Friday night, bigdumbthing graced me with his presence at Friday Night Magic, then again on Saturday morning for the 10th Anniversary / Eighth Edition release. Somewhere within there, Chico flew in and did some grocery shopping, then went to a concert with ecafracs.
We had the send-off for Judy on Sunday (who’s going away to Japan for three years), and I didn’t do as much cleaning before the fact, and ended up doing too much of it at the last minute. (After the tournament on Sat., and early Sun. morning.) The party itself was entertaining, we crammed about 25 people at the highest point into my little townhouse. Alicia couldn’t make it up, so early on, we set up a one-way videoconference with my iSight, so she could watch and listen to the whole party. It ended up being on the whole time, and she was even paying attention to it most of the time. It was like having a disembodied person at the party. A few times, we even walked the laptop around and introduced her to people.
I got to introduce people to Happy Tree Friends, and caught a few of them by surprise… heh heh heh.
It was funny to watch people’s reactions to the Statue of Yoda, especially if it was after a while… it was just tucked away in the corner, looking very innocent.
I answered the question “how long did it take you to build that?” about five times over the course of they day, every time I took someone down to look at the Lego Star Destroyer.
desslok ended up coming home late and into the wrong airport, but he made it in time to have five of the six 5XL members in the same place at once.
Happy Tree Friends. It’s great but so… mindbogglingly wrong all at the same time. I give it an eight!
I can’t watch the DVD without getting the song stuck in my head for the next few days. That and there’s the bad habit that a few of us have of singing it in elevators. In three part harmony. With feeling.
La la lala la! Lala la la la! La la lala la! Lala la la la! Dibba dibbida! (and so on…)
I am envious of your lego collection. Though they have not been dragged out in a long time, I’ve resisted giving them to my nieces… so many happy memories.
Have you ever played something like this?
Leave it to Jeremy to take a completely innocent and non-violent childhood toy like Legos and inject it with an acidwash of WAR.
hehe.
I can see the appeal of HTF, but I could never freely mix anything that was meant to be cute with anything that was meant to be disgustingly violent. Newgrounds is littered with it. Apogee and Accursed Toys’s Boppin’ was similar but only had brief instances of bloody teddy bears or some such, and I think this was when I first became aware that anyone was even mixing the two together.
I think it’s just the mixture of childhood and adulthood themes that turns me off cold.