My little spot on the WWW here seems to be stuck in Movie

Mode. But I must mark a sad occasion. Our last Blockbuster rental

store is going the way of mom and pop VHS stores. As in bye-bye.

Some would say karma. I don't know. This was the last place I

could buy used DVDs and Blu-rays.

Good deals abound for the most part. They will only be open for

about five more days, so most of the DVDs have now gone to

$1.99. I grabbed myself a few.

And this my friends, was a good deal for about $20. I wanted most

of these titles. I was holding out for a better price, and abracadabra

presto el magnifico! It a' happened!

R.I.P. Blockbuster. Some hated you. I kinda liked you.

And I sincerely hope all you folks who lost your jobs with

BB find something real real soon.

 

In 2003 on Tom Sawyer Island in Disneyland, California, this was

inside of Harper's Mill. I am told that after the "pirate" refurb of the

island in 2007, this is now called Lafitte's Tavern. I hope to

see it for myself someday. My son took this picture.

With a few Christmas type lights wrapped around the trees,

even a Walmart parking lot can appear to be somewhat...

cosmopolitan.

 I'm going to file this one under:
Couldn't Have Made It Do That If I Tried.

 

I went to Walmart yesterday with one goal in mind: to

buy the movie "The Conjuring". People have been

saying that it is pretty darn scary and I would like to

watch it tonight with a bowl of popcorn.

Holy COW! Look at that PRICE!

I can't buy this for that price. And there is no less expensive

DVD only format anyplace in the store. $24.96 for a blind buy?!

No way! No way that I will even TOUCH that thing.

DOH!

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Later on...

 Well, I did make some good popcorn in my Whirley Pop
popcorn popper...

...and I did sit down in the dark and watch The Conjuring.
Ho-lee COW that was a scary movie. I don't know that it was
$24.96 scary, but it was at least $15.00 scary. What the above
picture shows is me taking a bathroom break and being slightly
afraid to take the movie off of "pause". That does not happen
very often so, I give this movie a strong "Watch It!" rating.

This is one of my favorite things. I got this guy at a small nautical

themed shop on the West Coast. He is bound to show up on my

site again in one form or another. I've used him for lots of stuff.

 

~ Happy New Year 2014 ~

 

So it suddenly dawns on me that if I get four of my

friends together and we all play once...

BOOYAH! WIN!

Wait. This could be a trap.

 

Never let it be said that Lizzy Tex Borden lacks vision.

(I needed this stuff for work. Office Depot to the rescue.)

 

YE BE WARNED!

Pirates Be Operatin' In These Waters.

And them thar pirates have a cool boat.

(Miniature golf course In Vista, CA.)

 

There must have been something newsworthy at this

courthouse in San Diego County.

 

The food court at the Promenade Mall in Temecula, CA.

 

I should probably just go ahead and apologize in advance

for this post, although if I really felt that way I wouldn't post

it in the first place. Sooooo, just color me disingenuous.

Tee-hee.

 

I've had enough Christmas to last a while, but I just tonight after

work noticed that the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that my

son gave to me a few years ago is under the tree. I like it.

Yo ho, the mistletoe!

 

~ Christmas 2013 ~

We went to the movies today to see...

..Saving Mr. Banks. It was good and made me cry.
I hate that. It gives me a headache and is a waste of emotion.
Slasher movies are much better.

 After that we went to Denny's for a meal. The food wasn't
good at all tonight.

We never ever used to go out on Christmas day,
but for some years now we have. It's a long boring story.

Seven years ago my son gave this guy to me for Christmas.

I named him Tom. This was Tom in the car on that day. He

went to the movies with us. Nowadays Tom lives on my bed.

 

A friend at work gave a Christmas gift bag to me that had this

snowman on it. I love the snowguy so I put it on my

bedroom door.

 

Betcha you'd lose.

KICK-ASS 2 on Blu-ray and DVD. I've been waiting for this

one to come out. We thought it was great in the theater and I can't

wait to see it again. Now I just really hope they make it a trilogy.

The tire place is having a SALE today under

a nice blue and cloudy sky.

