Sunday, December 28, 2025

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Christmas Village 2025

The Leader In Ruthless Sports Terrorist Entertainment
Or
I Am A Real American… Hero
 
We’ve reached that time of year! 
The Eighteenth Christmas Battle Village is the first time that it is a true, immediate sequel to last year’s battle. Once again, many thanx are due to Doctor Miller, my dentist (retired), reader (long time) and friend (current) for donating the “guest stars” for both last year and this follow up after his housing downsize!
 
Disclaimer #1) I didn’t bother checking exactly which trucks were used last year or where they were placed meaning I set them up based on memory. I only checked after all the figures were set up and it was too late to move them leading to some locational shifts in this "immediate sequel." So there.
Disclaimer #2) I have given up trying to find the proper stand for each figure. No one can read them except me while I am setting them up, and the figures barely can stay upright on them anymore anyway as they get older, and the joints get softer. This is also why so many are becoming left-handed as their right (and more and more often, left as well) hand is stretching beyond usability.
Disclaimer #4) There was a wrestling figure I didn’t use: one of the guys from Demolition. It was pretty badly made to begin with, and really beat up. I couldn’t tell which tag team member it was, and he didn’t make a good story element without his partner. 
Axe or Smash, I apologize.
Disclaimer #5) I'm almost positive there was a "Disclaimer #3" at some point. I know it wasn't that I am blatantly lying about never doing an immediate sequel before. I wonder what it referenced?

It Is Time.
 
The Joes and Cobras were completely overwhelmed on Sluttbordet Plateau last year by the invasion of the Miniature Marauding M.U.S.C.L.E. Men. Only by working together could the two groups of sworn enemies make any headway against their swarming attackers from another dimension. Technical experts from both teams joined forces to modify the "
Fractally Advancing Reality Transmogrifier" carried by the G.I. Joe “High-Speed Extra-dimensional Search Ship” to send the tiny terrors back from whence they came.
 
The small size of their foes was found to have been caused by a shrinking effect as they were extracted from their dimension. Trying to combine a mix of Cobra and Joe equipment in the beam generator unfortunately damaged the "Universe Gyroscopic Location Yanker." While engaged in returning the M.U.S.C.L.E. Men home the transportation and embiggening ray accidentally locked on to the middle of a 1980’s World Wrestling Federation house show. And now…
 
PANDEMONIUM IS BREAKING LOOSE ON THE FROZEN PLATEU!!!!

Monday, December 22, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 3C

Feral Scream Part 2
(Click for part 1) Cheetor’s quarters have normal photographs of him and his fellow Maximals on Earth… In the same room with a 3D hologram clock, and the same ship with all 3D hologram displays on the controls. This leads me to wonder where his polaroid camera is and how it survived multiple ship crashes and explosions?

Thursday, December 18, 2025

More Christmas Music Trivia

Since I can’t help myself, and accidentally knocked out this list while making the new Halloween one, we return to Christmas Novelty Song Trivia this year!
 
Once again, since “can’t help myself” is genetic, Anabelle has concocted another Rankin Bass Marvel Figure Christmas Special Tribute. This time out, it’s the 1975, clunkily named The First Christmas, the Story of the First Christmas Snow, ("White Christmas" was taken. You'd think they'd have checked that.) Anyway, it stared Angela Lansbury, who I , sadly, do not have a Marvel action figure of.






Monday, December 15, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 3B

Changing of the Guard
The Ark has limited defenses. (I am shocked. Shocked I say.) Therefore the Maximals want to get Sentinel from the sunken Axalon.

Thursday, December 11, 2025

A Carnivores Guide To Cardiology- That's Not What "Routine" Means


The shortest version of this- The conclusion of my cardiac catheterization was: I’m good but weird. There are some medication changes to maintain the good part. It took me more time to recover from freaking out than from the actual catheterization.

 
The short version of this- A new, complete, right coronary artery blockage was found twelve years after my last catheterization (fifteen after my first one.) However, I had and have no symptoms or loss of quality of life because of the collateral flow around it due to my high activity levels and diet. Due to those life choices, the vessels carrying the blood around the blockage have made themselves larger, stronger, and better able to deliver blood on their own. I will be starting a new, but statistically proven through trials, injectable medication that will drop my cholesterol WAY down to maintain keeping the remaining coronary artery pathways open.
 
 
The really long version of this- Apologies for how “really long” this is. I usually break up stories of this size, but it’s a thing I needed to do to maintain what mental health I have left. There was a lot to cover, and I didn't want to have any, “So I’m in the Cath Lab with a tube near my heart… Tune in Next Time!!!” cliffhangers.
Yes, I realize this is about the length of one "Disney Day." Also- shut up.