Come On Down!

This past week we lost the legendary Bob Barker.

He came as close to 100 as he could without going over. (Yeah, yeah, I'm not the first one to make this.)

To folks of a certain generation (ie, anyone older than 25), The Price is Right was synonymous with sick days and summer vacation. It certainly was for me. My grandma and I would watch him all the time. He was old in the 90s, and he managed to outlive Nana by 13 years. It's still crazy to think about.

Day in, day out, you'd hope that they'd play Plinko.

Or, barring that, Cliffhanger.

But usually they'd play High or Low or that golf game and I'd tune out until it was time for the old ladies and college students to spin the big wheel.

And we can't talk about Bob Barker without mentioning his appearances in Futurama

and Happy Gilmore.

He was also a filthy old man that harassed his Barker's Beauties, so he wasn't leaving behind a stellar personal life.

But with that out of the way, some positive stuff!

I met a duck! Well, not just any duck, it was Wrinkle The Instagram Duck! You might know her as the duck that ran the NYC marathon.

This was at a small convention called LI Tropic Con a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea they were even gonna be there!

I might've been a little too excited to get a picture with her. I even got to pet her! She was really soft.

I also got to see a real Kid's Choice Award. I did not pay the thirty bucks to pose with it. It was a bit steep to cross off "hold a Kid's Choice Award" off the bucket list.

I also met Matt Hill, the voice of Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy! He was real nice and surprisingly cheap (only twenty chickens!) His Ed voice is not too far off from his real one, either, and kept talking in that voice. I got to talk to him about Captain N and Cartoon All Stars to The Rescue.

And finally, I managed to fill up my pin board! And this isn't all of my pins. There's still the ones that hang on my NYCC lanyard, plus a few more I couldn't fit on this one. So that means a trip to Michael's to buy a new pin board is coming soon.

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The Luckiest Boy in The World

 Man, today sucked. Paul Reubens died.

Apparently he'd been battling cancer for the past six years, and you never woulda known it.

Pee-Wee's Playhouse especially was a childhood favorite of mine. He was that rare soul that told kids that it was okay to be weird. In the words of a tweet I saw earlier today: "If it weren't for you, I'd be normal."

The Christmas Special is weird aplenty, and it's a must see no matter what time of year it is.

The man was the very definition of a One Scene Wonder. If he wasn't a lead in something, he'd be in a single scene or two in a show or movie and you'd say "hey, isn't that Pee-Wee Herman?"

Be it Bat-Mite

or as The Spleen in Mystery Men

Or in a Cheech & Chong movie

Or in Flight of The Navigator

Or in Nightmare Before Christmas

Or as REX in Star Tours

Or in Chowder

Or in the Reno 911 movie

Or as a moon in Tim & Eric

As so on. The answer was always "Yes, it was." And his moment was always the best part.

I'm glad I got to meet him a few times at cons.

Here's when me and my friend Danny met him at Monster Mania back in 2018. We only got this photo op because his autograph line was three hours long.

That was a most of the line, as seen from my spot on Cassandra Peterson's line. Her line was only 2 1/2 hours.

And here's a candid shot of him at NYCC in 2019. That time I didn't make the same mistake and got on his line the moment I could. I think I was the seventh person on it? Either way, he was just as cool as you thought he'd be.

And I got this beauty signed by him. You know, I was flipping a coin whether to get this one signed,

Or this great piece by Dave Perillo. The first piece obviously won, and I planned to get this one signed eventually. But, alas. 

I also have this rad prayer candle. Seems appropriate for today, you know?

I just know that somewhere, Pee-Wee is in that Playhouse in the sky, partying with John Paragon, Phil Hartman, and both Kings of Cartoons. Puppetland won't be the same without you.

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Everything's Orange

 Boy, June was...a month, wasn't it?

Hey, let's check the weather outside, and get a whiff of that good summer air.

You know what? Nevermind.

But it wasn't as bad as a few weeks ago.

Yeah, that wasn't safe.

These were pictures taken at my job. This is how it looks normally.

And when the smoke was at its worst, taken at roughly 3pm:

Yeah, that's ORANGE. The sky isn't supposed to look like that. First, everything was hazy. Then it started smelling like someone lit up a pipe.

And then came the burning. It smelled like burning leaves for hours. At one point the sun was completely red as a tomato. It's not supposed to do that, people.

But let's talk about something that's a different color. Let's say...purple?

Yes, last week I got to try the Grimace Birthday Shake. You know, the fast food sensation that's been killing everyone on the internet lately?

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Well, it was more purple and vanilla mixed together, and that reflected in the taste. The purple was some kind of unidentifiable berry flavor, but overall I really liked it. But I'm good if it's the only time I'll ever have it.

Oh, and then we all made fun of a tiny submarine that got lost trying to look at the Titanic. Until we found out that everyone on board died instantly while everyone was memeing it for days. And then everyone got over it once we realized it meant four less billionaires in the world.

There's lots of things I want to be remembered for. Dying in an incredibly stupid way is both near the bottom of that list, and yet one of the most realistic outcomes.

That'll do it for June. If you are or were in the path of all that smoke, please stay safe.

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No More May

 

That's how that meme works, right?

But in any case, summer is on its way, and it's time for a new post.

But honestly, not really feeling it this time around. I'll just post some random videos and pics I liked this month.

This Steamed Hams/Gorillaz mashup's been around for a few years, but I finally stumbled upon it a few days ago and can't stop listening to it. Everything is so synced up incredibly well.

Speaking of memes, a cel of He-Man in THAT pose went for over $2000. That video is over a decade old and has yet to get old.

Baby ducks are here!

And baby geese!

And a rabbit! They've been getting braver lately.

Tears of The Kingdom finally came out! 

...But I haven't bought it. Because I want to do stuff with my life right now. I'm not much a of a Zelda guy, but I'll admit I got interested in watching streams of it. Maybe I'll get it for Christmas.

It was Flea Market time once again! Only of the first treasures I found was a stack of uncut Garbage Pail Kids cards. But they've seen better days, so I left them be.

A pay phone has been one of the odder things I've found at one of these.

This was cool, but where would I put it?

Mood.

Something in the "shoulda bought" pile was this box of old Playbills, dating back to the sixties. They had at least three versions of Hello, Dolly. You have the original Carol Channing one above, and I also saw the version with Pearl Bailey. You can smell the Old Broadway in these. Or maybe it was the mustiness of being in a box for sixty years.

Plus the original Odd Couple. Yes, before Thomas Lennon and Matthew Perry, er, I mean Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, there was Art Carney and Walter Matthau as Felix and Oscar.

And finally, what I picked up there. These four pins only set me back ten bucks. There was a table that had a bunch of pins from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and these were the ones that stood out to me. That, and I'm not made of money. Around here I mostly see stuff from the 1964 NY World's Fair, so merch from any other big event in the country is pretty rare and I had to grab something from it.

I figured that other Atlanta icons made the cut for merch, like the Cabbage Patch Kids and Coca Cola, but there were quite a few pins of characters from Izzy's Quest For Olympic Gold. (I go into more detail about it in this entry). I left the Alice Ghostly voiced character pin for someone else.

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