NaBloPoMo Day 17: Party All The Time?

[terabient]

Cheating placeholder entry for Saturday since I probably won't be home before midnight :|

My brother and I have friends from Massachusetts over for the weekend. Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot to do up here, so we ended up channel-surfing while waiting for my brother to finish giving saxophone lessons. Apparently the Cartoon Network is showing live-action movies now? Like, we made the dubious decision to watch their 'premiere' of, erm, National Treasure. At least, we watched until it became too terrible to stand, then we flipped it to the Food Network and watched Thanksgiving-themed episodes of Chopped. Apparently dried oysters are a Thanksgiving food? :S

All that TV watching meant we also viewed a lot of Christmas commercials, and by that I mean there were a lot of toy commercials we were supposed to buy for our non-existent children. Notable standouts:

-A baby that eats food and then poops it out. I thought the pooping baby doll had gone out of fashion years ago, but apparently they're still a thing! Props to whoever decided that the kids in the commercial had to feed the baby doll pea soup, so that the baby poop would be an appropriately disgusting green. It was an inspired touch.

-One of those toy cars kids can ride, which normally wouldn't be particularly unique--but THIS car has lots of flashing lights and plays loud, annoying rock music whenever it's on. The commercial was only 30 seconds long but that was enough to make me hate the small child happily rolling around in the Rage-Inducing Mobile. My condolences to any family that makes the mistake of purchasing the nightmare car this year.

-A Direct-to-DVD Blu-Ray movie, Santa Paws 2. Notable for being proof that there was, at one point, a movie named Santa Paws, and this movie did well enough for a sequel. I do not think I need to mention that this movie looks absolutely dire, even if you are an uncritical child, but I will do so anyway: Santa Paws 2 looks absolutely dire.

When my brother got back we went out for a very late dinner, which was mostly uneventful but did feature fried pickles (yay!) and an aggressively mediocre rock band. (boo!) We also saw a woman take off most of her clothing in actually freezing weather, which was weird even for a Saturday night.

My original intent for this entry was to bitch about certain Tumblr practices, but I am just too tired to passive-aggressively rage against a service I use a lot. I guess that will just have to wait until tomorrow, or until I'm in a ranting mood again. :p

Comments

[masu_trout]

Santa Paws?! :O That was a book series I used to read when I was young, about a German Shepherd dog some family adopted for Christmas. The dog saved at least one person a book, if I recall correctly, and there were quite a few books; that dog must be a superhero or something. I'm really surprised they made a movie out of that one, let alone two.

And when you're on Chopped, everything is a Thanksgiving food. (IDK, I would never want seafood with my Thanksgiving meal.)

Oh, and which kind of saxophone does your brother play, if you don't mind me asking?

[terabient]

Honestly, that book series sounds a lot cooler than the Santa Paws movie--the movie puppy is definitely not a German Shepherd. I think it might be a golden lab? Also they don't save anything except maybe the spirit of Christmas or something grossly saccherine like that. :P

HAH. Yeah there were some other ingredients that looked pretty un-Thanksgiving-like, but the dried oysters sounded like a terrible thing. And I like oysters.

He plays the alto and tenor, mostly, but he can also play the soprano sax. (He just doesn't have much reason to.) I'm not sure if he can play the baritone sax--I know he doesn't have one, but he might have had some exposure to it when he was in college.

[masu_trout]

I wonder what it with about golden labs and golden retrievers; an oddly large portion of 'kids' animal movies' seem to be about those two breeds. And pheh! If that dogs going to be the star of the movie, it should at least be able to save a basket full of orphan kittens or something. ;)

I am not much of a seafood person and definitely not much of a dried-things person, so I think I could safely skip any sort of Thanksgiving dinner that involved that.

Oh, cool! I used to play alto and bari sax myself, but it's been a while since I last took either up. I was always more in it for the social aspect than the actual love of music, haha.