Strolled on down to Midtown Comics today to pick up eighty copies of the ToyFare mag I did the Family Guy thing for, and the feature looks, pun alert, freakin' sweet. I'm exaggerating on the eighty copies bit, but not by much, and I'm surprised the guy working the register didn't bat an eye at a customer buying so many copies of the same magazine. There I was, begging, pleading, DARING him to ask "WHY" so I could tell him of my glories...but nope, nada, nothing. He just cashed my thousand dollar bill and threw me down the stairs.

In more exciting news, there's a new scratch-off Lotto ticket in town, and it's called "Pac-Man Mania." They haven't done much to beef it up with anything too Pac-ish, though the usual instant-win coins have been replaced with ol' yeller himself. Sadly not available in NY yet as far as I can tell, the idea of winning money from Pac-Man is bitchin' enough for a Jersey drive. As for the rest of the states in this fair country...I have absolutely no idea. Hit a deli and look for Pac-Man. Hell, you've done it before.

Oh, so I had this big stash of things that grow 600% bigger in water -- you know the drill. They've just been scattered about collecting dust for the past year or so. I've decided to perform an experiment. What you see above is a sampling of the growing monsters I've collected (I took the pics prematurely...actually found a few more), covering everything from SpongeBob to Halloween monsters to big red hearts that promise to only get bigger. Instead of going the usual route, we're gonna plop 'em all in one big bowl to find out what kind of unearthly demon God will create.

Again, I added a few more after taking these pics, so the end results will be even more absurd than you're predicting. I'll keep you updated. Maybe.