The Memory Remains

What better way to spend this Memorial Day morning than sifting through some old boxes full of randomly craptacular stuff that I haven’t bothered to unpack/throw away since I moved in November?*

Here’s a small itemization (and some crappy phone pictures) of a singular box that spans over two decades:

* Assorted Series 1 and 2 Garbage Pail Kids cards 1985-1987
* Assorted Batman and Batman Returns cards
* 1998 Panini Baseball sticker book (98% completed)

* March 1989 MAD Magazine cover (sans magazine)

* Assorted MAD Magazines (too fucking cool)

* One copy of (MAD Magazine knock-off) Cracked Magazine (sans cover)

* Assorted Becket Baseball Price Guides 1990-1991

* 1/3 of giant fold out Pinhead poster from Fangoria magazine circa 1990-ish

* January 1995 Newsweek - The Last Days of Auschwitz cover
* Brandon Choi Autograph from comic book signing in Santa Barbara 1997
* 1999 Save Ferris article from Daily Trojan
* March 1999 Movieline - Angelina Jolie cover
* 3 Wet Paint signs borrowed from UCLA 2003
* Old apartment lease circa 2004
* Cedars Sinai “Patient Belongings” hospital bag 2004

* Copy of 3 am Interview with Paul Simonon printed from Internet
* Strange and unintentional collection of Joe Strummer pictures
* Sketch of great white shark done at work while bored 2005-ish
* Copy of Fry’s rebate (rebate never received, bitches)
* Undated horrible angsty poem (now rotting away in bottom of garbage)

And for those of you wanting more, inside the big box, there was a shoe box full of random/nonsensical/very important stuff that used to be in my Jeep before I bequeathed it to my brother...

* Earplugs
* Ticket stub from The Like concert circa October 2005
* Duct tape
* Kinko’s copy card
* Matches
* Spoon
* Band-Aids
* Open box of stale Harry Potter Bertie Botts Jelly Beans
* Packets of Equal and Sweet ‘N Low (most likely from Starbucks)
* Hand wipes
* Unopened sample packet of Tums Smooth Dissolve
* 2 Bic Pens (black ink)
* Small bottle of RENU saline solution
* Film container filled with change
* Altoids box filled with change and safety pin

Well, about fifteen minutes after taking the box out and checking out its contents, I remembered why I never unpacked it...closed the box and threw it back in my closet.

* And by the same token, breathing a little life into this blog.

** I just realized that putting matches, spoon and band-aids one right after another might give people the wrong idea...but oh well.

My New Favorite Hobby

If anyone still even bothers with this one-post-a-month / 98% defunct blog, then this one's for you.

My new favorite hobby has become Febreze-ing the shit out of my house. I've pretty much gone through an entire bottle in six days. Unfortunately, the smell lasts like 10 minutes, then goes away. But it's nice while it lasts.

Edit: For the record, my Febreze scent of choice is "Meadows and Rain." My razzle-dazzle bottle just so happens to quite exquisitely translate this into Espanol as "Praderas y Lluvia."