The latest dispatch from “No Shit” April 2022 edition

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Steve

As always, the corporate media of Austin finally posts the obvious regarding the Austin real estate market. Travis and Williamson County are now unaffordable? NO! It couldn’t be all the greedy vultures pestering me via SMS to buy my house only to flip it at a $100K markup? It couldn’t be all these assholes from bloated, strip-mall-covered landscapes with inflated equity which makes them pay well over market? Lastly, it couldn’t be the GOP and NeoLiberal allies in local positions bending backwards to accommodate corporations that don’t need welfare in order bring more, low-paying jerbs to the area? Put it all together and you have the wet dream of realtors, land rapists (most of them prefer to be called developers) and landlords!

It just sucks for the many friends, neighbors and co-workers I know who will probably have to leave the area or trade it in for a ridiculous commute with today’s fuel prices; god forbid mass transit in Texas. I was very fortunate to have my opportunity 20 years ago and managed to hold on as its value actually went down for several years. Ergo, I am willing to fight for others unlike the Limo Liberals, Selfish Libertarians and Moron Republicans making up an indecent proportion of residents here.

Affordable housing is going to be an issue in the upcoming midterms. Here’s how it’s going to play out too. The Democrats led by Grampa Brunch and the Unholy Trinity (Pelosi, Clyburn and Hoyer) will address it via platitudes while saying they have (empty) promises from the real estate castes to build more. The Republicans will continue with Autocratic playbook, it’s all due to non-White people, non-heterosexual people and whatever enemy they find since anyone with an IQ of 80 knew, the GOP never has a plan. They just repeat the failed ideas ingrained in their DNA circa 1876-1952, 1980-.

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Meet B.O.B.!

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Steve

Another addition to Castello di Maggi! Thanks to Costco, we got a good deal on a Roomba to help keep our newish tile floor clean. I named it B.O.B., the beat-up robot with Slim Pickens’ voice from The Black Hole. If you remember the movie, B.O.B. stands for BiOsanitation Battalion and like V.I.N.CENT (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), he is one of the best. B.O.B. has only had a couple missions since he’s still learning the layout and I need to find a way to get all the Ethernet cables off the floor, he “trips” on them. I didn’t want to introduce him until he received his eyes. All Michael’s had were these dragon types. The nice lady helping me said, children tend to gobble up the standard googly eyes around Easter for school projects. So far, he doesn’t scare any of the cats. They’ve taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the robot. Oh, he’s not allowed to his job until we’ve made sure there’s no cat “leavings” which could mess up his broom appendages.

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Happy 70th Birthday to Billy West!

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Steve

He’s probably one of the biggest names in voice-acting these days. Even if you’re not into animation (both kid and adult stuff) like me, you’ve heard him for years on TV. Billy has been the Cheerios Honey-Nut Bee and the Red M&M over the last several decades. I’m sure he’s done other stuff because he can alter his voice enough that you can’t always recognize him. Case in point was the Martian leader in Futurama who is based upon a gardener he knew.

Speaking of the show which keeps coming back from the dead, a major reason why I have a special place in my heart for Futurama because Fry is loosely based on Billy when he was in his twenties; he mentioned this Marc Maron’s WTF podcast as he talked about how directionless he was then while almost drinking himself to death. Sure the fictional character and real person diverge in many ways on how self-destructive they are but I see his point. We’re all discovering how humans truly aren’t grown up until later than we wish. I’m very grateful he received the opportunity to work on the Beany and Cecil revival which then led to him becoming Stimpy on the short-lived, Nineties phenomena Ren & Stimpy. I regret not recording nor being enthused enough the interview Billy gave WGLT’s news director in 1992. I was friends with a DJ on Illinois State’s NPR affiliate and it would’ve cool to be in the studio listening live. However, I have met him in person for a live Futurama table read at Austin’s TV Fest circa 2018! Billy was there with Maurice LaMarche, Phil Lamar, David Herman and David X Cohen to promote their legendary show moving to Hulu after years on Netflix. Very nice guy! Obviously, I had him with the others autograph my Simpsons Chucks since the Planet Express crew have been to Springfield via couch gag and to prevent a Simpson from ruining the future.

