Some New Stuff!

July is done, and somehow it was just as stressful as June!

Granted, I didn't get any new flat tires this month, so that was a plus. Not a big plus, but a plus nonetheless.

First thing's first: I got yet another cel in the mail this month.

This one is great. It's a cel from that one Fruity Pebbles commercial where Barney pretended to be a rapper.

The pose in the cel appears about three seconds in. For you youngins out there, there was a period in the late 80's and early 90's where every type of media was legally required to feature someone rapping, and cereal commercials were no exception.

Sesame Street got in the act, too. And it seems that both Barney and Cookie Monster took their fashion choice from Run DMC. The boys had taste.

I'm not gonna lie, this is probably the most well known Fruity Pebbles commercial after the Christmas one.

Barney FINALLY got to have a bowl of cereal! Kids today have no idea how monumental this was.

From that, let's move on to snacks.

I finally found some of the new Dunkaroos! I missed this the first go around as I wasn't much of a snacker back in the day. I'm still not, but I had to indulge just this once.

My verdict is...it's fine. Not bad, but nothing too special, either. If you wanted to dip tiny wafers into cupcake frosting, this is the treat for you. I honestly expected more out of the two bucks I paid for it, and THAT felt like highway robbery.

Besides all that, July wasn't much of anything to note. We still got the Covid lingering around, and there's not much else to do or go to. I've lost my patience for this month ages ago, and the sooner I get done talking about this July, the sooner we can all move on.

If there's an August, I'll check in with you guys again.

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The Great Muppet Mural

June is over. Thank God.

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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It's Gonna Be June!

Somehow the world has gotten worse since the last time I posted here. But fret not, I'm still here and so are you.

I mentioned last month that I bought a few things off of eBay that hadn't arrived yet at the time I wrote that entry, but now I'm ready to show them off to you.

First up, this Carl Yastrzemski trading card. Why THIS of all things? Like all things in my life, you can trace this back to The Simpsons.

In the episode "Three Men and A Comic Book" way back in season 2, Milhouse tries to buy this specific card from Comic Book Guy. Turns out "Carl Yastrzemski with the big sideburns" described quite a few different cards, and I scoured eBay for a while for the closest approximation of it. A few were worth quite a bit of money.

This one was worth thirty bucks in 1991, but I got this one for about four dollars. Maybe because it isn't graded? It's just in a few sleeves, seems like an actual grade raises the value quite a bit.

It also features probably my favorite fun fact for any sports player. So...normal. I tried researching just WHY or WHEN Yaz was the director of a bank, but any google searches turned up empty.

In one week, we lost three solid contenders for "Greatest of All Time" status: Little Richard, Jerry Stiller, and Fred Willard. You know me and my love of celebrity autographs, so I scoured eBay as soon as I heard the news about Jerry Stiller to buy one of his signatures before his price inevitably skyrocketed.

I knew that Little Richard already commanded a hefty price when he was alive, so I figured that Frank Costanza himself would be a little more reasonable. And he was. They say that a personalized autograph decreases the value, but I say that's what makes it authentic. I don't know who Roy was, but I thank him for getting this, which is now in my hands.

And now a compilation of my favorite Frank Costanza moments:

Of course I did the same thing when I heard about Fred Willard.

That man was in just about everything, and was most often the best part of anything he was in. He was a master improviser whose voice had the ability to make anything sound hilarious. This specific picture is from his appearance in A Mighty Wind, an all-around great movie. It's probably not as well known as some of Christopher Guests' other movies like Best in Show or This is Spinal Tap, but he is incredible in it.

I personally love his performance in "Best in Show."

To this day I can't watch the National Dog Show without thinking "and in some countries these dogs are eaten" or Fred asking how much weight he could bench press.

I haven't seen much of "I Think You Should Leave" (blame my lack of a Netflix account), but he did an absolutely banger of a sketch that I've been watching over and over for the past few weeks.

God, he's the only person who could make me laugh at "my condolences."

I was wondering where I saw that giant instrument before, and then I remembered this video making the rounds about a month or so back:

It's called an American Fotoplayer and it's a crazy piano/organ/one man band instrument that used to be in silent movie theaters to score screwball comedies to. There's not many left around, and this one is just sitting in this man's house.

He's made videos of him explaining how it works, and playing other songs that may seem more familiar, like this one:

Speaking of which, I need to also get HBO Max, I hear those new Looney Tunes cartoons are quite good.

This isn't where I thought this entry would end up when I started writing it, but here we are. See you guys in June if the world is still intact by then.

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Social Distancing!

Well, April sped by in a blink, and frankly...not much has happened. Damn quarantine.

I've still been playing Animal Crossing, still been watching old Simpsons episodes. Still late night eBay buying. (Things I've bought recently haven't arrived in time for writing this entry. Maybe I'll show them off next month)

I keep on keeping on.

BUT yesterday I stumbled upon that AI Meme Generator that's being passed around and I've been having way too much fun with it.

See, it's like a typical meme maker, but all the text is predicted by one of those neural net things and while 90% of these are complete nonsense, you get that 10% that's just absolute gold. And perhaps a little TOO personal for my tastes.

Here now are some of my favorites that I've made.

That's it for me, folks. See y'all in May. If we still have one. Time's been acting weird lately.

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