{"id":6016,"date":"2018-12-07T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:02:20","slug":"2018-lego-advent-calendar-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=6016","title":{"rendered":"2018 Lego Advent Calendar: Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched Krampus<\/em><\/a>, the 2016 Christmas horror movie starring Adam Scott and Toni Collette. It’s…kinda great. <\/p>\n

It’s not on par with Gremlins<\/em>, the king of holiday horror-comedy, but it’s in the same goofy ballpark. This movie gets wonderfully weird and silly-in-a-good-way.<\/p>\n

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If you’re up to your ears with sappy and sweet holiday crap, I recommend Krampus <\/em>as a nice reminder that there’s more to this season than movies about a single woman in a small town who used to star on Full House<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Also, while Krampus <\/em>is a horror movie, it’s not super-duper scary. And it has some great production design. Give it a shot. It won’t change the world, but it’s 90 minutes of PG-13 fun horror holiday mayhem.<\/p>\n

Today the Lego Calendar offers us…<\/p>\n

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Shovel Lady!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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She has a shovel! Her name is Timberly, like Kimberly but better. <\/p>\n

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Quincy was happy to have a mom and Walter the Snowman was happy to have another audience member. <\/p>\n

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WALTER: <\/strong>And now I shall recite another poem! <\/p>\n

What is a hat, but the exclamation point of a person.
\nWhat are shoes, but the semi-colon of life.
\nWhat are gloves, but the commas between which we live.
\nWhat are we…but a sentence.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s a poem called “Subject Predicate” and it won the Guthrie Award for Excellence in Word Arts. You’re welcome!
\nTIMBERLY: <\/strong>It didn’t rhyme.
\nWALTER: <\/strong>Rhyming poetry is for sailors and greeting cards. I make word art, m’lady!
\nTIMBERLY: <\/strong>Neat. I work for a living shoveling. It’s hard but I don’t mind.
\nWALTER:<\/strong> Poetry is harder. It takes me weeks to find the perfect word! Weeks!
\nTIMBERLY:<\/strong> That’s silly. I can come up with words in seconds. Try me.
\nWALTER:<\/strong> Then I challenge you to come up with a word that truly encompasses the feeling of winter’s brutality!
\nTIMBERLY:<\/strong> Carrots.
\nWALTER: <\/strong>My…God! You are a genius! A little raw, but the talent is there! Join me! I must train you in the poetic arts! <\/p>\n

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In more important news, I learned that Lego figures can hold Dum-Dum lollipops.<\/p>\n

I have a bag of holiday themed Dum-Dum flavors. Some make sense, like Sugar Cookie and Gingerbread, but this blue lollipop flavor is “Polar Punch,” which is just a fancy word for raspberry. No one drinks raspberry punch at Christmas except maybe the devil or your teenage cousin who’s just trying to be difficult. Blue raspberry is a summer flavor, goddamnit!<\/p>\n

I’m on to you, Dum-Dum! I know you’re passing off regular flavors as holiday treats. And I’m calling my Senator and lawyer. <\/p>\n

Day 7 Rating: <\/strong>3.9 out of 5 (Points added for that sweet shovel!)<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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This blog is brought to you by PowerPencils.com<\/a>, but the bad news is I only sell magical pencils. So if you’re looking for a dumb sweater or a Funko Pop figure of Gunther from Friends<\/strong>, you best move along. Only unique and special gifts here. <\/em><\/p>\n