Best Easter Movie Ever!

Recently I got sucked into a violence debate on a Facebook post about Watership Down. Since I just happened to have the movie pamphlet handy, I thought I'd showcase the highlights as an early Easter present.

I'll let the artwork speak for itself and offer up little editorializing.

General Woundwort freaked me out when I first saw this.

Some letters from fans.

 The cast...

Zero Mostel makes the best seagull this side of Jonathon Livingston.

Art Garfunkel sang "Bright Eyes" (link to the opening credits.)

The back cover.

As you can see, this movie had an effect on other artists, such as Tezuka Osamu!

Well I'm on the topic of Easter, here are some KitKats that I will be bringing to Canada as presents. Possibly the best tasting ones I've had to date.

Perhaps more appropriate for Pancake Tuesday, yet I suppose Lent is now over so you can feast on Pancake-flavoured Kitkats!

Some Random Crap From Morioka.

While I was in Morioka, I didn't buy too much but I occasionally had to enter a Conbini for a tea break or a pee break. While there, I usually felt obligated to buy something, so this is what I got. 7-11 has a huge Disney campaign going on right now and next month Disney Sea has the gang from Toy Story in a Monster-Mash-up and lots of crap to go with it. Right now, there's a lot of vintage characters at exorbitant prices to celebrate Walt's 110th birthday. I got a big "D" with a Donald.

There has to be a new Doraemon movie out for he's featured as well. Another crappy Key Holder (good thing I need some Halloween presents for the party next month.)

A couple of Monster Hunter characters and Nintendo has choco-eggs and coffees with characters right now. Apart from Donkey Kong, I'm not too interested in getting any more.

I was getting dehydrated and happened upon some NAIVE EVIAN water with these cute little cat post-it notes. Well, I was thirsty, so I landed all six of them.

When directed by my Navi to an empty parking lot while looking for a hotel, I had to stop for directions. I espied this little Schnauzer kit that you make with pipe-cleaners. It's beyond my capability of assembling, but I have a friend with a Crafty Canine that'll love it.

There was very little to buy at the Kenji Miyazawa Museum, still I needed some Omiyage for some work-colleagues so I bought a big box of Galaxy Railroad 999 cookies.

As a follow-up to my Halloween treats post, one of my roving reporters has added a "Bootiful" bounty. Furthermore, I opened up the Pretz and it comes with a ghost mask, pretty scary, huh?

Since this is mostly about Conbinis, I thought I'd share a picture of a Moth that I discovered on the window of a Lawsons. It was about the size of my hand and was either resting or checking out the porn!

I Swine!

I spent a day in Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake with my brother, Stephen, Pip Kummel and his Thai-galfriend, Maym. It was a windy, nippy day but we managed to have a wonderful time, though Maym better get used to the cold winter fast! (More pictures later.) I bought several Ice Wine products including a surprisingly cheap bottle of Vidal. Unfortunately, I didn't pack it in my suitcase for fear of breakage and dopey me approached Customs with it in my carry-on. I had removed all potentially lethal liquids, such as toothpaste, cologne and mouthwash but I didn't even consider that the wine was verbotten! Since it only cost 20 bucks and it'd cost me 250 to check another bag, the Gore-Vidal got unceremoniously dumped in the Mens'! I'm certain that the cleaner really cleans up in discarded liquor...

Here are some of the products, I did get away with including , Maple-Ice Wine jelly, Blueberry-Ice Wine jelly and six bars of Fudge. (Mmmm. Fudge!) I bought another bottle at the duty-free, but this one cost me over 50 bucks!













That was an intriguing song about Frankenstein, so here's the real thing!





















These came with some jelly beans. They are also Stamps!



That was a very cool version of 死の舞踏 (Danse Macabre)! I love it.

More Tricks & Treats from Pocky this year. Last year we got Pumpkin Flavour (meh) and this year it's your plain old Strawberry or Chocolate but it includes a cut out mask!






Next time, I recommend he try one of the new KitKats instead! We've seen it before, but it's been repackaged in time for Halloween and the only thing better than KitKat is lots of KitKats on sale! MmmMango!







Next up, we have a rather odd but yummy ジンジャーエール味 (Ginger Ale) version!







Then I found a 焼きいも味 (yaki-imo = baked Sweet Potato) version! Not a yam-fan, but it smells nice!






I brought back a Canadian coconut version for Yuki and she reciprocated with a サクランボ (Sakuranbo = cherry blossom)!
Man, I love this time of year...