annual Annie & Mary Days, at Blue Lake, CA's Perigot Park, Sunday, Aug. 9. CEO/Fog plays at noon, then we're up at 1:15, followed by Firesign and UKEsperience.

Important announcement: I’m John Scalzi’s pumpkin guy now!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Meteorologist or Meaty Urologist? Discuss.

Some sand sculptures from past years. Here’s how to make your own: instructables.com/id/Sand-Sculpture

Mike on Tuesday, Sari & Mike on Saturday. See you there!

Come for the beer and stay for the music! Or vice-versa, your call!

Ok fine, I’ll be the next James Bond but only if they pay me in Doritos

Attention, folks planning on visiting Kaptain’s Quarters Taproom on May 21, and/or Redwood Curtain Brewing Company on May 28: My apologies for all the noise.

On Tuesday, April 21, I hereby promise to make noises that pair perfectly with what’s on tap at Redwood Curtain in Myrtletown! #singersongwriter #insufferabletwit

Join Jeff for an evening of great music, Saturday, April 25 in Trinidad Town Hall, for Trinidad Art Nights - I’ll also be there, but you should come anyway!

Easter bunny, standing on an egg, holding a tulip. Carved from a redwood 2”x2” on Easter 2025, finished today. Cheers!

Ok everybody, I think it’s time we let the pigeon drive the bus.

Ice storm in Minnesota… Brown shirts have got to go It’s long past time we wrote a New version of “Ohio”

Slimy Christmas friends: I inflicted banana slugs upon my family for stocking stuffers. These were experiments, I’ll move to more robust materials when I put them up for adoption ;) #SlugLife

You think you’ve got problems? At least you’re not Doug. valleyheatpodcast.com

I took up basket weaving for Thanksgiving…

Mike will be making noises on Saturday Nov. 15 at Eureka Natural Foods on Broadway, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., or possibly earlier if enough complaints are received, or if too much rotten fruit is thrown, or in the event of a natural disaster, or if a bunch of pigeons rise up and attack or something.

Pumpkin carving: Four Eyes, One Mullet #pumpkincarving #halloween #HalloweenWars

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).

I made 3 friends tonight #pumpkincarving #halloween #HalloweenWars

A couple weirdos who showed up in my living room tonight #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

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! #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars @SequoiaParkZoo #BooattheZoo @OrganicMattersRanch @EurekaNaturalFoods

Eyeball guy, with eyeball cat. #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

Skeleton in a hoodie, with a balloon... #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

Redwood pumpkins: Extra Eye, Not Sure Why" (~4") plus a little smiley dude (~2.5"). Both extracted from a very old fence post. #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars For historical context, here's my "Extra Eye" (pumpkin version) from 2018: youtu.be/Wt0Du-OQEIk?...

Two pumpkin-headed guys in skeleton costumes. #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

I don't want to alarm anyone, but these two sinister pumpkin guys were lurking inside some old redwood fence posts. Proceed with caution! #pumpkincarving #woodcarving #Halloween #HalloweenWars

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

Join me this October as I weirdify pumpkins! Point and laugh! Throw things! #pumpkincarving #halloween #HalloweenWars

Flashback to The Lumberjack, circa 1996-7, when the “Mike Craghead Trio” used to play at the “Rat.”

I wrote this a couple years ago. I’d mostly say the same things if I were to write it today, except I’d use far more expletives. mikecraghead.com/card.cfm?id=... I’ll be singing at the Humboldt Crabs game on Friday, July 18, 2025. See you there! #humboldtcrabs #baseball #humboldt

OK you guys I don’t want to freak anybody out… but like an entire BOX of these just came in the mail #booksky

I do not contain multitudes. I contain like three, maybe four tudes, tops.

Because sometimes stupidity helps, here's Photoshop crime #3,743: I love Dave but I think Grolsch is vile swill. I made this in 2015, and I'm still conflicted about it. #FooFighters #DaveGrohl #ShittyBeer #DadJokes #DumbJokes

"When we reflexively make the argument that a dumb thing is not dumb because it’s 'art,' we lose that argument. Our valiant defense of the duct-taped banana is nearly as silly as the banana itself." #art #craft #music #book #ebook #audiobook #podcast #booksky #bskyart More at LowArtHighCraft.com.