Can You Dig It?

I knew that you could.

 

I saw Digger today. (Click that to go to the homepage.)

  

This movie will either sweep the Oscars or sweep the Razzies. It could go either way. Personally, I enjoyed it. Tom Cruised his way through the role and John was a GoodMan in his. The rest of the cast was fairly forgettable except for ニラブ・ガネシュ博士：リズ・アーメッド Riz Ahmed.

That trailer above does not sell the movie well. And it worked, the movie did not sell well. (For an afternoon show with a Japanese crowd watching it in English, it did pretty good. About two dozen people.) I went, mainly because I scored three postcards when I bought an advanced ticket. (That was before I saw the trailer.)

I don't think these will ever become collectors items, unless I can get Tom to sign them.

I do have enough girth that I could probably cosplay Digger for Halloween.

Did you know that there are several Digger frogs? Here's a few:

Freiberg's Forest Foam Frog.

The Boreal Frog from Korea.

 And an Australian Burrowing Frog.

 Furthermore, Honey Smacks has Dig 'em.

 You may dig this creature I picked up the other day. Still not sure what it is but I'm sure it can dig.

 ps. It's Pot Mitty from Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun anime.

As for a monster, I don't really have one that relates to digging per se, though this gal does have to do with the sea and so does the movie Digger.

 

I popped into Costco today and almost bought a pumpkin pie, but it looked like it'd be too much for me to dig into.

 

All I know, it's a good thing I already have plenty of Halloween Decorations, because this is all they have left.

Sigh.

You may enjoy fellow blogger, Highbury Cemetery, they'll be sure dig your plot.

Ciao for now, I'm way past my bedtime.

BioHazardous.

Tonight I watched Resident Evil BioHazard (BH) from 2002 with the hope I'll be watching its remake in the next few days. I've amassed several of the movies cheaply on BluRay though #3 has eluded me, otherwise I'd have binged them all.

 

The other day I managed to locate the Movie Pamphlet for BH and I would have bought more but they are supersized and I have no more room.

 

There are some excellent two-page spreads.

 

 

A Great Cast: especially Michelle Rodriguez.

I had never even heard of the game before I came to Japan, so I had no idea that this series was called Resident Evil. Japan has stuck with the BioHazard nomenclature. 

 And there's merch! Though I have rarely seen it.

 

My monster book has Zombies which are technically not the same as the BH creatures. But close enough.

 

 

This book gets all historical occasionally and here is some facts about the Undead.

 

 

You should click on the picture in order to embiggen it if you're interested in perusing the tome.

I remember when these drooling zombie fruit came out last year. I have a few somewhere. I found this strawberry gal the other day.

 

Sounds like an opportune time to link to Zombie Crossings, check them out.

Did you know that Lady Gaga did a few ads for Family Mart? 

 

If you click the link above, you may be able to see the YouTube video (IF your region in the world allows it.) Below is an interview with her.

 

See ya tomorrow...

For Medusanal Purposes.

Thanks to the fine folks at DKU-TV, I spent this Thanksgiving afternoon watching both The Fly (AGAIN) and Terrorvision. The Fly is magnificent with great acting (except that Geena Davis needs to work on her crying), terrific practical effects, a gripping story, and an excellent callback to 1958's The Fly. Terrorvision is magnificentish with mediocre acting (especially Medusa*), lousy special effects, a ludicrous story and wonderful tributes to several old 50s Monster Movies. I love them both but for vastly different reasons.

I use Punch to access the above shows.

You can watch a fairly good print of Terrorvision on YouTube.

 

 

*This is the aforementioned Medusa played by Jennifer Richards who has NO IMBD page so this may be her only movie. Too bad, she was a lot of fun as a Horror Movie Host.

Speaking of Medusa, she shows up in my Monster book looking as radiant as ever.

Google couldn't quite translate her name properly in the title.

 On the following page, they dwell on her Mythological origins.

 

 

Here is one rendition of her from Marvel Comics as Queen of the Inhumans.

I'm not sure why I'm going about her, I just like redheads I guess.

Since today is Canadian Thanksgiving and Japanese Sports Day, I had a leisurely day all day sleeping in and watching the tube. I'm thankful that I was able to pick up these two stuffed Godzilla characters cheaply.

 

 Oh yeah, I also watched the first episode of Carrie! Very fun, I'll be revisiting that daily.

For more Halloween stuff, try Euclid Boo or just go to the homepage of Countdown to Halloween 2026 and click around until something appeals to you.

No Halloween snack today, something equally useful though.

Sadako Sunday!

I had another wedding in Tendo and afterwards drove out to Yamagata for some nerdy shopping. Much to my surprise, I discovered a NEW Sadako so I snapped it up.

 

 

Lo and behold, this is a NEW figure in the UFO Catcher bins. I did not know that when I bought it. I AM glad I did buy it because it'd probably be twice what I paid to catch it.

This is one of the creepiest figures I've seen so far. BUT, man, did they miss an opportunity. The white garb in which she is draped looks to be the shade of white that Glows in the Dark. BUT, this figure DOES NOT glow in the dark!

Oh well.

I dug up a post of older figure of Sadako's hand, so I'll share it here.

So I had a destination in mind when I drove back from Yamagata to Sendai, and Google Maps routed me up and down a mountain. A rather harrowing drive (mostly single lane, so one has to pull to the side for the infrequent oncoming driver. Only one A-hole who just barrelled down the slope willy nilly, without any regard for other cars. Fortunately, I escaped a head on collision. DINK!) Near the peak, was a lookout opportunity so I snapped a few pics of the escarpment.

 

That pano worked fairly well.

So my destination was a brewery that I passed yesterday but missed the turn. So I planned to go today.

 

I arrived and was so relieved I made it, I sat down for a while.

 

Then I noticed the spider!
 

 

Apparently Akiu is having a Halloween fair.

 

 

Impressive Kakashi! 

 

 

 

A nice smattering of decorations throughout the brewery.

 

 

Since I was driving, I couldn't imbibe at the location. So I picked up a few brew to go.

 

Above: best of the bunch albeit most dear.

As I type this, I'm on my fourth Great Dane brew. I must say of the above, the first was tastiest and the last was average. Alas, these are pretty expensive so I shan't be imbibing these again unless they're on sale or I'm at a party where they are free. 

Second best of the bunch was the Oktoberfest brew. I will try this again...

 Next beer: third bestest.

 

And the fourth favourite out of four.

Since we're talking about canines, (Great Danes) and I'm drinking from a lycanthropean mug, it makes sense to link to today's Monster, the Werewolf (狼男 Ookami-Otoko).

 

 

While drinking my brew, I ate my two treats from last night. Although cute looking, they turned out to be just average cakes with frosting. The Pumpkin face and Cat visage were just a plastic sheet. Rip off!

 The pumpkin is the tastier of the two.

 

While typing away last night, I watched a few animated specials:

Unfortunately, I missed the best ones and saw the tail end of Grinch Night (looked okay, but was missing Boris Karloff). The Fat Albert Halloween Special may have been pretty good when I was a kid but it sure doesn't hold up over time. The Trouble with Miss Switch (Miss Witch! Oh, now I get it.) was cute, helped immensely by June Foray as her frenemy. Claymation: Comedy of Horrors: Technically great, cool claymating, ultimately dull. Finally, Men in Black: The Jack o' Lantern Syndrome came on just as I was going to bed.

I'll watch it later. 

Tonight I was once again busy as all heck so I caught the tail end of Hausu. SO fun! 

I'm going to finish my last beer and watch another webisode of Coven Academy.

Check out fellow blogger: Alexis' 31 Days of Halloween.