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Bag Of Skulls.

The woman enjoys autumn much the same as me, but for her, I have to think it's at least partly due to my increased agreeability to random trips to Michaels. If you don't live near one, Michaels is a chain of arts & crafts stores. I've already complained about the woman's obsession with this place, and it hasn't let up.

During the Halloween season (Christmas too, to a lesser extent), I only raise my Michaels hate flag at half-mast, because the chain offers a spooky smorgasbord of booing bric-a-brac, and it's often stuff that none of the other stores around here carry. They also get a gold star for being one of the first places in town to sell anything Halloweeny, and the proof is in the blood pudding: It's barely September, and I'm already buying bags of skulls.


(click here to see the WHOLE bag!)

In fact, that's what the product is officially titled. "Bag Of Skulls." The shoe (or skull) fits, as it's five bucks worth of little menacing skulls neatly nestled in a black net sack -- which itself has a bunch of smaller skulls built in! So many skulls!

What I really dig (ha!) about them is that they don't kowtow to society's usual call for all toy skulls to look perfectly gregarious. These are some seriously mean-faced skulls. After closer inspection, I noticed that they all have gigantic fangs, so they're not even supposed to be human skulls. It's a bag of monster skulls! I was on the fence about buying these, but a sack of monster skulls is definitely worth a fiver.

I can't find my giant Spider-Man figure, but picture him palming one of these babies. Totally sincere Shakespearean Yorick pose just waiting to be designed. I so need to do it. Where'd I put that guy?

Posted by Matt on 09/04/2007. E-mail me!



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Cameron, I’d venture a guess there’s a common source the misquote comes from. Maybe even that Warner Bros. cartoon with the gophers?
Ryane I’m happy to find another fan :D Still on the subject of underappreciated shows, I picked up the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia DVDs today. Though it was the last copy they had, so it’s not actually that underrated. Still no Dexter DVDs to be found :mad:
George Takei was on Space Cases? I’d love to see that show again.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/06/2007 2:43 AM

Wow, i’ve been reading here for almost 4 years, and finally pick tonight to post something!

Im glad im not the only one on the “Halloween hunt”. Me, and my girlfriend went to the Dollar Tree about 3 days ago looking for their famous set-up. Sadly, there’s nothing yet, but I managed to bust 1.06 on a toy replica of the human body. I figured it was as close to “halloweeny” as I could get…

Chestnuts roasted by James [XMrStayPuftX] @ 09/06/2007 4:54 AM

I fucking hating Michaels. That’s all.

Chestnuts roasted by Ktulu @ 09/06/2007 9:59 AM

Manimal – I labored under the delusion that grooms walked down the aisle for a few years – it was because of The Muppets Take Manhattan, in which Kermit and Miss Piggy walk down the aisle together.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/06/2007 10:22 AM

I just sent my son to Kindergarten. There ought to be a support group for this. There were kids and mothers crying everywhere. I held it together, and my son had no problem saying goodbye. He could at least faked a frown.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/06/2007 10:46 AM

Hey Matt, I just watched a video about how claw machines work inside and out. Click my name for the video…. Fricking awesome. They also show how to internet-enable one, if you happen to have one at home. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Dr Sketch @ 09/06/2007 11:09 AM

So Matt, it occured to me we haven’t gotten an update on your Pokemon in awhile. Did you manage to beat the game?

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/06/2007 11:20 AM

DJ D I love Ab Fab! I must admit though that it was better on the first run around. It has not been the same since they started it up again and made another go at it. To this day I love to call my sunglasses POP SPECS even though they aren’t really. I was even tempted for a bit to name my daughter Saffron but finally thought better of it in the end. :-)

Chestnuts roasted by Cricket @ 09/06/2007 12:27 PM

I looked around on the Google once and found a way to unlock my portable player and reset the region code to “0″, which means it’s now region free. There was even a code to let it play VCDs, which is kinda interesting.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash likes to poke buttons @ 09/06/2007 12:53 PM

hey dj d-

If you look on edonkey/emule you can find most every episode of parker lewis can’t lose. Crappy VHS bootleg tapes, but still… Its funny to watch it now, it is such a snapshot of my high school era (late 89-93). And i never realised how bad of a ferris bueller ripoff it really was too hehehe.

And also “Are You Being Served” is frigging awesome! I started watching it on pbs like 15 years ago and still enjoy it to this day, they made a “sequel” called “Grace and Favour” that featured them all again, this time running a bed and breakfast type place in the english countryside, they’re all a good 15-20 years older. And have you ever seen the “Are You Being Served” Movie? it was also quite awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by djspaceace @ 09/06/2007 1:31 PM

Ah, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose… I think I have mentioned my huge pre-pre-teen crush on Corin Nemec before, but it’s hard not to get nostalgic about a short-lived show like that. I tried to watch an episode a few months ago and nearly laughed my ass right off.

And I, too, am an Ab Fab fan. That episode where Edina and Patsy and Saffron are in Marrakesh or wherever and Edina is trying to convince Saffron (her daughter) to smoke weed with her… hilarious!! My friend and I still act out that scene when we’re drunk.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/06/2007 2:01 PM

Today I threw out a can of Spaghettios that had an expiration date of 2005. I know Matt has eaten things even older than that and is still among the living, but I’m just not like that.

