The wife and I spent the weekend at the movies. We saw The Invasion on Saturday. It was decent. I had no idea it was a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers until the very end of the movie.

On Sunday, we saw Mr. Bean’s Holiday. I picked up a soda bigger than my head and a box of these for about $25 before we headed in:

Now, if you look closely at the box you should notice something about all of those little round bastards. None of them have eyes! Except of course for this mutant that I found inside:

Was this thing alive at one time? What the hell!? Is it supposed to be ET? The color certainly would fit. In case you never saw E.T., the little wrinkly dude ate Reese’s Pieces like they were going out of style. Could this be a sign that he is coming back to destroy our planet? It just has to be.

This guy will probably end up on eBay, because I need a new truck. If you want to get this now for your collection of mutant food products you better comment quickly. I’m expecting to get millions on eBay for this, but for you I can let it go for $500.

I was goofing off in the afternoon yesterday instead of working (shocking, I know!). I found a Popeye on Craigslist and ended up getting it. For those that haven’t been reading every single day, I already have a Popeye. I plan on turning this one into a Donkey Kong sometime before December 21st, 2012. I think I’ll be putting the Popeye parts on eBay (Marquee, Bezel, CPO, and PCB) at some point in the future. If you are interested in buying them off of me please let me know.

My neighbors must think I’m crazy by now. In order to make room for this in the garage, I had to bring Defender inside the house. To get at it, I had to bring Pac-Man out into the driveway. Defender needed leg levers, so I had it lying on its back in the driveway along with Pac-Man and Popeye.

The only spot I had left for a game inside is now taken, blocking my only exit in the basement!

I had to decide which one I wanted more…a door, or a Defender - and Defender won hands down.

Look what I won on eBay

Now I just have to get a Dig-Dug to put this over.

Hey there. Quite a while back I spotted a pretty cool hand painted sign from an old arcade on eBay:

This sucker was big…probably 3 or 4 feet tall from what I remember. I placed a bid on it but ended up getting outbid. I decided to make my own. I put the image in Photoshop and corrected for perspective. Then I brought it into Adobe Illustrator and redrew it. Here is the end result:

As you can see, there are a few differences. The bulk of it I redrew. The font used for the “BECAUSE OF STATE…” text didn’t seem practical to redraw so I used a similar font. I also dropped out the “CONN.” state abbreviation. The other thing that differs is the “Group & Party” text at the bottom. In the original sign, it looked a bit strange and after I redrew it I didn’t like it so I used a font for that as well.

After making the file, I found a guy that said he could make me one printed on vinyl attached to an alluminum sign blank. I’m not too thrilled with the end result. If you look very closely at it, it looks like it was printed on a cheap printer. The colors aren’t bright, and it’s spotty. Here is the final sign above my token machine:

I was contemplating selling these at some point, but I’m not a sign maker. I may try to sell them someday, but I don’t have any definite plans to do so. So….I’m making the Adobe Illustrator file available to anyone that wants it. I designed this with proportions to print 18″ x 24″, but it will scale up or down fine. If you want this for your own personal use, feel free to print it and slap it on the wall. If you want to make these and sell them that’s cool too, but I’d appreciate it if you let me know you are doing so. I would also love a copy of one that doesn’t look like it was printed on an inkjet made in 1996.

You can download it here.

CAUTION: Contains some adult subject matter. If my nephews or neices are reading this, you better not click this or else.

This site is awesome. Real eCards that are as blunt as possible.

My Mom and her husband Kevin were up from Florida and we took them to a Flea Market in Mansfield CT Sunday. It’s at a drive-in that actually still operates, showing new releases.

These 2 pics are right from their website…hope they don’t mind me stealing them.

OK…so now you know what it looks like. Here is what I came home with:

$20 for the pair. I was thinking more like $10, but I had to have them.

TRUE STORY - Late the same night after getting this vomit bag, I blew chunks. Yes, I drove the porcelain bus to puke town. The wife had to get dessert on the way home and made me get some with her. They must have used some old eggs or something, because when I came home I took a long dizzying ride on the Vomitron. Is that a coincidence, or is this vomit bag possessed somehow? Look at the title of my last post before this one…”I think I’m gonna be sick”. Weird, huh?

Port hole mirror thingy - $5. Should shine up nicely with some Brasso.

I like art deco stuff and the World’s Fair. I thought this was pretty cool, but I don’t remember what I paid for it. It was more than 25 cents.

This is a closeup of 1 of 12 postcards that I picked up for $10. I think they were made during WWII judging by the subject matter of some of them. Click the pic below to see a giant sized image.

I think I may need a break from Craigslist. I saw an ad yesterday for a free “Castles Arcade Game”. It had no pictures, and not much for a description.

I went to KLOV.com and searched for “Castles”, and the only game that came up was Crystal Castles. I figured maybe they don’t remember the name. I called them, and the guy said he hadn’t looked at it in a long time, and it was in the garage. I tried to ask specific questions but they didn’t really know much. So, I’m thinking it must at least have the word Castle in it, and its a free “Arcade Game”. I’m thinking:

Crystal Castles - awesome!

Star Castle - it’s still good

Mr. Do’s Castle - hey, still good

How could I possibly loose? I figured I couldn’t pass this up. I drove there late last night. 4 hrs and half a tank of gas later, I came home with this giant turd:

Look at it! Just glistening in the sun.

You may be wondering why I took it home. I’ve been let down by 2 people recently that committed to deals and weaseled out. I agreed to come get this from them, and they were nice people. I couldn’t back out on them.

On the ride home with this treasure last night I had thoughts of pulling over and dumping it in the woods, or of my tailgate flying open and it “accidentally” sliding out into the middle of I495. Unfortunately, when I got home it was still there safe and sound in the back of the truck.

I wasn’t sure where to put this, but I ended up finding a really good spot for it!

Checkout this auction on eBay for a Kwik-E-Mart sign. This is from one of the 11 7-eleven stores that were converted to Kwik-E-Marts for the month of July as a promo for the Simpsons Movie. If you bought this, maybe you could convert your house to a Kwik-E-Mart. I unfortunately don’t have room for this big ass sign, but maybe you do!

What I do have room for are the signs inside the store. I was hoping I could post about obtaining those, but the deal fell through. When I first found out that 7-11 had Simpsons stuff for sale at the beginning of July, I shot down there and bought some - Buzz Cola, Krusty Os, etc… I inquired about getting the signs when they throw them out and was told by the manager to keep calling to remind him and he would “see what he could do”. I called about 3 times in July. Last call was a few days ago, and he said to call on the 31st. I call and he’s not there. The lady that answered said the signs were gone. I since called 3 or 4 times yesterday and today and he is supposedly not in. I get the feeling that I’m getting shafted here. I’m starting to know that feeling quite well.

Now, I don’t expect people to just give stuff away for free but if someone agrees to something, they should stick to it.

Anyways, I bought the 2 signs that I really wanted today on eBay. I’ll be posting pics here when I get them.