Thursday, March 31, 2005
Most of you may not know it, but I'm a huge M&M's fan. I love their commercials (and their candy's not bad either). I've been getting the collectible dispensers for about the last seven Christmas holidays or so and other little things here and there (including a DVD of all of their commercials). Tonight (well this morning), I decided to browse by the M&M's web site and I found out that today, coincidently enough, M&M/Mars is releasing a new "Dark Chocolate" M&M and promoting it to tie into the release of the new Star Wars sequel using the whole 'Dark side/dark chocolate' correlations. I'm sure that nobody really cares about that, but I thought that the 'trailer commercial' that they made to promote it was kind of cute. I thought that you want to take a look. (View M&M Star Wars parody).
Speaking of things that I'm a big fan of, I just found out last night that the characters from the General Mills monster cereal line (Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, and the cream of the crop -Fruit Brute) are getting a face-lift by way of Steve Niles (writer of 30 Days Of Night, which you may not of heard of yet, but you will very soon thanks to Sam Raimi) and fledgling publisher AFD Press. The popular horror writer is putting a whole new spin on the gruesome foursome in a four-issue comic run titled The General Mills Massacre tentatively scheduled for an October release. Though Fruit Brute is featured, he's not a main character, but I guess I can live with that. At least he had the good sense to leave that Yummy Mummy character out completely. I'm not sure if it will be any good or not, but I think it's still a cool idea. I've been trying to think of ways to use Fruit Brute in my own work for the last few years(or even buying the rights to him since he's now defunct and forgotten), but if this story takes off I may not get that chance. Oh well, you snooze -you lose.
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