If you love cartoons or have watched them with children (your own, those related to you or babysitting), you can catch him through this vast list I know off the top of my head: My Life as a Teenage Robot, Justice League, Disenchantment, CatDog, Doug, Oblongs, Adventure Time, Space Jam (the one with Jordan), King of the Hill, Dilbert, Jimmy Neutron, Crank Yankers, Kid Notorious, Johnny Bravo, Billy & Mandy, Squirrel Boy, Drawn Together and the current Spitting Image.

Please forgive my selfishness Billy, I hope you keep doing voices for another 30 years! You’ve brought so much laughter and happiness to millions! I hope you have a fantastic birthday with all the people you love to be with!

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Jungle Cruise: If there’s nothing better on

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Steve

You’re free to see this painfully mediocre fare on Disney+ nowadays. We went during my last birthday weekend (2021) and it was my inaugural experience with Alamo Drafthouse’s family friendlier (but to me bro’ friendlier) rival Flix Brewhouse in Round Rock. Much like the movie, I wasn’t terribly impressed. The theater was larger, the “table” for our stuff too and the menu had more variety. However, I just couldn’t like the place’s atmosphere nor their pre-movie snipe; I could fee it was a venue filled with assholes who text during the movie and feel it is their Constitutional right to talk aloud at the screen.

The movie? Jungle was a near, shot-for-shot clone of everything better you’ve seen before: The Mummy (1999) and the entire Indiana Jones franchise. Paul Giamatti appears briefly to chew the scenery, Duane tries to improve his possible political fortunes telling the dumb jokes from the theme-park ride and Emily Blunt earns an easy paycheck, maybe to finance A Quiet Place III. I would say the only change they made is setting it in South America instead of Africa since I remember the ride had hippos which don’t exist elsewhere. What’s the plot? Some magical plant capable of healing any ailment and Blunt’s heroine with gay cousin in tow (yet another first openly homosexual for Disney despite the previous 20) trying to find it. Allegedly some Spanish conquistadors died searching for it 300 years earlier and Blunt has their notes or map. Meanwhile, Jesse Plemons attempts his best German accent as the Kaiser’s cousin who wants it too. Overall, it’s the usual crap from Disney trying to monetize a lazy idea…again (Pirates, Haunted) while they were trying to get MCU fare back onto theater schedules and recover from Star Wars fizzling on the giant screens. Did I like any of it? Bits and pieces, not enough to sit through Jungle more than the Friday evening I was enjoying more by being with Jennifer. Is it safe enough to show children? Over eight since there’s some shit younger ones will have nightmares from. I can only recommend Jungle for anyone with a low IQ or people I want to pimp slap whenever they say, “It’s a popcorn movie.” The latter expression is synonymous with “it’s crappy.”

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My new bookshelves!

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Steve

I decided to treat myself with a major personal upgrade now that I have recovered my office for the new tile floor and especially for successfully clearing out the room. It was nothing but a messy, hoarding nightmare filled with books, bins, etc. since…hell, I can’t even remember. Obviously, what has been reclaimed and redeemed as my office wasn’t meant to be a monument to procrastination, it just happened. This room was supposed to be temporary storage and a staging area while Somara cleared out her office. Once she emptied and/or organized it enough, we would remodel it into a library to store all our various types of media. Then my office would follow and become a joint office. Sadly, it never happened.

Well, it’s all in the past and to celebrate with some of the refinancing, I bought a pair of these bitchin’ bookshelves from Austin’s Furniture in the Raw. These aren’t your typical Ikea Billy particle board crap! Mine are custom built and made from oak. They’re solid! Best of all, they’re worthy of being put in my will to bestow upon my nephews and niece. I hope they’ll find new homes with new books and/or nick nacks, unlike the fate of most Amerikan stuff (really cheap Chinese trash), the dumpster.

The delivery guys were champs too. They were somewhat worried about all the angles to get into the office but they succeeded with nary a scuff, bruise or torn muscle. I graciously tipped them $50. I hope they had some well-deserved food and drinks on me. They saved me a ton of grief and Icy Hot.

Next up, evacuating the second storage space I’m renting to hold all the immediate crap I displaced for the floor people and to help Jennifer move in. Not everything in there is returning, just mostly books and should I run out, maybe a few cool toys to show off. The biggest temptation to resist will be not to fill it up. Nature, Gamers and Bibliophiles hate vacuums or space where something could go! I’m unfortunately two of those.

