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What is your holy grail?

Airmax — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:13:10 +0000

If you are into toys at all, you’ve undoubtedly thought about it. If you are into toys and have friends who are also into toys, it’s more than likely that you’ve all had this conversation with each other. What is your holy grail? It seems simple enough… but what if you don’t have a grail?

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A Roundtable Discussion on Comics (part 2)…

Airmax — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:16:09 +0000

Part 2 of the roundtable on comics:

Joshua “Just call me Joshua Izzo” Izzo – customizing genius and all around awesome guy
Matt “Iron-Cow” Cauley – does a mean praying mantis impression
Pierre “Airmax” Kalenzaga – need to grow exactly 98 more feet for all his sneakers
Steve “Anubis8″ Morrissey – has a dog and a pick-up, but doesn’t sing country
Steve “SWASS!” Walden – knows more about old school rap he should

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A Roundtable Discussion on Comics (part 1)…

Airmax — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:08:35 +0000

The following is a back and forth I was having this moring with a group of friends on the state of comics today. It started with a link to some info about the upcoming DC Final Crisis mega event and went from there.

The players:

Joshua “I’m too cool for an internet handle” Izzo – customizing genius and all around awesome guy
Matt “Iron-Cow” Cauley – customizing mastermind and pusher of Banes in trenchcoats
Pierre “Airmax” Kalenzaga – champion procrastinator and guy who writes this blog
Steve “Anubis8″ Morrissey – Flash superfan and, from what I hear, player of a mean guitar
Steve “SWASS!” Walden – customizing bad @$$ mofo mama-jamma and dropper of comedy genius

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I’m not Iron Man…

Airmax — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:46:41 +0000

… but Robert Downey Jr. is – oh man, is he ever.

Robert *is* Tony Stark. We all know Downey Jr. spent most of his 20s and 30s in and out of trouble with the law related to his drug use and, not to make light of that, but it’s almost as if he spent all that time training for this role. I don’t think he “played” Tony Stark as much as he inhabited the character… Downey is every bit Tony Stark. Privileged, reckless, brash. Downey plays Stark exactly as he should be – Howard Hughes for the new millennium. This isn’t a one man show, but Downey easily shoulders so much of the weight in his starring role that you’ll leave the theater just wanting to see more of him in action (in and out of the Iron Man suit).

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What’s a quarter inch really…?

Airmax — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:22:46 +0000

I’ve loved GI Joe since the early 80s – I was a fan of the comics, the cartoon and especially the toys. GI Joe started me on customizing. GI Joe taught me not to play in a lake when a lightning storm was coming though or to hide in a refrigerator while playing hide and seek. GI Joe taught me about life… and love… ok, that last part is a flat out lie, but I don’t want anyone to underestimate the importance of GI Joe to my childhood. Some people had a guardian angel perched on their shoulder guiding them, I had a rotating crew of Joe, Cobra, Dreadnoks and Iron Grenadiers leading the way. So when the 25th Anniversary line was announced, I felt like Hasbro had reached into the rosy glow of my memory and pulled out the best parts of what GI Joe was. Perfect. Plastic. Awesomeness. Everything was perfect… except…

Except for that pesky quarter inch.

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