Not enough coffee in the world

We're back.

Couldn't figure out how to get this guy in an airmail box (we mean the plushie, not our husband). Maybe next time.

Totor-o-rama

So, the last evening in Tokyo, our friend Yoda-san took us out on the monorail to a complex of malls on the outskirts. We think of it as Aqua City, though that's probably just the name of one of the many areas. Anyways, look what we found!

( Nekobus )

Why Fafblog is the best blog ever in the history of the universe

"As of last night, Barack Obama has now become for the first time in American history the very first African-American to be elected Jesus. Now everything will be better forever HOORAAAAAAY! Except if you're gay."

--Fafnir

More Toys R Us

This was another item that we decided was too big and bulky to bother shipping. It's like a big kid-sized nylon playhouse thingie. Maybe if it has Stitch ears.

But then Mr. Tiki goes, "You don't want to buy STITCH'S TUNNEL OF DEATH?" Which totally made us want to buy one.

The Big Ass Scrumpie

Soooo, even though the Tikis have now been married for thirteen thoroughly silly years, like all relationships, there are conflicts! Example: when we go a a-UFO catching, we work as a pretty good team, in that Mr. Tiki likes the process of winning stuff, and tiki just plain likes prizes, especially for us.

HOWEVER! Sometimes there is an asynchronicity in that whereas our spouse wants to play what is in his opinion the funnest claw machine, we really don't care as long as the prizes within are of sufficient kawaii-itude. So, we had to do a bit of persuasive effort here: we were seeing this humongous Scrumpie plushies everywhere, but it took a convergence of Big Ass Plushie plus three-prong claw machine challenge (plus, need we add, several visits to the 100-yen coin machine) to finally bring our objectives in line.

This arcade was located near our hotel in Ikebukuro, by the way, a place of a quite high Stitch Density Factor. At the end of this this claw machine-lined street, the Sunshine City mall includes a Toys R Us store as well as a (smallish) Disney store, plus at least one accessory store that features a lot of Stitch chara goods.

Dexter + Star Wars = Creepy

Edmonton filmmaker, 'Dexter' fan charged in bizarre killing

EDMONTON — In a case police call a diabolically cruel convergence of art and life, local filmmaker Mark Twitchell will appear in court Monday charged with first-degree murder.

The 29-year-old fervid fan of the psycho-slasher TV show “Dexter” is accused of luring now-missing Johnny Altinger to a garage and killing him in a scenario that resembled Twitchell’s latest film project — in which a man is abducted, tortured, and hacked to bits.

“We have a lot of information to suggest he definitely idolizes ’Dexter’ and a lot of information that he tried to emulate him during this incident,” said Edmonton police homicide Det. Mark Anstey.

It gets better....

He says he doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and counts the “Star Wars” Luke Skywalker character as among his heroes.

“Star Wars” was core to his work. He had been finishing post-production on a low-budget tribute movie titled “Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion” — a work his production company website Xpress Entertainment trumpeted as one that emulates an “$80-million film on a budget of just $60,000.”

On his blogsite, he said it was his life’s calling to fix what “Star Wars” creator George Lucas had ruined by focusing on special effects over storyline:

“Often I feel beside myself, stunned that it’s me who gets the divine opportunity to tell this story,” says Twitchell.

“I was born to do this and every turn I’ve taken on the path to life has led me to this. It’s my destiny to revive the electricity of ’Star Wars’ and invoke that chill in the spine that Lucas was too focused on the money to do.

“He (Lucas) is more machine now than man. I feel the force and I will bring it back.”

tiki's twits

todays twisted twittering:

• 20:47 President-Elect Obama!!!!! #
• 20:48 At Narita, actually wishing I could hear Wolf Blitzer. #
• 14:53 "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast" www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/1 #

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