Amazon Saturday Deals: Prince Caspian, Greatest American Hero, Kitchenaid stuff, etc.

The Deal of the Day consists of three KitchenAid appliances. There's a Food Processor for $119.95 (48% off), a Stand Mixer for $199.99 (43% off), and a burr grinder for $149.99 (50% off). There's a $20 mail-in-rebate on the food processor, too, but as always, I generally recommend buying something based on the amount you're paying out of pocket, and treating the rebate as a bonus if they honor it.

The TV Holi-Daily Deal is The Complete Greatest American Hero Gift Set (with cape and notebook) for $43.49 (57% off).

The Video Game Deal of the Day is Virtua FIghter 5 for the X-Box 360 for $14.98 (63% off). The PS3 version (on the same page) is $19.99.

The 15 Days, 15 Video Games Deal today includes Wii Cheer, the X-Box 360 High School Musical 3 game, and Sing it for the PS3, all at 30-48% off.

Finally, the pre-order price on The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia is $75, 40% off.

Finally, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is on sale in all edition. The single-disc edition is $14.99 (50% off). The three-disc edition is $22.99 (43% off). And the Blu-Ray edition is $24.99 (39% off).

ETA: And the Gold Box Deal for the next three hours is The Complete Far Side for $79.50 (47% off).

Fun morning

Yesterday, my father-in-law told me that the day was free until 3 (when we had to leave for the temple). Yay, writing time!

Today, I was not only called to run downstairs to get coffee (because none of the 85 people already in the room could figure out how to do this), but was afterwards dragged to breakfast (okay, no complaints there), the house (to set the Tivo so racist asshole uncle-in-law's sons could come home from the wedding and watch the Alabama/Florida game that they'll be missing, which I fully intend to spoil for them during the reception when I look up the score on my cell phone), the eye doctor (for father-in-law to get his glasses fixed), the house again (because the glasses were unfixable, but there was another pair at the house), and back to the hotel. From 9-12, I was running errands, which here is defined as "sitting in the car while someone else runs errands."

Grr.

I know that 'song has it worse today (she's in makeup hell, and has to deal with many more obnoxious folks than I had to deal with -- I actually like my father-in-law and my soon-to-be brother-in-law, who were the other folks in the car). Still, I'm annoyed.

In theory, I've got the next two hours or so free (with some time needed to shave and put on the motherfucking tuxedo). We'll see.

Come this afternoon, the real fun begins. So looking forward to this weekend being over. The hotel is nice, though.

The quintessential '80s video: Lovin' Every Minute of It

Really, you don't get much more '80s than this. At a wild party, the lead singer of the band hangs up the phone and just starts singing, while hot girls join in on the chorus and fondle him. They all wander down the hall, where they hit other rooms and pick up the rest of the band, who are doing things like playing the piano in a Liberace-esque setting, welding a guitar, playing strip poker, and drumming (they were out of ideas, I guess). The entire entourage wanders down the hall, crams into an elevator, and heads down to a club, where they kick the Talking Heads off the stage and start playing. You just don't get any more '80s than this.

The funny thing is, much as I was a huge Loverboy fan, and definitely remember this song, I don't recall this video at all. Probably because it's the perfect archetype of all other '80s videos, and thus barely has any identity of its own.