Within five minutes, Metztli hopped up and approved.

Agamemnon refused to be outdone and picked his own shelf.

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RIP Gilbert Gottfried

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Steve

Another unexpected passing alongside the, “I didn’t know he was ill!” story but Gilbert left behind a pretty good legacy. Many forget that he was a member of the worst SNL cast (1980-81) in history so his career’s second act bordered on miraculous, especially compared to the unfortunate Charlie Rocket. For those too young to know because I’m pretty sure NBC has locked up the season in a vault, Gilbert belonged to the first ensemble after the inaugural cast moved on to middling success in crap films, SitComs and drug overdoses. Were they truly awful and unfunny? Not always despite the common criticism of them being called Saturday Night Vile and calls to have the show put out of its misery. In my opinion the cast was learning to find their voice as they were practically starting from nothing in the wake of some truly talented and overrated (Chevy Chase and Bill Murray especially) people. Plus the audience and critics were remembering 1975-80 with rose-colored glasses which were heavily fogged up by weed, cocaine and Boomer nostalgia. Belushi and company often didn’t stick the landing neither, unless you were high as they were. Only Joe Piscopo (now a GOP blowhard pondering elected office) and Eddie Murphy (also overrated) were spared and Gilbert was expected to join the others in obscurity.

Several years later, he re-appeared on my radar as MTV’s “general manager” via their ads using his trademark, annoying voice. I didn’t care for it as a teenager but then I saw him do stand-up on David Letterman. Boy did he kill. I loved it. He did this hilarious routine about being trapped on a desert island where all the residents’ names were stated with a pretentious middle initial (e.g. Michael J. Fox) only to take shelter elsewhere, another island with residents known by just one name (Cher).

Gilbert continued to make the rounds, small roles in movies and SitComs. What probably cemented his career with the general public was playing Iago, the villain Jafar’s sidekick parrot. Once again, like Bobcat Goldthwait, he was known for the voice. It gave him additional work through cartoons: the evil Dentist in Fairly Oddparents, Art DeSalvo on Duckman, Kraaang Sub-Prime for TMNT, George Zucco on Crank Yankers, the AFLAC Duck in those commercials and to me, the role he was born to play…Mr. Mxyzptlk with Superman and Justice League.

Thanks for everything Gilbert! I’m sorry I misjudged you in my youth like everybody did after your stint on SNL. You were truly a funny and lovable person since many spoke about you positively unlike Bill Cosby and Jerry Lewis. You were way more than a comedians comedian or a stereotype of a loud person. You were genuinely clever, humorous and will go on to be a legend, especially in being one of the best to tell the aristocrats joke.

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Good news! I’m on a temporary new role at work for a while!

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Steve

I got the great news pretty early in my workday yesterday in that I landed the temporary role with another division at my employer. I’m not going blather on about it in detail here, not because it’s top secret or something. It’s just difficult to explain and I’ll leave it up to you all to ask me in person by the various means you know how to reach me, if you’re interested. It was a pretty surprise too since today is also my Apple-versiary! Yup, I have been an employee of the “Fruit Company” for 23 years. I wonder why we human uses the quantifier “where” when we reflect upon time, aka, “Where did all the time go?” This doesn’t make much sense as we’re incapable of traveling through the fourth dimension (time) yet I do admit the phrase, “When did all the time go?” is awkward.

Looking back, do I remember my original plan? I don’t even recall if I had one! Back in 1999 Apple had turned the corner thanks to the success of the iMac but the corporation wasn’t out of the woods by a long shot. In my opinion, it would be at least another eight years before Apple transformed into the behemoth everybody knows today. The iPhone was the product to cement it after all those iPod, iMac and portable sales.

It’s pretty funny if you’ve lived around Austin like me. When I was an employee in the early years, you’d go to social events, bump into strangers, have small talk and practically every time people discovered you worked for Apple, you get this look of pity followed by a recommendation to work at Dell. About a decade later, these same people would ask you if you can get them a discount on an iPhone. Today, they’re looking for any help landing a permanent job. How the wheels turn. I don’t express any malice, I just giggle inside and remember that predicting the future is super difficult. After all these years, I figured Apple would carry on as a pretty well-regarded niche brand in the same league as Mercedes, Klipsch and Beluga. Even I underestimated the global success of the iOS-based devices which in turn created a halo effect for the products I continue to love, the portable line. I see more MacBooks in coffee shops than the competition today. A PowerBook 140 was my sole computer during my first year in Austin too. I did without one after I scored a desktop a year later but have always had one type or another since 1997. Apple portables, currently the MacBook line, are equal to a limb for me.

