Muh... muh...

Praise God that Fang, my character at Ashes to Ashes, never saw this when he was younger and has no way of seeing it now.

I didn't know the Japanese did a Spider-Man tv series, did you? With a singing cowboy, and a sidekick kid in short pants, and the Iron Cross Army of space aliens, and a giant transforming robot that Spidey could summon?

Oh, and while I'm at it... go to this little gem of a Bad Movie review to see what Fang's going to look like if he keeps up the Hermetic business long enough. Barring that, just ( click the cut tag because lo, I am lazy )

Want to see a grown woman bang her head into the table?

Come home from karate class on a night when she got up at 6 AM to work on her paper to qualify for the PhD. program - and didn't leave the house until 1 PM because her literature review took so much time and extra effort. Wait for your father to say you have good news about school. Cheerfully announce that your advisor, the head of your department, told you that you don't have to do a thesis. Then, when she says that she's still got to do X, Y, and Z on her own papers, tell her you're doing a term paper on reengineering Dr. Evil's hiring process so fewer employees get dropped into the fiery lava - and when she asks if you're seriously doing that and the professor let you get away with it, tell her you're getting an A so far.

My poor mom. I ought to bake her something.

One more reason to love Canada:

One of their toy companies, Mega Blox, makes products not unlike Legos. This is innately cool, as Legos are simply cool and have spread that coolness to other plastic snap together building block toys, but the true potential of Canadian building block toys can be seen RIGHT HERE:

Transforming Blok Bots(tm): Jackal and Scorpion

Look! It's a giant Anubis-shaped robot! Never mind the scorpion, lookit the Anubis! It comes with a tiny little pilot in Egyptian head-scarf thing (I can't remember its name) and its very own pair of plastic khopesh! It's way cooler than their Ninja and Dragon transforming Blok Bots(tm), or their Knight and Wolf bots. C'mon. Anubis! In building blocks! It's cool, dammit!

I'd have bought this for cadhla's Hogswatch present except that I'd ordered her present earlier in the day from an online retailer. Now I gotta find someone to buy this for. But damn. One more reason to suck up to our neighbours to the north: they makes 'em some damn fine toys.

SQUEAL!

It came it came it came it came!

1421: The Year China Discovered the World

MINE!