Tomorrow's Thanksgiving. My entire family is getting together, and we all pitch in by bringing one entree. I've got to make the stuffed mushrooms this year. I'm toying with the idea of filling one - but just one - of the mushrooms with some kind of intensely strong rat poison or just a smidgen of cyanide, and watching the day unfold as a special holiday Russian Roulette celebration. Or I could just poison everybody, and after they find out, I can tell one of my sisters 'What did you expect?! You bought me a Glenn Danzig tape when I was in the seventh grade!'
Speaking of toyed-with ideas, I had considered going into the city to watch the big setup for tomorrow's Macy's Parade. Then I remembered that the novelty of giant balloons lasts only a few minutes, and then you've got an entire day ahead of you filled with cold weather, tourists, Al Roker, and for some reason, neon dragonflies that chew gum. So I guess Thanksgiving will be pretty boring this year. You know, as opposed to the high levels of excitement Thanksgiving's provided in years past. It's usually so wild, so wooly, so wacky. A little over two years ago today, I did an article about Thanksgiving. Sort of. It's got pictures of those balloons, and something about Mean Gene Okerlund dancing. Click here to read it!
New article going up later today, about Scorponok: the second largest Transformers figure ever. Woo. Oow. Owo. I've got another article that I like a whole lot better in preparation, but that one'll take a little longer. Don't miss the new Brady Christmas article, up now. Have fun stormin' the castle. I'll try stopping by later to answer some reader mail. If I don't, it means a bear ate me.
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I just wanted to let you know two things.
1. Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) pulled a Danny Bonaduce (went wild, but pulled out of the tailspin before a total career nosedive). She's a Howard Stern guest celebrity type now. I think she even did some soft core porn.
2. This is bad news. The real "Tiger" actually wandered off the set of The Brady Bunch during filming one day in the 70s. He was struck and killed by a truck, but rather than replace him, or even better, show the kids mourning him, HE JUST DISAPPEARRED FOREVER! They never even mentioned him again. (Until the movie, when Carol asks ironically "Now where in the world is that darn dog?")
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Chestnuts roasted by Juli @ 11/27/2002 12:19 PM EST
Matt,
I like the Russian roulette with the mushrooms idea. But I have a question. How can you be sure that one of the "right" people eat the bad one? I mean if my sister ate it that would be great. But if my girlfriend did I would be horny by myself all night. How does one avoid this?
Chestnuts roasted by Brian @ 11/27/2002 01:16 PM EST
Hi. i just wanna show off:
being a careful child, my skorponok has all accessories and the box. Well, all accessories, but fastrax's guns and lord zarak is missing one arm :(. other than that it's perfect :-D. I'm so proud!!!
great site by the way.
Chestnuts roasted by vyle @ 11/27/2002 01:46 PM EST
I'm bored bored bored...so I'm going to list my lastest thrift shop finds. I found two 1974 Holly Hobbie dolls. I dont really collect them but its old and a "name brand" kind of toy. I found voltron bed stuff, and ghost busters bed stuff, aaaaaaaaand i found some fast food pokemon stuff for my collection thats in the bathroom. umm...yep...soo...I'm glad Matt is back. No one really understands my "must buy everything from the thrift store" kind of...um..thing. So i feel good reading about it here, ha! I like matts adventures. i have no life. so its fun seeing other people live theres...maaaan that was depressing sounding. go back and read that but with pep, so it doesnt sound sad. welp, i'll be on my way nawwww...bye.
Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 11/27/2002 02:02 PM EST
Has anyone heard of the new Thanksgiving craze called Turducken? It's a Turkey stuffed with a duck that's stuffed with a chicken and all are boneless...no, seriously. I think you can only order them from a gourmet butcher in Louisiana...wacky, huh?
Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 11/27/2002 04:24 PM EST
Twins.mp3? Mmmm-hmmm.
