Mornings are better with toys and caffeinated web surfing
Here's how I get myself into trouble when browsing teh interwebz first thing in the morning while waking up with coffee. I attribute today's "shiny!" attention span to the splash of French Vanilla International Delight non-dairy coffee creamer in my normally black--and-strong coffee.
So I remember that my subscription to Toyfare magazine needs to be renewed, but there's no "renew online" on the stub that I got in the mail (btw, Wizard: that's stupid). So, refusing to renew by mail because OMG who does that anymore, I go to wizarduniverse.com and find that of course you can renew online. And, for only a few dollars more, you can get an exclusive Futurama Series 1 Variant Dr. Zoidberg action figure by Toynami.
Then, still budget conscious despite the caffeine high, I price check to find out how much the toy would cost without the subscription: $15 plus shipping. HELLO, I can get it way cheaper than that if I just add it on to the subscription that I was going to buy anyway!
But there are other Futurama Series 1 action figures in the regular line that I don't have.
Doo d'doo... off I go to toynami.com/futurama.html and click "Where 2 Buy" and yes, I just ignore the fact that I had to click on a button in which a company has chosen to use the number 2 instead of the word "to." Whatevs, just show me where to buy mah toyz!
I recognize WickedCoolStuff.com
and go there, but find that they don't have what I'm looking for. What do I instead see that I think is awesome and would be the perfect addition to the garden of my looks-normal-on-the-outside house? A Wizard of Oz Wicked Witch of the West frickin' LEGS PLANTER. Nothing says domesticated oddball quite like one of these!
I don't know if Wizard of Oz stuff can really be considered geeky, considering how ingrained in pop culture it is. But do you think that having this planter on my front porch or front garden would be geeky? Or just freakin' awesome?
I wonder how quickly something like that would be stolen in my nice suburban Mormon neighborhood. Hey, it's vandalaized once in a while just like any other suburb where meth and cocaine use are on the rise... I mean, Ben found toothpaste on his car one day, and neighbors informed us that they got toothpaste in their mailboxes. Dang kids and their petty vandalism. *shakes mouse like old man shakes a cane*
Anyway, I need to go renew my Toyfare subscription and get my exclusive Dr. Zoidberg. I'll hold off on the other action figures because I don't really need them right now. But that reminds me... I think that the new Futurama DVD is out and I should order that, too...
Aw crap. I don't even have a PS3 or a Blu-Ray player yet, but Amazon.com has a Buy 2 Get 1 Free offer right now for Blu-Ray discs. Luckiily, the new straight-to-DVD Futurama movie (The Beast with a Billion Backs
