This month started with giant nails in my tires.
My mom's, too.
Thanks to some drunken idiot from a party next door that got too loud. Can you blame my parents for wanting them to quiet down? This was at 10:30 at night on a SUNDAY. We all had work the next day. And we got rewarded with nails meant for cement embedded in our tires. I caught one the next morning just laying in front of one of my tires.
I unfortunately didn't catch the other one until it was too late. That was a fun trip to the shop. And it turns out that my other tires were rotting so I had to get THEM replaced, too.
It didn't get much better after that, frankly.
I wanted to talk about other things, like finally completing the Smash Amiibo collection with Isabelle finally showing up after preordering it from Best Buy months ago.
Well, Joker and Hero got announced, but it'll be a while before they're released. Until then, I have them all.
I also wanted to show off two (former) Carvel stands on Long Island.
Marshall's in Massapequa. Right next door to All American, to boot. That place was NOT observing social distancing at all.
And Marvel Ice Cream in Long Beach. Thanos sale, half off!
Some day I'll go inside them. I just happened to pass it the other day.
I also wanted to talk about how I almost bought this cel from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
It was pretty cheap but there was a bidding war going on for it so I didn't engage. Such a shame, too, because you don't find a genuine Kennedy pose every day.
Or how I DID buy this production (not cel) drawing of Dick Dastardly and Muttley. It was made for The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera ride at Universal and it was a real trip to find it. I had NEVER seen even a cel from it until now. I had to snatch it.
The paper it was on was bigger than I expected, and the drawing much smaller.
Here's the main ride in its entirety. It looks like the exact shot shows up around three minutes in.
I honestly didn't think there were cels, since most of the ride is CGI. Fun fact: Don Bluth's company handled the animation, and it certainly shows. The CGI doesn't look as cutting edge as it did in 1990, but the animation as a whole held up pretty well.
But today I'd like to show you how June ended for me.
So this odd looking Muppet mural has been in my basement since before my family moved in. And I've lived here for roughly 32 years.
Well, today my family realized that one of the pipes in a room on the other side of the basement was leaking. Don't worry, it wasn't anything too serious, a lot of stuff had to be moved around and the only thing that was wrecked was a package of paper towels.
But my dad yanked out the insulation in the wall under the pipe and discovered that the mural was bigger than we thought.
That is what I assume is Miss Piggy in a carpenter outfit. The colors really pop because I'm pretty sure that this was the first time she's seen the light of day in around 30 years. Gonna admit, this one's gonna haunt me for a while.
I tried to pry open some insulation next to Piggy and found this:
It's kinda hard to make out, but I'm assuming that this is supposed to be Fozzie. For one, it's brown, and he's the only major muppet that isn't represented in this. It's really odd since a stairwell separates the two rooms here, so this must've been painted before it was added. That's odd in itself because the only other way in and out of the basement is through one of those passageways that open up out of the ground.
Like that, really.
And here's proof that I didn't just swipe all of this from Reddit or something, as if my hand in the third picture wasn't proof enough.
So...is my house cursed? Half of my timeline says yes, the other says no.
If I survive, I'll see you all in July.
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