Sunday, March 30, 2008
SPACEY'S RACIST COMMENT 'O' THE DAY.
i eat a lot of fast food because i have a terrible diet.
so there.
but living in this area and eating at the places i do i think that we need to institute the opposite of affirmative action. i think these burger/chicken/taco joints should be required to hire at least 2 people who actually give a crap about their jobs, the customers and just quality of life in general.
one of the tests would be to find what is wrong with this sign.
aaaaand more:
i guess this could be an employee quiz. if you can't figure out what is wrong with these signs, especially the large misspelling of STOP, then i'm sorry but we can't use you at this time. good luck.
and what the heck is a SALDINE?
i eat a lot of fast food because i have a terrible diet.
so there.
but living in this area and eating at the places i do i think that we need to institute the opposite of affirmative action. i think these burger/chicken/taco joints should be required to hire at least 2 people who actually give a crap about their jobs, the customers and just quality of life in general.
one of the tests would be to find what is wrong with this sign.
aaaaand more:
i guess this could be an employee quiz. if you can't figure out what is wrong with these signs, especially the large misspelling of STOP, then i'm sorry but we can't use you at this time. good luck.
and what the heck is a SALDINE?
Sunday, March 23, 2008
FOO YOU!!!
alright!
the truth is, the next entry is taking me longer to write than i thought it should, so it is still in draft form. barely even done. so there.
so i decided that as a quick fix, i can share this beautiful piece of art that my 5 year old daughter drew for me, by request.
i told her i wanted a picture of me fighting a dinosaur with a sword.
i think she did a great job. she was especially proud that she gave me hair in the picture. i'm ecstatic that she figured out all by herslef that if you're going to draw something fantastic and whimsical, you might as well go all the way. that probably also explains why the sun is shining particularly bright during this epic battle.
not everybody would benefit by having a dad like me, but i like to think i'm doing a good job in shaping my children's minds. remember i also have a wifey who helps round her influences out a bit.
it can't always be lightsabers in lollipops in this world of ours.
somedays you have to pay your bills, your dues and the piper.
and remember: you won't like me when i'm angry.
alright!
the truth is, the next entry is taking me longer to write than i thought it should, so it is still in draft form. barely even done. so there.
so i decided that as a quick fix, i can share this beautiful piece of art that my 5 year old daughter drew for me, by request.
i told her i wanted a picture of me fighting a dinosaur with a sword.
i think she did a great job. she was especially proud that she gave me hair in the picture. i'm ecstatic that she figured out all by herslef that if you're going to draw something fantastic and whimsical, you might as well go all the way. that probably also explains why the sun is shining particularly bright during this epic battle.
not everybody would benefit by having a dad like me, but i like to think i'm doing a good job in shaping my children's minds. remember i also have a wifey who helps round her influences out a bit.
it can't always be lightsabers in lollipops in this world of ours.
somedays you have to pay your bills, your dues and the piper.
and remember: you won't like me when i'm angry.
as promised, i took some pics of the room in my house which is lovingly called "The Star Wars Room."
few married guys in the world have wives who are cool enough to let them have a room in the house dedicated to what they collect and love to display. most guys just get a garage. i got a slight step up from that. i got the room that used to be half the garage. if we were handy people who did projects it would probably be the whole garage made into an extra room. but we have enough trouble keeping the house clean or the pipes from freezing and bursting in the winter. my strength is in breaking things. it's a sucky talent to have sometimes. but i digress.
well, here's some more proof on just how nerdy and lucky i am to be married.
first off here we have a pretty darn cool Darth Vader from japan. the blue carded figure on the wall behind him is the figure i have spent the most money on. it cost me 75 dollars American. at the time i had the money, so i had to have the figure. it's a Jorg Sucal toy. so... George spelled differently and Lucas spelled backwards. so it's basically George Lucas as a rebel pilot action figure. the only way to get it at the time was to have gone to the Star Wars celebration in indianapolis. and that would have cost me more than 75 bucks. plus, i don't think i would want to go to a Star Wars convention. body odor makes me have violent thoughts. and nerds/geeks/freaks/fanboys tend to avoid bathing regularly and deodorant that contains an anti-perspirent as well. take frequent showers, people!!!
