free binder with part one
So now that all the fancy perfume adverts and expensive chocolate adverts are finished with, it's time to turn towards adverts for furniture sales and winter holidays in the sun and, my personal favourite, partworks projects. Every new year we get bombarded by commercials for a weekly, fortnightly or monthly publication covering a vast array of interests from sports to crystals, cars to needlework, interior design to landscape gardening. There's usually a binder with part one, and then you get another thing to add to your collection or another part to add to your final model with each issue.
Every year I watch the adverts and wonder if this year might be the year that something catches my eye but so far I've not been tempted. One year there was a Buffy and Angel one, but that gave you the episodes on DVD and I have all of those... with extras. There was once a Star Trek fact files one, but it looked far too complicated... I still managed to blag my way into the launch party though. A few years back my sister got swept away by a musicals collection, and after that my best friend was caught by the Lord of The Rings pewter figure collection. But still I've not found the one for me.
I, along with house mates and guests, have spent today lounging on couches and watching television. And between deciding which sofas we won't be buying in the sales and cruises we won't be sailing away on I once again hoped I would find my partworks soul mate. It's slim pickings this year I'm afraid; between The Art of Crochet and Build Your Own Model Railway I'd rather go with the Top Gear Turbo Challenge, but once again I shall not be collecting in weekly parts.
This then initiated the conversation of what exactly I would collect. After much discussion we came to a conclusion:
Build You Own Cyborg: Cameron Edition
Published in weekly parts this magazine compiles a user manual for your new Skynet Cyborg Model T???.
Each issue is covermounted with a coltan infused componant to build your very own Hyper Alloy Combat Chassis,
before finishing with a layer of living tissue over the metal endo-skeleton.
This product has already been a trial tested in the United States
and here's what some of our satisfied customers had to say:
'Pretty as a picture'
Charley Dixon, EMT, Los Angeles
'Really good at math, always likes to do my homework'
John Baum, student, California
'She's good for the dirty work'
Derek Reese, Resistance Fighter, Century City Prison Camp
'Cleans my guns, does my laundry, breaks me out of prison, I couldn't be without her'
Sarah Connor, The Mother Of All Destiny, Pescadero State Hospital
(Projects estimated date of completion 21st April 2011 - Happy J-Day)
Happy New Year everybody.
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