Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Bollywood's Got Talent

How did this magnificent bastard escape my notice until now? Swear to god I am slippin' in my old age. I once could name you ten turban headed guys who played the electric piano - but today?

Today, He's Had Just About Enough Of Your Shenanigans

Guess Which One I Want To Slap

Masters Of The Universe - By William George

My Favorite 'Bachelor' Frogs Of All Time

The Jim Henson Company has acquired rights to the beloved children’s books FROG AND TOAD and is developing an animated feature film. Written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel in the 1970s each of the four FROG AND TOAD books include five short stories chronicling the exploits of a frog and his friend, a toad, simply named Frog and Toad.

What a cool idea. I have a deep love for those two magnificent cookie eating bike riding amphibians. I also like how they wear pants and a coat but no shirt or shoes. They just hike up their pants and tie the whole look togther with a nice belt. You can't teach that kind of style.

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Scholastic Book Order Forms

I think I found out where my obsession with captioning came from. I have a bunch of these kind of cheapie paperbacks that they used to give you free if you ordered enough REAL books from that awesome Scholastic Book Order Form. You know the one that you were given every month in elementary school and you could order from a cool list of book geared right to your age level and interests. It was also a great source of English language books that were a little more difficult to find in Germany in the 1970s so it especially appealed to me and my family.

I was lucky that my parents loved to buy books and this order form was like crack to them. They loved the big information books on science and history topics and we got enough of those monthly that I quickly earned all the bonus credits I could. I felt like I was scaming the whole system for books that I REALLY wanted. Don't get me wrong. I loved reading about the planets but I also loved me a good book of stories about the Chupacabra and his goat blood sucking breatheren.

So every month I would get to choose from a stack of free books. I could get one or two of these caption books and a two minute mysteries and a dumb monster riddle book and the latest 'thorough' examination of the Loch Ness Monster or The Yeti. It was so great when the book order came in and everything was new and crisp. Then four days later I am was jonesing for something else to read because you could consume a stack of these in an afternoon.