Doing it blogystyle!

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-24T21:38:00

2009-12-25T02:38:59Z

This is so cool.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-19T20:53:00

2009-12-20T01:53:12Z

Still snowing. A lot. I called Kohl's just out of curiosity and, despite being, you know, a BLIZZARD OUTSIDE, they're still open. According to the person I talked to there were no plans to close before midnight, which is kind of crazy. I'm fairly certain that they may well be the ONLY thing open, aside from maybe 7-11. Honestly I think it's kind of reckless and irresponsible for them to even be open.

BUT IN OTHER NEWS, I made a bunny.

Who is now having a silent vigil over the now utterly snow covered cars.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-19T15:08:00

2009-12-19T20:08:32Z

Snowmagedon

2009-12-19T19:09:30Z

And thus it continues to snow. We're getting about an inch an hour, been snowing since yesterday, and not supposed to stop until tomorrow morning. Not going to work today, but the place IS still open, as somebody answered the phone when I called. Also sucks because I was supposed to be going to Busch Gardens tomorrow.

It's pretty though!

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-19T01:51:00

2009-12-19T06:51:56Z

Snow looks so cool photographed.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-15T00:45:00

2009-12-15T05:45:17Z

This is the funniest crappy ad I've gotten in awhile. I guess they think absolutely nobody would recognize that image as being from Love Hina....
Like seriously, did somebody just do a Google image search to make this and it happened to pop up in the results?

The Princess and the Frog

2009-12-15T03:25:54Z

I love animation and always have. One of the highlights for me as a kid was going and seeing the new Disney movie, since one was coming out roughly every year. While I liked Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch quite a bit, the rest of their movies post Tarzan weren't so great...and I greatly missed the movies being musicals. I was pretty heartbroken when they said Home on the Range (which is one of the worst movies I have seen in my entire life) was going to be their last hand drawn animated movie.

That said, I've been looking forward to The Princess and the Frog from the first rumors of it's existence. It didn't disappoint me. Seeing it was like visiting an old friend I hadn't seen in years. It left me with a warm fuzzy feeling.
Instead of taking place long ago and far away, this movie takes place in the 1920s and in New Orleans. It also stars a heroine who, instead of just dreaming about how someday her prince will come and whisk her off into a life of luxury, has worked hard all her life to achieve her dream of owning her own restaurant. The one character who's sole life ambition seems to be to marry a prince and become a bona fide princess is made to come off as a bit of a dolt. I know Disney's faced some pretty heavy criticism in the past for their princesses, and at times it feels almost like they were trying TOO hard to make Tiana the opposite of them. It also eventually falls into the same pitfall that tends to often annoy me in movies...the "we're falling in love for no particular reason aside from spending about a day together" trope (which I found actually romantic, once upon a time, till I grew up and learned this isn't the way it works). So it's a very good movie, just not a perfect movie. It certainly isn't as good as some of the past movies....it's plot is kind of disjointed and the songs not all that catchy (I won't be buying the soundtrack).
But I'm kind of tired of people complaining about it not being an accurate portrayal of pre civil rights days. There's a time and a place for brutal honesty and a family animated movie just really isn't it. When it comes down to it, it's a fairy tale, and in other fairy tales do we get to see the plague ridden harsh reality of real peasant life? And besides it doesn't completely ignore racial inequality it just doesn't make it a point to really bring it up. Ya, the idea of people rich or poor black or white all mixing and mingling at her restaurant wouldn't have happened but...this is also a movie with people being turned into frogs...this isn't 100 percent reality based.