What’s next? I still have no clue. I do know this much. I will continue doing the best I can at this temporary gig one day at a time. I have no expectations of there being a guarantee on what happens next. I’ve found it’s the best way to live.

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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition…

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Steve

…especially when they’re in queue for a drink at Sherwood Forest Faire!

Great costume with this gentleman but I stupidly got thrown by his headgear because I addressed him as “your excellency.” I think that’s what the French said with Richelieu, the cardinal who ran France since Louis XIII was useless and the common villain in every remake of The Three Musketeers. Anyway, he straightened me out via the punchline to jog my memory. I think Michael Palin wearing a WWI pilot’s flight hat makes things even funnier.

As for the Faire! We had a great time. It’s younger than the more famous, nationally acclaimed Texas Renaissance Faire you can attend in the Fall, so there isn’t as much to see or to buy. I didn’t mind. I found some really bitchin’ stuff, namely the item I couldn’t find last Fall, a nice, embroidered cloak. I hope to have nice pictures of it soon. Other items? A round counter for D&D made of wood, a funny postcard of Jesus if he were a Grey or Streib (alien), a shirt to go with the leather jerkin from the Fall and a potion kit prop I will definitely be using in my game! The best outcome, neither of us got sunburn! Always a victory after enjoying a wonderful, Spring (almost Summer) day in Central Texas while closing all my Watch rings and 9000-plus steps in Pedometer!

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MCU Recap 3:What If…?

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Steve

Thanks to Loki opening up and preparing audiences for the canonization of MCU having a multiverse, What If…? utilizes animation to explore the possibilities about their various movies having key plot points take a different direction and let them lead to varying outcomes or results.

Alternate realities aren’t terribly new as they’re a common story device in all Science Fiction/Fantasy: Star Trek‘s Mirror Universe; DC’s Earth-2 with the Golden Age Heroes being middle-aged and Earth-3 with the JLA being villains; and then the disappointing The Man in the High Castle that Amazon failed to make interesting and plausible. What separates Marvel Comics slightly is its past since What If…? was an ongoing monthly series they started in the late Seventies; I recently bought a trade paperback of the very first 12 issues and could’ve sworn they did this in the late Sixties. Every comic focused on the MCU’s Silver Age origin stories: the Fantastic Four getting different powers, Spider-Man going the F4, The Avengers forming in the Fifties, Jane Foster finding Mjollnir, thus becoming Thor; and even a silly one, the original Marvel Bullpen (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) becoming the F4. It would be cool if they could explore the originals or Marvel’s second attempt in the late Eighties yet I’m realistic, Disney+ requires Marvel to stick to stuff the masses recognize.

Overall, the show was entertaining, especially whenever they managed to land the movie actors’ voices for the characters, namely Chadwick Bozeman, a trooper to the end of his life. He will be greatly missed and I hope his successor in the next Black Panther movie the best of luck. Not every episode sticks the landing as a couple stories weren’t interesting enough to ponder; I’m rather sick of zombies and Killmonger’s credentials could never be plausible enough to be on Dr. Doom’s level. It’s also been long enough to be past the no spoiler zone, What If…? culminates into a ninth and final episode as key players from all the other eight weeks join in battle to save the multi-verse since the show’s narrator, The Watcher, screws up and attracts the attention of the Ultron who succeeded in the second Avengers flick. Kang the Conqueror would’ve been a better choice unless he’s watching the Watcher himself from his fortress at the end of time.

Either way, I’m confident the Dr. Strange episode will be a critical component in the upcoming movie this May and this did well enough to get a second season. Will they continue to toy with the movie plots or will they be brave enough to be more daring.

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Smart toilet! Hard pass.

