Beautifully badass There was a PBS show recently where they sent animatronic robots (cuttlefish/manatee/seal/octopus) into the ocean and watched the reactions of the actual critters. It was fascinating, highly recommend it if you can find it online. eta: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/about-spy-in-the-ocean-deep-thinkers/29301/
I swear I didn't plan this in advance or anything, but I'm at my mom's doing dinner and laundry and she flips the TV over to the Cowboys preseason game. Atlanta's QB is named Easton Stick. I about shot wine out of my nose when I saw that. "Sometimes there's a man, and he's the man for his time and place." -- The Stranger
It's cool, and I can appreciate the skill and artistry that went into creating it....AND I know the market for stuff like this exists because I have friends who collect and sell stuff like this....but I can't help but thinking, from my perspective at least, this is something that probably shouldn't exist LOL. You aren't going to give kids $2100 action figures to play with, because they'd just destroy them AND because they won't truly appreciate them significantly more than a much cheaper version, plus I have never understood the appeal when it comes to adults collecting them. I guess I'm just not part of that market.
I wonder how many GI Joes and Star Wars action figures are buried in the flower beds in our old Houston house. One early summer weekend a year, with no advance warning whatsoever, we'd get woken up to a dumptruck load of a mulch pile in the middle of the driveway. So my brother and I would play "action figure war" in it while Dad shoveled and hauled wheelbarrows to wherever Mom was working. It was a very, very sad day when I finally got old enough/strong enough to do the shoveling and wheelbarrowing for him.
When I was a kid, my parents had a rule where we had to routinely donate our **** or we'd stop getting new stuff. The idea being that there was only a certain number of toys I could even potentially play with and it's not fair to just hoard toys I don't even play with when some kids have nothing....and also probably so my room could be less cluttered with ****. As a result, there were very few toys that I got overly attached to since I only ever kept the things I REALLY liked for any considerable amount of time. Even with that rule, which meant I didn't keep most toys all that long, I still managed to destroy or lose a lot of them. That probably shaped my overall view on toys.
I've seen only 7 or so far, in the past couple of weeks, crossing dirt trails and dirt roads, they won't hurt you, all they want to do right now is f**k
