In a sign of the times (And because of the slumping industry as a whole) KB Toys is going out of business.

This makes me sad. I wasn't a huge KB Toys fan, but I always found neat stuff there. I bought some toys there not long ago actually. They were the place I found my Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer "Bumble" figure after years of searching.

So long KB, thanks for the memories.

Over at Poe Ghostal's Points of Articulation website, I've sabotaged his contest over his Holiday Odds and Ends picture in my quest to win a Santa Spud. I never win anything, I deserve this Poe!

Seriously though, I think it's nice that I got some people's retro memory going. I picked some fun things for my Odds & Ends picture. Can you guess them all?



I'm sure Poe knows everything in the picture. He's a bit of a toy expert. Then again, he hasn't responded yet. But maybe he doesn't want to be strong armed into giving up his Tater!

I got He-Man and Beastman in the mail today. These figures are so nice. I'm debating leaving them in the package. I rarely do that (Although more often now than before mostly due to space) but I definitely think these are items that deserve to be taken out and messed around with.

I actually fully believe that Mattel will eventually get these figures into stores for a much cheaper price, so I'm not too worried about opening them. Though, if and when they do end up being retail items, it could take a few years and the packages will likely be more mass retail friendly.

Still, it's cool to have them in hand.

I'll probably do a review over at Infinite Hollywood in the next few days.

I was over at X-Entertainment (Everything I aspire to be and more!) and Matt had a great topic about getting crappy gifts for people. It reminded me of these school Santa's workshops they used to have. Basically like through the month of November and December they would give you this little paper gingerbread house and you'd go around collecting coins and cash from relatives to spend at the schools "Santa's Workshop"... I think the whole thing was a thinly veiled school fundraiser.

The "Workshop" was comprised of some pretty lame gifts, stuff like pencils and coffee mugs. But as a kid it always felt great to be able to your parents and siblings some Christmas gifts that you'd actually bought with your own money. Even if they were goofy looking "World's Greatest Dad" ones. I remember my dad seemed to like one particularly one year.

I remember getting him and my brother some Cardinal and Wildcat team pencil holders. I think my dad used it to hold screws and stuff. Oh well, at least he used it. Right?

Strange how Christmas makes you think of those things. Seems like only yesterday. Now I don't even talk to my mother. I bought my dad a coat though for this year. I try to get him good gifts. I got him one of those Plug-N-Play Pacman's a few years ago, back before they were super cheap.

Mostly because my dad is like the Pacman king. Then a couple years later I got him a portable Golden Tee Golf game, because he loves that game in the bars. I've also gotten him tons of booze before. But I figure that's a mistake this year and went with something more, useful!

I don't really have anyone cool to buy for this year. I used to love buying for my GF, but we've been together so long now that I feel like there is nothing I can get her to surprise her. The first few years were great because I'd get her stuff she wouldn't expect. But I'm low on creativity anymore. Plus she has like no hobbies. Which is entirely my fault I assume.

I like to get my brother a cool gift every year, but he's so wishy-washy on when he has money and when he doesn't that I often end up getting him a gift and I never get anything in return. That's of course, not the way to be, but Xmas, Birthdays, I never get jack... So I eventually have to cut him off from freebie gifts. I'm hoping we can do an exchange this year, cause I got a cool idea, but it's kind of costly and my GF might put the smackdown on me and say no.

We'll see.

Today ALL the snow from the last couple of days melted, which sucked. But as I look outside, it's snowing again. So hopefully we can get it back up to a reasonable level. It's not Christmas without snow.

SNL's latest digital short by Andy Samberg is hilarious. Just Google "Jizz in my pants" and you'll probably find it. If not, you'll find something equally as interesting/disturbing.

I've decided I don't like the new layout of the Fwoosh. I thought I did, I tried to be nice and say I liked it. It sucks.

I cleaned out all the ashes from my fire place. It's now ready for new fires and more ashes. It's a vicious cycle. I think I should just get one of those fireplace DVDs and pretend to be warm instead.

Speaking of Ash, I really want an 3 3/4 Ash figure from Army of Darkness. They're pretty expensive. The best one is nearly impossible to find. I may look into making my own. I suck at customs, but I've seen some pretty cool ones using GI Joes.

I've got a new article up about the lack of Einsteins in modern society over at Infinite Hollywood, because if anything says pop culture, it's ALBERT EINSTEIN BABY!

I didn't get much of anything that I was supposed to do yesterday done. I did get all my Christmas stuff together and ended up with a new (fake) tree, but didn't get any of it up. I did bowl and I did suck. My bowling skills have seriously depleted over time. I hope to get them back soon.

I'll begin decorating tonight I think. I did get some fire wood together, which wasn't on the list but is quite necessary. I shudder to think what the heating bill will be for this month. It's COLD out there.

Watched Groundhog Day last night and now I'm kicking myself for not buying Gremlins at Target when it was $3. I mean, how can you beat $3 Gremlins!

Speaking of Gremlins, there's a great commercial in the UK featuring them Here, that also features Peter Jones of "American Inventor" fame. I think I'll cover some of the latest Gremlin happenings in my next Infinite Hollywood post.

Snowed pretty good last night. I couldn't sleep tonight again, starting to become a trend, no?

I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some overflow with this place and Infinite Hollywood. I can't decide if this place should contain some of my more random postings or if they technically could fit in on the Infinite Hollywood site. Clearly my rant on Uma Thurman could have. Still, that didn't really seem news worthy. But I guess Infinite Hollywood isn't really a news site, now is it? I'll probably move the Uma post.

I swear there was an owl hooting earlier. Just out of nowhere. Maybe it's like a snow owl or something. Be cooler if it was that robot owl from Clash of the Titans.



Busy day tomorrow, I'm putting up Christmas decorations, bowling and I have a TNA pay-per-view. I also have to write a TNA PPV preview column. I'll probably put that together now.

So much for sleep. Who needs it anyway? It's overrated.

Uma Thurman spent a good portion of Kill Bill barefoot. There's a whole scene devoted to wiggling her toes. Now in my years on the interwebs I've come to learn plenty, but if I've learned anything is that there are a lot of foot fetish freaks (I say freaks in a kind way, if you're a footie and reading this site, please don't leave, I NEED READERS!) out there. I personally don't get it, but I've come to learn it's a pretty big subculture.

Which brings me to my question of the day, does Uma get bombarded at autograph signings by people wanting to talk to her about her feet? And if she does, what does she say?

I realize this is probably the most random thing you've ever read and that's fine, cause that's what this blog is all about. The random things that go through my head. Like Uma Thurman foot fetishes.