5 posts tagged “misc”

Yes, this is because the web needs more pictures of cats on it.  The exception being that these are MY cats and therefore worthy of adoration by the anonymous masses.  ;-D

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This is Nabiki, a Japanese Bobtail and prima donna of our household.  I woke her up from her nap to take this picture, so she wasn't very happy with me.

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And here is Hickory, our weight-challenged cat, the one that everyone who sees her has to exclaim about how fat she is.  Poor thing, she probably is getting a complex about it by now.  She bullies the other two cats a bit, but is really sweet-natured with Bob and I.

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And our oldest kitty, Tegan.  This was Bob's cat before we married, and she's never quite cottoned to me, even though I'm the one who feeds these beasts. 

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And as promised: OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!  This is a new plushie that Bob picked up for me.  I decided to pair the bear (no name yet) with Inuki the wolf for a winter wildlife plushie tableaux. 

A quick happy birthday to the Clone triplets, opheliasclone, sarahharrison and robing!!  Hope it was a happy one.  Here's to a happy year for all of you.  I miss you gals.

A lot of my (very) old online friends aren't posting as much as they used to.  Perhaps life gets busier as one gets older?  Perhaps blogging has lost its charm?  Perhaps we are all just drifting our separate ways, as people are wont to do?

Note to self: I really need to make myself a "Music" icon at some point. 

In the battle against melancholy, there are few weapons that equal the effectiveness of Disney films.  Today, it was Disney's 1997 classic Hercules that I turned to for solace.

I'll be the first to admit that Hercules was not one of the best animated films of Disney's late-20th-century renaissance.  Other films like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and Hunchback of Notre Dame far surpass the film, both in animation quality, acting and musical score.  But nevertheless, I like Hercules.  From the odd character designs that reminded one of Greek vases, to those gospel-singing Muses, to James Woods' sardonic performance as Hades, this quirky little film is a whole lotta fun, even if the story they tell has very little resemblense to the actual Hercules myth.  (But that's okay, because, let's face it, the mythical Herc was somewhat of a brute.)

But by far, the thing I love most about this movie is the song "Go the Distance", which ended up being a huge hit for singer Michael Bolton, who BTW  actually looks much, much better with his hair cut short than with that super-mullet that he sported through much of the 1980s & 90s.  The song got played to death on the radio during the late 1990s (so many people detest it), but I couldn't get enough of it.  It always made my heart soar to listen to it, especially near the end when that unexpected fanfare hits.

I was surfing YouTube, trying to see if anyone had posted a clip from the Japanese version of the movie, but had no luck.  However, I did run across this incredible rendition of the song, which was from a Malaysian TV idol show (I think?).  Couldn't place the language of the singers' names--one sounded Chinese, the other two Muslim?  Anyway, dang, those three could really diva!

Now I have to stop trawling because aota is getting really sick of hearing this song, even though he's in the next room. :-P

Also, for those of you who haven't taken a gander at cleolinda's latest parody of the movie 300 (from which I shameless stole the title of this post), please hie yourselves hither and enjoy.  No, you don't need to have seen the movie to appreciate it, although you might want to check out the preview so you know what the characters look like.

Happy Birthday to erin_patty!  Here's to another good year!

I've been reading a lot of Lovecraft lately, in honor of Halloween.  The penguin editions are fairly inexpensive and nicely annotated.  The prose is a bit overwrought, but that was a popular style of writing back when Lovecraft was publishing.  His tales aren't so scary as opposed to creepy--he is very much the master of atmosphere.  So far, Rats in the Walls has been the scariest story among the bunch, although I adored Pickman's Model.  Herbert West: Reanimator was hilarious, in an extremely wrong sort of way.

I'm finding a new passion for the short story form.  More on this later, I suppose.

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

H.P. Lovecraft

Was checking around and realized that I hadn't updated this thing in a few months.  I mainly post on my LJ.  The reason I set up this blog was so that I could have a place to share with family, but it seems no one in my family is interested in blogging.  Which sucks muchly, being that I live a good distance away from any of my relatives.

Feh.  Slackers!