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Fuuu, its been a busy month already. Can you believe its nearly Thanksgiving? Seeing as how I have 3 households to hit on that one day--marathon Thanksgiving, BABY--I figured, getting my ducks in a row for the upcoming Advent Calendar and hopefully nailing the landing for the funpack then. @_@ I need your luck, prayers and maybe some more booze.
Or more candy, because we've nearly finished off the Halloween stash.
I have no pride.
A jar of sparkly slime and my very own little Franklin buddy. There probably isn't a single person who hasn't seen the Peanuts thanksgiving special, which is the first place where I legit thought toast should always be served at thanksgiving dinner and popcorn should be readily available. Also. Jellybeans.
If you're at home and not being a crazy maniac like me, driving along the California bay area, you should be home for the broadcast of said special on ABC, as well as streaming on Amazon. Watch it for me, because nothing says lovin' like food from the oven....toaster oven.
Also, here's a Vimeo link to the entire special if you wanna get your pretzel and jellybean on.
Another fabu pack of cards. The Guinness World record cards are interesting, as seeing as how they were printed in 1992. How many of them are still record holders? Morbidly, there's a card for first female astronaut (cosmonaut to be more accurate), and the first thing I thought of looking at it was "you mean, the first female astronaut to go up AND come down in one piece." Morbid, I know. I watch too much dark science tv shows.
A pack of beanie baby cards makes me look back and marvel not only at the fad but how MANY of those fuckers they made. I mean seriously, with the variations alone on just the bear, I could stuff a mattress and have tons left over for pillows.
The Dragonheart cards are neat, though they're super long and don't exactly fit in the card sleeves but those kinds of cards are really cool. The Sabrina cards and Nightmare Before Christmas also round it out nicely.
Speaking of unorthodox Thanksgivings, here's Dino Drac's emergency pack for one (or 2 if you're generous, and I am). The newsletter even has some nutritional data for the soup, and the craisins are gluten free (though weren't they always...?), so you can be sure its good for most dietary restrictions. Except sugar, cuz yum yum yum, here comes cherry Kool Aid. Doc and I will probably hit this up on the late end of our marathon, probably after our THIRD dinner. Another year, we got some pretzels, a pack of popcorn, and other tasty treats in honor of Charlie Brown, our patron saint of fuck ups that work out. Also, I am quite amused with the tagline on the sunflower seeds: "eat, spit and be happy". Hell, that's a good life philosophy right there.
TELL ME YOU MOFOS REMEMBER THESE SUCKAS.
Your eyes aren't lying to you my friends, you remember those tasty packets of sweet joy from your childhood. Housed in a little carton like orange juice, I used to freebase this shit like nobody's business. They were the kind of gum that you would literally eat like candy because it wasn't really all that bubblegummy. As much as I would love to gobble those down, being from 19goddamn84, I probably will be best off by sealing them in a Christmas ornament and hanging them from the tree. I'll have to work something out for a unique display and remember the good times when I could eat them. Someone make me a time machine so I can eat them again without fear of stomach destruction. It was wrapped in a piece of the pretty blue paper from earlier months so I'm excited to use it in this month's flower with the red paper already included.
Here's the monthly mini poster, with the month's sticker. DUDE WHOA DINO DRAC HAS PANTS. Niiiiiice. :3
iPhone pics don't do these justice; they're pretty vibrant and colorful in real life. I really like the sticker, which has DinoDrac with a box of holiday decorations. Its great to have so many neat stickers over the years. I wish I still have all my sticker books from when I was a kid; but I'd probably blind anyone who took them outside cuz DAMn i used to collect shiny holographic ones like a magpie.
The newsletter has the aforementioned link to the lipton soup packet, which is nice, as well a list of the included goodies and an art challenge for the month: a holiday version of your favorite monster.
The essay, about how last thanksgiving was spent at home sick--and vaguely I think I remember hearing about it perhaps on IG--who reminds me of a throwback to an older essay in which he spent christmas with a fever. As someone who gets sick often and usually around important days (I can't remember how many times I've has a fever and flu on my own birthday but I can tell you its at least 3), with all the hectic busy-ness of the holidays, I can totally see the appeal of being sick and just vegging during a high traffic day. Sometimes, relaxing on the holidays is something we no longer have the luxury of so when the opportunity arrives, it might be best to ride it out.
Well, that's 11 boxes down. See you for 12 next month!
--Dio (11/20/17)
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