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1. Shopping trip with birthday money. I was pushing my cart aimlessly through the store, picking up kitchen shit I wanted--rice cooker, coffee grinder, knife sharpener. "I'm an adult," I thought. "I am old. I'm buying a rice cooker with my birthday money." Then I passed the toy section, and wheeled around to see what was up. Not much Barbie stuff, an Iron Man mask that utterly failed to make anyone notice me when I put it on, Toy Story 3 tie-ins...what is this? It appears to be Bratz dolls dressed up like...oh my god there are bolts on her neck.
Monster High. Big-headed, Bratz-like fashion dolls that have their own tie-in music video and little cartoons. They are all the teenaged offspring of famous movie monsters! There is the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfgirl, the Mummy, her boyfriend the Gorgon (I liked him because his snakes were in a mohawk, and he had a pet rat named Perseus, but they were sold in an expensive box set), a Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster, and the Zombie! (Like, only one? Okay then. The actual zombie girl doll isn't out yet, but they had a prototype set up in a little display. After watching the little cartoons, she is probably my favorite character. No, seriously, whenever she says anything it's in a zombie moan, and it cracks me the fuck up--if they make her with one of those voice buttons with three different zombie moans, I will BUY that.)
And these are not novelty toys, they are actual toys for kids who are too goddamn edgy for Bratz. They are fucking CUTE, and I love that Mattel is catering to the preteenie goth market now. I bought the Frankenstein Girl (Frankie Stein, how original), because I find Frankenstein girls strangely sexy, and I like the idea that Frankenstein's Monster and his bride went around robbing the graves of teenage girls to make a daughter (they did! There is going to be a book about it! I have never been so much in love with the products of a blatant marketing machine), and it was my birthday money and I was spending it on a fucking rice cooker otherwise.
2. I'm sure everyone else on the Internet has already seen Cracked's Back to the Future video, but I hadn't, and it was kind of awesome in a small way to watch four comedians discussing the same stuff![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drworm and I had hashed out during frequent rewatches, only with funnier banter and more caricatures (Gorey-esque Danger Slut Lorraine is my favorite thing ever now).
3. Two girls sitting in their car in the parking lot of the local QDoba. "Bitch, I want pancakes. If we skip the wedding, we can go to IHOP!" Priorities: 100% straight.
4. Pictures from the sea bottom off the coast of Indonesia. It's so awesome! Tiny octopus! A thing that looks like a Koosh ball! Grumpy fish with legs! This one is my absolute favorite, because I have no idea what the fuck it is--some kind of sea cucumber with legs?--but it reminds me of something practically Pre-Cambrian. I used to love going to the Ann Arbor Museum of Natural History as a kid, because they had these amazing dioramas of pre-dinosaur life, and I could just look at the dioramas for hours and get lost in the prehistoric seas. And I love the fact that things just as weird as the wiwaxia or the opabinia still exist in the world today.
5. I successfully made a necklace and semi-matching earring set today and they look pretty good. Will post pics at some point.
Monster High. Big-headed, Bratz-like fashion dolls that have their own tie-in music video and little cartoons. They are all the teenaged offspring of famous movie monsters! There is the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfgirl, the Mummy, her boyfriend the Gorgon (I liked him because his snakes were in a mohawk, and he had a pet rat named Perseus, but they were sold in an expensive box set), a Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster, and the Zombie! (Like, only one? Okay then. The actual zombie girl doll isn't out yet, but they had a prototype set up in a little display. After watching the little cartoons, she is probably my favorite character. No, seriously, whenever she says anything it's in a zombie moan, and it cracks me the fuck up--if they make her with one of those voice buttons with three different zombie moans, I will BUY that.)
And these are not novelty toys, they are actual toys for kids who are too goddamn edgy for Bratz. They are fucking CUTE, and I love that Mattel is catering to the preteenie goth market now. I bought the Frankenstein Girl (Frankie Stein, how original), because I find Frankenstein girls strangely sexy, and I like the idea that Frankenstein's Monster and his bride went around robbing the graves of teenage girls to make a daughter (they did! There is going to be a book about it! I have never been so much in love with the products of a blatant marketing machine), and it was my birthday money and I was spending it on a fucking rice cooker otherwise.
2. I'm sure everyone else on the Internet has already seen Cracked's Back to the Future video, but I hadn't, and it was kind of awesome in a small way to watch four comedians discussing the same stuff
drworm and I had hashed out during frequent rewatches, only with funnier banter and more caricatures (Gorey-esque Danger Slut Lorraine is my favorite thing ever now). 3. Two girls sitting in their car in the parking lot of the local QDoba. "Bitch, I want pancakes. If we skip the wedding, we can go to IHOP!" Priorities: 100% straight.
4. Pictures from the sea bottom off the coast of Indonesia. It's so awesome! Tiny octopus! A thing that looks like a Koosh ball! Grumpy fish with legs! This one is my absolute favorite, because I have no idea what the fuck it is--some kind of sea cucumber with legs?--but it reminds me of something practically Pre-Cambrian. I used to love going to the Ann Arbor Museum of Natural History as a kid, because they had these amazing dioramas of pre-dinosaur life, and I could just look at the dioramas for hours and get lost in the prehistoric seas. And I love the fact that things just as weird as the wiwaxia or the opabinia still exist in the world today.
5. I successfully made a necklace and semi-matching earring set today and they look pretty good. Will post pics at some point.
