Quite possibly the greatest toy ever. No, I am going to say that it was the greatest toy ever. So all you people saying you like the AT-AT – screw you – because…well…because I never owned one. It wasn’t a flashy toy by any means – it didn’t turn into a robot or a bug or toaster oven. It even had a chess table as an accessory – He-Man would never play chess. This was a toy for the intelligent and discriminating consumer. It did have one thing going for it however – it was big. So big that I had to use both of my puny little nine year old arms to fly it around my house. That is until I discovered the ultracool “grab it by the front landing gear” maneuver. There is something to be said for a toy with this kind of heft – it had…it had meaning. You had to respect a toy that, if you were attacked by a rampaging pack of spider monkeys, you were pretty sure you could use it to bludgeon your way to safety. Not that there were too many rampaging packs of spider monkeys in Bozeman, Montana, but it was still comforting to have that knowledge in your back pocket. Over the years I learned I must set aside my boyhood things, I don’t even recall what became of my beloved Falcon, but to this day whenever I see one in a Toys R Us part of me still longs to take that giant box in my hands and make the Kessel Run one last time.
Perhaps my daughter would like one for her first birthday…and maybe an AT-AT too.
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Who doesn’t want an extra day off? I’ve often wondered why we as a nation just don’t switch to working four 10 hour days and always having three days off. It makes the most sense really. Two days are never enough and four days – fantastic in their own right – is practically a vacation and makes it even harder to go back to work. But three, as they say, is the magic number. One day to fully unwind and let the week’s work go and then you have two more days to do whatever you want! It’s Genius!
Three day weekends rock the house. End of story.
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Because they make your heart happy! Well, actually, I am sure they will make your heart enlarge. But they do make your brain forget about your troubles for a while. Although, that is probably because of all the chemicals they pump into them to keep it “fresh”. Oh, and the hog snouts, which I believe were used as a hallucinogenic by the Choctaw. Arteries…bad. Colon…wrong. Blood pressure…sorry, try again. Actually, I don’t think there is anything even remotely good for you in one of these little suckers, but still…daaaaaaammmnnnn…
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“You gotta hear this one song—it’ll change your life.”
So says Sam (Natalie Portman) in the movie “Garden State” and you know what? I think she’s right. This song doesn’t hold any strong emotional feelings for me or anything like that but it certainly has a hold on me. It’s one of those songs that you could listen to forever and never get tired of it.
A great, great song.
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