Happy Halloween, Falcon: Behold the Balloon Boy tribute pumpkin

Spotted over at Boing Boing, this wonderful piece of art, submitted in an office pumpkin contest, almost makes the whole Balloon Boy saga worthwhile. Almost. Go Falcon, go!...
By Joel WarnerOctober 30, 2009
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Spotted over at Boing Boing, this wonderful piece of art, submitted in an office pumpkin contest, almost makes the whole Balloon Boy saga worthwhile. Almost.

Go Falcon, go!

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Joel Warner

Joel Warner is a former staff writer for Westword and International Business Times. He’s also written for WIRED, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, Slate, Grantland and many other publications. He’s co-author of the 2014 book The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, published by Simon & Schuster.

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