I love magnets. Do you ever look at people's refrigerators? Magnets are casual snapshots of your life stuck on your fridge. And as souvenirs they can't be beat, small portable and usually economically priced. Example: True/False hoodie = $50. True/False magnet = $4. Magnet for the win! I have the usual boring, but necessary magnets: doctor, appliance repairman, but I also have NOUN magnets.
Persons: 9 seasons of photo magnets from baseball, one season of softball and one of the boy and the girl at the zoo. I have Sirius Black on a "Wanted" poster, and Elvis.
Places: I've been everywhere man, I've been everywhere: Santa Monica, Washington DC, Graceland, US Senate, Portland, Seattle and Forks Washington (gift from my sister, hey, much better than the spoon she was promising).
And Things: Oakland Eagles, Cedar Ridge Cardinals, a Hershey bar, Blue Hawaii poster, a magnet of the eight planets (Air and Science Museum), the Smithsonian Castle, the I Didn't Speak Poem from the Holocaust Museum (another gift) and finally Beast and Wolverine. X-Men Rule! I wish I had Ironman and Magneto. Those would be cool and funny.
One of my favorite magnets is from my trip to Las Vegas. It is from the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Casino and Hotel. Yes, Debbie had a casino and hotel in the 1990s. I went with three friends for another friend's wedding. Before we ever left Missouri I was talking up the Debbie Reynolds Costume Museum and being shot down repeatedly. The first night there, we were shaken down in the lobby of the Luxor so the bride could keep the limousine longer. The next day we ditched the bridal party.
We went to the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. Awesomely tacky chandeliers, carpet and uniforms. Everything Vegas is supposed to be. I played the dollar slots and turned my $1 into a big 46 smackeroos! I was ecstatic! Taxi rides and Costume Museum tickets all around! And since I was paying the other three were in.
IT WAS FANTASTIC! We sat in a theatre and watched a revolving stage of costumes and sets from all types of movies through the years. The sides of the theatre lit up at different times to showcase even more costumes and a narrative explained the items' origins. It lasted at least an hour. Some of my favorites were the green and white checkered suits that Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor wore in Singin' In The Rain and the ape suits from Planet of the Apes. It was awesome and my friends loved it (of course) and told me I was right to "make" them go (of course). We exited the theatre and went to the gift shop where I got my magnet.
Poor Debbie. She is so wonderful, but the men in her life do her wrong. A while after we went to the museum Debbie Reynolds had a bit of financial difficulty and all of those fabulous costumes are now in storage. But, I got to see them and I have the magnet to prove it.
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