Chestnuts roasted by Cristofer @ 11/27/2002 07:00 PM EST
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Beast Wars Scorponok figure-as far as Beast Wars goes, he wasn't the biggest, but he certainly wasn't the smallest. And, since he was one of the earlier figures (before those damn toys starting becoming bowling balls for Christ's sakes)he was gigantor sized for awhile. Thought that was sortof interesting.
Chestnuts roasted by Gaijin @ 11/27/2002 07:09 PM EST
So, does Scorponok come from the land down under? Mysterious Matt has me wondering again..... Anyway, it's about to become karaoke night at my house tonight. I hope i rememeber all the words.....
Chestnuts roasted by Cristofer @ 11/27/2002 07:11 PM EST
You guys spell your names wrong.
Chestnuts roasted by American Vomit @ 11/27/2002 08:46 PM EST
:o Oh, I wanna Scorponok! I dun even got the BW Scorponok. I do have that crabby Lobster-part of the Tripredacus BW gestalt. O.o; He's fugging creepy, and he's missing his legs...yeah...Oh, matt, love tyhe Cryptozoology stuff! It's one of my biggest hobbies. You rock! :D
...sorry, I'm not usually so peppy. I just found two Rocky Horror Picture Show albums from '75 for Five bucks each. :p Hey, it'd be cool if you did an RHPS reviiiieeeew! Just an idea! Sorry! Too hyper! GYAAAA!
Chestnuts roasted by Xanthe @ 11/27/2002 09:27 PM EST
I still have my Scorponok, mint in box, well the box is a little trashed (I got it like that at TRU) but it still comes with all the parts and the transformer was never really played with. I thought he was actually pretty boring, would of so traded him for a Soundwave.
Chestnuts roasted by Basic @ 11/28/2002 12:24 AM EST
I have a Scorponok that came from McDonalds. It's not very big though. I would eat it if I had some Ketchup. :-(
Chestnuts roasted by American Vomit @ 11/28/2002 03:57 AM EST
Cris - you're one of the only ones who noticed the Down Under thing. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/28/2002 01:00 PM EST
I read the Very Brady Christmas article, and just remembered that this special led to a primetime drama (!) called "The Bradys." I remember nothing about it, except that Bobby, who we found out was secretly working as a race car driver in the Christmas special, later got into a car crash and was crippled. A very soap-opera-ish plot twist, actually...
Chestnuts roasted by Jeffrey @ 11/28/2002 02:12 PM EST
THe guys behind the Brady's in the onlooker picture, with the bad hair. They are Mark & Brian, local L.A radio hosts in one of their many "concerned onlooker" roles.
Chestnuts roasted by DIck @ 11/28/2002 03:46 PM EST
"Cris - you're one of the only ones who noticed the Down Under thing. :) "
I'm just cool like that. ;)
Chestnuts roasted by Cristofer @ 11/28/2002 08:38 PM EST
The bad thing about the Christmas special is that it led the network into making the Bradys. Marcia the drunk, Bobby in a wheelchair, Jan the un fertile, Peter the unlucky womanizer, Cindy dating a boss older than her dad, etc. Worse than a soap opera. At least you didn't see America's family become a bunch of idiots on All My Children!
Chestnuts roasted by Joe @ 11/29/2002 12:41 AM EST
Were there any Pokemon floats this year? Or any other Video Game related floats? I missed the parade :(
Chestnuts roasted by Mew @ 11/29/2002 02:15 AM EST
Mew
There was a Pikachu.
Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 11/29/2002 03:04 AM EST
I am confused, what was the down under/Australia thing?
Chestnuts roasted by mindsuckr @ 11/29/2002 04:44 PM EST
The E! True Hollywood Story mentioned that porno rumor. According to Olsen, she actually had a music credit on what she found out later was a porno. Sorry, kids, she didn't actually ACT (or the porn equivalent) in the thing. Ken Ober cried.
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing: the technorganic Autobot @ 12/06/2002 09:28 PM EST