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Steve

They’ve got to be kidding with this so-called smart toilet! I understand we need to take greater care of our health given all the horrors we Westerners we eat and yes, I’m way, way behind schedule on getting the tube in the juxxie to make sure my plumbing is in good shape; I blame the Pandemic putting that off. However, given how easily our personal information is getting stolen by the Russians, Chinese and our own native sociopaths, alongside the untrustworthy, greedy Valley corporations, we have much to sweat. The latter will sell it to Big Insurance.

Back to the foreign enemies element. You may snicker about them wanting to collect data regarding American feces but North Korea takes bodily waste very seriously, as if it were a state secret. We all dictator-for-life Kim Jung-un travels exclusively by train to the other autocracies friendly to him. One special modification for his personal car involves the toilet not emptying out on the tracks which is how Amtrak deals with it. Kim fears his enemies will examine his poo for details on his (probable) poor health, he does smoke pretty heavily. I suspect Putin is the same. Xi is arrogant enough not to care.

With Amerika, the biggest client will be all those micromanagers demanding to check on how badly you had to go, especially the ones you have to hold back on responding with, “It’s that or I can just piss in my cube!” or “Next time, I’ll remember to weigh how much the turd was for you!” What am I thinking? This smart toilet will be a godsend for the slave-driving Amazon warehouses. Hell, I bet they’ll find a way to shut it down on their employees, namely those who “go too much.” Ick! The mess.

I will only be onboard with this high-tech marvel under one condition. The toilet will identify and publicly shame people who notoriously leave behind floaters.

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Dutch authorities warn EU about “boner honey”

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Steve

The surprising part…it isn’t endorsed, marketed nor partially owned by Sting! Seriously though, authorities discovered this crap you’d think would be another Goop idea. According to the article here, it’s an “herbal paste” with sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, the drug that revived a thousand hack comedians’ careers. Here’s the scary part, two teaspoons of this contained the equivalent of one pill. Yikes! You have to be careful with such stuff. Too much could give you heart trouble, worse, a heart attack. Prolonged usage led to Hugh Hefner being deaf. The other side effects I read about were new to me, diarrhoea (EU spelling so it’s gotta’ be nasty!) and blurred vision. I think those would get most reasonable people to quit the stuff! Then again, some people are desperate, stupid and/or just horn dogs.

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Amsterdam-Noord LED’ing the way!

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Steve

In more news from Why Amerika Can’t Have Nice Things, the Dutch are leading the way with this new sports hall. You’re probably thinking, “Huh? We build such crap all the time in the States! High schools and universities are constantly constructing new stadiums while the arts and education continue to rot away!” This is one is more revolutionary in that it will have LED lighting incorporated into the flooring. Not for illuminating the space but to adjust itself for sports! So if there’s a basketball game, boom, LEDs turn on for the half court line, the free-throw lines, etc. Track, boom, changes up for the turns and lanes. The article here explains it in English and mentions handball, which is the weird European version of soccer we only see at the Olympics, not the hand-driven variation of racquetball or squash. I do remember playing something similar in high school but the gym teacher called it flicker ball. I think it’s only a matter of time before they can perfect such a system for hockey because currently there’s a lot of nasty chemicals (paint namely) involved with setting up seasonal sheet of ice.

The incredible element is how quickly the Dutch will have this ready. They hope to be done by early 2023. HA! Something this ambitious in the States would be late 2025 due to all the local political palms to grease followed by all the accusations of Communism for using LED tech instead of traditional paint and removable floor pieces.

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“You’re holding it wrong” – April 2022 edition

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Steve

I hadn’t thought about that response given to the Media about the iPhone 4 until it was a quick reference joke on Archer (binge watching from the beginning). Then I stumbled upon this graphic somebody made. With all the futurism on SciFi shows, namely Star Trek which indirectly predicted the cell phone (hand-held communicator), removable media (those colored squares) and the tablet (those thick clipboards Kirk often signs); you never see anybody interact with a computer via mouse. Oddly, they still depend upon keyboards or trust voice recognition. On the latter, we’ve all dealt with contemporary phone trees and the various audio butlers (Alexa, Siri)…they’ve got a long way to go. I don’t even see the usage of the mouse’s successors, the touch pad, trackball (my preferred method) or the one method I can’t get my head around, a track pad with gestures.

