My Two Yen Worth: Tweety

2014-04-28

I Tawt I Taw a Tweety Bird.

I needed something for lunch and, lo and behold, I discovered some Tweety Soup at the Drugstore. Suffering Succotash!

I needed some soap and, lo and behold, I discovered some Tweety Body Soap! I tawt I taw a body soap.

I needed to shave and, lo and behold, some Lola Bunny Blades.

No catchphrase for Lola, for she never shuts up.

I have to admit that I started this post several weeks ago and this is the first chance I've had to showcase this Happi Setto. A quartet of Warners' Characters from McD's.

When you lift Bugs' carrot arm to his mouth, a chewing sound ensues.

Wile E. Coyote has had another Acme mishap, this time the anvil plus gravity equals bump on the head.

Sylvester has finally got the best of Tweety!

But alas, it isn't true. Tweety just waddles away (if you wind him up that is.)

I have decided to show off my vast accumulation of Happy Meal toys over the next several weeks. Who will it be tomorrow?

2011-02-03

Exorcising My Demons.

Recent readers of this here blog should have figured out by now that 2010 kind of sucked for me. 2011 was starting off okay until I got hit with a 900$ tax bill out of the blue just when I was scratching my way out of a bleak underpaid Christmas. So I've decided to take some action and follow some good ol' fashioned Japanese custom and expel some demons from my apartment while simultaneously welcoming in good luck.

Today is 節分 (Setsubun), Japan's answer to Groundhog's Day and it is traditional for one's dad to put on a 鬼 (Oni=Demon) mask and then the kid's toss soybeans or peanuts at it while chanting "Demons out; Good luck in!" Since I'm doing this solo, I had to improvise.

Two weeks ago, the magnificent balloon artist at NHK created a pair of Oni that I was planning to hijack for my exorcism ritual. Unfortunately when I went in there on Monday, they'd already popped them and I'll have to make do with a rather cute version of Tweety instead.