When I was a kid, Lego toys were just bricks in assorted colors and sizes. Now, Lego pieces are more often than not designed to be used as specific assembly elements of various projects: castles, spaceships, and so on. Personally, I think this defeats the whole notion of Lego as building blocks for your imagination. It’s one thing to pretend that the multi-colored lump of blocks you just spent an hour meticulously building is some super-cool spaceship from the Planet Koosbane, it’s totally another to build an exact replica of the Millennium Falcon.
But who am I to stand in the way of systematically destroying the imaginations of children as they are turned into slavish consumer whores?
So, if you’re into all that hyper-realistic Lego stuff (and I suppose some of you probably are), you might need to purchase some serious firepower for all your little Lego dudes. Because it’s not enough to have no imagination, you’ve also got to want to kill things at an early age. We have all those A-rab countries to invade, dontcha know?
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