It's not Disney's crowning achievement but I still highly enjoyed it. I really want a plushie of frog Tiana now too, as she was all kinds of adorable.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-13T18:47:00

2009-12-13T23:47:34Z

Hello Tree.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-12T02:44:00

2009-12-12T07:44:42Z

So like you know how in humans you get brain damage if you don't have oxygen for something like two minutes? Do you think that's true for fish too? I found my goldfish on the floor and seriously thought he was dead until I was scooping him up and he started twitching ever so slightly. I plopped him back in and it was like insta back to life fish but now he's like...weird. lol. It's hard to describe exactly but I think I may now have a fish that should be riding the short bus. Maybe he's just tripping out from his near death experience...maybe he was swimming towards the light and all and was about to be reunited with all his fishy brethren from the tank of 13 cent feeder fish he originally came from.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-11T15:17:00

2009-12-11T20:18:07Z

moonbunnychan @ 2009-12-01T00:21:00

2009-12-01T05:21:47Z

I'm a big nerd for posting this, probably, but I find this video just absolutely beautiful. There have been a bunch of these videos so far, but this one is by far my favorite. All of the people represented in this are my heroes....Carl Sagan especially. I can remember the first time I watched the reruns of Cosmos on PBS and it absolutely blew my mind...I can point back at it and say that it was one of the things that had a huge impact on me and majorly shaped the entire way I think and feel.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-11-27T20:50:00

2009-11-28T01:50:14Z

This may be my new favorite video. Particularly the VERY end.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-11-17T22:32:00

2009-11-18T03:32:48Z

This beautiful in it's badness. I have no idea how this had gone under my radar till I saw it in a blog. There's bats, fireworks, whales...no bad effect was spared for this masterpiece of a musical number. But it's Tim Curry so it's somehow all ok.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-11-14T04:04:00

2009-11-14T09:04:07Z

I got into the Anime USA Amv contest. Yaaaaaay! I'm super excited. HOWEVER:

"Here is the list of finalists for the contest. I'm only going to list studio names to keep some of the surprise, so if you see your name, it means you have at LEAST 1 video in the contest."

So they're keeping us in the dark as to which videos actually made the cut. Grah! lol. I submitted two videos, so I'll just have to be in suspense until next Friday to see if both made it or just one...and if one WHICH one.

Here's the two I submitted though, for your viewing pleasure. There's versions of both of these on You Tube, but not the final versions. If only one made it, I really hope it was the first one, it's definitely my favorite of the two.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-11-11T16:04:00

2009-11-11T21:16:42Z

The DC sniper was put to death last night. I'm not pro death penalty at all, which is hard when most of the people around you are, especially when it came to this particular case. It was increasingly harder to just bite my tongue when the comments became increasingly more crude and I didn't want to start a big fight.

I remember it happening though, hard to believe it was 7 years ago. I was actually out in Kansas for a about a week of it and I remember distinctly watching it on the news and the people in Kansas thinking I lived in some sort of warzone or something. Weird feeling, that. When I got home I remember just being absolutely disgusted with all the people freaking out and like ducking and covering at the gas station. People I worked with at Kohls would dash out to their cars at night all hunched over. And of course the news plastered people doing that acros the screen every single night. It did nothing but feed into the fear and paranoia which is exactly what he wanted. I tend to look at things in a somewhat more rational light. There are 5.3 million people in the DC metro area. The odds that you would be shot and killed were tremendously low. Your odds of dieing in a fireball in a car crash are by far higher...there's wrecks on the beltway EVERY DAY...and that doesn't seem to stop a lot of people from going across 4 lanes of traffic in 15 seconds. Ya the idea of random killings and somebody maybe being out there was a bit unnerving but really you take your life into your hands in some way every day...you never know when you might be part of a freak toaster accident or such.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-11-04T19:54:00

2009-11-05T00:56:37Z

Civil rights of a minority should never be decided by a majority. Way to fail Maine. In fact I'd be willing to bet that, if put to a vote, the civil rights of non white people would be voted down in several parts of the south even today.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-31T00:59:00

2009-10-31T05:00:01Z

Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see, this our town of Halloween.

Happy Halloween!

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-30T01:51:00

2009-10-30T05:51:42Z

Holy crap

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-29T01:47:00

2009-10-29T05:48:01Z

They arrived!

