My life is weird, part 100 in an infinite series:
I went outside Thursday night to pick some flowers to show everyone at work – they were curious to see what these “Ammi” flowers I had been talking about actually looked like – and then I suddenly heard the Harlem Globetrotter’s theme song. I turned my head and noticed the whistler-in-question was wearing a bicycle helmet and a backpack and coming down the road on a unicycle. Our house is at the bottom of a rather steep hill, and he rather casually road up and over the hill without missing a beat of the song.
I just stood there a moment, because I wasn’t quite sure how to react. Did that just happen? Have I officially seen everything?
I walked in the house, brushed my teeth, and immediately went to bed. I mean, what else could I do?
To celebrate my one day off this week, I went to Taco Bell and did a little horse shopping. I almost bought an exceptionally well-shaded Peptoboonsmal, but instead I came home and just completed my order for the latest Stablemates Club release Raider, on the G1 Seabiscuit mold:
I also threw in a Chasing Rainbows Blind Bag because they were having a sale on Stablemates this weekend, and those particular blind bags have been hard to come by in these parts. And there’s always room for more Stablemates!
But back to Raider: apparently he has a slight purple iridescence to him, not unlike the Unicorn Mare and Foal set Mira and Antares. While I wasn’t interested in that set, I think it was more a matter of the molds than the colors, because all of the photographs I’ve seen of Raider in-hand make me love him even more.
Technically the Seabiscuit mold has come in overo before, but that was in the 1990s when masking was much less sophisticated.
I also bought a box lot online, but I am not entirely sure who or what I’ll be keeping of it until it gets here. Since I didn’t get a chance at one of those NPOD grab bags this year (yet somehow some folks ended with multiples, grr…) I’m counting this as my official Grab Bag Surprise lot.
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Here in Portland we have the Unipiper, who is frequently seen riding around in various costumes (most famously Darth Vader), with or without bagpipes. Perhaps your strange unicyclist is a Padawan thereof.
When I lived in Japan, one fine morning I was walking down the main street of the town I lived in, when I encountered a gentleman wearing a rather natty outfit that included a vest and a porkpie hat, riding a bicycle and carrying a fully-assembled, ready-to-play clarinet, as well as a broad smile. I have no idea what he was doing or where he was going at 8AM on that sunny Saturday.
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