Anaconda (review)

 They rebooted the movie as a comedy. 

It works. 

Steve Zahn is completely underrated in hollywood, he's one of the best things about the film. It has few LOL moments, but other than that it's a one-and-done type movie. 

You watch it. You enjoy it. You don't love it. But you know you'll never see it again. 

If there's nothing better to watch, you might as well. Not a ringing endorsement I know, but it's the best I can do. 

Have a good weekend folks!

Ghost Blue Raspberry

 After losing the rights with Sour Patch Kids, Ghost went to rename their blue flavor as "Blue Raspberry" and by all accounts....it taste the exact same. 

I kinda thought it would, but since its "New" I had to give it a try. This will be a top seller I'm sure because everyone loves this flavor. For me it's fine. But there's still a handful of flavors I'd place over this one all the same. 

Interesting to see what will replace Redberry. If its already out I haven't checked. Been a busy couple of weeks for me. However, as they keep coming out with new flavors, I'll continue to give them a shot!

Spam

 Tried it for the first time a while ago. 

Sucks. Awful. I even tried different flavors when a friend of mine begged me to give it another shot. Even pan fried it as he suggests and it still tasted terrible. 

The horrifying twist? My kids love it. They ate the rest of it for me. (thankfully) They want me to buy more. I think I've had enough. Ew. How has this become relevant on grocery store shelves for so long?

Believe me, I can stomach mediocre meals but these?? Nope. Never again.  

Birthday Month

I've been noticing a trend the past couple of years where people are referring to their birthday month instead of the actually day. Thereby giving them a reason to celebrate every day of the month instead. 

Is this really becoming a thing? You think you're so special that you decided a day wasn't good enough anymore and you needed to take the entire month to celebrate??

My birthday is at the end of the month. I'm not really into celebrating it for the entire month of May, nor bragging to people about it. I don't even tell people at work. The only reason they know is because my boss keeps track of it to make sure everyone receives B-day wishes. 

Not that my birthday has ever been that special in the past 9 years anyway. I don't hate it. I just don't make such a big deal out of it. 

But maybe it's just me. Do you celebrate the whole month in honor of your date of birth? If so, do tell. What am I missing here? Or am I just being a grouch? (very possible I'm sure)  
 

May the 4th go away

 It's not a holiday to me. I don't care about what its become and I certainly don't want to celebrate it. But people who know me casually, still greet me with a text message every year with it. 

I don't mind. But at the same time, I could care less about it. The only thing I loved about Star Wars was its Expanded Universe. And (at this time) they haven't any plans to continue that story line, so for me, I have zero interest in anything Lucasfilm brings out. 

I only have one Star Wars shirt and two ties in my closet. Which a rarely wear and would give away in a heartbeat. Star Wars is just a thing of the past to me now. I'll always love the old books and stories but now that it's under Disney, I couldn't care less about the thing that meant so much to me in my earlier days. 

1994 Fleer

 For the last set I ever collected during my childhood, it turned out to be Fleer. The cards looked absolutely stunning and I had a feeling I was done with Topps for good after this. 

A card where the photo took front and center. Which at this time was already being done with other premium cards look Topps Stadium and Donruss Studio. But boy oh boy did Fleer bring the thunder with this one!

After that, I stopped collecting all together. Why? The baseball strike. When I saw greed take away the World Series that year I (and several others) stopped caring about the sport. 

To be clear, I never gave up on baseball. Just on collecting. And though I think this contributed to baseball cards losing their popularity it certainly isn't the only reason. 

These days Topps has the exclusive rights, so competition is lacking and (in my opinion) the product has too. It's impossible to collect a set on your own without spending 5 times the amount its actually worth. Cards are too expansive and the hobby's dead to me now. 

But whatever monster its turned into today, won't offset the fond memories I had growing up. 

Have a good weekend folks! 

1993 Donruss

 It'd been quite sometime since I'd made a collection out of Donruss cards. This was the year I'd finally return to them to collect what I thought was their most beautiful set ever printed!

I remember thinking (MAN! Why didn't Topps look as good as this??) Beautiful borders, great photos, it literally had the whole package going for it. I didn't blink an eye the moment I saw it. I knew this was the set I was collecting. 

Thinking back, I guess it really wasn't a good year for Topps at all for me. Since the only set from the decade so far I'd collected was their 91 set. Every other year fell to another company. (mainly Fleer) But this was the year of Donruss for me. 

I will say that earlier, there was another spin off set from Donruss called "Studio" I'd collected. But that's for another post. 

Ok folks, what was the last set I collected as a kid and why did I stop collecting after that? Find out tomorrow!!