May 30, 1998      Fruity Pebbles Digest
 

Not literally of course. That would be something of a different subject
but I am sure no less colorful.

****Fruity pebbles toy alert!*****
In cereal news today, we are reviewing the newest toy in the pebbles
line. It's called the bedrock scrambler and  it is by far the coolest toy
ever to come in a cereal box. Impossible you say. Cooler than last years
cardboard dinosaur skeleton? Cooler than the scissors reptile spoon?
Cooler than The all time high of five dino stickers per box? To all of
these I say yes. For those of you who might not favor the deliciously
fruity taste of pebbles I will offer to eat your pebbles and let you keep
the toy. It really is beyond description. I suggest you look at the box
in the store and then imagine that this toy comes flat and in four pieces
and YOU have to put it together. "Not just fun" was the add company's
pitch, "but an engineering marvel!"

Kurtiss and I have pondered many questions over the past few days. My
friend allison will testify that even after the chain saw digest some of
them are not suitable to print here. Our most recent question is about
birds. Who can explain to us how birds relate to mammals in a
classification sort of way? What makes a bird a bird? What other
classifications are on that level? What level is that? Kingdom? Class?
Order? Phylum? Species? What are all the classification levels? You can
begin to see where paying attention in high school would have helped us
out here. But luckily for you we didn't. This is your chance; A big prize
to anyone who can explain this all to our satisfaction.

In other news we saw Big Impact... Uhm Deep Impact, this evening. i
personally was quite disappointed that Tea leone bit it in the end and
that silly elijah wood lived. Not to give it away. Kurtiss says it was a
cheezy tear jerker. Very excited to see all my favorite etv characters on
one screen. From ER and Naked Truth, and that movie ice storm. Come to
think of it I guess elijah wood deserves to live after his electrocution
in ice storm. By the way ice storm is not a disaster film but maybe a
disaster of a film. Oh, I might have given that one away, too.

Speaking of electrocution, what happens when you cut through alive wire
with insulated wire cutters? Kurtiss will tell you, when you see him.

Mark your calendars. In 82 days from yesterday there will be little
painted turtles popping from the ground in front of the lodge and who
knows where else.

Back to napping, I mean sleeping. I'm still reeling from that toy. It
actually prevented me from eating that bowl of fruity pebbles for almost
ten minutes.

Michael