One of my favorite games growing up was Don't Break the Ice. While there isn't a lot of strategy to play the game, it was still rather fun to play. Years later we bought a Don't Break the Ice game for my nephew and I to play.
Most of the game pieces looked the same; the ice seemed a bit smaller though. However, they changed the main piece of the game; they changed the character that belongs on the middle ice block! Gone was the man sitting on a chair or, as we called him, man sitting on a toilet. He was replaced with what looks like a polar bear with ice skates on and a hat.
I suppose that the bear is better for kids ... but I miss the original piece. After all, one of my goals as a child was making sure that that man on the toilet didn't fall into the water!
Luckily I was able to find a few parts from my original game including the little red man in our attic. If I ever play Don't Break the Ice again you better believe that I won't use that new polar bear!

My nephew Randy and I made this video August 23, 2009. It features my Muppet Whatnot Hal Happenstance. I flimed it on my old Flip Video camera. The plot was all his idea.

You have probably heard of the band Kings on Leon by now. Well hope so! Their song "Use Somebody" seems like it plays once an hour on the local pop radio stations. I don't want to toot my own horn but I've been a fan of the group for a while now.

While it's nice for the boys from Nashville ten years ago have finally gotten main stream media attention, especially with the help of Kristen Steward and Robert Patterson being spotted at one of their concerts, I can't help feel that people are missing out.

The two songs that I absolutely love from the band aren't off their album "Only By The Night" and not likely to be ever heard on the radio. But that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy them! Click the videos below to see and hear "On Call" and "Knocked Up."
On Call

Knocked Up

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