A Vac-U-Form set, which was basically an open hot plate with which you could badly burn yourself or set the house on fire. It heated sheets of plastic to molten state, then you vacuumed them over molds by pumping the black handle to make things. If there wasn’t a risk of injury or even death, a toy wasn’t fun enough. Like the deadly lawn darts, perfect for children.
On the bed, original size Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots made by Marx. The reproductions by Mattel decades later were half the size and didn’t work. Heck, the originals hardly worked.
cute me as child on floor playing with the Vac-U-Form
An organization with which I’ve had long association sends out a multicultural Thanksgiving recipe book at 2 PM the day before the holiday encouraging everyone to prepare a recipe from it and send in a pic or video of their Thanksgiving meal for social media. E-mail sent at 2 PM the afternoon before. Right.
The damned thing is embedded in some media-regulating webpage called “flipsnack.” It’s hard for me to see, and it cannot be downloaded or printed. The webpage wouldn’t even serve me a byte at first because of my “dangerous” IP.
H2G, just send out a freakin’ PDF. I feel violated. lol.
Everybody gotta control every single thing. I must whine and mock the absurdity. 😝 It’s the way I like to roll. 😁
— horror — indie — low -budget — nearly local film company in Asheville North Carolina
All of those points appealed to me. I often like low budget indie films.
I was disappointed, because SuttleFilm of Asheville has a lot of movies out. If this one was good, I was going to rent several more.
Not worth it. I was mostly bored and frustrated with the movie. I was not scared a single time. Characters were flat, and there was little to no plot. It was hard to tell if it was a parody movie making fun of the genre.
This might be strange to say, but a positive point was that the gore was well done, frequently artfully so. Also, the sets were pretty in a horror sort of way. I liked them.
The reviews for this movie were good, but I think they were basically press releases repeated over and over. Book and movie reviews seem to be mostly a game in this way.
I’ll keep looking, because I’m really in the mood for some good horror and have some time to watch it.
From friends at SiembraNC, there is a business newly open to the public making masks. These look real good for personal use and as gifts. Locally made in North Carolina. It would be great to see this business clobbered with orders. Prices look good. Just gotta pick some out.
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Today we’re writing with exciting news: we launched a social enterprise, Hecho en Carolina, and for the first time you can be part of helping create dignified, living wage jobs in rural counties for our members who have lost income because of the pandemic, and have been denied federal assistance.
If you’re thinking about how to honor the people in your life through holiday gift giving, you can order high quality handmade face masks right now – designed by and for essential workers.
Hecho en Carolina’s creators left their textile factory jobs this summer after multiple workplace outbreaks sickened family members, and the employers refused to take even basic safety precautions.
At the same time, our friends at the Guilford County Association of Educators reached out with a request: Would we help them design a best-in-class breathable face mask that would hold up to all-day use by frontline workers staffing meal pickup locations?
After months of focusing on custom wholesale orders, Hecho en Carolina has launched an online store, so more essential workers can have access to these masks, while supporting dignified work.
I was shopping in the Harris Teeter supermarket the other day, and there was an overly muscled guy in a tank top walking around flexing for anybody who would look.
I thought to myself, “Pffft! That skinny security guard over there by the hummus is a helluva lot better.” 😁
For me, that’s just the way it is. lol. I should have gone over to the guard and said, “oh! I was just looking for hummus!”
T-Mobile donates to Feeding America if you play with their app and do certain things on social media. So passionate about giving back. Feeding America usually shows somebody handing a child a to-go box. 😮
Walmart has free Thanksgiving dinner, but you have to pay for it and wait for cash back on some 3rd party app. At least it includes a 2-L Coke and a can of Campbell’s.
I just feel the need to do my thing and mock a little.
Add some Christmas Child Operation Blessing, and you’d be cooking with gas. 🔥 🎄
Fuenteovejuna did it 