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-19T13:47:00

2009-10-19T18:11:03Z

The Renaissance Faire was good fun and merriment despite being cold and wet and having to slog through the mud. It figures the weekend we'd planned on going it'd drop from being in the 70s to being in the low 40s. I didn't dress up this time though, mostly out of not wanting to ruin an outfit with mud. The one in Maryland is the second largest in the country and a permanent structure so it's all kinds of awesome. I love too how it doesn't even pretend to be even remotely historical. Everything from the attendees dressed up to the stuff they sell in the stores leans much more towards fantasy. Being there kind of feels like being inside a theme parky version of a fantasy novel (or a game of D&D)...which suits me just fine since fantasy novels are my bread and butter.
Speaking of food, the Ren Faire has some of the best ever. Most of it a bit odd and all of it bad for you. Generally it comes fried and on a stick.

I had the mac and cheese on a stick, fried pickles, and chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick. And also since they don't even pretend like the merry making brought on by alcohol isn't a major part of the atmosphere, you can't go more then a few feet without stumbling upon a tavern, and I loves me some mead. Even the prizes for the games there are free beers. I think I may have shortened my life span a bit.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-15T03:31:00

2009-10-15T07:47:10Z

In loving memory of Captain Lou....
This was the VERY first flash cartoon I ever saw (god, how far flash has come). Also funny is that my parents had a 45 record single of this...AND they had this crazy record album of wrestlers singing and this song was on it. I absolutely loved it when I was a kid.

Course, I'll most remember him for being Mario. lol. Me and Jeremy in fact "did the Mario" every single time we watched this as kids. Ah....memories.

There's also of course him playing Cyndi Lauper's dad in the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun music video...another iconic bit of my childhood. lol.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-14T22:08:00

2009-10-15T02:09:38Z

Pika pumpkin...I choose you!

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-14T19:14:00

2009-10-14T23:15:13Z

Hello Pumpkin

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-14T02:11:00

2009-10-14T06:35:45Z

I was originally meh to the idea of carving pumpkins this year since I'm not gonna BE here on Halloween, but foam ones were on sale at the craft store so I figured what the heck, since I'd be able to save them. Carving real pumpkins is fun while they're fresh, but get pretty quickly disgusting. It sucks watching something you worked so hard on rot and then come the fruit flies. It got to the point last year by Halloween they were kinda slimy and gross to the point of not really wanting to even reach into them to light the lights. Squirrels also totally ate my Obama pumpkin last year (must have been Republicans). Plus they shrivel and start looking crappy (I solved this last year by filling giant trashcans up with water and soaking the pumpkins for several hours and they perked up). In the end though it was still something that took close to 2 hours to do and it went out in the trash.
So foam. It's...weird...carving them. It's not like a real pumpkin at all. Not having to gut and scrape the pumpkin is awesome and saves some time, but overall foam is more difficult. The biggest thing is that it's not as sturdy, so carving the really thin parts is exceeeeeedingly difficult. Foam also has more resistance when you're cutting it and is very, very dusty. Like...I'm so used to carving real pumpkins and it just feels SO different that that also made it kinda hard.
Still though, the pros (namely being able to keep them) outweigh the cons, so I'll probably get more foam ones in the future.
I carved the Mario and Princess Peach pumpkins again this year. What can I say, I'm a nerd and like having Mario pumpkins. Plus they're always a REALLY big hit. Now, hopefully, I'll never have to carve these two ever again. Take that nature.

moonbunnychan @ 2009-10-12T23:04:00

2009-10-13T03:30:19Z

I have a hard time believing that the new gaming consoles have been out for a few years now. Man where has time gone. Despite the fact that I do consider myself a gamer I have yet to actually get any of the new systems. So far none of them have any games that I really want badly enough to shell out the money. For me at least none of them so far have any must haves, so the only new games I'm getting have been for DS.
Anyway though, it's almost impossible for my brain to comprehend the Gamecube being kind of old now. Maybe it's because my PS2 has been part of my life for close to a decade now and I only really somewhat recently got a Gamecube. Having one now though kind of feels like I'm late to the party and only now discovering how fun a lot of the games I was originally didn't pay much of any attention to when they first came out. It makes me feel old though...I remember being at a Best Buy when they were having a launch party for Star Fox Adventures and I got a lanyard and temporary tatoo of Krystal despite not owning a cube or having any idea at all what the game was about. The games all still like new ones to me O_o