Speed Buggy, probably the best Scooby Doo imitator
2019-05-31
Scooby Doo will always be my favorite but I also have to admit that Speed Buggy makes me smile. He’s such an adorable, and rather useful, character for a cartoon.Read More →
These are really cute
2018-08-06
But the last one is just weird. Some toys are just weird. Read More →
My jaw just dropped
2011-05-05
Well, it was either that or my eyes popping out of my head. 😉 Vintage Tupperware — Lock in Freshness with Retro Flair Tupperware (r) is an American institution, both because it epitomizes the promise of “plastics” and because the company created the Tupperware Party. At Tupperware parties, the “Tupperware Ladies” (remember the song?) demonstrated the latest and greatest new bowls, kitchen tools and even toys (like the Zoo-It-Yourself toy pictured.) Guaranteed to last forever and ever without chipping, cracking, peeling or breaking, vintage and new Tupperware is still in use in kitchens across America. via Vintage Tupperware Collecting. It’s not so much the conceptRead More →
The full picture ;-)
2011-04-01
While I’m thinking about it, here’s the full image I’m using for the new background:Read More →
My hero(ine)
2010-04-30
(Quick update: The Superman Homepage website that I’ve linked to several times in this post is changing servers so the links may not work for a couple of days, which meant I had to load the image from another source but eventually the text links will work. I hope. If not I will tweak them in a day or so. ;-)) Would it sound totally crass and tacky of me to say that when I saw this picture of the original Lois Lane, Noel Neill, my eyes were immediately fixated on her belt buckle? Wow. Okay, so I’m a fan and a collector. I plead the fifth. OrRead More →
Give me some of THAT trash
2010-02-26
I always tell everyone that junk fiction or trash fiction doesn’t only refer to the content but the medium. Well, check this out (emphasis added): On Monday, ComicConnect announced that it had sold the first Superman comic book, Action Comics No. 1, for a record-setting $1 million. That was the record — until today, when the first Batman comic sold for $1,075,500. Sock! Bam! Pow! Both comics marked the first appearance of each superhero, in Action Comics and Detective Comics, respectively. The popularity of both characters meant they each soon earned their own titles. Although comic books were produced in mass quantities, in the 1930s —Read More →
Where are you, Scooby Doo?
2009-09-14
Oh, there you are. Or were. Last night. In a new live action movie on the Cartoon Network entitled Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins. So admit it. How many of the rest of you watched it, too? 😉 If you missed it and like the Scooby gang, you might want to try to catch it during one of the many reruns/replays they’ll be doing because they did a pretty good job of capturing the characters. I’d even stack it up against the two theatrical live action movies and say it might even be a better story than both of them. Maybe not as well-acted because the stars weren’tRead More →
Thru the rabbit, er, wormhole
2009-07-27
There are few TV series that I feel truly deserve the honor of being collected in their entirety. Stargate SG1 is one of them. Truth to tell, I’ve only recorded two other start to finish in my entire life – Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. I still haven’t gotten the DVD version of ST:TNG – eleven years worth is damn expensive, you know. I have upgraded to the DVDs of L&C. We didn’t record SG1 ourselves either. Not sure why, but this was simply a series that one knew was going to be merchandized so weRead More →
The First Harlequin
2009-07-22
I thought it somehow fitting to find a beginning point for the industry I’m rather devoted to buying, consuming, devouring–well, you get the idea. 😉 One of them anyway. Originally published as A John Crowther Publication in London in 1946, The Manatee by Nancy Bruff was republished in paperback as Harlequin #1 in 1949. So far the only description I’ve found is from an ad on eBay that says it’s taken from the back cover: This robust, powerful novel is the story of Jabez Folger, savage, romantic man of the sea, with a sinister secret in his past. Against the colourful background of Nantucket in its great whaling days, NancyRead More →
Lasagna, anyone?
2009-06-19
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Recently I realized I had collected several things related to Garfield and it got me curious enough to check for how long the, um, happy cat has been around. Did you know he’s been gracing our lives since June 19, 1978? I didn’t. Wow. I knew I’d loved that cantankerous cat for along time but, still, wow. So, what do I have in my personal Garfield stash? Metallic picture that looks more like it belongs in a tavern than anywhere else – I’m honestly not sure how long I’ve had this one. Or where exactly I got it. ButRead More →