MACHETE!

..by NECA.

I bought this Mezco Wolfman figure at Blockbuster Video

back in 2010. It is their Exclusive Chase Bloody Variant

from the movie The Wolfman (2010) with Benicio Del

Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. I believe the movie

kind of bombed. I thought it was okay. I think this figure might

go for quite a bit of coinage now (at least quite a bit

 compared to whatever the clearance price I paid was).

If I remember right I actually have two of these.

Uh-oh!

Thrift store movie haul!

My mom and I went thrifting and I spotted these

Goodie Girl Birthday Cake Sandwich Cookies. I had
never heard of Goodie Girl before, but I guess
they are a thing.

What a great logo.

A not so great picture of another

of my mom's beautiful roses.

Finally!

Final Destination: Bloodlines!

I have been waiting to see this one for AGES. I wasn't

able to see it in the theater (sad face), but tonight?

Borden Cinema!

Okay, this Hawaiian Punch powder drink mix in Berry

Blue Typhoon is even better than the Wild Purple Smash.

As flavorful as the Purple Smash is, the Berry Blue
beats it. And it is also way more purdy! Dang.

Mmmmmm.... Hawaiian Punch Grape AKA

Wild Purple Smash, from powder. Dee-LISH!

Great for a hot day.

The Japanese Village and Deer Park was a Japanese-inspired

amusement park located in Buena Park, California, that operated
from 1967 to 1974. Modeled after Nara Park in Japan, it featured
 free-roaming deer, authentic Japanese-style buildings, cultural
 demonstrations, and an aquatheater with marine animal shows.

The back of the brochure.
I visited the park just one time.


Here are my tickets. To tell you the truth, I don't
remember one single thing from the deer park.
I don't think I was impressed.

Here is another old picture that I took with my

Swinger Polaroid Land Camera when I was young.

This is in 1969 and is somewhere on Lake Tahoe.

It was a rainy, dreary day.

TRANSMISSION #87

Mmmm... Taco chips. Not the BEST

taco chips, but still... taaaaaaco chips.

Happy Birthday America, 2025!

I was walking across the parking lot on my way

into work the other day and I found that steel

ball bearing. I picked it up, took it home, washed

the parking lot grime off of it and put it into this

little box on my dresser that is full of other pretty
much useless junk.

Hey look!

Oink oinks have been here!

The grapes are coming back in.

Pretty soon, candy on the vine.

These guys never left.

 

Hot Wheels GHOSTBUSTERS!

2010 Ecto - 1.
I bought this a LONG time ago.

While in line at Jack in the Box

for another late night taco run.

This happened sometime during the night.

We cannot figure out how. It is so far a mystery.

We will just replace it and move on.

I haven't bought a movie in six weeks which is not

common for me, but cash has been a little tight.

And DVD and Blu-ray (FORGET 4K!) prices

are not going down.

BUT, I did today find two movies that were on my list that 

finally made their way into the $5.00 bin at Walmart.
Saw X (might be good) and The Exorcist: Believer (I've not
heard good things, but I want it for my Exorcist Collection.
Hey, I have Exorcist II: The Heretic as well and

that movie is abysmal).

At any rate, I am anxious to find out for myself if I will

enjoy these movies and I am happy to finally have picked

up a few new ones. I hope the dry spell
is over for a while.

Last night on my way home from work I stopped for gas. As

I was filling the tank I looked up just in time to see a SpaceX

ship lifting off. It was almost a year to the day (June 18th) that

we saw our first one lifting off and this one was just as beautiful.

I didn't want to miss any of it by jumping into the car and getting

my phone to record it, so... But I took this picture before leaving

the station.

"On Monday, June 16 at 8:36 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 26 Starlink

 satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East

(SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. 

This was the third flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission,

which has now launched three Starlink missions."

 Aaaawwwwwww.
Whats'a matter little buddy?

Here is another picture I took at Hearst Castle in San

Simeon, California. I took this picture in 1985 with

a film camera. I scanned the photograph.

This is Casa Grande. Casa Grande was inspired by the

Church of Santa María la Mayor in Ronda, Spain.
Construction of this structure began in 1919 and was
completed in 1925.

That this was a private residence is just unreal.

Here is an arial photo of Casa Grande

courtesy of Google Maps.

~ National Flag Day, 2025 ~

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,

and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under

God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Happy Friday the 13th, June 2025!

Looks like a nice cozy little trailer park in a

beautiful mountain setting, doesn't it?

Well it's not. It's Friday the 13th: A New

Beginning onscreen tonight at Borden Cinema

and all HELL is about to break loose.

If you are going to SIT here every week with your young kids

asking passersby for money, it would be nice if you would pack
your trash out when you leave.

Here is another picture I took when I was

very, very young. Some guy caught a

starfish from the Santa Monica Pier.

And when that happens,

ya gotta take a picture.

Here you come again.*

*Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann

Borden Cinema.

The early days. April 25th, 2006.

For some reason, our plant pots always
collect our old, broken stuff.

Happy June 1st, 2025!

TRANSMISSION #82

When this set of three metal wall art posters first went on

sale at Walmart I was kind of excited. I mean, Friday the

13th was one of 'em and I am all OVER F13.

The Exorcist is pretty cool too. IT is okay.
But they are charging $34.98 for these things.
C'mon Walmart. NO WAY.



But the other day? In the clearance section? $10.
I can do $10. And I did.

~  Memorial Day 2025 ~

I bought this resqme tool at REI some time ago.
It is an emergency seatbelt cutter/window breaker.

The Word of the Day is:
ONIONRINGS.

"What I want is a view where I can see a tree, or even water."
Let's stay with NECA again today.

It's Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs.

What a nut.

It's Pai Mei from Kill Bill: Volume 2.
Gogo Yubari and her Meteor Hammer
are kind of in his way.

- NECA -

I bought a few Strawberry Sundae candles, opened them

up and put them in my closet. Now every time I open the

doors... aaaaahhhhhhhhh.

And now we know how
Hole 10 lost his tooth.

 

TRANSMISSION #79

MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU 2025

 >>> PLAY <<<

I noticed my mom using a letter opener that had been
around a while and I wondered where it came from. It had an
inscription on the top of it so I looked
it up on the internet.

Coco Joe's, based in Punaluu, Hawaii, produced lava
resin souvenirs popular with tourists. Founded in the 1950s,
the company thrived through the 1960s

to the 1980s before closing.

Their black resin pieces, made from pulverized
Hawaiian lava mixed with resin, are now sought-after
collectibles and offer an affordable way to explore

Hawaiian culture and art. The "blade" is stainless steel.

Nobody around here knows how this thing
made it's way onto The Ranch.