Let’s face it, Halloween dominates American holidays. Much to the chagrin of Santa and his Elves, a growing number of freaks and geeks now spend more money on the night of All Hallows Eve than they do on Christmas, a sad fact that has to make the Baby Jesus cry. For some 24/7 Goths and part-time Twilighters, Halloween is just amateur night, but since they can only find jobs at the mall looking like Marilyn Manson, they’re allowed to vent their pent-up, creative angst through bizarre store window displays every Halloween with the expressed purpose of scaring the living daylights out of our children. And after all, isn’t that what the spirit of Halloween is all about?

Warning! Ghoulish Halloween content ahead!

#1 – Marc Jacobs, You Are Scaring My Kids!

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Man, windows can be so square! They slide up. They slide down. They glide right, they glide left. It’s all very humdrum, don’t you think? Don’t window companies understand that there is more to geometry than squares, rectangles, and the occasional circle? There have got to be some architects and window designers in the world who see the curvature in things. Where we see a rectangle, they see a rhombus. Where we see a transom, they see a trapezoid…

Following are 15 of the world’s weirdest, wackiest, wildest window designs. Here’s some optical architecture to make Roald Dahl and Lewis Carroll proud – buildings and oddball windows hailing from all around the world. Strange and fantastic achievements in architecture, one and all.

I’d like to see some of these windows on a Pella showroom floor!

1. The Crooked House

In Sopot, Poland, stands one of the strangest buildings in the world. The Crooked House was built in 2004 and inspired by the paintings and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer, a Polish artist and illustrator of children’s books, and Per Dahlberg, a Swedish painter. There is absolutely no other building like this one – these are the kind of windows you stare at, not through. (more…)

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Normally, when a star loses it, they only cause damage to themselves. But in this episode of “When Celebrities Attack,” we’ll examine what happens when the famous collide with glass and cause all kinds of window replacement problems. That’s right, this blog loves celeb gossip as much as everyone else.

Everyone knows celebrities are crazy. Some are obviously crazy, like Madonna, Dennis Rodman, Courtney Love or Jim Carrey. Then, there are some who go under the radar for most or even all of their career, but give them enough rope, and they’ll hang faster than a coat-check hanging coats at a coat collectors convention. Like when Michael Richards of Seinfeld mistook a Hollywood comedy club for a Klan rally. Or the time O.J. Simpson… What? Not funny yet? I was going to talk about the Vegas robbery he was recently convicted for, not that other thing!

Charles Barkley & Plate Glass Windows

One of my all-time favorite window smashing stories involves one of everyone’s all-time favorite personalities: Former NBA star Charles Barkley. While playing for the Phoenix Suns in 1997, Sir Charles went to Florida to take on the Orlando Magic. Barkley was at a bar drinking around 2 a.m. when 20-year-old Jorge Lugo threw a glass of ice and hit the round mound of rebound in the head. Barkley’s instinctive reaction? To chase Lugo to the front of the bar, where he finally cornered him.
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