Mystery Toy

Ah, blogging, how I’ve missed ye. Anyway on to the superfluous post….

Today’s topic: Mystery Toy. Recently I took my son, Nathaniel, to Burger King for lunch. We don’t eat fast food often, mostly because he won’t touch the stuff. For example he will gladly eat seaweed salad with one chopstick, will scarf miso soup, dive into steak tips and eat fresh salsa and chips but nothing from the e-coli stands that dot the land. Chicken nuggets and fries? no effin way. So I spank him a lot, I mean the kid has to learn some respect for corporate food offerings right? Still I had spent the morning stuck in traffic so a quick lunch was needed..

What was I talking about? Oh yeah. See with the meal the kid won’t eat came a toy. As picky as he is about only eating carefully prepared food he doesn’t have the same high standards concerning toys. You could wrap a rock in a piece of plastic, call it a toy and he would treasure it forever (I know because I’ve done just that).

The toy:

Obviously it is Darth Sidious (Burger King is pimping Star Wars…or Star Wars is pimping Burger King, it is difficult to tell anymore). It is a little less imposing because it is a midget Darth Sidious and when things get shrunk to proportions like Mini Sidious they become less threatening (I think it has to do with neoteny or something). Still it looks like it does something, I mean there’s a hole for evil in the midst of Darth’s hands and the back (check it out my peoples)

has two buttons. Two buttons mean four configurations and I’ve tried all four and nothing has happened. Well, I do feel like building a giant ball of destruction, flying through the galaxy surrounded by plastic clad minions and laying waste to entire planets but I’ve felt like that for quite some time. What’s the world coming to when the quality of fast food toys is less than 100%?

I know, you want links not my disjointed ramblings. Well it is links you’re going to get! Links sponsored completely by:

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Once Upon a Jedi
Star Wars themed (so it fits in with today’s topic) and pretty good. Worth the download.

Brew Beer in a coffee pot
I’ve brewed plenty of beer and all you really need is some yeast, water, hops, malt and two plastic buckets and you’re ready to go. The coffee pot method seems like a lot of work for very little beer. Still it beats making coffee.

Night of the Living Dead
Yes, really, the entire movie online. Nifty.

Really Bad Jobs
Sure they’re trying to sell you Verizon cell services but it is a great ad.

I suppose that is enough for one Saturday, please return to your regularly scheduled things. In the case of one glutton for punishment: your post-hole digger.