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1987: Married with Children debuts

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Steve

Married with Children was originally just a 30-minute gap to fill time because they couldn’t find anything or anybody else as the Fox Network was viewed as a joke. The executives programming Fox’s first Sunday lineup felt the same and they figured all these other programs were the winners to give the Big Three concern: 21 Jump Street, The Tracey Ullman Show, Mr. President and Duet.

The first one to bite it was Mr. President made by Johnny Carson’s production company and starred George C. Scott, yawn. Canned after its second season. Duet had a worse fate. The starring couple were so sickening and unlikable, their show was repurposed into Open House for a fourth season and starred the supporting characters who were funny. Tracey survived until the star chose to pull the plug after four seasons as the network’s president dithered every Spring on its renewal. We all know what it gave birth to. Lastly, Jump hung in there the longest with its final season in 1991 being syndicated. It probably fell apart quickly when breakout star Johnny Depp left to pursue his infamous film career.

Married on the other hand was daring while the others were just what everybody else was rehashing. Created by a pair of former writers from The Jeffersons, the show was the opposite of what were typical SitCom families: they were miserable, they disliked each other, they had money problems, their house was a dump, they rarely got a break, the patriarch had a pitiful job managing a shoe store, etc. This wasn’t terribly new but Fox was willing to gamble on anything to get eyeballs which translated into ratings gold via the next morning’s Nielsen ratings. It was crass, it was vulgar and oddly, Married was actually funny. By the second season, I made efforts to catch it on Sunday nights alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation. Not an easy task in college due to all the other things grabbing your attention, when I should’ve been studying harder.

What made the show incredible was its longevity. Until The Simpsons circa 2001 or 2002, it became the longest running prime time SitCom Fox ever had (11 seasons) and remains their champion for a live-action SitCom. Plus Married survived the one actor known as the patron saint of shark jumping…Ted McGinley! To be fair, I like him and he’s done great stuff, namely the villain Stan Gable in Revenge of the Nerds. However, poor Ted had the misfortune of being added to well-loved shows when they got too long in the tooth: Happy Days, Love Boat and Dynasty. Even I thought it was over when he replaced Marcy’s first husband. Thankfully, his bad-luck streak ended as Married continued with him for six-to-seven more seasons, a fact he brought up when he was Aquaman’s temporary voice on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Thirty-five years later, Married…with Children has a legacy. Actress Christina Applegate is probably the most successful alumnus. Ed O’Neill carried on to be a different grumpy patriarch on Modern Family for another long stretch. Katey Sagal became the voice of Leela on Futurama and Gemma on Sons of Anarchy, she’s also been moms for other animated characters: Duckman and Mordecai (Regular Show). David Faustino does voice work in numerous cartoons today. The other legacy is how it laid down the foundation for more TV shows focused on hard-luck/adversarial families both humorous (Unhappily Ever After, Malcolm in the Middle), dramatic (Breaking Bad) or in-between (Shameless).

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Sorry taskmasters, it only works on Krazy® Glue

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Steve

I recently bought some really cool 3-D printed minis from a creative person on Etsy. The downside to this bitchin’ blacksmith setup…it requires some assembly. But I thought, hey I can tackle the easy parts, namely gluing the lead guy to his base. D’oh! I should’ve gone with my good glue which has an intact nozzle. Besides getting it all over my fingers (such fun removing), I got it all over the character’s legs. How terrible it looked. As if some, semi-invisible blob attacked the dude’s boots. I knew Goo Be Gone wouldn’t be powerful enough, I love the stuff yet it’s more for residue from stickers and tags. So while we were at Home Depot for other stuff, I figured the paint department had something. Of course, I got a recommendation from my gaming story; the very famous Nick who does the dioramas suggested turpentine over nail polish remover. Then I spotted Goof Off.

How effective was it? Once you air out the room enough since it’s pretty pungent, I would say good to great. For what I wanted to do it worked best in a small bowl with the mini soaking in the stuff. After several minutes, the liquid element evaporated, the majority of the Krazy Glue came off and there was this thin, cobweb-like skin left behind. How was the mini? I’d say it removed enough to my satisfaction. I couldn’t see any noticeable glue remaining, messing up the look of his feet/boots or on the stand. Drat! Now I realize I should’ve taken before and after photos. You will have to take my word for it.

When this can of gunk is empty, I think I’ll keep it around for its humor factor.

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