so i feel i got a good deal by avoiding all that and plopping down the 75$ at an overpriced vendor.
then there's the Boba Fett and Greedo head statues. they were pretty pricey at one time. but not when i bought them. in fact, most of my stuff is at cheap-o prices from ebay, comic-con or bought from a guy named rudy who was selling toys out of his garage. when most people see my collection of things they know that i'm borderline broke and think i have no right to spend money on toys and junk like this.
truth: i purchased most of this stuff before i had a house, kids and a lawn that needed to be mowed.
and then there's this: i didn't have much of this stuff before i got married either.
that's right.
before i got hitched i had maybe a few old toys on a shelf, some books in boxes, and lots and lots of music CDs.
so that means that i didn't totally nerd out til after the vows were spoken. that's when i bought most of this plastic crack. i haven't bought anything new all that much lately. these days i mainly spend any extra cash i get on computer stuff and books.
like these...
and these.
and these.
actually, there's like 8 more shelves like this. but you get the picture.
now you may think that it's really really nerdy to have a poster of the map of the Star Wars galaxy on their wall... and you would be absolutely right.
but reading all the books about the subject that i have, it is really a cool thing to have.
ahem. moving on.
mini- busts: pretty darn cool little statues that are highly addictive.
most of them are gifts from wifey. i try to get the bounty hunters at least.
i finished off my Ultimate X-Men bust collection thanks to jim. he's still selling them for real cheap if anyone is interested. wink, wink.
my tribute to Colossus, Spider-Man and his symbiotes. also for some strange reason... Galactus. the Tick was up there too, but he decided to take a nose dive at 3 a.m. one day and i'm afraid to put him back. so there.
the X-Men sign was stolen from a wal-mart display from my college days.
orange carded figures. some are signed. Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Darth Vader. i still owe Darth Vader 3 dollars. and yes, there was someone inside Artoo, and i shook his lil hand.
these orange carded ones are special cuz they are from Ireland. dan got em for me for tying him and his wife together with a little blanket. score for Spacey!
"and just how many copies of Star Wars do you need anyway?"
i get that question alot.
this is just the DVD's.
aaaaand here's the VHS as well.
they are all different in their own way. i didn't keep buying the movie every time i saw it.
it's not like i have 100 copies of Catcher in the Rye stored away in my closet or anything.
plus what everybody likes to play with when they enter the Star Wars room. the lightsaber replicas.
one lights up and makes sounds.
one is just a piece of metal.
one is a TV remote control.
the random figure shelf. notice the McKenzie Brothers from Strange Brew, eh?
i'm pretty sure the beast did that on purpose.
the second shelf down is the bounty hunter shelf. you might notice most of them are no longer standing. that is because that shelf is connected to a wall that is connected to a door that gets slammed and awful lot.
the 12" bounty hunter figures. i started to collect these, but that stopped faster than collecting Legos. too expensive and not worth it.
on another note: it's sad how well the camera picked up the spider webs in the pictures.
there's a long and sordid story behind how i acquired this toy. ..and i'm not gonna tell it. so nyeh.
STAR WARS....
UNLEASHED!!!
as you can see, i'm not a very big fan of negative space.
Darth Vader:
-dark lord of the sith.
-employee of the month.
-president of the Wonder Woman fan club.
and the finale.
grrr. arrgh.
few married guys in the world have wives who are cool enough to let them have a room in the house dedicated to what they collect and love to display. most guys just get a garage. i got a slight step up from that. i got the room that used to be half the garage. if we were handy people who did projects it would probably be the whole garage made into an extra room. but we have enough trouble keeping the house clean or the pipes from freezing and bursting in the winter. my strength is in breaking things. it's a sucky talent to have sometimes. but i digress.
well, here's some more proof on just how nerdy and lucky i am to be married.
