Pokemon and the occult
I'm itching so bad for December that I'm getting figuratively raw. I'm at this place right now where even when I open up a blank blog post all I can think about is what bills I might have forgotten to pay, how many days it is until I have to drive to Hershey for a 6am ass rape exam, and wondering when I'm going to find out what's wrong with my Frankenfoot. One day I'm frolicking around catching Pokemon, the next I'm getting foot xrays and having a strange man rub jelly on my leg and poke me with an ultrasound wand. Although getting to walk around the office in big fuzzy black slippers ain't too bad.
Last weekend my boyfriend informed me that Toys R Us was having some sort of special where they're giving away a rare Pokemon for the Diamond and Pearl version. I thought it was total bullshit, some sort of, "be on the third green at 10pm" scheme designed to make dorks look even dorkier waddling around TRU trying to catch Pokemon. I certainly wasn't one to turn down a trip to Toys R Us, so we piled into my car and I was informed he had my pink DS Lite already locked and loaded with my copy of Pokemon Diamond.
It was an exceptionally nice day out so my typical ghost town TRU was buzzing with families getting the early Christmas shakes. Even my head was swimming with thoughts of eating homemade cookies in the kitchen after an early-morning present exchange and watching 24 hours of A Christmas Story with the family. Yooouuuu'll shoot your eeyyyeee oouuutttt.....
But I digress, this trip was not meant to pick out new Care Bears themed holiday decorations, it was to look like an ass standing in Toys R Us playing Pokemon. We tried to play it cool and just pick up the signal outside, which unfortunately didn't work so we moved into a dark corner of the electronics section. I set up to receive a gift, and nearly plotzed when I was bestowed with a level 50 dragonite. I've seen a lot of odd promotions in my day, some of which were stumbled across in a bizarre fashion and never even made it to the blog. There was no way I could leave out picking up a random Pokemon in the aisles of Toys R Us -- that's the kind of thing that would have blown a kid's mind back in the 80s, only feasible in commercials with hokey special effects.
In my wandering I was elated to find that the pink editions of board games had expanded to include Scrabble, Uno, Life, and for some strange reason the Ouija board. Now as far as New Age stuff goes I'm quite open-minded, I'll assure you of that. According to my pendulum I'm going to get knocked up in the next two years, but it seems it'll only happen once. Ouija boards, however, just don't sit right with me and I'm just not one to consider them a fun game. It just rubs me a little oddly to think of small girls opening up a portal and essentially going, "OKAY WHATEVER IS OUT THERE, COME ON IN!!" The spirits might not want to tell you whether a boy likes you or not, they might just want to fuck with you. I'm curious to see how many of these will be left post-Christmas, and if they'll be worth anything on eBay 20 years from now.
Last weekend my boyfriend informed me that Toys R Us was having some sort of special where they're giving away a rare Pokemon for the Diamond and Pearl version. I thought it was total bullshit, some sort of, "be on the third green at 10pm" scheme designed to make dorks look even dorkier waddling around TRU trying to catch Pokemon. I certainly wasn't one to turn down a trip to Toys R Us, so we piled into my car and I was informed he had my pink DS Lite already locked and loaded with my copy of Pokemon Diamond.
It was an exceptionally nice day out so my typical ghost town TRU was buzzing with families getting the early Christmas shakes. Even my head was swimming with thoughts of eating homemade cookies in the kitchen after an early-morning present exchange and watching 24 hours of A Christmas Story with the family. Yooouuuu'll shoot your eeyyyeee oouuutttt.....
But I digress, this trip was not meant to pick out new Care Bears themed holiday decorations, it was to look like an ass standing in Toys R Us playing Pokemon. We tried to play it cool and just pick up the signal outside, which unfortunately didn't work so we moved into a dark corner of the electronics section. I set up to receive a gift, and nearly plotzed when I was bestowed with a level 50 dragonite. I've seen a lot of odd promotions in my day, some of which were stumbled across in a bizarre fashion and never even made it to the blog. There was no way I could leave out picking up a random Pokemon in the aisles of Toys R Us -- that's the kind of thing that would have blown a kid's mind back in the 80s, only feasible in commercials with hokey special effects.
In my wandering I was elated to find that the pink editions of board games had expanded to include Scrabble, Uno, Life, and for some strange reason the Ouija board. Now as far as New Age stuff goes I'm quite open-minded, I'll assure you of that. According to my pendulum I'm going to get knocked up in the next two years, but it seems it'll only happen once. Ouija boards, however, just don't sit right with me and I'm just not one to consider them a fun game. It just rubs me a little oddly to think of small girls opening up a portal and essentially going, "OKAY WHATEVER IS OUT THERE, COME ON IN!!" The spirits might not want to tell you whether a boy likes you or not, they might just want to fuck with you. I'm curious to see how many of these will be left post-Christmas, and if they'll be worth anything on eBay 20 years from now.
Do you think evil spirits will want to be channeled through a pink ouija board? You couldn't take them seriously if they were.
Reply to this