Went out of town with my wife for our anniversary this weekend. I was really worried about how things would go if I was eating out at restaurants for every meal. How did it go? Check out the video to see.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....?
We were at the dollar store the other day, and I saw this product on the shelf:
That's right, grated topping. Not grated Parmesan cheese topping. It's grated topping...with Parmesan. What in blue blazes might be in this to force them to not call it grated Parmesan, I wondered. Because you know that they totally would have if they possibly could have. So, I looked at the ingredients...sorry about the blurry picture. I guess I got too close to the label:
It has dairy whey...which, I guess isn't the worst thing ever. The second ingredient though...Food Starch. FOOD STARCH?!!
What, pray tell, could food starch possibly be? My guess is that it's soylent green. It's made of PEOPLE!
Nah, that's surely not true. Actual soy is sooooo cheap that they would never bother to pay for the people it would take to make real soylent green. And, down at the bottom it says that it contains wheat and soy, despite the fact that nothing on the ingredient list says wheat or soy. I suppose that's what they mean by food starch.
I can't believe some of the stuff people can get away with when it comes to labeling food. Eventually, there will come a day when you can look at the ingredients of products, and it will just say:
Ingredients: Food.
Just eat it, and accept the cancer that it gives you, you filthy commoner.
That's right, grated topping. Not grated Parmesan cheese topping. It's grated topping...with Parmesan. What in blue blazes might be in this to force them to not call it grated Parmesan, I wondered. Because you know that they totally would have if they possibly could have. So, I looked at the ingredients...sorry about the blurry picture. I guess I got too close to the label:
It has dairy whey...which, I guess isn't the worst thing ever. The second ingredient though...Food Starch. FOOD STARCH?!!
What, pray tell, could food starch possibly be? My guess is that it's soylent green. It's made of PEOPLE!
Nah, that's surely not true. Actual soy is sooooo cheap that they would never bother to pay for the people it would take to make real soylent green. And, down at the bottom it says that it contains wheat and soy, despite the fact that nothing on the ingredient list says wheat or soy. I suppose that's what they mean by food starch.
I can't believe some of the stuff people can get away with when it comes to labeling food. Eventually, there will come a day when you can look at the ingredients of products, and it will just say:
Ingredients: Food.
Just eat it, and accept the cancer that it gives you, you filthy commoner.
More Cheap Toy Hunting
Here is the video about how I built my army of Snowtroopers from Empire Strikes Back. Good times were had by all.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
That's A New One
My wife and I went to a nearby town called New Braunfels for our anniversary this past weekend. We went tubing down the Comal River:
Which is a big attraction there. There was a lot of other people on the river with us as well.
And as happens to us every time, there were several things that we forgot to bring with us when we left home. We swung into the local Walmart to grab stuff that we needed, and while I was looking for what I needed, I saw something that surprised me.
Walmart always makes T-shirts of the local high school that you can buy and, I don't know, wear to their football games or something to show some support. It doesn't really support the school in any real way. Walmart gets all the money from the sale of the shirts, but I guess you are supporting them in thought anyway.
So, they had the shirt for the New Braunfels team, and I saw that that school has a rather unusual mascot:
Not only is the shirt an awful tie dye thing, but their mascot is the friggin' unicorns. I know what you're saying right now, "Big Anklevich, you're a sexist douche. Unicorns are noble and fierce mythical creatures," and both of those things might be true, but mascots have always been something that was supposed to be fearsome, or something that the imagery could strike fear into the hearts of your opponents.
Nobody chooses rabbits or prairie dogs as their mascot, because that isn't the least bit fearsome, and their opponents would only laugh. How much did the ducks have to fight just to live down their mascot in The Mighty Ducks movie. The fact that they called the movie The Mighty Ducks says all that you need to say.
So, if my high school was the unicorns, I probably wouldn't choose to go out for any of the sports. It would force you to face ridicule from every other team you played against. Week after week, it would be ridicule. If you can put Rainbow Dash on your uniforms, and people would have to say, "I guess that works," then you shouldn't have that mascot.
If you must us a mythical creature, try dragons, or even griffons, but don't go with Unicorns...or pixies, or brownies, or pecks, or even stupid daikinis.
Which is a big attraction there. There was a lot of other people on the river with us as well.
And as happens to us every time, there were several things that we forgot to bring with us when we left home. We swung into the local Walmart to grab stuff that we needed, and while I was looking for what I needed, I saw something that surprised me.
Walmart always makes T-shirts of the local high school that you can buy and, I don't know, wear to their football games or something to show some support. It doesn't really support the school in any real way. Walmart gets all the money from the sale of the shirts, but I guess you are supporting them in thought anyway.
So, they had the shirt for the New Braunfels team, and I saw that that school has a rather unusual mascot:
Not only is the shirt an awful tie dye thing, but their mascot is the friggin' unicorns. I know what you're saying right now, "Big Anklevich, you're a sexist douche. Unicorns are noble and fierce mythical creatures," and both of those things might be true, but mascots have always been something that was supposed to be fearsome, or something that the imagery could strike fear into the hearts of your opponents.
Nobody chooses rabbits or prairie dogs as their mascot, because that isn't the least bit fearsome, and their opponents would only laugh. How much did the ducks have to fight just to live down their mascot in The Mighty Ducks movie. The fact that they called the movie The Mighty Ducks says all that you need to say.
So, if my high school was the unicorns, I probably wouldn't choose to go out for any of the sports. It would force you to face ridicule from every other team you played against. Week after week, it would be ridicule. If you can put Rainbow Dash on your uniforms, and people would have to say, "I guess that works," then you shouldn't have that mascot.
If you must us a mythical creature, try dragons, or even griffons, but don't go with Unicorns...or pixies, or brownies, or pecks, or even stupid daikinis.
The Last of the Cloak and Dagger
Finally made it to part three of my Cloak and Dagger series. This time I'm talking about the toys. Check the video out, folks.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Life...Uh...
The weeds are just unstoppable around here. Here's a good example of what I mean:
There must be a crack that leads down to the soil there somewhere, or the weed couldn't exist, but you can't see it with the naked eye or anything. It's just bricks, mortar, and cement, but, as my friend Ian Malcolm used to say:
I hate weeds, and this year, I especially hate them, because they're worse than ever.
There must be a crack that leads down to the soil there somewhere, or the weed couldn't exist, but you can't see it with the naked eye or anything. It's just bricks, mortar, and cement, but, as my friend Ian Malcolm used to say:
I hate weeds, and this year, I especially hate them, because they're worse than ever.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Week Four Update
Things are still going really well. I've managed to hit every goal I've made so far, which is awesome, and I'm losing bunches of weight too. Here's my update for the fourth week of my plan to take me to one-derland.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Monday, June 17, 2019
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Week Three Update
It's been a full three weeks that I've been doing the Alternate Day Fasting combined with the Carnivore Diet. How's it going? Watch the video and check it out.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Man-Bat and the Dewback on Cheap Toy Hunting
Hey, y'all. I just put up a new episode of Cheap Toy Hunting over on my YouTube toy channel. I got some great deals on this stuff, and it's fun stuff, so I had to share it with you. Hope you like it.
Monday, June 10, 2019
Poppin' Off
Rish and I, for some reason that no one may ever understand, decided to talk about the vinyl Funko Pops that are everywhere these days.
(EDIT: This one was on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine feed. Now
that the feed is gone, the only way to hear the show is over on the
Dunesteef Podcast YouTube page, which I am embedding below).
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