Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 20

Praetorian guards

A crackling fireplace, silent night

Twinkling Christmas stars

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 19

Insane laughter rings

Through Flitwick's lecture; Spike barks

Pumpkin bombs away! 

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 18

Silent night, holy 

Hush falls over the ice, cold pie,

Empty nest, lonely deer

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 17

Mrs. Claus checks list

Luke's light sabre ignition

Says "naughties beware"  

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 16

Ghostly choir, Ghost ship 

PC, cactus harmonize

But no audience

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 15

Sally Brown's lunch plans

Shattered by hostage crisis

Clone wants rabbit stew

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 14

Silent, childless night

Abandoned toys' silent cries

Christmas tragedy

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 13

 

Runners slice the ice

One other sound: "Skating" by

Vince Guaraldi 3

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 12

Hagrid's silent ghost

Touches down on a present

As live birds frolic

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 11

Pig Pen babysits

A newborn on Christmas Eve:

Surely Brown Christmas

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 10

A Jedi drumbeat
Awakens snoozing Snoopy
Stalking stocking sleeps
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 9

Falcon's shriek heralds

Spider-Gwen's Christmas playlist

And a crackling fire for friends

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 8

Peppermint Patty

Searching for Chuck on Xmas

Just a moment late

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 7

Kitten with a fish

Taunted by robot with cane

Angry hiss, stop light

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 6

Draco Malfoy taunts: 

"Nothing for you, Charlie Brown!"

Poor Chuck replies, "Rats." 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 5

Skiing past villains

On Hoth for the holidays

Makes snowmen nervous

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 4

See conniving Linus

Subject skateboarding robot

To Christmas pratfall

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 3

Lonely puppy whines

The north winds whistling over

Abandoned party

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 2

Leia savours warmth

A mug of steaming cocoa

As Woodstocks frolic

 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2024 Day 1

Famous beagle's bark
And Spider-Man's web zip call
Harry and boarder to play

This year's Lego Advent Calendar Haiku features guest stars from the world of Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts, thanks to the generosity of my brother Sean! 
 

Acid-Washed Jeans

Sometime between 1991 and 1994, while working as a parts driver for Norwest Automotive, I picked up a used car battery from one of our customers. I didn't think anything of it in the moment; I'd picked up used parts for disposal several times already, and this was just one more instance. 

But a couple of hours later, I noticed that my bluejeans were developing white patches in odd places, starting just below my pelvis. Over the course of the day, those white patches spread and the miscoloured denim thinned, By the time I returned home, my pants had developed huge rends, tears and gaps, disintegrating almost entirely into scraps not long after I removed my shoes. 

I figured that the battery must have cracked and leaked some mildly corrosive form of acid down my pants. Certainly my legs were quite itchy by the end of the day, and they'd taken on a slightly pinkish hue. A thorough scrubbing in the shower relieved those symptoms. 

I had occasion to tell Mom and Sean this story tonight; credit goes to Sean for coming up with the perfect title for this post. 

Mirva Suomi

Here's another frosty Finn, flare gun ready to signal for help. 
 

Gideon Hakala

A Finn in a snowsuit, featuring my first application of Vallejo frost effects. 
 

Bobby with a Bullet

I think this guy was meant to be a British bobby, but they don't carry guns, do they? Maybe just for special occasions. 

 

Professor Price

Hmm. He does look a little bit like Vincent Price. Maybe I should add a moustache.