Garbage Pail Kids
Brand New Series 3 - Card 152a
Dec 31, 2013
Dec 26, 2013
Dec 25, 2013
Dec 24, 2013
Yoshi The Green-Nosed Dinosaur
Super Nintendo Promo Sign
Pepsi (1991)
For the 1991 holiday season, Pepsi partnered with Nintendo in a promotion to give away SNES consoles and other prizes, including Super Secrets trading cards.
Dec 23, 2013
Nooooo Basket
Thursday, December 23, 1993
Los Angeles Lakers @ Miami Heat
Miami Arena - Miami, FL
Seats: section 124, row L, seats 1 - 2
Results: Heat defeat Lakers, 109 - 92 [Basketball-Reference]
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The only basketball game I have ever been to was 20 years ago today. Someone that my Dad worked with gave us two tickets to the Miami Heat vs. Los Angeles Lakers on the night before Christmas Eve. It was one of the most fun and memorable nights I ever spent with my father, and one we still joke about to this day.
It really wouldn't make sense to anyone but he and I, but one of the funniest memories I have of that night happened at the end of one of the quarters. Someone threw up a shot that either didn't go in or hadn't been shot until after the buzzer. Over the speakers, we heard: "No basket. Naaaooooooo basket!". The announcer dragged out the word "no" to a ridiculous level. Dad and I looked at each other and burst out laughing like a couple of lunatics. Everyone sitting around us must have thought we had lost our minds. We didn't say a word because we knew we were thinking the exact same thing. My grandmother (his mother) would dramatically shout the word "no" in that same exact manner when she was in one of her moods. In the twenty years since this game, Dad and I must have said "Naaaooooooo basket" to each other at least a hundred times.
Another funny memory we have of that night was one of the little games they play with the crowd. I can't remember the game - something like a cartoon race on the big screen, or something along those lines. The announcer said that our section had won, and each person would receive a free Miami Heat Croakie. Without missing a beat, Dad looked at me and said "What the hell is a croakie?" A few people sitting near us thought that was hysterical, and they explained to both of us that it's an elastic band that you stick on your glasses. I still have mine to this day, and I never once put it on my glasses. I'm still not clear about what it's for.
Dec 22, 2013
Crispety, Crunchety, Peanut Butter Cupety
Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups
Nestle (2013)
Our office finally got a shipment of samples of the newest product in the Butterfinger line - Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups. The good news is that we're getting an opportunity to try them before they hit retail shelves. The bad news is that they only sent us enough for everybody to have one cup. Not one pack of cups... one cup. Come on, folks... at least let us bring a few home for our families to try too!
The center is a mixture of peanut butter with what I believe are small bits of the Butterfinger candy center. It reminded me a bit of a Nestle Crunch bar, because each of the hard pieces are almost microscopic, but there are enough of them mixed in to give it a crispy texture throughout. I wouldn't say that they're better or worse than a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, but the flavor is different enough to warrant buying both.
The center is a mixture of peanut butter with what I believe are small bits of the Butterfinger candy center. It reminded me a bit of a Nestle Crunch bar, because each of the hard pieces are almost microscopic, but there are enough of them mixed in to give it a crispy texture throughout. I wouldn't say that they're better or worse than a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, but the flavor is different enough to warrant buying both.
Dec 21, 2013
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Dec 19, 2013
Sheetz Is Turning The Hose On Me
Sheetz MTO Sub Sauce
Sheetz (2013)
If you're going to spoof The Silence Of The Lambs for a condiment, it really should be something spicy so that you could call it Buffalo Bill Sauce.
Dec 18, 2013
Dec 17, 2013
Red Sea Crossing
Atari 2600 in the Red Sea
Salem Express Shipwreck
Source: Diver Magazine - June 2013
The Salem Express ship crashed into the Hyndman Reefs on the Egyptian just after midnight on December 17th, 1991, killing 470 passengers and sending the ship and its contents to the bottom of the Red Sea. This Atari 2600 has recently been photographed by scuba divers who are investigating the wreckage. Today marks 22 years since the Salem Express sank, and the Atari remains in the ocean to this day.
Update: More about the wreckage and this photograph can be found at Divernet.com. Information about the ship has been published by RedSeaWreckProject.com.
Dec 10, 2013
Thank You, Doc
Roy Halladay
Toronto Blue Jays (1998 - 2009)
Philadelphia Phillies (2010 - 2013)
One of the greatest pitchers to ever put on a Phillies uniform has ended his remarkable career. Thank you, Mr. Halladay.
One of the greatest pitchers to ever put on a Phillies uniform has ended his remarkable career. Thank you, Mr. Halladay.
Dec 7, 2013
Dec 4, 2013
Dec 3, 2013
You Have Sticker Anxiety, Charlie Brown
Peanuts Sticker Series: Volume 1
Sonic Drive-In (2013)
Does anyone else keep stickers forever without using them because you can't find the perfect place to stick them, and you just know that you're going to regret it the second after you do? I got these from Sonic earlier this year, and I have a hunch that it's going to remain intact on my bookshelf for the rest of my life.
The blue ones on the snowflake page are scratch and sniff. They smell like peppermint!
