That's My Vehicle, Pontius!

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Webcam Is Down Today

I blame the excessive heat caused by global warming resulting from rampant, uncontrolled commercial interests usurping appropriate government oversight contrary to the will of the people and sense. That's why the webcam is down. Write your congressman.

This is not my wonderful life — I don't have that kind of energy

An excerpt from the day of a friend of mine. Names, places changed to protect, extort the innocent, guilty.

I'm meeting Armando downtown for shopping, then I'm going to go to Sprachett's — 124 Elm St. — for happy hour and to review it, then at 6:30 I'm off to pick up Frank's wife, Marilyn, to go to Norwegietown and have a cocktail at Rochambeau's, a new restaurant I have to write up for Monday, before going to bookgroup at Clarise's. Oh, and I have to meet up with a woman named Betty Merry who I met last night at dinner...to treat myself for my last ever Murty's quiz, I went to Ponio's with a $20 gift card Frida gave me and managed to leave my bookgroup book behind —unfinished, of course — but luckily Betty, who was sitting opposite me in the bar and is also a writer who was there to use her $20 gift card, and I exchanged email addresses, so she retrieved it for me and now I'm hoping she'll email me back today and tell me where to meet up with her to reclaim it.

Toa Maiden Test Drives Red Ruru and Bandolier

The Life On Mars figure spontaneously attached itself during a workspace-sweeping.



Reminds me of a renaissance Madonna and Christ Child.

Interesting Trick of the Light

Although it looks like Jack Stone® has been encased in Silly Putty® a la Han Solo® in carbonite® the pic below is actually a Silly Putty® casting of Jack Stone®.

Toa of Time, Indeed.

Jack Stone, We Hardly Knew Ye

A Jack Stone figure, utterly innocent, tries to find his place in the Lego pecking order.

Electric Penguins Are Not Indigenous to These Parts

Is This a Bad Thing?

The scenario: Dry summer. Dry yard. Extra-dry patch. Patch is strictly rectangular. Patch corresponds exactly to a slab of concrete 18" under the grass! What is it?!

Fort Worden Driftwood Construct

While Whitney and Stuart started the bonfire, I made this perfectly sound arch. It's about four feet tall and withstood me jumping up and down on it. It survived at least one tide intact.



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Built a Tarakava Nui

It's tall. It punches. It leans forward a little. It's mostly just tall.

Makuta Doing a Yul Brynner Impression

 


"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!" Or maybe, "Here is your staff, the scorpions will be your followers."

the Mask of Light

 

Rahkshi Hijinks

 


Hey Ralph, lookit me! I'm da Toar of Light!
Will you knock it off! We have to be at the Rahkoon Lodge in five minutes!

Metallic Silly Putty®!

Stretched in a thin sheet over an old-style Matoran, can metallic Silly Putty® be anything other than a stray bit of protodermis?



It's a bit brighter than the silver MoL, but the photo exaggerates the difference.

Makuta & Minions

Happy Birthday, Blog

2 years. Seems longer.

Gali vs. Bohrok Kaita

I'm not sure where or when this altercation took place. It must be after the Toa discovered the Chamber of the Exo-Armor but before they were immersed in protodermis.

Hans Blix Has Left the Building

"Hans Blix, you've retired as the UN's nuclear inspector. What are you going to do?"
"I am going to pick some blueberries. And also some mushrooms."

The Lamp.

The Lamp.

Immediate Answer to Question Posed

I am of course, being entirley obtuse in regard to where Lego's Bionicle story can go. Hollywood has already supplied the answer:

• Roman numerals: II, III, IV, etc.
  
• The Something: ... the Reckoning, ... the Awakening, ... the Quickening, ... pick a gerund.
  
• Apes-style: Planet of, Beneath the, Return to, Escape from, Battle for, Conquest of, etc.
  
• Spinoffs: a la All in the Family. Maude, The Jeffersons, Gloria ... I can't stand to think about it any more. Oof.
  
• Prequels.
  
• Retreads: Director's Cuts. And Special Editions. And Nth Anniversary Editions. Retrospectives, festivals, revivals, road shows and ice shows. Theme park already covered.

Recursive Webcammery

Here I watch someone watching the webcam. Hypersolipsis.

I Must Be Completely Mad

                8581: Kopeke
              8582: Matoro
            8583: Hahli
          8584: Hewkii
        8585: Hafu
      8586: Macku
    8593: Makuta
  8595: Takua with Pewku
8596: Takanuva with Ussanui

All ordered this day, the birthday of Vilmos Zsigmond and King Gustav V.

I did hold off on 8594, "Jala with Guku Bird."

For the sake of thoroughness in reporting these were received recently: 8580 is a can of Kraata. 8587, 8588, 8589, 8590, 8591, 8592: Panrahk, Kurahk, Lerahk, Guurahk, Vorahk, Turahk. I can only imagine that we are approaching the end of the Bionicle cycle. Where can you go when the avatars of Good and Evil combine into the Utter Being? I mean, really? Where?

Rahkshi Have Arrived

The remainder of the Rahkshi cohort (plus extra Kraata) have arrived and are at present menacing the webcam. Went shopping in Lynnwood and came across plain old Bohrok on clearance at Toys R Us and bought three to make a Bohrok Kaita. For Bionicle-heads only (as if anyone else is reading this): feet are based on the Bohrok Kaita #1 and the arms and torso are based on Bohrok Kal Kaita #1.

Also picked up another Boxor, two Bohrok Va and the 100% weird "Slap Shot," a hockey toy from Lego. I wanted to see what it was and use the shoulder armor for the Toa Maiden. A pretty good toy, actually. Not very Legoistic, though. The big surprise was a powerful spring which accepts an axle. Could be useful as part of a trigger.

Happy Combination: Breakfast at Cranium's and Soundtracks

Went for my customary Saturday breakfast and this was being played. Other customers wanted to know what the tunes were. I could identify about half the tunes. (Madame Bovary? There's a movie?) I arrived during the Adventures of Robin Hood and left just after Dr. Zhivago.

Toa Maiden Defeated

A slide show. Contains Lego violence.

The Big Picture

I am going to have to get a camera with a fisheye lens so I can do proper panoramas.

This Week

Eric SerraThe Messenger

Miklos RozsaKnights of the Round Table

Miklos RozsaThe King's Thief

David NewmanThe Postman

George S. ClintonMortal Kombat

Fred MyrowSoylent Green

Webcam Downs Staring Gali Nuva

The moral of this story is not to stand too close to the webcam when it spins.

Tahu Nuva and Gali Nuva Stare Down Webcam

"If you look behind you, you can see the Toa Maiden doing your job."