don't worry this will totally make up for me not posting yesterday...

okay so first order of business.... yesterday there was a tag on twitter of 1999 icebreakers. my contribution was "my yak bak is the same color as your tamagatchi". from there i went on the read the entire wikipedia entry on Power Rangers. and it was incredible. so this look down memory lane has inspired me to dig deeper and highlight some of my favorite toys and shows i grew up with (i also had the childhood tv convo with scott at like 1am in starbucks this past weekend).

yak bak - obviously one of the best (and ridiculously simple) toys ever made. small enough to take anywhere as in ANYWHERE. even church. where i specifically remember being with jill d in the back row of the balcony recording and playing back the word naked. until we chickened out and fled to the bathroom. also see TalkBoy (thanks home alone/m.culkin)

p.s there's apparently a yak bak watch called "yak time" if this is true, then the man who gives me this treasure will have my heart forever.

tamagatchi's. i did have one after my cousins showed theirs off one thanksgiving. but i was only briefly amused with mine. my brother, however, once had like 3 of them at once and was a full time parent to all of them. i can't remember how they were removed from his life but i'm confident that it was an ugly scene. also see nano pets/giga pets: b-list tamagatchis

nerf ANYTHING but particularly, the crossbow. this toy was pure money. you could shoot your brains out and nobody ever got hurt which means it was totally mom approved. it was light and endlessly entertaining. on several occasions my bro and i had to get replacement arrows because the originals were so beaten up from the kajillion hours of play. nerf guns are simply too legit to quit.

skip it. anyone? anyone? this was actually a cardio workout in disguise (another reason to bring it back...fight child obesity) basically a plastic ring you put around your ankle with a plastic lease and a little skip-odometer ball on the end. by skipping and whirling it around and around you simply tried to rack up as many skips as possible. it was a little loud clickitty clacking on the pavement so i'll to meditate on whether or not i'd ever let my future children play with that. mommy might lose it.

gak. it was actually marketed/manufactured by nickelodeon i think (as was floam, it's dumber, messier companion). gak was basically a slippier slimier silly putty that came in "scents" (mine was buttered poppcorn that smelled like a mix of vomit and dog crap" and you could play with it as putty or put it inside it's crazy container and shove your fingers in it to make fart sounds. your choice.

Shows..

Power Rangers- the original (mighty morphin). corny as hell but so cool. my bro and i had power rangers everything and we'd play PR with blake for hours in the backyard. every year mom would order us new winter coats (the classic collar parka from land's end) and we'd always choose the color of our ranger (i was pink.)

Sesame Street. the boss of all children's television programming. educational and endlessly entertaining. love it love it love it.

Barney. the early years. it was fun. cheesy of course, but also fun.

Eureka's castle. weird but fun and a little magical.

GUMMI BEARS. scott and i agree that this show was aces. get that gummi juice.

okay my laptop is running low on battery so until i can hook it back up i'll have to end this. more soon. grey's premiere tonight. YIKES. expect a blog storm.