Stuff you could buy me, and I wouldn’t complain.
UPDATED! 1/2/06
As I’ve mentioned before, this blog is fairly selfish and ungrateful at it’s core. As such, I like stuff, especially stuff for me. None of this particularly newsworthy or revolutionary, it’s just said as background information.
This will end up being a post that is referenced often, and updated frequently as I find more cool stuff to put on here, and as gracious people (read: my wife, for my bday/xmas) buy me stuff from it.
ITEM #1 – The NES Buckle
Added to list: 12/02/2005
Cost: $30
This absolutely rocks my world. At a hefty 30 dollar price tag, if you don’t feel like shelling out that many dollas, you can instead send me your old nintendo controllers. You can trade 5 of them for a free buckle.
Just for giggles, they’re also developing something alittle more, um, phallic:
An Atari joystick belt buckle. Let the jokes run wild. Here’s how they describe it on their site:
The Atari controller is something that should never have been turned into a belt buckle. For this reason, we had to make it. Wear it for instant nostalgia and to be the hit at your next party or crowded subway.
You get the idea.
ITEM #2 – The “nobody reads my blog” t-shirt
Added to list: 12/13/2005
Cost: $13
Size: Medium
From the website’s description of the shirt:
Is this shirt a way to outwardly show grief over your vastly unappreciated blog, or is it a segue into the “Oh, you have a blog? What’s the URL?” conversation? There is nothing wrong with trolling for new readers. If you’re not advertising, how are you going to convince the world that your opinion is important?
Now, if you’re read this (and you’re not me, sorry me, you don’t count), somebody reads my blog! But that’s not the point, is it. With so many blogs in the world, some of them don’t get read, and I wholeheartedly agree with that blurb. If I’m not advertising, how am I going to convince the world that my opinion is important?
ITEM #3 – The Flirt to Convert Tee
Added to list: 1/02/2006
Cost: $17.99
You may find this shirt offensive, and if not offensive, at least mildly irreverent. If that’s the case, the shirt is doing its job. For more information, see this site: Date To Save
Today’s funny link: Morning Musume vs. Lizard (whatever that means. Be aware that this video has alot of Japanese lady-screaming.)
If I buy you the later of the two belt buckels will you wear it to church, to a wedding, and to a funeral? Gotta get the value out of it.
Based on the time of this comment and the time of the email I just send you, you’re about 5 minutes ahead of me,l Sir Adam J.
Church: Certainly. I’d wear it to work too, the club, you know, wherever
Wedding: Only if we could go back in time and I could wear it to your wedding. And failing that, whenever Robert Jones gets married, then his, cause he would appreciate it.
Funeral: Only if its my funeral… which is still a yes!
I’ll email you my address you can ship it to, thanks.
well…when your funeral comes around, I will make sure that you are wearing the atari joystick beltbuckle. Only then you won’t appreciate it too much.
As an interesting sidenote (nevermind this conversation is occuring on a shallow blog on a post about a belt buckle shaped in a uhh… special way)…
I want my funeral to be a joyous event, a reflection of how I lived my life (yes to God, but I also enjoy life), not a sad event. It’s certainly very possible I’ll leave a widow/children behind, but the steps I take now can ensure that they will have support both through people and financially, to live. There will be grieving (well I sure hope there will be!) yes, but there is room for joy and laughter as well.
Why would it be joyous? I’ll tell you why. I’m going to chill with Jesus, you people are all nice and everything, but seriously it will be a better place than here.
So anyway, I think an atari joystick belt buckle would lighten the mood (or freak people out, which is certainly a good component of mood lightening)… which, it’s my funeral, I’ll lighten the blippin mood if I want to.
I for one will certainly be joyous at your funeral…
for the reasons you mentioned of course…
I agree with you. I hope my funeral isn’t a bummer either, and don’t bohter wasting money on a casket or any of that other crap, I don’t need them, just throw me out back. Take everyone to Disney with the money or something
First of all, I’m impressed that you have the balls to use the word “phallic” on here.
Second, perhaps we could do a group DDR at your funeral, assuming we’re not too old for that kind of thing.
Third, good job taking a post about video game controller belt buckles and turning the discussion towards something serious and important. i thought that was pretty significant. Proof that the ordinary and extraordinary are never too far separated…
see, he’s either completely goofy, or deeply serious. not really much inbetween. I do love him so much! I do not, however, feel any positive feelings for the belt buckles. love you sweetie!