first off here we have a pretty darn cool Darth Vader from japan. the blue carded figure on the wall behind him is the figure i have spent the most money on. it cost me 75 dollars American. at the time i had the money, so i had to have the figure. it's a Jorg Sucal toy. so... George spelled differently and Lucas spelled backwards. so it's basically George Lucas as a rebel pilot action figure. the only way to get it at the time was to have gone to the Star Wars celebration in indianapolis. and that would have cost me more than 75 bucks. plus, i don't think i would want to go to a Star Wars convention. body odor makes me have violent thoughts. and nerds/geeks/freaks/fanboys tend to avoid bathing regularly and deodorant that contains an anti-perspirent as well. take frequent showers, people!!!
so i feel i got a good deal by avoiding all that and plopping down the 75$ at an overpriced vendor.
then there's the Boba Fett and Greedo head statues. they were pretty pricey at one time. but not when i bought them. in fact, most of my stuff is at cheap-o prices from ebay, comic-con or bought from a guy named rudy who was selling toys out of his garage. when most people see my collection of things they know that i'm borderline broke and think i have no right to spend money on toys and junk like this.
truth: i purchased most of this stuff before i had a house, kids and a lawn that needed to be mowed.
and then there's this: i didn't have much of this stuff before i got married either.
that's right.
before i got hitched i had maybe a few old toys on a shelf, some books in boxes, and lots and lots of music CDs.
so that means that i didn't totally nerd out til after the vows were spoken. that's when i bought most of this plastic crack. i haven't bought anything new all that much lately. these days i mainly spend any extra cash i get on computer stuff and books.
like these...
and these.
and these.
actually, there's like 8 more shelves like this. but you get the picture.
now you may think that it's really really nerdy to have a poster of the map of the Star Wars galaxy on their wall... and you would be absolutely right.
but reading all the books about the subject that i have, it is really a cool thing to have.
ahem. moving on.
mini- busts: pretty darn cool little statues that are highly addictive.
most of them are gifts from wifey. i try to get the bounty hunters at least.
i finished off my Ultimate X-Men bust collection thanks to jim. he's still selling them for real cheap if anyone is interested. wink, wink.
my tribute to Colossus, Spider-Man and his symbiotes. also for some strange reason... Galactus. the Tick was up there too, but he decided to take a nose dive at 3 a.m. one day and i'm afraid to put him back. so there.
the X-Men sign was stolen from a wal-mart display from my college days.
orange carded figures. some are signed. Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Darth Vader. i still owe Darth Vader 3 dollars. and yes, there was someone inside Artoo, and i shook his lil hand.
these orange carded ones are special cuz they are from Ireland. dan got em for me for tying him and his wife together with a little blanket. score for Spacey!
"and just how many copies of Star Wars do you need anyway?"
i get that question alot.
this is just the DVD's.
aaaaand here's the VHS as well.
they are all different in their own way. i didn't keep buying the movie every time i saw it.
it's not like i have 100 copies of Catcher in the Rye stored away in my closet or anything.
plus what everybody likes to play with when they enter the Star Wars room. the lightsaber replicas.
one lights up and makes sounds.
one is just a piece of metal.
one is a TV remote control.
the random figure shelf. notice the McKenzie Brothers from Strange Brew, eh?
i'm pretty sure the beast did that on purpose.
the second shelf down is the bounty hunter shelf. you might notice most of them are no longer standing. that is because that shelf is connected to a wall that is connected to a door that gets slammed and awful lot.
the 12" bounty hunter figures. i started to collect these, but that stopped faster than collecting Legos. too expensive and not worth it.
on another note: it's sad how well the camera picked up the spider webs in the pictures.
there's a long and sordid story behind how i acquired this toy. ..and i'm not gonna tell it. so nyeh.
STAR WARS....
UNLEASHED!!!
as you can see, i'm not a very big fan of negative space.
Darth Vader:
-dark lord of the sith.
-employee of the month.
