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Trivial Pursuits: July 2011
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Tales from the Toybox :. Friday, July 22, 2011. It's not often one is faced with their own mortality. It's rather an interesting thing. You think to yourself, "Well, if I knew for certain I was going to die in X amount of days, weeks, months or years, I would react like so." But when the time comes you find your reaction to be, well, different for lack of a better term. Or DABDA, if you will, is rather accurate in my experience:. Although, I find that it is not an easy step by step linear process. I do n...
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Trivial Pursuits: February 2011
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Tales from the Toybox :. Monday, February 7, 2011. To state the obvious. You know wrestling isn't real, right? Why does everyone ask me this when they find out I enjoy wrestling? I don't ask them, "You know American Idol is rigged, right? I don't see how telling me how "fake" it is will change my opinion. Although, I am fascinated by folks' interpretation of "fake" is. Is the lack of reality the fact that wrestling has a predetermined ending? Before TV came into the picture. Think on that for a minute.
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Tales from the Toybox: Interlude: Toy Stores
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Tales from the Toybox :. Trivial Pursuits: Random Musings :. I was 14 years old before I ever set foot into a Toys R Us. Before then, the closest I ever came was passing the multi-colored sign on the expressway on the way to Kennedy Airport. Geoffrey used to lure me with his siren song on Saturday mornings, with the promise of staying young forever if only I would be a Toys R Us kid. I so wanted to be one. There was never a reason to go to Toys R Us. Labels: Toys R Us. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Tales from the Toybox: Looney Tunes Dominoes
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Tales from the Toybox :. Trivial Pursuits: Random Musings :. Being the only child at family get togethers was a double edge sword. Sure, I received all the attention to begin the day, but that also meant that when the attention shifted elsewhere, I was left to play alone. Most times, I just sat quietly and watched. During one of our regular trips to the Aqueduct Race Track Flea market, my dad discovered the solution: Looney Tunes Dominoes. This was a set of red plastic dominoes, which substituted pic...
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Tales from the Toybox: Skipper
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Tales from the Toybox :. Trivial Pursuits: Random Musings :. I received my very first official Barbie doll on my 6th birthday. It just wasn't Barbie. It was Skipper, her little sister, but I didn't know any better. Sure she seemed kind of short compared to the Barbie knock-offs I was used to, but perhaps it was because this was the real thing. It made sense. I would not expect less from him. Of course HE got me a REAL Barbie! When we got back home, this new found kinship with this plastic bombshell conti...
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Trivial Pursuits: October 2010
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Tales from the Toybox :. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Where did the magic go? I sometimes wonder where did the magic go? I remember not that long ago, believing in the irrational; in that which cannot be seen, held or heard; in that which must be taken on faith alone. Somewhere out there lived Santa Claus, toiling away in his workshop, making most excellent wooden toys for every good child of the world. Granted, I myself never received a wooden toy for Christmas, nor did I know any child that had. The sim...
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Trivial Pursuits: On Mortality
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Tales from the Toybox :. Friday, July 22, 2011. It's not often one is faced with their own mortality. It's rather an interesting thing. You think to yourself, "Well, if I knew for certain I was going to die in X amount of days, weeks, months or years, I would react like so." But when the time comes you find your reaction to be, well, different for lack of a better term. Or DABDA, if you will, is rather accurate in my experience:. Although, I find that it is not an easy step by step linear process. I do n...
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Tales from the Toybox: Bumblebee
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Tales from the Toybox :. Trivial Pursuits: Random Musings :. At nine years old I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the only toy that could possibly bring me pure bliss would be a Transformer. I had quite a few "transforming" vehicle toys, a submarine, a strange plastic alien ship of sorts, and even a ray gun that lit up and made noise. But not one of them was a Transformer. I wanted said joy. I wasn't particular about which Robot in Disguise (TM) I wanted. I just wanted one. This caught her attention,...
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Trivial Pursuits: September 2011
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Tales from the Toybox :. Wednesday, September 28, 2011. I don't quite understand *isms. I speak of course of racism, sexism, and the rest of the ugly *isms we encounter on a daily basis. To outright dislike someone based on race, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, or the family they come from makes no sense. There are SO many reasons and things to possibly dislike about a person; why focus on the one trait they were born with? You can dislike a person's malformed opinions. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Trivial Pursuits: To state the obvious
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Tales from the Toybox :. Monday, February 7, 2011. To state the obvious. You know wrestling isn't real, right? Why does everyone ask me this when they find out I enjoy wrestling? I don't ask them, "You know American Idol is rigged, right? I don't see how telling me how "fake" it is will change my opinion. Although, I am fascinated by folks' interpretation of "fake" is. Is the lack of reality the fact that wrestling has a predetermined ending? Before TV came into the picture. Think on that for a minute.
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