Show us the cartoon character that annoys you the most.

NOT calvin

Any of those irritating auto decals depicting Calvin peeing, or praying, or anything that Calvin has never been depicted doing by creator Bill Watterson.

In fact, Bill never licensed any of his cartoons to be used outside of the strips or books. This was a major point of contention between him and the folks at Universal Press Syndicate, as he has stated many times in his compilations....see the Tenth Anniversary Book......but he never wanted the 'reality' of the relationship between Calvin and Hobbes to be settled by a cheap plush doll – would it be the 'real' Hobbes doll? Or the 'imaginary' Hobbes? – have the philosophical ponderings be made into trite quips by printing on coffee mugs or give a voice to Hobbes, Calvin or his parents in corny Halloween TV specials.

And he especially didn't license a vicious little image of Calvin urinating on the ground, or on a competing GM company's logo, or on Bin Laden's head, or anything so boorish as that. He never even drew them.....I have a suspicion they're a combination of unscrupulous hacker cartoonists and a particular C&H frame showing Calvin ready to huck a water balloon at Susie.

Sure, Calvin was difficult, but he wasn't a delinquent. If he were an adult today, he'd be an engineer or director of marketing or something like that. He wouldn't be doing time.

I love Calvin and Hobbes. I hate these stickers.

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Show us a mannequin.

When I was a little kid I was scared of mannequins. Especially the faceless female ones you'd find in department stores. I had nightmares of them walking after me, and I'd have to hide in the clothes racks and dressing rooms. But they always knew where I was, even though they didn't have eyes or ears. Creepy.

So when someone says "mannequin" I don't think of a young Kim Cattrall on the back of a crotch rocket, I think of stuff like this:

Silent Hill 3 - Mannequin Room

Needless to say, there was something up with the mannequins in Silent Hill and they end up scuttling after you. But not just yet.....this was just a teaser scene.

Silent Hill is a great game series, and #s 2 and 3 were the best. They knew how to make you say "wtf!" and want to turn all the lights on. Sorry if anyone saw the film, it was truly horrific (and not in any good way.) I apologize wholeheartedly.

And here's the scariest part: they're making a sequel.

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Show us something you're allegic to.

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My favorite toy? Wow. I had a lot.

Well, not a lot of toys, but a lot of favorites. I only had a few toys at any given time, especially in comparison with the thigh-deep roomfuls of toys kids seem to have today. This led to me favoriting (it's a verb now, didn't you know?) most of them at some point or another.

One of my more memorable ones:

Castle Grayskull

Oh and a ladder and weapon rack. And a flag that got lost.

All with a convenient carrying handle so you could fold it up and take it to your imaginary friend's imaginary house! That was the best part.  **sigh**

After He-Man was popular, it turned into a great set to play with my Ghostbusters figures. (I told you, I didn't have a lot of toys. I learned to recycle.)

When I was even smaller I liked playing with my Playskool Tree House a lot (I remember the inside of the trunk elevator was slimy with a lubricant paste....ah, those pre-recall days....

Treehouse

Of course, some of my favorite toys weren't toys at all....like my grandmother's box of plastic food bins she kept under the counter (she washed them out and saved them....sherbet containers, butter tubs, everything), and her tubes of knitting needles, and the magnets from the fridge (north + north = weird!!!!) and all that other stuff that kids got a hold of before houses went on foam-covered lockdown.

What else? Hm. Well, Legos...although those were expensive and I didn't have a lot of them....Transformers....those were big Christmas items....battery-operated space guns, light-up swords, anything like that.....and I liked science sets too. Chemistry (mix it all up!) kits and microscopes. All fun.

I wasn't into Hot Wheels, Matchbox or GI Joe. I guess that's about it. Everything else was fair game.

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Share a song you recently realized you can't get enough of... no matter how many times you listen to it.

Ok, maybe I'm psychotic too then but this is funny.

Ramses is no dancing

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Share a song you recently realized you can't get enough of... no matter how many times you listen to it.

People who listen to the same song over and over and over again creep me out. I'm not talking about a favorite song, I'm talking about the people who will play the same one twenty times a day.

That's psychotic behaviour.

Can, Can, Can

Jerry Shard & His Music

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It's Self-Portrait Thursday.

Heh heh heh heh

Heeeeh

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Show us where you work. 
Submitted by leisa bell.  

It's pretty loud and I'm on my feet all day but the benefits are good.

It's a living

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Show us a magazine to which you subscribe.

I let my National Geographic subscription run out. Boo on me. But I can renew for only $13 a year, so I am on it.

NG Photo by Zig Koch

The perfect blend of photography, science, nature, history and politics make NG the best magazine ever.

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Show us something good about Mondays.

Journeyman is on tonight, and I like that show. It's well-done and smart, and the acting is solid.

A Quantum Leap for the new millennium.

Journeyman - Time After Time

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