plastic meat once again most popular toy

if you love a child or two, and if you are not a satanist or communist, chances are that in a week or so you will be enjoying the squeals of delight that emanate from the throats of kids gifted with plastic meat. although many holiday traditions have gone the way of the dinosaur (does anyone still get oranges in their stocking?), fake plastic meat is, for the 24th year in a row, still the most popular children’s toy, narrowly edging out the hello kitty water dispenser.

praise the lord and pass the ammunition. in a world where all of a sudden the beatles are a video game, and new varieties of the operation game come out faster than I can pull the boogers out of the shrek version, it’s nice to have an old standby to hang your hat on.

hand me that plastic bacon!

recent sic alps music credited with upswing in christmas season spending

the sic alps, famed bay area “noise” rockers, have been almost single-handedly credited with the tremendous swell of christmas spending this season. most smart retailers have begun to continuously play a loop of the band’s 2009 output (found by clicking the picture of the group above.) this seems  to entrance consumers into spending more money that they make or have hopes of being able to account for in their budgets for years to come.

wilma varnody of pendergrass, kentucky was asked what it was about the music that had convinced her to fill her cart at wal-mart with over $6,000 worth of soon-to-fail electronic gadgets. I think she said it best, when she simply stated, “there’s a groove to this music. it makes me want to power our economy to the point where our enemies become enfeebled and our allies smile with joy.”

beautiful music, indeed.

skulls without borders 10″ is awesome!

sic alps are better than ever! this various artists 10″ rules!