I’ve been lax in writing but with good reason, fair reader. Life has me, pretty much, locked in a tower and is feeding me thrice-daily kicks in the groin. Then there was, you know, that holiday on Thursday, which me and mine ignored this year as best as we could (although I did make a kick-ass baked ziti in lieu of a turkey, and my husband made some double peanut butter cup cookies that managed to eat through the very last of the enamel on one of my molars).

In-between my groin kicks and ziti-gluttony, I have been catching up on lots of movies I never managed to see the first time around—some bad horror flicks (like Candyman. Seriously? I remember when that came out being told it was scary-as-shit. Maybe I am just jadedly un-scareable these days?) and some embarrassingly bad new stuff like Hellboy 2: The Golden Army—which leads me to the point of this entry: Things I Wish Were Real and I Could Have from SFF Movies I Have Seen.

Nothing in Hellboy 2 fits this description, but many of the character designs (sorry, del Toro) reminded me of Mirrormask, which, while also problematic in several fundamental ways, yielded the Number One Thing I Wish Were Real and I Could Have From SFF Movies I have Seen–the wee little circus band that lives in a handy, pocket-sized cube that unfolds into a tiny stage for them.

Wee band!

Seriously. How freaking twee are they?
Beyond life-saving nano-technology, beyond time travel, all that stuff…I want a band of tiny creatures wearing horned helmets I can carry around in my purse.

I know you have something equally as ridiculous on your list. Don’t you?