 

McDonald's at 1 AM.

 

~ Mr. T's Restaurant, Maine - Circa 1989 ~

You don't have to tell ME twice.

 

A while back I posted a photo of the poster that came with the

Friday the 13th documentary called "His Name Was Jason". The

poster came all folded up and I wasn't sure I wanted to really

put too much effort into framing it. So I bought a cheapy poster

frame and here it is.

But after looking at the poster for a few years now, I decided that I

like it and headed over to Arron Brothers Art Mart to find a little

bit better frame.

 

Wa-laa! I found a pretty good one. Kind of aged

and didn't cost too dang much.

 

~ Happy Friday the 13th! ~

For this Friday the 13th I am showing my Mezco "Screen Grab"

from the movie, Friday the 13th. This is the moment when...

!! SPOILER ALERT !! !! SPOILER ALERT !!

...when young Jason Voorhees pops out of the lake at the end of

the movie scaring the heck out of Alice and us. This piece of F13

collectible is not very pretty to look at, not done very well, but it's

like a lot of my other stuff, just fun to have.

 

ROAR!

(1996 Safari Limited Tyrannosaurus)

In 1963 this reservoir in Baldwin Hills (California)... broke.

It destroyed over 200 homes and several lives were lost.

Sometime after that we flew over it in a private plane and I

took this picture of the aftermath. Yes, I was very young.

I scanned the photo from a contact sheet.

In my never ending quest for the perfect batch of homemade popcorn,

enter Whirley Pop. I've seen these before, and you probably have too.

I saw this one at SEARS and the cost was $19.99 (standard). I received

one for Christmas some years ago but it was damaged and had to be

returned. I never got a replacement but wanted one, so getting this new

popper is good.

The instructions say to put your popcorn and oil into it, then put it over a

medium to medium high heat while slowly turning the crank at the end of

the handle you see in the above photo.

 

The crank turns the gears on top of the popper...

 

...which in turn rotates this bar thing at the bottom of the pot and

keeps your cute little corns moving around and around. This is just

like the movie theater popcorn poppers do, but caveman style.

My regret is that I did not get a photo of my first batch of corn. FAIL!

I made two batches so far and all the kernels popped, I had none

burned and the popcorn was darn good.

 

The popcorn went just perfect with tonight's viewing

of the original "My Bloody Valentine".

Anyway, you can find these poppers all over the place and

there is a Whirley Pop website out there too.
 

P.S. Please forgive my seemingly out of control consumerism

as of late. I'm a MONSTER.

P.S.S. The booklet that comes with the popper states that for

registering your Whirley Pop, there is a 25 year warranty, so I did.

 

I'm not even going to open this Apocalypse Now/Apocalypse

Now Redux Steelbook Edition Bu-ray. When I saw it at Best

Buy it was the biggest no brainer in the history of mankind:

It's mine.

Well, mostly because it was on sale for $14.99. I would have

still bought it if it were $29.99, but I would have had to do the

"Struggle With Myself" dance a bit first just so I didn't feel

guilty. (I hate that.)

 

I paid another visit to Comics N Stuff.

Will you just look at this aisle? Man...

 

...if you are a Star Wars fan who is really into these smaller

figures, you are HOSED. I mean, it's awesome, but you are

HOSED. There are THOUSANDS of 'em. This place will

go out of business and the building will turn to dust long before
you could ever collect all the ones you want. I feel for you.

 

But hey, I found something that I myself have been wanting

for a looooong time. An alien figure. This figure is a Movie

Maniacs Warrior Alien from the movie "Alien: Resurrection."

I bought this figure for about $30 less than I've seen him sell

for online. You win some, you lose some. Today I won.

This guy has been around a while. The package was dirty and

dusty. But a little Goo Gone for any sticker residue and a damp

paper towel later, and he looks shiny and brand new.

 

This is not the exact figure I've been wanting, but it is okay.

They are not easy to come by for me, so I picked it up. It is

not the greatest figure in the world by a long shot, but I like it.
He will, of course, remain unopened.