Hot. Light. Weird.

Solar eclipse. Super Moon. Spring equinox. AND massive solar flares?

No doubt the End of Days script writers are working as fast as they can. (Oh, go for the easy answer: It’s all Bush’s fault. Why not.)

Or blame Barbie. She’s a doll and won’t mind. Plastic is as plastic does.

Solar storms? No worries. (1965 Lost in Space.CBS/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Although whoever is hanging out in her new interactive cloud might take note.

“Hey, sweetie, are your parents home?” (Hack. Hack. Oh, don’t be concerned. It’s just a cough.)

“How about going into your sister’s room and turning her laptop around. That’s right. Turn it to face her bathroom….”

Curious cloud minds want to know …everything? (Hack. Hack. Darn that cough.)

A new high techie Barbie is listening, analyzing, and working to keep conversation going.

Oh, silly. Mattel and consumer data collection groups won’t be an invasive nuisance It’s a doll! It’s kids! What can happen?

What are the chances of paranoid parents forbidding Barbie as birthday gifts? Would not allowing Talk Back Barbie into the house be a red flag for Homeland Security or the DOJ?

Bet writers are already incorporating the chatty dolls in scripts.

Plot might click with one of those foreign spy families hiding in the suburbs series.

Or was Lisa’s discovery about Funzo in Simpson’s “Grift of the Magi” foreshadowing? The episode eerily echoing Mattel’s potential with new interactive Barbie?

What would Lisa do? (2007.Simpsons Movie promo/Rhbrakman/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Confused? Catch up with this article: Barbie now talks back!

“Child advocates: Halt production of ‘creepy’ interactive Barbie doll”

That Barbie. We should have known. Obviously, a Troublemaker.

She’s been around the blocks a few times. Can’t seem to stick with a job. No visible means of support. Gets others to buy her clothing and shoes. Lots of shoes. Cars, too.

The original Sugar Baby. (And still not an ounce of fat on her) Is she as “real’ as she pretends?

She deftly deflects any idea she’s connected with big oil. Comes from petroleum by-products – that’s different. So what if her factories use electricity? It could be solar. Charge her.

Say what you want…carefully.

Wise to avoid snarky comments on Twitter, Facebook, or blogs.

Barbie’s got a big fan base and mega company lawyers on retainer.

She’s a real star.

Which is why it’s odd she’s even seen at Walmart, place of the teeming masses.

Walmart may not be the store Sam started, but it’s still an active community spot.

Meth labs in the bathrooms. (Dude, why risk blowing up your own bathroom?)

Deals so hot in the shoe department, they’re blazing. (No loafers there!)

Sporting events with customers as targets for blowgun practice.

Frequent purse snatching in the parking lots. (Up for a little jog after a car?)

Here, there are security guards in carts topped by bright blue lights circling the parking lots.

She’s in Walmart? Doesn’t seem to be her style. (Miriam Guterland/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Which makes it even more weird that there have been bodies found in different cars in different Walmart parking lots recently.

Locally, one had been there at least a week.

Considering, the temperatures have been in upper 70’s to 80 degrees, you’d think someone would notice.

Maybe there was a force field repelling the Security carts…as well as the smell.

Maybe their Security carts are really Roomba vacs with a prescribed track.

 Maybe employees have been told to avoid all potential conflicts/lawsuits and the security carts are merely stage dressing?

In any case, once Barbie gets tired of kiddie conversations and starts looking for her next venture, she might chat with Walmart.

How about lashing a small flash mob of Interactive Barbies to remote-controlled Segway or Roombas and unleashing them in their parking lots?

Many little ears listening and reporting.

Advertisers could buy time to feature their products when Barbie engaged customers with a little parking lot chat.

She could blend right in while keeping an ear on things. Just strap her on a Roomba for parking lot security zoomba.(Ricardo peralta solis/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Might work – if the Barbies doesn’t talk the customers to death.

Always looking for bright stars,

Phil the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

• Watch the 2015 Total Solar Eclipse from the Faroe Islands here
• Read more “Solar eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox: Friday offers rare celestial events” 
• Venus and Mars join Gemini and Cancer in the sky. March 2015. (Skywatching VIDEO)
• Space.com keeps up with all the amazing astronomical sights here. 2015 is putting on quite a sky show
• Biggest solar storm/solar flares in decades hitting earth. Read more here.

Now that’s stellar. (Embryonic Stars. Rosette Nebula /ESA and PACS, SPIRE and HSC Consortia/USPD: NASA /Commons.wikimedia.org)