Creative Toy!
Hey, it’s not too late to get this for Christmas!
Last week, I was talking about a little “hair of the dog”, so it seems like an appropriate time to mention the coolest stuffed toy I have seen in a long time: The Transforming Werewolf Plush. I mean, a toy that turns inside-out and makes a whole other toy?! They didn’t have stuff this cool when I was a kid! This rates right up there with the Cthulhu Plush Slippers and the Cthulhu Claus as my “most lusted after, but totally senseless, gift item”. Another new favorite, is the Giant Tube of Plush Polyhedron Dice, but that’s not as cool as the werewolf. Ah, now, if only I had someone to buy them for me…
Oh, well, maybe I’ll get them for myself next year!
Ah, how can the babes resist a guy who’s into LoveCraft??!!
Too bad they don’t have a Shub-Niggurath (the black goat of the woods with a thousand young)! Oh, well. I was half tempted to get my little girls a Cthulhu just to have a monster for them. Then again, having any representation of a demon in my house kinda gives me the creeps. It’s all well and good if you think the stuff is a bunch of hogwash, but I’ve been down enough side streets and back alleys to be convinced that there are things out there (not in human form) that are inclined toward evil.
Anyway, the girls would make short work of the thing. They have an innate tendency to despise anything that is ugly and gross. My son’s monster toys get treated badly when they cross paths with the girls horses and dogs. That’s as it should be, since Tolkien elegantly shows that monsters are only an evil immitation of what is natural (see The Silmarillion. So my girl’s horses (of Rohan) will invariably trample the monsters (of Saruman).
Comment by PM — 12/16/2005 @ 8:15 am
Yeah, thanks, with my social skills, I need this kind of help from a married man?
You could always try plush microbes for the girls. They’re fuzzy and educational!
As for all that other stuff, well, I think you’ve read Hero With A Thousand Faces once too often, you freakin’ hippie! 😉
Comment by the Network Geek — 12/16/2005 @ 8:29 am
Eh? Never heard of it. Really.
Interesting…looks like it inspired George Lucas…that would explain that cowboy character in American Graffiti, right? Can my coments be more tangential? Ah, yes, I have not yet begun to seque…
Comment by PM — 12/16/2005 @ 11:26 am
Well, in that case, you need to read it.
Wrote a paper about it, and the Star Wars trilogy, for my mythology class in college. (Yes, I took Mythology for credit!)
Comment by the Network Geek — 12/16/2005 @ 11:30 am