But the toy is cool. It talks! it's huge! It's one of those things that you keep! SPOON! Oh, this was cool. Sure, it's prolly worth a lot now, but it was cool to play with back then. Except we didn't play with it in the way you think we would. He had five different sayings. One was "Spoon!" A game was planned. How many times could you make him say spoon in a row. 12 inch doll being passed around. Tattoo gun in the background, pool being played. But it didn't matter. How many times could you make this fucker say "spoon" in a row.

One. Two. Three. Fuck!

I had three. My friend got up on it.

One. Two. Three. Four! How did he do that? Four! Dammit. He had won that night. The talking Tick had taken his side. Say that five times fast. I went to bed thinking I could have done better. Putting The Tick up beside my bed, The Tick's eyes lit up.

This wasn't over.

Not by a long shot - T

Michele is up next!

I collect toys. Action figures mostly, but other kinds of toys, too. Well, mostly Star Wars toys. Jesus, I’m such a nerd. So I have a lot to choose from here. It’s kind of hard to pick one that’s my favorite because I love all my children toys equally. But I do have a rotating schedule of toys that get to sit on top of my computer. They get about a week at a time. One comes down, another comes up. Last week it was a small Gir figure that came with my Invader Zim boxset. This week’s favorite child is:

Sonic the Hedgehog

I totally forgot I had this until I moved two years ago and found him sitting in the back of my son’s closet. I bought him at a garage sale when my son was barely four years old and had beat both Sonic and Sonic 2 in one day each. Video game prodigy, that kid. Maybe it’s not something most parents would be proud of, but I thought it was a major accomplishment so I bought him this huge Sonic figure as a reward. Hey, you reward your three year old for writing his name. I’ll reward mine for killing Dr. Robotnik.

Sonic got the honor of being on top of the monitor this week simply because I was playing the old Sonic games on the GameCube. Not the new fangled 3D games that drive me crazy. The old games. The scrollers. 2D. Sonic. Knuckles. Green Hill Zone. Casino Night. Oil Ocean. The Chemical Plant. How I hated that zone. Sonic and Knuckles. How cool was it to play as Knuckles and climb walls and fly?

See, Sonic is a cool dude. Just look at him. All pissy and shit. And he’s impatient, too. Kind of like me! He can be a bit lazy and he’s sometimes a little self absorbed, but he will never hesitate to put himself in danger just to save a friend. Like Tails. You gotta give Sonic some credit there. Tails is an annoying little fucker. He thinks he’s helping, but he just gets in the way and messes things up. If I were Sonic I would have dumped Tails somewhere in the Aquatic Ruins. But that’s just me.

And hey, his favorite food is chili dogs. Gotta love a guy who can fight injustice, protect his friends and fight off enemies while filled with chili dogs. -M

So that is our tribute to our favorite toys. I guess you can squeeze in guitars or bass amps here, but you know we will do those on another day. So you might as well tell us what's in your closet cause we already damn well most of you have He-Mans or Barbies in there.

Cause Barbie likes it dirty. And He Man has the power.

What do you have?

Update: I had to add this in. Poseable Spidey rules.

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