AEIOU & Sometimes Awesome Stuff in the Mail

Awesome Mail!

Well, I guess that’s one way to get me back in the swing of blog­ging… Send me cool sur­prise gifts in the mail and I’ll have no choice but to write a thank-you post! That’s what Dex of AEIOU and Some­times Why did, any­way. Well played, Dex. It turned out to be an awe­some mail […]

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Why do toy makers think little girls are obsessed with poop?

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That’s my burn­ing ques­tion for The League this week, which asks “why?” No, really, WHY? Pro­found, I know. I was will­ing to let this whole poop­ing pets thing slide when I thought there was only one of these dolls–specifically, the one with the glitter-pooping rab­bit ( she typed, feel­ing utterly ridicu­lous)  that I had seen on […]

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The “I’m Not Dead” Post

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Jesus. Has it really been almost a month? Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, I am not dead, kid­napped, or locked  in the trunk of Pax­ton Holley’s car . At least not any­more… Behind the scenes I’ve been on a bit of a roller coaster ride with work stuff but things are finally calm­ing down. A few weeks […]

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Lemons make me smell so great!”

Lemon Stickers

This isn’t going to be much of a post, I just wanted to give more atten­tion to a cer­tain (now infa­mous?) sticker from my 80s sticker book I shared the other day: this weird, kind of dis­turb­ing sticker of an uncom­monly intel­li­gent fish lay­ing on a din­ner plat­ter encir­cled by lemons. He’s pretty enthu­si­as­tic for […]

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ShezCrafti on Nerd Lunch #82: Sitcoms of the 90s

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Last week the crew from Nerd Lunch needed a last-minute fill-in spot for their show about 90s sit­coms, and I, hav­ing noth­ing bet­ter to do on any given night, obliged. Also I fig­ure I’m not sit­ting on all this use­less Roseanne and Full House knowl­edge for noth­ing. I’ve gotta let it breathe every now and […]

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My Sticker Book from the 1980s

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My older sis­ter and I didn’t have much in com­mon grow­ing up, aside from hav­ing been pushed through the same vag and the few mor­ti­fy­ing occa­sions our mom forced us to wear match­ing out­fits. My sis­ter, the prissy straight “A” stu­dent who was into clothes and make-up, ver­sus me, the tomboy who was into pretty […]

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Buy some rad stickers, why don’t ya?

Cult Film Club Die-Cut Stickers

As usual, I fail when it comes to pro­mot­ing Cult Film Club , being over a week late in announc­ing that we have TOTALLY RAD STICKER PACKS for sale! I’m hop­ing the all caps will make up for my lack­adaisi­cal­ness (it’s a word, I checked) and put me back in the good graces of my co-hosts […]

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I Can Hug!

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Rabid TMNT fan­girlism + child­hood mem­o­ries + tax refund =buy­ing all four of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles Cud­dle Pil­lows (or “Pil­low Bud­dies”, depend­ing on which store you buy them from). There was really never any ques­tion that I would end up own­ing these, but I need to thank Tommy over at  Top Hat Sasquatch […]

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First Impressions: Johnny Depp does NOT want you to like him.

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This week The League is all about first impres­sions. Though I’m cer­tain this won’t be a pop­u­lar choice, my mind imme­di­ately went to a movie that has one of the best open­ing mono­logues in cin­e­matic his­tory: My favorite Johnny Depp movie isn’t Edward Scis­sorhands or Pirates of the Car­ribean: Jesus Christ Please Stop Mak­ing These […]

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Is it weird that I love old typewriters?

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The first story I ever wrote was about a pur­ple pen­guin named Flippy who was dif­fer­ent from all the other pen­guins because he was pur­ple, you see. Look, I was five, what do you want from me? I did it on this type­writer: This is an Under­wood Rhythm Touch De Luxe model from 1949 (the only […]

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My Bedroom, Circa 1989 (Mildly TMNT-Related)

I recently dug up this photo from one of my family’s albums. Why on earth they had a pic­ture of my bed­room on a ran­dom day in 1989, I don’t know, but I’m glad it exists if only so I can re-live the magic of get­ting splin­ters from my unfin­ished pine fur­ni­ture and star­ing loathsomely […]

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Reunited with one of my best buds. It’s a Kodak moment…

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This past week­end I went spelunk­ing for price­less child­hood arti­facts over at my par­ents’ house and didn’t come away dis­ap­pointed. Between their attic, base­ment and crawl­space I was able to find a num­ber of items I prob­a­bly haven’t laid eyes on in over 15 years, hav­ing long ago chalked them up as rot­ting away in […]

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Remember to Stop and Blow Some (Ice Cream-Scented) Bubbles

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Here’s some totally unso­licited life advice from me to you: Remem­ber to stop and blow some bub­bles every now and then. By that I mean take some time out to do some­thing that makes you feel like a kid again. Today it’s bub­bles, but this could really be a metaphor for any­thing you loved doing as a […]

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Box Full of Awesome = Boxsome Nostalgia Packs!

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When I heard my friend Tommy from Top Hat Sasquatch was start­ing up a busi­ness sell­ing geeky nos­tal­gia packs, I had a feel­ing it was going to be awe­some, just based on the fact that Tommy’s an awe­some dude. Really, I didn’t need any more con­vinc­ing than that. Judg­ing from the pack­age I got in […]

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5 Bastard Kids from the 80s I Want to Punch in the Face

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Nor­mally I have a very sweet dis­po­si­tion around chil­dren and can usu­ally find a way to relate to them on some level, being an over­grown child of 31 myself. How­ever, there are some kids–the bad seeds–that do their level best to annoy the crap out of me, to the point where I can’t help but […]

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There is Neither Magic Nor Wonder in Zoobilee Zoo. Discuss.

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The 80s had no short­age of weird and uncom­fort­able children’s shows fea­tur­ing cos­tumed per­form­ers, but this week’s League topic was to write about some­thing I hated as a kid, so I feel it’s my duty to bring the atroc­i­ties of Zoobilee Zoo to your atten­tion. For those who don’t remem­ber it, Zoobilee Zoo was a […]

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Pia Zadora is a Little Bit of 80s Heaven

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It was an odd set of cir­cum­stances that led to my dis­cov­er­ing actress/singer Pia Zadora and her lost 1985 sin­gle, “Lit­tle Bit of Heaven,” but I’m so glad I did. I haven’t seen chore­og­ra­phy that amaz­ing since Laura Branigan’s video for “Glo­ria.” If I had known this song existed back in the 80s, I can eas­ily imag­ine Zadora sharing […]

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John Waters Approved: ‘Hairspray’ 1988 Soundtrack on Spotify

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It’s ridicu­lous how hard it can some­times be to find sound­tracks for the movies you love, espe­cially from older movies with out-of-print sound­tracks. Some­times there aren’t even legal ways to acquire it. Other times, the “offi­cial” sound­track that was released is incom­plete, lack­ing many of the key songs that made the film so mem­o­rable to […]

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Reckless Love Keeps 80s Glam Metal Alive

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With the Amer­i­can music indus­try being what it is, per­haps the only thing sad­der than 80s hair metal falling out of fash­ion is that it’s now up to other coun­tries to fill the acid-washed void. Meet Reck­less Love , a glam metal band from Fin­land that you’d never know was from Fin­land. I mean, just […]

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Not for Trade/Sale: My Cat

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Despite being overly attached to this comic box lid, he doesn’t come with the Cat­woman comics I have up for trade/sale. But if you throw in an extra $1, I’ll fish up some­thing extra spe­cial from his lit­ter box just for you. Just doing my part to con­tribute more cats to the internet.

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