Did end up going back to the Fresh Pond shopping plaza late this afternoon. Spent most of my time doing laps in the Toys R Us, which was spiraling towards entropy at a rapid rate. I made several passes thru the aisles and piles, debating whether $70 was a good price for a kids karaoke machine ($100 discounted 30%), and how long a Fisher Pricey shower radio would last, and just how long I should expect it to last for just $10, y'know?
I decided against both, but did pick up an Etch-A-Sketch (the last one, in a damaged package) as well as a "My First Musical Instrument" (I think that was the wordy brand) laptop harp to keep in the living room.
Alas, the Legos section had been sacked pretty thoroughly before I got there. Only Bionicle and medieval knight sets seemed to remain, along with some Area 51-ish Lego ripoff brand sets. I didn't dare enter the video game/heavy duty electronics area, lest I leave the store with three game consoles and a couple of bandoliers of games.
There were some bins filled w wackily proportioned Playskool STAR WARS action figures, but after looking over the mini-catalog on the back of the Chewie figure, I realized I only really wanted the Artoo & Threepio set, which, of course, I couldn't find anywhere. Nyeah.
I also saw a pretty cool Sandy Cheeks figure... I picked it up and carried it around a while, but ended up putting it back. I just had this feeling that picking up one SPONGEBOB figure would open a door that would be hard to close later, y'know?
Sad how quickly parts of the store had descended into chaos and ghost town emptiness. And a little confusing and strange seeing tags and descriptions for the fixtures next to the discounts for the toys...
It was already dark when I left the store, and raining in a pretty serious way, so I only stopped by my parked car to snap a shot of the ex-theatre.
I wonder what will become of it? Would someone out there throw some money at the place to turn it into a couple of indoor sand volleyball courts, maybe with some ping pong and pool tables upstairs with viewing overlooking the courts, and a decent bar and lounge area? Purtypleez?
Crazy talk, I know it. *sigh*
The marquee in the shopping center still had some Wheel Of Fortune puzzle-in-progress-looking movie titles up on it. But I couldn't make them out in the rain. Actually, maybe there was a goodbye message up there... hrmmm...
Other than the Fresh Pond field trip, my day was mostly filled with viewing/knocking off some collected shows on my replayTV. I took down the last episode of last year's snow-covered teeny McG offering, THE MOUNTAIN. Not quality programming, but just enough cheeze to sucker me in, and man, that Blink 182 song as the theme always gets me teary-eyed. I deleted the episode I watched, but I'm keeping the one with the 20 seconds of latex-paint-catfighting. =)
Also knocked off the first two new SHIELDs. Forrest Whitaker just dives right in, in that disarming sideways manner of his - good crack! I also sampled and quickly deleted the so-called H.G. WELLS'S WAR OF THE WORLDS I recorded off of SciFi a couple weeks back. Poor C. Thomas SIDEOUT Howell...
Or would that be C. SIDEOUT Thomas Howell...?
After hearing a lukewarm assessment from Jeff and Kim of this week's GALACTICA, I've decided to wait til next weekend to watch this episode along w the next one. My replayTV system is another one of the few beautiful things I own.
Keep on keepin on~
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One of my third cousins actually works as an Editor on The Shield, I don't know if she's gotten screen credit yet.
Have you watched the show? She's doing some strong work!
I'm amazed at Chiklis's transformation over the last decade or so. He played the guy out on Long Island (I think) who has the party that Jerry and Elaine end up staying way late at, waiting for their ride from Kramer. To sort of magnanimously make up for putting Chiklis (and his wife?) out for so many hours after their party, waiting for their ride, Jerry tells him that he's welcome to visit or stay with him in Manhattan any time.
It being SEINFELD, Chiklis actually ends up taking him up on the probably empty offer, and shows up one afternoone. Jerry is on his way out, but tells Chiklis he can hang out at his place as long as he likes. When Jerry returns, he finds Chiklis running out on paying an escort he's had show up at his apartment.
Bit part. I spent two bloggy paragraphs explaining. Who's needs to do something productive w his life?
And then THE COMMISH, which I never watched. And then Vic Mackey on THE SHIELD. And then and in the middle... Ben "Clobberin' Time" Grimm, the Thing of THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
Some profiles of Chiklis in all those characters would make a very interesting chart. Kooky entertainment evolution.
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