Out of the blue

I bet you are wondering what that is? It is a 11.4 L bucket of bubblegum blast ice cream. That is a lot of ice cream. These were supposed to go to the Real Canadian Wholesale Club, but got shipped to us by mistake. We don't have a code to sell them, so the manager just said to sell the for $5 each. $5 for 11L of ice cream?! I wasn't even at work the day this all went down but Dennis from front end told me about it because he bought 3 buckets of the stuff. On Sunday we were cleaning up a pallet of ice cream and I found two of these bucket left. Too bad all the decent flavors were gone, but for $5 it doesn't matter much. The ice cream is Breyers, so at least it is a decent brand. Still I can't see myself eating the entire bucket because that would probably kill me. I just open it and take a couple spoonfuls and put it in the freezer. Plus I love the smell. I just have to get my $5 worth before I throw it in the garbage.

I think I need a bigger spoon.

New shoes!

I wanted some new slip-on shoes for summer and after seeing these on eBay I decided I wanted a pair of the Vans Johnny Ramone shoes. Buying shoes off the internet is probably not all that smart because you can't try them on. I actually tried checking out stores to try a pair on, but everybody had regular lace up Vans, not the slip on shoes. I just decided to take a chance and blind buy a pair of size 11's and pray they fit...and they do! Kind of. They are little bit tight and my toes are just shy of the end. Hopefully once I start wearing them more they will break in and loosen up a little or else I'll be crippled. I'll take my chances.

I wonder if Willie has got a pair of the Kurt Cobain shoes from Converse. Courtney Love must really need the money first she sells the right to the Kurt's songs, sells out to Converse and now reunites Hole. Kurt Cobain merch coming soon to Wal-Mart!

Let's go! I changed up the boom box with some music more fitting to the occasion.

Happy Rockin' Canada Day!!

Look into my eyes!

It's scary I know. Today me and Cody went to Kensington and while Another Dimension was my main stop I thought since we were there to go check out called Livingstone & Cavell Extraordinary Toys. It's kind of a fancy toy store that mixes educational toys with plain crap. I still don't know how they can label themselves as having "extraordinary toys" when they sell fake dog poo and fart powder. I guess they do put the toys in an upscale bag with handles.

Despite having educational toys I did see a few things I wanted like a penant that said "Despair", water pistol with ejectable clip, a slide whistle and most of all a Zap Brannigan gun. They had some metal Futurama toys like the aforementioned gun, Bender smoking cigar, a super shiny chrome Bender and a Gender Bender figure. While I'm too poor to get them all I decided to get a pair of the freaky looking glasses that make you look like you aren't wearing glasses. I would like to get the "Despair" penant if I ever go back and I probably will soon because I want to get some cupcakes from Crave (yes, still!) and a t-shirt from Rocket.

Also, after checking out the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World website I see they've posted a new video blog that has some Chris Murphy in it! "Murph" is the "musical director" on the film which has him teaching actors on to look like they are musicians. From the blog he says he is doing a good job, but that is just his enormous ego. You know those rock stars.

Yo Joe!

This summer sees the release of two movies based on classic 80's cartoons, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. The first Transformers movie sucked and they second is supposed to be even worse. I'm scared for the G.I. Joe because it will probably just be as lame, but it should kick ass based on the source material.

Way back when Rhino and Sony Wonder released both of these on DVD, but since then they have lost the rights and the DVDs are long out of print. I had all the Transformers sets except season 4 part 2 and I have the G.I. Joe miniseries set and season 1 part 1. Now Shout! has made new sets and will have them on the shelves just it time to cash in on the movie hype! They will be released in parts like Transformers Season 1 Part 1 which is already out or you can save a little cash and buy the complete series sets with exclusive packaging and extras.

Check out http://www.gijoecollectorsset.com/ and http://www.transformerscollectorsset.com/ for all the details on extras and to see the packaging. Since I already have all the old Transformers I might just wait and pick up the second half of the final season, but I'd really like the entire G.I. Joe series. It is pretty pricey and really the best Joe episodes were the original mini series with the Weather Dominator and the MASS Device. But again the packaging is sweet as well as having some decent extra features other than character profiles. If anyone has some extra cash feel free to buy these for me.

