Doppel's Dementia

Since Comic-Con is coming up tomorrow I thought I’d post some quotes that I overheard last year at the Con:

14 year-old boy with a lisp:

L. Ron Hubbard is rad!

8 year-old boy after seeing the action figure (how a kid that young got to see the movie is beyond me):

Look mom, Scarface!

Overhead pages:

Craven Moorehead to the front desk

Nick Unt to the front desk

(It used to be that they didn’t do any overhead pages so we missed out on all this fun)

Interesting Products
Sota Toys had a neat Johnny Cash protoype figure and when I checked the web site today they are offering it as a Con exclusive this year. They also have a kick-ass Cthuhlu figure that I really want now that I’ve seen it.

The Ugly Dolls were kind of fun.

1000 Steps to World Domination looks like a good read.

The Bolt Gallery has some neat stuff but most of their site is broken right now. I actually have a cool Alien-looking guy from the county fair last year that looks very similar but is dark gray instead of chrome.

I wrote down the Rix Products address after buying the Futurama trash can from someone there. They have a bunch of other pop culture stuff like Family Guy, South Park and The Simpsons so click around.

Okay now this Star Wars shit is getting out of hand. There is a one-man Broadway show of the original Star Wars trilogy playing here in town next month.

Yesterland’s tag line is “The Discontinued Disneyland” and it’s a fun read. There are some attractions there that I remember from my childhood (like the Submarine Voyage) and others that came and went before my time (like the House of the Future).

It’s full of interesting facts too; did you know that the submarines were repainted from their plain gray color to the bright yellow in the 1980’s?

I didn’t know anybody had whale sharks in captivity at all, but apparently Atlanta had two males and now they added a female for some hot threesome action.

Aquarium plays whale shark matchmaker

Here’s a nice link I found on CNN:
Coffee by the Tank Car Does Not Increase Risk of Coronary Heart Disease – CME Teaching Brief – MedPage Today
BOSTON, April 24 – Gallons and gallons of coffee, day in and day out, year after year, decade after decade, do not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, researchers here reported today.

In fact, men and women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day for up to 20 years had a slightly lower relative risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who consumed a cup or less a day (P for trend= 0.41 for men and 0.08 for women) according to a study in the April 25 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.

Now I don’t remember my statistics class that well but I’m glad to hear that anyway.