So, what’s the oldest or weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? I’ve just gotten into sushi. Granted, it’s basically the fake kind that doesn’t use raw fish, but that still counts in my mind.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/06/2007 3:36 PM

Regarding Home Improvement being on Nick At Nite: No sir, I don’t like it. For God’s sake, they’ve been showing it in syndication for years already. Do we really need it on cable too?

I mean, I’d be alright with N@N going in a different direction if TV Land was any good, but the sad fact is that it sucks. I mean, with such a huge amount of shows to choose from, the only thing they seem to show is stuff like Bonanza! Come on! Where’s Taxi? The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Get Smart?

Also, this is nitpicky but I don’t like the new logo, either. It just doesn’t fit. I can honestly see them ditching Nick At Nite in a few years and just letting Nickelodeon take over the whole damn thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/06/2007 4:00 PM

If it hadn’t been for Nick At Nite when I was a kid, I would never have known such classic tv as The Munsters (my favorite show EVER!) or I Dream of Jeannie or Bewitched. Now that was classic tv. Now, while I liked Home Improvement when it was on and have been known to watch it when I’m bored, I do not consider it classic tv. It has at least another 10 years before it’ll even be close. Same goes for Roseanne.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/06/2007 4:05 PM

I honestly don’t care if they put Home Improvement on BET, as long as they play the show later in the day where I can actually catch it, that’s all that matters to me.

It still (or may not now due to Nick at Nite picking it up) plays on WGN at 4 & 4:30 central time, but I work until 4 and miss most of the first episode, and that’s only when I turn the tv on first thing when I get home, which is rare my tv gets turned on anytime before 5:30 when The Simpsons comes on.

I do wish somebody would show Get Smart again. I would also like to see Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan’s Island, Honeymooners, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies. Granted some of these play during the day, but in reality most people work a generic 9-5, mine being 7-4, and obviously aren’t home to see these shows.

Pink Panther cartoons, Woody Woodpecker shorts, and others like that would be nice to see again, too.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/06/2007 4:19 PM

Personally, I’ve given up on television schedules improving anytime soon, and plan to just buy all those classic shows on DVD when I get the chance.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/06/2007 4:27 PM

Special K I completely agree with you on Home Improvement and Roseanne. As well as Full House. They may be modern classics or whatever, but I don’t think Nick at Nite is the best home for them.

I they need to make a Generation X channel for those shows, as well as Cosby, Family Matters, Blossom, Saved By the Bell, etc… (including cartoons, Animaniancs, Rocko, Ren and Stimpy, and so on…) Leave Nick at Nite for the shows I mentioned above, along with Leave It to Beaver, Munsters, Addams Family, and others from the 50-70s era.

Annette I don’t care much for the new logo either, but that splatter reminds me of Double Dare which is a plus.

Of course I don’t work for Nick, nor while I ever, I’m sure, so what does my opinion matter?

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/06/2007 4:33 PM

Some of the classic cartoons like Merrie Melodies and Pink Panther are on Boomerang, although they’re starting to show more and more stuff from the last 10 years instead of the 30-50 year old stuff they were showing a couple of years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by Saint @ 09/06/2007 4:35 PM

“While”? That should say “will”, if it wasn’t obvious already.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/06/2007 4:37 PM

Actually JLAJRC if you keep at it you might find yourself graduating past the California rolls into the honest to goodness fishiness. I know I did, anyway. If you like asparagus, Philadelphia rolls might be a good stepping stone into the fishy fray.
Hi James, welcome! kb, that made me laugh. Does he have practice playing tough from preschool or anything?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/06/2007 4:41 PM

That is my goal as well, Annette, but it costs a fortune! But I guess that’s a fortune I’m willing to pay to watch a secret agent use his shoe phone. lol

By the way, what part of Oklahoma are you from? I’m in OKC.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/06/2007 4:55 PM

Special K – OKC
Me – MWC
Jedoc – Norman
Kingklash – Can’t remember, somewhere further out from us I believe

More Oklahomans on here than I figured would be here.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 09/06/2007 5:02 PM

And we haven’t met at Chuck E Cheese yet?! What is wrong with us?!?! I challenge all of you to a skeeball match!

I want to say Kingklash is in Lawton?

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/06/2007 5:05 PM

If anyone has the American Life Network (I believe that is what it’s called) they play alot of the old, classic shows that used to play on N@N and TVLand. ION (formerly PAX) does the same thing.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/06/2007 5:10 PM

Manimal, my husband’s cousin walked down the aisle at his wedding. He wanted to walk in to the death march from Star Wars and he got his wish.

When TV Land first started, it was awesome. They thrived on showing long forgotten shows. Their lineup kept changing, but it was great because they would show programs that didn’t have enough episodes for syndication, so there was no other hope of seeing them. I’m not sure when they became so watered down, but it sucks.

I loved Home Improvement when it was on, but it doesn’t stand the test of time for me. I can’t sit through an episode anymore. It’s kind of sad, really.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 09/06/2007 5:11 PM

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