Back in April Cartoon Network aired some new G.I. Joe shorts on it's Adult Swim line up called G.I. Joe: Resolute. They also aired on Teletoon, but I totally missed them. There were 10 five minutes episode and a 10 minute finale. Check out the website and you can see the trailer which looks kinda cool. The anime styled animation look pretty good but lets hope there are plenty of explosions. The episodes aren't on the website and since we are in Canada they can't be viewed at Adult Swim, so if you want to view one just head over to YouTube. I'm too lazy to watch it, but I read it actually has a good story, excellent animation and violent action scenes, apparently people die! I like it already. I'm sure they will be on DVD eventually anyway, but I get it on BluRay.

Transform and roll out!

Oh yeah! Oh no!!

This morning I went to go down into town and discovered I had locked my keys in the car. My dad brought Dan up who works at his shop to break into my car and after a few minutes all was good. Once I made it into town getting around was a pain because there were like four different places where they had the road torn up and there was a big accident on the strip that was slowing up traffic.

I went to the mall, the Tamarack, not the Cranbrook Mall and found out that they now have a Dollarama! That's pretty cool and since there isn't anything else in there I checked it out. I bought a couple Oh Henry chocolate milkshake drinks and an EMI new wave compilation CD. Now whenever I come home I'll really have something to look forward to.

Some bad news is that the CD Plus is history! That really sucks for people who buy music because for a little store in a little town they did have a decent selection of music and movies. I could always find stuff there I wanted and bought stuff I've never seen in a store in Calgary. Damn the economy, it all the US' fault! Now the people of Cranbrook (and area) have no choice but to get their music from Wal-Mart. I guess it will encourgage people to illegally download their music if there is place to buy it. Willie should open his own record store now, it is his dream some true. He might have to stock country music and easy listening so as to not alienate any customers though.

At Christmas me and Cam also checked out this video game store that was kinda in the Tamarack Mall which is also now closed. That wasn't a big shock because it was pretty much just a EB Games clone, but not as good and I think one EB Games is enough.

Still here.

Greetings from Cranbrook. Despite it was Sam Steele Days over the weekend I really haven't been down into town much. But where would I go anyway? On Monday it rained all day which was pretty crappy, good thing I brought a jacket. I also dug out my bike which was covered in dust, but aside from a few rusty screws it looks to be in decent shape. I was scared my chain and gears might be rusty, but they looked fine. The tires were flat, so I put some air in them and we'll see if they stay inflated or if I need new tubes. I do need some new petals and a new seat because the one that is on their now is too small for my fat ass. I'm used to sitting on a nice comfy couch and not a little bike seat.

I managed to get all comics somewhat "organized" and I use that term very loosely. I can't believe I have an entire long box of nothing but Gen 13 comics. I didn't realize I had that many and I have two long boxes of Star Wars comics. I have too many comics and the crappy part is that they are pretty much worthless. I did find that I had Mr. T and the T-Force issue #2 which is great because I'm sure you'll all remember that I bought Mr. T and the T-Force issue #1 from the Phoenix $1 bin and it was autographed. So cool! Now I just have to track down the other 8 issues...or maybe not...whatever.

Today I went to go downtown and when I got in my car I saw this toad sitting my tire. I reached down to shoo him away and he jumped under the car. I had to use Avery's plastic toy shovel to scoop him out and put him out of harms way. A long time ago we used to have this enormous toad that would sometimes come out from under the cement pad of the car port, but he only did so at night. I guess this guy is like a descendant of his, but he seems to come out during the day. When I was trying to take his picture he was getting all mad and moving around.

Don't piss him off because this toad takes badassery to a whole 'nother level! He'll kick your ass, drink your beer, f*ck your girlfriend and rob your house cuz that's how he rolls!