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Its summer, which means its time for the sangria and hibiscus tea and the watching of the Netflix and the Hulus, with your kids and your hula hoops and pierced i dunno whats.
Hey, I'm only crotchety cuz I work MORE during the summer months in the education sector. BAH.
But fortunately Dino Drac has my back when it comes to being a kid even when I have to adult and drive in insane morning traffic.
Let's start with the great food items like Kool Aid and Utz chips. I have been told by the newsletter that there isn't crab in it, but I'm always a fan of imitation crab, so if this is imitation imitation crab, I might be set for an Inception recursion of tastebud knock out.
Fuck that sentence is getting away from me. Someone stop it before it bets too far--too late.
If this stuff is good enough for the Rifftax guys, its good enough for me (though I don't think I've tried the cheese balls, which Mike and the boys mentioned were god's holy nectar in the Samurai Cop live).
Speaking of nectar of the gods, Hawaiian Punch does on the go singles, which makes me happy. This will be a lunch treat when things get too bad at camps, I know it.
AYAYYYY LOLLIPOPS. That is all.
A collection of trading cards, from Garfeild to Popeye, and Hagar in between. Lee Macleod was an illustrator that did a lot of fantasy sci-fi kinda stuff for movies and games. There's even a card for a rejected comp for Spinal Tap in there. There's a sort of glossy, sci-fi look to it, with some small touches of Boris Vallejo (VERY SMALL). A nice spread from vikings to space ladies to even alien cowboys. Its kinda like Heavy Metal SUPERLITE.
The Hagar cards are really bright and vibrant on really glossy cards. I was a little surprised about those. The Popeye ones are pretty nice, with art, concepts and excerpts of strips. The Garfield ones have classic stuff, concepts, a card for the movie (which Bill Murray probably wants us to forget about), and a window cling. Definitely stuff for the orange cat afficionado.
The Ghostbusters 2 cards are a treat (don't eat the gum!), since its one of my favorite films. During Fanime's Robot Armageddon, one of the "joke" entrants was the remote controlled Statue of Liberty. Libby did pretty good for a harbor chick, clearing her bracket.
Speaking of the film, a keychain for the film is included in the pack. I don't really have the need to save and hoard things like this for collectors so I took that sucker out and put him on my keyring, which has 3 times more keychains than actual keys on it. For real. I have like 3 keys on my ring and the rest are keychains. I might have a problem, but believe me, I'm never without a face mask for CPR, a multitool, a flashlight, or a keychain for London. SEE WHO'S PREPARED FOR THE APOCALYPSE NOW.
A selection of POGs is the specimen this month which is GREAT. In the last few years I've been subscribed to DinoDrac's funpacks, I've got enough to play with at least 2 more people. Provided they bring their own slammers cuz I'm sure as hell ain't sharing my Apollo 13 one.
Yeah, I've got a lot of interesting pogs from these packs.
Some highlights were a holographic tibetan monk tiger turning into a bloodthirsty killer weretiger (not even kidding), a Johnny Cage pog, a sparkly rum and coke with a mini sexy chick popping out, and a the little alien chap in the pic there. Good stuff. :3
Speaking of, I put all my pogs in a box, and one of the ones facing up is one purportedly from the Casper movie, but its dark and has 2 streaks of light in it. So I assume that film had face-paced lightsaber battles and I was just asleep and missed it when I was a kid.
One of my favorite included goodies of all the funpacks was this jar of "brokemon", or profoundly bootleg mini figures with bad paint jobs. I grew up in the age of bad chinese knockoffs back when I was a kid, and man I loved how inaccurate they looked. These aren't badly done, though they show a distinct lack of, shall we say, artestry in making sure the eyes are properly in the right spots or even in proportion to one another. I LOVE IT.
It'll go right with this HILARIOUS knock off Lego set I found on vacation at the hotel by Disneyland. This PokeMEN (! 8D) itoy (?? 8/) includes one Ash-ish looking mother fucker and a pokemen, in this case an eevee...excuse me, a CHARMANDER.
Seriously folks. IT CALLS IT A CHARMANDER. A CHARMANDER.
I cannot even handle this epic legging of boot here. I can't.
I am so proud to say I paid $6 for this. You can't get this kinda shit for more. Maybe for less. Pretty sure for less.
Lookit the back. OMG I CAN'T EVEN.
Sonic having blue arms doesn't even come CLOSE to this.
I wish there had been more of these in the shop. If you guys ever find one of these, please let me know via my tumblr at humanscandrivestick, cuz I WANT THEM ALL.
I'm sorry, I'm off topic here. Just to repeat, this ISN'T something in the funpack, but looks like it should have been.
Back on my original point, those bootlegs, eh?
"Need to grab most of them!"
Here are the stickers, already in my sticker book to keep all the suckers in one place and labeled. You should see the book I keep the mini-posters in. Speaking of, its delicious this month with tons of cereal I remember all tasting like sugar cardboard.
I miss that stuff. Does anyone remember the Rice Krispie Treats cereal? it was basically all the broken pieces of the commercially sold treats they still sell. That cereal was the bomb in milk. It made even 2% milk, that bastard foggy water, taste delicious. After a box of that, I look like that walrus up there. I mean I already do, but I'd get a pair of slick ass glasses to show how sated I am.
The essay is on poolside shinanigans, which reminded me of my pool days. My mom had a house with a pool in the middle of a garden. My mom kept roses near it. I never saw the logic of thorns near a pool but whatever. Matt used to have super soaker fights in the pool, something I've sadly NEVER done as I've never had either of those at the same time. As an adult, I suppose I should fix that. We bought a dog shaped wading pool for the dogs, and it took 106 degree heat to coax Cody to wade around and hog it while Luna the puppy barked her girly bark at him cuz she wanted it to herself. Puppies are like kids, only they bite harder. We've yet to figure out a solution for the dogs jumping out, running in the dirt and dust under the tree and then muddying the pool after by wrestling in it, but we're all entitled to a learning curve in puppy ownership and wading pool ownership. @_@
The newsletter invites us to design our own pog. I ended up making a Seal of Metaron from Silent Hill 3. Cuz you never know when you gotta make some seals and deal with God. The little prop in the pic is a paper clay version made with a mold I bought from Etsy (unfortunately the seller is no longer on there). Turned out all good all things considered.
Keep cool, Lunies! Its gonna be a hot summer!
--Dio (6/30/17 lol)
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