Weird as the Vatican had zero murders last year, assuming JD Vance killing the previous Pope doesn’t count.

A slightly larger than A4 cardboard envelope

The packaging opened and a small amount of bubble wrap has been taken out, about the size of a pack of playing cards.

Bubblewrap opened, and a small Lego figure is revealed.

It's the Lego Indiana Jones minifig, complete with hat and whip

And in Excessive Packaging news, this just arrived from eBay ...

Letterboxd recents. CHOMPY AND THE GIRLS - 4* MEG 2 - 1.5* THRASH - 3* MINDHORN - 4*

My @letterboxd.social weekend viewings.

I've downgraded Meg 2 to a 1.5* after sleeping on it. It really was shit.

After sleeping on it I dropped it down to 1.5*

I've been wanting to watch the Hammer Dracula films for a while, so I might just buy the other ones too and watch the set. If I can find them all.

It really is wild just how big a golf course is. Is there any other sport where the purpose built 'pitch' they play on even comes close to the size? They have their own wildlife living on them. And special little cars people use to get around.

Imagine using a buggy to change ends on a tennis court.

a man is flying through the air in a desert landscape . Alt: Godzilla is flying through the air in a desert landscape on his tail.

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Bluray of the 5 film Superman collection, Hammer Dracula and Hammer's Scars of Dracula

Popped into CEX today and picked up a few things

Oh you've actually started that now? I thought you were doing G x K?

Yes

Of these Hollywood 'Legendary' Godzilla films, the only decent ones are those with Kong in them. G x K is ok, but it's pretty ludicrous even by Godzilla standards.

I reckon I'm funky enough for those.

To be fair they were gold Yeezy's and I'm definitely not funky enough to wear those.

Was out looking for a new pair of trainers yesterday with my daughter.

"That's a funky pair of shoes, Daddy" she says.
"Shall I get those ones then?"
"No, you're not funky, you're just a Daddy".

So, I didn't get a new pair of trainers. Next time I'll go shopping when she's not around.

That's the best named place I think I've ever heard.

A ★★★★ review of Chompy & the Girls (2021) I loved this. Just my kind of absurdist weird jam. Like Butt Boy or Fingers, or everything that Quentin Dupieux has ever made. Great characters, great script, great acting, fucking weird as fuck conce...

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Chompy & the Girls (2021) A troubled woman meets her father for the first time and their encounter goes from awkward to alarming when they witness a man swallow a little girl whole.

Just watched CHOMPY & THE GIRLS which was on my watchlist for reasons I don't know but am very glad it was, because I loved it.

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A ★★ review of Meg 2: The Trench (2023) Garbage. The first 2 thirds felt like a step worse than 'too much CG' in that it looked like a PS4 videogame cut scene with Statham's and various Chinese actor's faces superimposed on the bodies. And ...

One of the worst films I've seen in quite a while. 2* feels generous.

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Checking out THE MEG 2 in the hope I get to see Jason Statham punch a shark in the face.

I can't remember if he did that in the first. But even if he did, he should do it here too.

a partially assembled 'interlocking plastic bricks' set on a grey textured surface. The build features a baseplate with green and grey sections, decorated with tan skull-like pieces and grey tiles with a geometric "Greek key" pattern along the front edge. Behind the baseplate, a dark grey wall structure with some angled pieces is beginning to take shape. In the foreground, a corner of the instruction manual is visible, showing diagrams of the specific pieces needed for the current step. In the background, there are clear plastic containers used for sorting bricks.

Yeh, sex is good and all, but have you ever had 2.5 uninterrupted hours to yourself with a cup of tea, playlist of instrumental stoner-rock music and a nice set of 'interlocking plastic bricks' to keep you entertained?

Anyway, that'll do for today. Time for an afternoon nap.

I'm very glad this set isn't like that, although I did kind of expect it to be. I don't have enough tupperware or tabletop space to hog for 2 weeks to be able to do that.

At least the big numbers do seem accurate, so I'm only in the #1 bags so far. And there's almost a system there, with blocks kind of the same size kept in their own bags, but not quite.

It's manageable, but could be better.

Interlocking brick model set with the various bags of bricks emptied from their bags and held in different bits of tupperware.

This feels kinda chaotic, but it's working. Thank god we kept that tupperware that we lost either the the lids or tub bits for.

One of the bags of bricks. Has a big 1 printed on it and also a smaller 091-1-5

I thought I'd worked out the bags, because they have extra numbers on it too. But so far I've had to open 4 different bags to get 4 different pieces and I'm only on step 2, so maybe not.

This is going to take a while.

An open cardboard box and a tabletop are covered with numerous numbered plastic bags containing interlocking building pieces, accompanied by a black instruction manual labeled with the number 10091.

A cardboard box filled with several numbered plastic bags containing various small building blocks and components, with a large instruction manual laid open on top showing step-by-step assembly diagrams for a rectangular frame structure.

Right, weekend plans underway. Building this 'interlocking plastic bricks' set that doesn't infringe on anybodies copyright or intellectual property.

Nice how all the bags are numbered. But only 1, 2 or 3.

Nice to see all 5 astronauts disembark safely. Including that dude and their identical twin that I must have forgotten went on the mission.

I can't remember the last time I finished my day at work and thought "thank god I didn't burn up in a fiery inferno on my commute back home".

Maybe the navy folks brought the wrong screwdrivers.

Nice to see all 5 astronauts disembark safely. Including that dude and their identical twin that I must have forgotten went on the mission.

A ★★★ review of Thrash (2026) I don't believe that anyone facetime's their Mum intentionally as much as this. Especially while driving a car. Yeah it's stupid and your standard CG shark nonsense. But I quite enjoyed all the non-shark stuff, even though the characters were cliché and stupid. And I both loved and hated the whole 'woman in labour during a shark infestation' stuff. Because it offered up such ludicrous, yet amazing situations.

Yes, it's Crawl with Sharks. Which means it's stupid and obvious but still somehow quite fun.

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