Showing posts with label ACT(W). Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACT(W). Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2008

ACT(W) for April 14, 2008

Friend, I wager either you've forgotten what the ACT(W) is or you've never heard of it. Refer back to the post about a penguin from Hello Kitty. Yes that actually happened, it's not even archived yet!


(It stands for Arbitrarily Chosen Thing of the Week).


And for the second time ever, an ACT(W) will now be unleashed on at least 7 or 8 people:


CHRIS & LARRY'S™ CLODHOPPERS®!!!
















It is not a joke. Looks and sounds like one, but how much effort do you think really goes into this post? It took longer to write these last few sentences than it did to cut that off the official page. Which happens to be
clodhoppers.tv, (just skip to http://www.clodhoppers.tv/about.html).

There's nothing to compare this stuff to. Truly. But surely, say you, surely these guys didn't just invent a never before seen junk food. Not after all these years. Everything's old hat, everything's borrowed. Well what if I told you it was Grandma's own specialty? Different story, eh? (the eh ties in, wait for it) Every Grandma has some recipe enitrely her own.

Turns out Grandma Emery's (possibly not her last name, but it's 50/50 I think) featured clusters of graham cracker bits and fudge. And she called them Clodhoppers. And now, year 2008, I bought some while waiting in line at Blockbuster.


Good news/bad news though. Good: Immediate and hopeless addiction was unleashed upon all who tasted from that bag. Bad: These things barely exist outside of Canada (where they're born. another obligatory "eh"). Blockbuster seems to be the only outpost round here.

Fortunately, said website offers online ordering. Guess who's going to order a 24 bag case?

Monday, April 07, 2008

Also new: "Arbitrarily Chosen Thing of the Week"

You hate Mondays. I know it. So from now till kingdom come, Mondays are the official home of the "Arbitrarily Chosen Thing of the Week," or ACT(W). What that is? Oh just something so great, you can bask in its glorious glow all Monday and for the rest of the week. It's like therapy or (prescription) drugs. And now...

ACT(W) for April 7, 2008 is...


BADTZ-MARU!
Yeah, him. Easily the most awesome character ever to come from a Japanese cartoon made for preschool-age girls. Born in Oahu, Hawaii on April Fools day, 1993. (??!?) Attitude? That doesn't even come close. Sure he's as cute as they come, but you also get the feeling he breaks thumbs for the mob in his spare time. No other penguin in history could match that icicle-dagger stare. Or that rebellious, kinda vaguely mohawk shaped head. And hyphenated names always net a 2x score multiplier. Badtz-Maru.

See all the crazy things this guy does at http://badtz-maru.com/. Official word is at http://sanrio.com/characters/, not as heavily recommended.








Almost didn't add this, but apparently the name Badtz-Maru is "literally 'XO'." Whatever, Wikipedia.