-president of the Wonder Woman fan club.
and the finale.
grrr. arrgh.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
here's a preview of the next entry.
so there.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURGE!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, March 08, 2008
and then john showed up with easy cheez and crackers.
but that's not the story i promised.
one time john dared me to drink this stuff called Ultimate Orange.
it was a powdered energy drink from one of those crazy health food stores like GNC.
people used it so they could work out harder faster and insane-lier to make bigger muscles and stuff.
so late afternoon at his house he mixed me up a large batch and offered the challenge to swig it down.
it was an orange fizzy drink that tasted like Tang.
i was skeptical at first on it's effectiveness.
but it did not take long at all to kick in.
i don't know whether it was psychosomatic or what, but i could not just sit there and watch MTV anymore.
i had the need to do push ups.
me.
i don't normally do push ups.
at all.
and this was when i was young.
to let you know how young i was when this happened i will tell you that on the MTV we were watching they were actually playing music videos...
at one point john enlightened me on the warning printed boldly on the back of the label that read: "WARNING. This product WILL make you fail a drug test."
needless to say, they no longer sell Ultimate Orange.
i'm sure it's called something else now, and you probably have to go down a back alley to buy it.
the story continues.
after some time watching MTV and doing aerobics, i went home.
but when nightfall came, i could not sleep to save my life.
i was awake until 3 A.M. cursing john's name.
that stuff did the trick.
in this day of energy drinks and larger and larger quantities i fear for your young little hearts.
i do love me some Monster Java Loca Moca though.
mmmmm Loca Moca....
say no to drugs.
but that's not the story i promised.
one time john dared me to drink this stuff called Ultimate Orange.
it was a powdered energy drink from one of those crazy health food stores like GNC.
people used it so they could work out harder faster and insane-lier to make bigger muscles and stuff.
so late afternoon at his house he mixed me up a large batch and offered the challenge to swig it down.
it was an orange fizzy drink that tasted like Tang.
i was skeptical at first on it's effectiveness.
but it did not take long at all to kick in.
i don't know whether it was psychosomatic or what, but i could not just sit there and watch MTV anymore.
i had the need to do push ups.
me.
i don't normally do push ups.
at all.
and this was when i was young.
to let you know how young i was when this happened i will tell you that on the MTV we were watching they were actually playing music videos...
at one point john enlightened me on the warning printed boldly on the back of the label that read: "WARNING. This product WILL make you fail a drug test."
needless to say, they no longer sell Ultimate Orange.
i'm sure it's called something else now, and you probably have to go down a back alley to buy it.
the story continues.
after some time watching MTV and doing aerobics, i went home.
but when nightfall came, i could not sleep to save my life.
i was awake until 3 A.M. cursing john's name.
that stuff did the trick.
in this day of energy drinks and larger and larger quantities i fear for your young little hearts.
i do love me some Monster Java Loca Moca though.
mmmmm Loca Moca....
say no to drugs.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Spacey made his first batch of cookies as a big boy.
no amazing feat, for sure, but baking is not in my nature.
i am becoming quite domesticated lately.
i never thought about it when i was dating way back when.
i didn't know that the guy who can cook a meal for the girl was "so in there."
i relied on my charm and good looks.
and since my good looks have got their bags packed and the car started in the driveway... aaaaand my charm doesn't seem to sway my wife like it used to, it's a good idea for me to find new tactics.
so having some kind of meal ready for her and the kids when she walks in the door at 6:30 pm seems to score a tremendous amount of points.
being that i'm still very much in love with wifeykins, points are a very good thing.
of course, for every 10 points you earn for doing something good / you lose 1000 points for doing anything remotely bad. it's standard procedure in the marriage handbook.
anyway.
next up:
and then john and i...
Sunday, March 02, 2008
because pictures of food make you hungry, that's why!!
that, and laziness. recently, i discovered facebook and made it a part of my life. that's why this has been a sad week for www.spacemanrocks.com. but don't worry kids. i can see myself already getting bored with it. although i do love me some pieces of flair.
i should go on a rant soon. previous popular rants involved vegans with attitudes and pooping in public places. so either give me a new subject in the comment section or send a self addressed stamped envelope to "happy dude 364 evergreen terrace springfield USA" and we here at www.spacemanrocks.com will get back to your suggestions as soon as possible.
good evening and have a pleasant tomorrow.
