12/22/2012: Digital Antenna (and Cable)

The Mayans were right!!! How else do you explain my losing my cable (right) and having to resort to watching TV via an over-the-air antenna (left). What is this, the 70's?!?! Sure you can say that the Mayans had nothing to do with it. That it was just a chain reaction brought on by getting 14 inches of snow that weighted down a tree that had a big branch snap off that took out a neighbor's power feed that pulled over a utility pole that snapped my cable.  You can say that... if you're a fool! I know what really happened.

See also: Santa Darth Bobble Head; Gold Plate

12/19/2012: Hermey Bobble Head

The cavalcade of Christmas crap continues with everyone's favorite claymation elf dentist, Hermey. In Bobble head form.

See also: Holiday Hamster

9/28/2012: Complete Buffy the Vampire Slayer

When I was unemployed I watched the complete Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all 7 seasons, again. Haven't seen them since then. Maybe I'll get lucky and lose my job again soon so I have the time. 

See Also: Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Lost

7/20/2012: Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock T-Shirt

This Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock T-Shirt was inspired by an episode of The Big Bang Theory. I'll let Sheldon and Raj explain it:

Raj: [Suggesting a way to determine which TV show to watch] I'll tell you what. How about we go rock-paper-scissors?

Sheldon: Ooh, I don't think so. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the game of rock-paper-scissors, players familiar with each other will tie 75 to 80% of the time due to the limited number of outcomes. I suggest rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Raj: What?

Sheldon: It's very simple. Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

See Also: Millennium Falcon T-Shirt, Key Bowl

5/19/2012: Cartman Mouse Pad

I've had this Cartman mouse pad for a very very long time. Well over a decade now. The foam is desiccated and crumbling around the edges and I shudder to think how filthy the thing is. I'd wash it but I'm pretty sure that would destroy it. When a plague eventually does sweep the earth bringing about a zombie apocalypse, chances are it will be from a super germ or virus that grew on this mouse pad.

See Also: TV Shows; Samsung Computer Monitor

4/24/2012: Homer Coffee Cup

3/2/2012: Dwight Bobble Head

2/9/2012: Mask on a Stick

This mask on a stick is one of those "where the hell and why the hell did I get THAT???" items. It does fit into my world crap theme (see my earlier key cabinet post for details on that) and I keep it because it reminds me of a funny bit from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

"Don't you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead." 

- Giles(in a mocking tone)

1/5/2012: Stephen Hawking Action Figure

I no longer have a lot of the collectibles I purchased in younger days (note: "collectible" is a term used by adult geeks to justify buying items such as comics or toys or Star Wars sheets that most would consider things only suitable for children to have). But one I had to hold onto was my Stephen Hawking action figure, from his appearance on The Simpsons. Why did I feel compelled to keep this particular collectible when most others have either been packed away in boxes in my basement or given away? If you have to ask that then maybe you didn't read what this is. It's a Stephen Hawking... ACTION FIGURE. How effing sweet is that?

1/4/2012: Seasons 1, 2 & 3 of Lost

Time was my entire Wednesday night was dedicated to one thing: Lost. And a good chunk of my Thursday morning was dedicated to explaining the prior night's episode to my manager. Lost was the last show I completely geeked out on. At least for the first few seasons. I'd read online about it. Look for clues. Have long message board discussions about it. Loved it so much I felt compelled to buy Lost seasons 1, 2 and 3 on DVD.

Unfortunately the show eventually collapsed under the weight of the mythology it had created, and I stopped caring long before it actually ended. Struggled to make it through each week's episode. In the end, none of that mythology mattered. I felt cheated by the finale - basically everything that drew me into the show early on (the mystery, the numbers, the polar bear, Darma, etc) was dismissed as not important in the end. And though the end was disappointing, the beginning was great. In my opinion season 1 remains one of the most brilliant TV seasons of a show ever.