Monthly Archives: May 2017

Umm, a little help

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Steve

Somara came home last night to find Nemo and his “lucky leg” stuck in a toilet-paper tube. How he did this is beyond us because his front-left leg has a hard 90° turn at the first joint above the paw. She … Continue reading →

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Rick as Bender for Halloween?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Steve

Bite my shiny wubba-lubba dub dub bub! Two of animation’s favorite alcoholics mashed up into one funny shirt! Or maybe Bender is really Rick all along since they both have Spanish surnames.

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These Chucks are no surprise for my collection

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Steve

The Time Warner Empire’s division for Looney Tunes has licensed a few designs to be used by Converse. Obviously I had to have the Bugs Bunny pair! I loved them so much I have two pairs.

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My new time waster

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Steve

Scored this with all my Pinballz points the night before we left for Las Vegas. I drove all the way down to the original location because the one where I earned my 90K carried just the version with Call of Duty…pass, … Continue reading →

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Corrected Cats of Tahiti Village 2017, #2

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Steve

They do have names according to a sales representative but I forgot to take them down and only remembered one. So here they are again along with a few others.

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We are home and recuperating

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Steve

We landed and made it to the house last night at a decent hour. Still tired when we woke up. I almost missed an 8:45 AM appointment too. As for all those clean-up chores, ha! Beyond the two scheduled things … Continue reading →

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The new lessons from my 13th visit to Las Vegas

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Steve

It’s also the 20th anniversary of my first visit to this weird city in the desert. I always learn something new when I spend some time here too. Don’t rent a car from the airport facility, there’s an extra $75 … Continue reading →

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An actual Computer Space game at PHoF!

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Steve

This really cool, future-retro looking contraption was the first arcade-based video game ever made/released circa 1971. Created by Syzygy Engineering, Computer Space was Atari’s initial entry (before they were called Atari) via Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. I read out this … Continue reading →

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DC meets Hanna-Barbera

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Steve

We’re about a year in with the four Hanna-Barbera comics being published by DC and personally I think three of them will survive another year. Meanwhile, DC decided to take a chance on having the cartoons encounter characters from the … Continue reading →

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May is traditionally Summer Movie Season’s start!

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Steve

Let’s hear it for PhotoFunia again! I thought this art was frickin’ awesome because May has been the West’s traditional kickoff month off the Summer Movie Season since like forever. Well, I’ll go out on a limb and say 1975 … Continue reading →

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