Well, we think the squirrels have finally stopped gnawing on the cables and have returned our website back to normal. If you were some of the readers and visitors seeing 500 internal server errors, the short answer is the migration our host completed for us was borked.  It took some time to figure out just [...]

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The unidentified circular object that has held the world in a viral grip for a year probably isn’t an alien spacecraft after all. Artist with wild imagination & overly dramatic music rendition that would almost stand up in a court … If you want to believe the Falcon is resting at the bottom of the [...]

If you have younger kids/toddlers and or want to start stocking up for Christmas 2012 (scary – 192 days away) … this is a nice clearance on the Fisher Price Imaginext Tokyo Villain Playset – Amazon. Tweet This Post

Other than the crazy sad story of the idiot who ran out of the stores with three boxes of CARS, Day #8 seem to go fairly smoothly … there definitely was much fewer master cartons sent to each store – each master carton holds 4 boxes so as few as 4-8 boxes of CARS or [...]

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Looks like Costco will get 2-packs of Rip Stick CARS … will there be a demo model? I think these might travel far on Costco’s concrete floors … Lightning McQueen Surprise, Francesco made the cut. Max Schnell. It looks like Costco will also get the Cars 2 R/C Bubby Rides Lightning McQueen Vehicles (already out) along [...]

Huffington Post taste tests 18 root beers … I have tasted about 12 of these and agree with their choice … Check it out here. Tweet This Post

From Topps, The variant version of Skip Schumaker’s baseball card barely features him … Instead, SQUIRREL! RALLY SQUIRREL! He has his own Wikipedia page. Card fans probably haven’t tired of this clip but Phil fans probably are gettin’ out their BB guns … Fans of Skip Schumaker can rest assured the “regular” version of the [...]

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