un-Happy Meal

I went to lunch today with the purpose of getting another Garfeild happy meal toy, or kids meal toy or lil'folks eaten's or whatever Wendy's calls its Happy Meals. Those bastards ran out of Garfeild Toys. I ended up with some lame-o cloth Frisbee thing. I hate that. I so far had collected the clock, the weird TV thing, and a way cool magnet. I want the sunglasses and the other thing that I wasn't sure what it was, but I wanted it anyway. Stupid clothe Frisbee thingy.

I wanted my Garfeild toy! The movie, I heard, sucked ass - but in my experience, cartoons - and I'm not going to get all prissy and call it "Animation" because it’s a cartoon is was and always shall be. "Oh, it's animated! It's not just a mere cartoon!…" blah, blah get over it. Animation snobs .The only people who call cartoons animation are people who are ashamed of what other people think about people who watch cartoons. Like if you "come out" as a cartoon fan that people will hide their dogs from you and tell their kids you eat children. Get over it.

If you watch that anime crap you are watching pornographic cartoons. Suck it up and deal with it - you enjoy watching drawings of huge busted women round eyes and big blond hair shoot big guns. Embrace your kink. Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon. Anyway, in my experience the cartoons that are aimed at adults or the PTB think more adults then children are interested in, always have the best toys, cartoons solely aimed at kids have sucky "educational" toys that tend to be about the ecology or the evils of drug use or the importance of education. Dull, dry, and not really fun to play with. Much like the cartoons themselves. If they chose not to go for the high fiber variety of kids toys they are product placement toys and about as much fun to play with as ad copy.

I really can't imagine that children went to go see Garfeild the toys aren't really "play with me" toys. They are more of the "sit me on your desk" toys. Like most if not all of The Simpson's kids meal toys I've collected. You really can't play with them. You can put them on your desk but they really don't lend themselves to playing. They lend themselves to being picked up when you are on the phone.

My favorite toys so far are from Finding Nemo. They have nice flat bases that lend themselves to the top of my computer monitor and they look fairly realistic as toy fish go. They all either light up or spit water. I like a toy that does something, bonus points if the toy talks. The Nemo toy laughs - so it is extra special cool.

Convention tangent

I think they need to come out with DNC happy meal toys. I think that would be way cool. I think a little Jimmy Carter magic eight ball would be nice. You ask it a question and it gives you a well thought out answer taking into account all sides of the issue and coming up with a fair and moral answer. And then it probably hugs you, but I haven't worked that part out yet.

I got annoyed with the pundits last night after Dean's speech. "What did he mean by finally feeling free to be democrats" or whatever. Don't they know about the atmosphere of fear the GOP has been nurturing? I don't disclose my political affiliation until I really know someone, wanna know my SAT score? Okay! What size shoes do I wear? super! Wanna know who I voted for? I'm not sure I'm ready to share that yet. Democrats have been demonized by the GOPs brown shirts for years. In the past I would cop to voting Democrat about as fast as I would hand out holy cards and rosaries at a Klan rally. Call someone a "Liberal" and you would have insulted them. Feeling secure enough to come out of the Democratic closet is a big deal. Now, if I only felt secure enough to put my Kerry/Edwards sign out in my yard instead of inside in my window…