Dec 2, 2013
Dec 1, 2013
Would Their Offspring Be A Dragontoad?
Battletoads Double Dragon
Tradewest (1993)
I don't know which of these things gives me more of a warm and fuzzy nostalgic feeling, the game or the toy store.
Nov 30, 2013
Interstellar
Interstellar
Funai (1983)
This is the package artwork for a laserdisc-based game developed for arcades and the MSX computer.
Nov 29, 2013
Once Upon The Lunar Surface
Astronaut Poe
Artwork by Toven - Baltimore, MD
Toven's first solo show, called A Certain Deathly Charm, can be seen at the Bank Gallery on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore.
Nov 25, 2013
One Plus One
Chris Cornell
One (U2 / Metallica acoustic mash-up)
From the Second Songbook Tour (2013)
Performed at the Santander Arts Center in Reading, PA - 22 November 2013
Chris Cornell has been one of my favorite singers since I was in the sixth grade, and this is just another example of his talent and brilliance. In this video, he is playing U2 One while singing Metallica One, and the results are absolutely incredible.
Nov 24, 2013
Pressure Cooker Action Figure
Pressure Cooker custom action figure
Created by Dan Polydoris
Body: Cobra Commander
Head: Recondo
Hat: Joseph Colton
Nov 23, 2013
Nov 22, 2013
Keystone Kapers Action Figure
Keystone Kapers custom action figure
Created by Dan Polydoris
Body, Head: Gung Ho (Marine dress blues)
Hat: The Riddler (from the Batman: The Animated Series toy line)
Nov 21, 2013
H.E.R.O. Action Figure
H.E.R.O. custom action figure
Created by Dan Polydoris
Body, Head: Tripwire
Backpack: Breaker
Accessories: metal rod and plastic propeller
Nov 20, 2013
Nov 19, 2013
Activision Action Figures
Dan Polydoris of Chicago Toy Collector has rearranged and repainted parts of G.I. Joe toys from the 80's to create a custom line of action figures based on the artwork of classic Activision games for the Atari 2600.
Nov 12, 2013
Heights Terrace Video
Heights Terrace Video
South Poplar Street - Hazleton, PA
This little video rental shop opened in the Heights Terrace section of Hazleton, PA in 1986, before any of the rental chains came to town. In the years that followed, our town had had a Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video, West Coast Video, Blowout Video, Movie Gallery, Pantry Quik Video and least two dozen other stores who rented movies, including grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations and rival mom-and-pop shops.
Today, all of the major chains have packed up and left town, but a few of the locally owned stores are still in operation. I'm happy to say that Heights Terrace Video is one of them, offering VHS, DVD and Blu-ray rentals at reasonable prices.
I first found Heights Terrace Video when I bought a book of coupons for local businesses when I was a teenager. A woman who I worked with had a son who was selling them for a fundraiser. One of those coupons was a "rent one, get one free" deal that could be used a few times per month throughout the year, so I started coming here to rent movies. I kept renting here because the owner, Bryan, has a nearly complete set of WWF Coliseum Home Videos available to rent, from pay-per-view events to the various rare compilation tapes that were released throughout the 80's and 90's. They're still available to rent to this day. I offered to buy them several times, but he's a wrestling fan too, so he didn't want to get rid of them. However, he did sell me quite a few NES, Genesis and SNES games complete with box and instructions. I still have many of them and play them to this day.
Later on when I was in my early 20's, I lived in a half-double in the Heights that was about a block away from my dad's house and a few blocks from Heights Terrace Video. It was in walking distance, so it became my go-to place for movies. I eventually struck up a friendship with Bryan, and we'd hang out at the store after closing time on Sunday to watch wrestling shows live on pay-per-view.
One of the many ways that Heights Terrace Video differs from any other store that I've been to is the fact that his tapes are not rewound when you rent them, and Bryan expect that his customers won't rewind them when they return the movies to the store. According to Bryan, this is because each individual VCR is different and when you rewind a VHS tape, it sets the tension of the tape to its optimal level for playback. He's also strongly opposed to external rewinding machines for VHS tapes, as a sign by the door explains.
Eventually I moved to West Hazleton and went back to college, so I didn't have as much time to hang out at the video store, but I went back this past April and saw that the place hadn't changed much. They've got a lot more DVD and Blu-ray available to rent, but there's still a heck of a lot of VHS tapes, including the Coliseum Home Video collection. They're still not for sale, and I doubt that they're ever going to be.
Here are some photos of the shop.
Nov 5, 2013
Broaden Your Horizons
Cuteosphere (2013)
I like some girly things because some girly things are pretty awesome. I like some boy stuff because some boy stuff is pretty awesome.
Anyone who is bothered by this can piss off.
Nov 2, 2013
Oct 31, 2013
Oct 30, 2013
Flyin' To Another Title
Shane Victorino
Boston Red Sox (2013)
Former Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino hit an RBI double in the 3rd and an RBI single in the 4th to score 4 of Boston's 6 runs in Game 6 to give the Red Sox their third World Series Championship in ten years. It's the second ring for the Flyin' Hawaiian who was a key member of the 2008 World Champion Phillies. [photo by Jim Davis / The Boston Globe]
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