Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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.


Sunday, April 30, 2023

Things I Do With Money

 It's the end of April, so that means it's time for an update!

Well, Easter came and went with little fanfare. I had ham, it was good, the end.

I DID see The Super Mario Movie. It was a solid 7/10. Story was a bit basic, there were too many licensed songs for my liking, there wasn't enough Luigi, but the animation was fantastic. Most of the voices were pretty good, too. The highlights were clearly Jack Black as Bowser and Charlie Day as Luigi, but everyone gives a good performance. And Chris Pratt actually put some effort into it.

If you wanted a Mario Movie that actually looked and felt like a Mario Movie, Illumination certainly succeeded at it.

And this leads us to the one big highlight of the month:

I preordered this back in December. It's a signed picture of KITT from William Daniels. BUT I had him inscribe a line from the Knightboat scene from The Simpsons.


"Each week there's a canal."

"Or an inlet."

"Or a fjord."

That's always stuck with me in the 25+ years since that episode aired. I don't want to tell you how much I spent on it, but it was worth every penny. I crossed my fingers that William Daniels was gonna make it to C2E2 this year and he did. 90-something year old character actors haven't had a good track record lately, and as of this writing he's still with us. I hope I get to meet him in person one day.

Either way, I love it and it's amazing.


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Friday, March 31, 2023

Thirty-Six!

It's March 31st once again!

 But that also means that last week was my 36th birthday!


While I'm more fond of multiples of five, 36 is a good, even number. I don't like the idea of being in my MID-Thirties, but so far so good. My hair is starting to grow gray.

And like I said last month, birthdays means presents!

I pre-ordered this Masterpiece Skyfire months ago, and it just so happened to arrive as a late birthday gift to myself.

I don't usually splurge for Masterpiece, and this one wasn't cheap. But a show-accurate, well-articulated figure of Skyfire is something I've wanted to exist since I was six years old, and it's finally a reality.

My first impression? Holy Moses, is this thing big. They say this is the biggest Masterpiece figure so far, and I believe it.

Here he is posed with a minifig of Optimus that came with him. He also came with tiny figures of Jazz and Wheeljack to pose in his open compartments. You see, in the show, he was big enough to fit the regular characters in his cockpit, and I love that they included that here.

He also comes with removable chest plates. You see, in his first episode, he switches allegiances from Decepticon to Autobot by switching out the insignia on his chest.


And as you can see,


It's pretty inconsistent.


And just for fun, here he is posed with my G1 Jetfire.


He also comes with three alternate faces. Two different expressions besides the neutral one, plus a mask that evokes the original figure. The new version is definitely not a repainted Macross figure, but all in all, a great addition to the collection.


And in an impulse eBay buy on my birthday, I got in this signed picture of Dabney Coleman. Blame the Daily Simpsons Thursday Simpsons stream for that one. He was streaming an episode of Drexell's Class (his sitcom from 1991) after the episode and I wondered how much a signed picture of him went for these days.

Well, this one was pretty cheap, compared to the rest of the stuff I found. No Drexell's Class stuff. Hell, not even anything from 9 to 5. It was either stuff from Cloak & Dagger or some other movies I'd never heard of. 

I found out that he voiced Principal Prickley from Recess, if there was any other reason to love him.


Last week, I also went back to NYC to try Ichiran again. Turns out the best time to go was on a Tuesday afternoon. I don't think I waited more than ten minutes to get in.

Just look at that beautiful bowl! They brought back their classic round bowls this time. When I went almost a year ago, they served their ramen in square bowls.


Even sprang for the fancy pork this time. It was all really good.

I managed to up the spicy sauce this time. I barely felt a level 3, this was level 6. I definitely felt that one, my eyes couldn't stop watering. It definitely cleaned out the sinuses.



After that, I stopped by the NY Public Library to catch their exhibit on rare books.


Most notably, a Gutenberg Bible.



Charles Dickens's writing desk


and of course, the original Winnie The Pooh dolls. They were moved from their home in the Children's Library, which I sadly discovered had been converted into a coat check.


Then I stopped by Nintendo NY and saw big Mario shoes.


And then stopped at the Times Square Disney Store and found Oswald merch! It was all thanks to that Disney 100 promotion they're doing. 


There was a bunch more stuff, but people were in the way of the pictures and I didn't want to be awkward.

That about covers the month of March, folks. See you in April! 



Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sweet Fifteen!

 It's the last week of February, that means it's the blog's birthday!


Yes, that's right, this little patch of the internet NOT run by a psychotic billionaire turns 15!

And because it's a birthday, I brought presents!

Depression and eBay don't mix, kids, but it will get you a picture signed by Gumby creator Art Clokey. Internet buddy cuteordeath pointed me in that direction, and I had to snag it.

It's a picture of the core cast, dedicated so some luggage store. It's got real Tom Landry Hat energy and I love it.


