Bad-Ass Angel Day!

September 29th is St. Michael's Day (or All Angels Day) AND it is also my pseudo-fake birthday. Born on Christmas means that I was ripped off from having birthday parties/cakes/presents so when I was a wee lad, we celebrated it on St. Mike's Day. This worked for a while and I could have an actual birthday party, until my sister came along on October 1st and stole my thunder.

This article explains how much St. Michael was a BAD-ASS. He appears to be a tad wussy in this picture.

Yet that is very deceiving. He kicked the arse of Lucifer and his minions.

He also slaughtered the Demon, Belial.

Read the rest of that article for more details...

To celebrate my "birthday" today, I went to the sea and took a pano shot. (Lots of beach, not so much sea.)

After that, I popped over to the Agricultural Center to check out the Straw Art. Roar!

First thing I noticed was a distinct lack of straw sculptures. NO dinosaurs, NO King Kong, NO mini Gojira Shrine. You can check out last year's straw art for those. There was a cool Dragon at the entrance though!

There were only two more! Very disappointing.

Oh, Pumpkins!

Sigh. FAKE Pumpkins.

At least there's a slight tribute to Alice that's kind of cute.

Finally, I popped inside to grab a Muscat Soft-cream.

On the way out I snapped a pic of this dog posing for its Instagram page.

All in all, rather humdrum this year. Maybe there'll be some action next month.

To perk up, I bought myself a present, HAPPY PSEUDO FAKE BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Wow, only one day left in September and then the 2024 Countdown to Halloween begins? 

What tricks and treats do I have in store? No idea!

Happy Berated Birthday.

Last week I had, for the first time in decades, a birthday party! Sure, only a half dozen showed up and two of them skipped out after dinner, though it was considered to be a natal anniversary for me. (#65, don't ya know, so I didn't want it to pass in silence.)

I was even given a few prezzies. A care package of cookies and treats including the following:

The top three items are almost finished, I have yet to sample the others. Best present of all was a Piggiless Bank. I'm not sure how Zane knew I'd like it.

If you click this link, you can see it in action.

After dinner, we went bowling and I am definitely out of practice! The other attendees skipped a trip to the pub, but Zane was kind enough to buy me a beer or two. Two young lads got chatty with him, though once they slithered away, I decided to take my celebration in my own hands and convinced some lassies to take a photo with us.

When their third pal joined us, they all sang "Happy Birthday" to me and we left shortly thereafter (sans ladies, alas.)

I grabbed a cake on the way home and sang the tune again, solo this time.

I held off writing about my prezzies until now for yesterday, another friend who was visiting her daughter in Okinawa, gifted me with these:

I am very pleased with this mascot, ルーティ (Rooty) and she brought me an Orion beer 

SO, Happy Birthday to me!

My New Years was wholly uneventful by choice. I watched a dorky movie

and drank a few brew.

Unfortunately, Bib flew off the handle when I was washing him. Sigh.

New Year's Day was spent hanging around the apartment and I broke out a couple of my Dragons. 

Happy Ryu Year! (Ryu = 竜 = dragon)

Hey my blog is approaching a million hits! I need to figure out how to monetize this. (Sure most of the hits may be Bots, but it still seems impressive!)

Have a great 2024, cuz 2023 sucked big time for me!

Spudkins!

When about to prepare dinner, I had an inspiration. I have these two huge potatoes and a large onion. Hmm. I wonder what would happen if I hollowed them out. So I did.

Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Here's a short clip. This Spudkin is cute though a tad derpy. Hey, I even get to eat its innards! Any ideas for a name? 

Next, I attempted the onion. Pretty easy going in the disemboweling, carving the face wasn't as simple. 

Check out this short. For now, his name is Jack o' Nion. Try and come up with something better. Once again his guts were consumed.

The final spud who I'll call Potat o' Lantern (I urge you to come up with something better) was eaten with a bit of cheese.

I tried to keep his eyes as eyes just to make him look tougher. Not sure it worked. Judge this short and decide for yourself. 

Now I'm dragon dragging out my dragon. This guy is named Ichimokuren, has only one eye and is purported to control typhoons. This afternoon was very cloudy and I even heard thunder though nary a drop of rain. I guess Ichimokuren took the day off.

He's also the god of Smithery. Blacksmiths pray to him for good Smithing. (Smithery? Smithing? Are those legit words?

I managed to dig up a few more Venom items. These special Venom and Carnage pouches.

What makes them so special? The A pouch is Venom, the B pouch is Carnage. How can you tell? Well, the word MARVEL is in either black & white or in red and they each have corresponding coloured straps.

I honestly think, they could have come up with something a little more Venomous.

Here are some NBC sweets I picked up yesterday. I haven't tried them yet. Belgian chocolate!

Oh, I rather like this blog, A Field Guide to Doomsday, give it a peek.

I have to go downtown tomorrow, let's see what mischief I can get up to.