Monday Mail Call: Birthday Edition
My birthday is this week so I've been slacking off. Champagne, cake and birthday wishes have taken up more of my time than web surfing, writing and posting.
After watching the first final of the US Open Series, James Blake once again shamelessly toyed with my affections when he lost to Radek Stepanek a.k.a. Martina Hingis' fiance. I've warned him before and I'm just sayin' time is running out.
In the meantime, it's Monday and you know what that means.
The List:
My August monthly railroad ticket. It included discount flyers for "Rent" and "The Drowsy Chaperone"---ten bucks off each ticket. I would need a hundred bucks off a hundred dollar ticket for me to be interested in either one of those shows.
A letter from GE telling me that the warranty on my dryer ran out on July 9. That means that unless I "act now to receive my 20% savings" any day now I'm going to go down to my dryer and discover laundry that looks like it's been in a rain forest. I have until today...the day I got the letter...to accept this offer. I'll take my chances.
"America's Longest Running Catalog:" Hammacher Schlemmer. It's the mid-summer supplement. Funny, I don't remember getting an early-summer supplement. Those of you who haven't gotten me birthday presents yet, listen up. How about the 50-Foot Marshmallow Blaster for $39.95. Yeah, you heard right. It's a "pump-action pneumatic gun" that "shoots sweet, edible marshmallows up to 50'."
Or the Palm-Sized Indoor Remote-Control Helicopter for $79.95. "It's sleek plastic frame has a tail boom, tail fin, and four landing legs resulting in a small footprint, making it ideal for indoor flight." Now there's a toy.
Or even better, The Four Motor Remote-Control UFO for $199.95. "With a remote range of 300' the four-channel handheld control unit allows precise control through hairpin turns, rolls, pitches and hovering." All you folks out there in crop circle territory, look out 'cause I'm coming.
And that's Monday's Mail Call.