Oh, and the sellers included this bonus Gumby, to boot.

And then I got this in the mail today:

My friend who sends out for celebrity autographs came through for Joe Mantegna, Fat Tony himself! This is clean as hell, I was not expecting this today.

And finally, now for something I was expecting today:


A new addition to my cel collection! Why THIS cel from The Smurfs, of all things? What's the story behind this one? 

I'm glad you asked, readers! If you're like me and watched a lot of Boomerang roughly a decade ago, this promo is most likely seared into your brain:

They seemed to play that at every. single. ad break. So when a cel from it popped up on eBay last week, I had to snag it.

It comes from the episode "Bigmouth Smurf" from the show's fourth season. It was about Gargamel turning big dumb brute Bigmouth into a Smurf, so he could let the big guy loose on the Smurf village and destroy it with his oafishness. If you can believe it, plots got much weirder (and dumber) than this.

You can watch the whole thing here. 

So, Happy Birthday, Beaming For Bunnies! Hopefully the internet will still be around for your Sweet Sixteen next year.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Tribute to Tracy

 It's the end of January once again, so you know what that means!


NATIONAL GORILLA SUIT DAY!!


I figure that since this month would have been Larry Storch's 100th birthday, today would be a nice time to pay tribute to one of his former co-stars.

Tracy The Gorilla from Filmation's The Ghost Busters! 

Yes, predating the more famous movie by quite a few years, this sitcom ran for a single season back in 1975 and starred Larry Storch (Eddie Spencer) and Forrest Tucker (Jake Kong).

Tracy himself was "trained" by Bob Burns, but we all know that's just showbiz talk for being in the suit.

In a sense, the show was pretty much a low budget Scooby-Doo by way of actors from F-Troop and a gorilla sidekick. The boys get an assignment to go hunt down a guy in a monster costume, they zap it away, mild laughs would be had. Repeat.

It was for this reason was why that other Ghostbusters Saturday morning show had to call itself "The REAL Ghostbusters."

By the way, Filmation Ghostbusters also had a Saturday morning cartoon in 1986, to compete with the other one.

It had a slightly better budget, and it looks as well as it could for 1986 Filmation standards. 

This version starred the sons of Spencer and Kong, along with Tracy and a girl from the future named Futura as they battled Prime Evil and his horde of ghost henchmen/action figures.

It also ran for a single season, sadly. But back then "one season" lasted 65 episodes.

But we'll always have the toys. Tracy still stands watch over my figure collection to this day.


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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Goodbye 2022!

 2023 is right around the corner, it's almost here!

 

What's better is that 2023 is the year of the Rabbit, which is what I was born under! 1987 Baby right here. Don't remind me what age I turn next year.

As far as years go, I'd rank 2022 as "not the worst." I'm still here, some people aren't, I'd call this year a draw. I had stress, and I made a few changes in my life.

I (mostly) changed my diet, got a new(ish) car, got a new suit, got my feet checked out, my new entertainment center was set up. Overall, an improvement over last year.

This time last year we said goodbye to Betty White. In the past few days alone, we lost:

Pele

Barbara Walters

Former Pope Benedict XVI

And Don West.

I never saw TNA Impact Wrestling, but I knew that guy was familiar. He's the guy that hawked Beanie Babies on the Shop At Home Channel back in the 90s! 

I never bought from that. I was too young and I knew those prices were a ripoff, but I couldn't get enough of those.

Let's see what I got for Christmas, shall we?

First off, this shiny new laptop, direct from Black Friday! It's much, much faster than the old one, and it makes posting these entries much less of a headache.

It'd been slowing down for ages, but back around Halloween the desktop screen started restarting itself and I couldn't fix it. So, it was time for an upgrade. The computer starts up under ten seconds! It's wild.

That was mostly my Christmas gift for the year. But I DID get some goodies on the day itself. I got a new bottle of my bbq sauce again, I was really hyped for that. And you know you're in your thirties when you're excited to get socks and toothpaste. The leather thing is a little garbage pouch for my car.

Then came my annual pile of scratch-off tickets that I scratch off on Christmas Day. I won ten bucks.

And there were quite a few "gifts to myself" this year. I got some new portfolio books, new shoes and some new pants. But this was the highlight. Not only is this "The Illustrated Al," the big graphic novel of comic adaptations of Weird Al Yankovic songs, it's the variant cover they only gave out to comic shops for Comic Shop Day! I managed to snag the last copy at my LCS. Can't wait to dig in to this one.


I hope you all have a happy and safe New Year. Do you have any resolutions?

Me? Make it to 2023, for one.

Be more punctual. I can hustle myself to make a 7am train, but not to leave my house before 8am to go to work. I need to work on that.

Write more. I actually got a fanfic off the ground! You can read it here, if you're into Steven Universe/My Hero Academia crossovers.

Be kinder. I feel like I already am, but I could always improve on that.

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