Werewolf Wednesday!

Today has been a hectic one, what with a perilous journey to work today and a landslide alert!

 

My lesson ended at noon and the rain stopped a little later but the ride home was fraught with flooded streets. I was forced to drive through a flooded area and it did a number on my car window. I couldn't roll it back up! (Do we still use the term "roll up" for automatic windows?) ALL of the Yellow Hat service stations were closed, I can only surmise that the staff were put on flood duty. I managed to find two staff who hadn't yet departed and they helped me raise my window. Phew!

Anyway, The Countdown to Halloween  begins, click there to find participating bloggers and here for Instagrammers. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do this month, haphazard as always! Let's start with my Mandalorian Calendar entry for October. Not very spooky, Grogu rides a Blurrg.

  

I bought a cool looking book on sale, hoping to have a spooky pic a day from it. I should have inspected it more closely, it's an Oni Encyclopedia. 

 

Still, there should be enough in there for me to scam from. Werewolf Wednesday is a bust, there are no vulpine creatures in it. Best I can do is this cool Monkey Demon. 

 

The 猿鬼 Saru-Oni is from the Noto Region of the Ishikawa Prefecture and is a large monkey with a horn on its head and is unaffected by normal arrow-fire.

Fortunately, it was dispatched by Kamisugihime using a special demon decapitator.

Here's a rendition of it from the Gegege page.

 

Okay, so today's Gatcha/UFO Catcher creature IS a Werewolf, courtesy of Kaibutsu-Kun.

 

My treat today was a different canine, unfortunately it does not have ZERO calories.

 Hey, I just realized. I'm wearing a Werewolf T-Shirt today!

Today's video experience was Walking Dead starring Daryl and Carol. No Werewolves but some lovely fiery Walkers!

AND I'm going to start watching this, though I may give up soon after it starts. 

Night Carnage!

I'll let you know how it turns out.

I'll leave you with a link to Caffeinated Joe, you may find something there to your liking.

See ya tomorrow... 

Son of a Pitch!

This morning, we had a Halloween party for 70 kids. Our fearless leader, dressed up in some sports gear and asked, "Do you know who I am?" I responded, "A pitchman." then I further elaborated with Son of a Pitch." I guess I'm close enough, he's some famous rugby player playing for Japan, Michael Leech. What a sucker! Kudos to the man, he's having a THIRTIETH Anniversary party on Thursday for his string of Day Cares and Cram Schools!

The backbone of the organization, I suppose you could call her the school's Mummy, showed her true colours with her gauzed guise.

Mario also keeps things running smoothly.

Keeping the wheels turning as well is none other than WALL-E. 

The brawn of the organization is supported by two Creatures of the night. One is a Wolfman (Full Moon tonight!!) who created the games and craft in which the kids participated. 

The other a Billionaire philanthropist with a penchant for Chiroptera. 

 

(Here he is as a lad.)

Not sure what I'm doing with such a prestigious bunch, I suppose they keep me around for comic relief.

I didn't bother taking any photos of the kiddies. Picture 6 or 7 Elsas and only ONE Anna, several pumpkins, witches, two pairs of black cats and white cats, a half dozen different Pokémon characters, a few unicorns, a handful of characters that I'd never heard of, and one fairly impressive ninja gal. Only a couple of parents bothered to wear a costume, this bedraggled Dale was a highlight.

I was impressed by their rotting pumpkins.

After the party, I hooked up with a friend in Rifu and spent whatever cash I'd earned that day. (Not good at saving, natch.) I did score a Blu-Ray of An American Werewolf in London. Surprisingly, apart from this, I've never reviewed this movie. I'll watch it tomorrow, it's a full moon tonight, I don't want to take any chances.

When at Rifu, I convinced an Information clerk to snap my photo at the nearby stand. What a poser.

This monster crane is huge and though it had a few giant dinosaurs and sharks that I wouldn't mind owning, I didn't take the 500 yen risk at trying for one.

I had a couple of Misdo Halloween concoctions. Not bad.

Today's Yokai is the Hidaru-Gami, the Hunger Gods!

Here's a pretty good explanation about them. If you're going for a walk in the forest and are suddenly overcome with severe hunger pangs, these Gods may be the cause of it.

As for a Venom today, I am once again running out of choice entries from my collection. This is about the best I can do for now. If you look closely at this backpack, you can find a few Carnages and a Venom. I really need to up my game for tomorrow.

I have a day off tomorrow, which I'll probably spend watching a dozen Japanese horror movies. They're on right now, I'll probably watch Exte (Hair Extensions) before I go to bed, then get up early and watch several more.

Only two days (SOB!) left to check out the other entries at the Countdown to Halloween. Enjoy!

WwBN.

Late last night, I caught the very first Marvel TV Special featuring Werewolf By Night. I loved it from beginning to end! Without getting all spoilery, I will make a few observations. 

I liked WwBN comic when it first came out. I missed a few first appearances but read it consistently from about issue 5 onwards. Mike Ploog rules. Ploog also ruled with early Man-Thing art of which I read every issue. I also read and enjoyed the first few appearances of Ulysses Bloodstone. 

 

Those covers were scammed from the internet. Enough comics talk and back to the special.

Opening credits...AWESOME! Cameo head appearances by several famous monsters. Great fight scenes albeit a little gruesome for Marvel. I'm sure the black and white format helped. ALL the leads were wonderful. Ted looked great! 

The dude who played one of the hunters, Jovan, is Kirk R. Thatcher. He was the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV who was taken down by a Vulcanized nerve pinch. There are a few nods to Wizard of Oz in this special and Kirk also happened to direct Muppet Wizard of Oz!

Another unintentional coincidence is that Verussa Bloodstone is played by Harriet Sansom Harris. She was also Frasier's agent on his sitcom. The dog Eddie on that show was a Jack Russell Terrier. Awooo!

Nice little heads up to several (not all) the creators in the end credits.

Furthermore, I like this Special Thanks as well.

I hope there will be future TV specials and many more horror characters brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One small quibble about this show was the lack of mention of Moon Knight. Ah well, it was only 52 minutes long.

I happen to have a few items of a lycanthropic nature in my collection. Such as this Silver Bullet.

Apparently if I keep it in the freezer and then place it in shot of whiskey, it'll remain cold.

I also have another boozy item. I think it's a spout that attaches to a wine bottle so it pours slowly and grotesquely. 

I also have a large sticker, though nowhere to stick it.

No Wolfman t-shirt handy. How about a Frankenstein instead?

I've already watched two Dr. Phibes movies today and the new Scooby Doo. Yay Velma comes out! (Spoiler but Google spoiled it already.)

I probably going to watch a werewolf movie now that I've never seen before. (Ginger Snaps, maybe.)

May I suggest that you check out AEIOU and sometimes Why just to see what they've got cooking this Countdown...

Wouldn't You Like to be a Pepper Too?

I haven't posted a video clip in a while (I'm trying to cut down, it's lazy posting) but this is a good one. The "Big G" sells out...

Want to hear an interesting Dr. Pepper story? (No choice...) Back in the late 70's/ early 80's, David Naughton sang & danced his way through a bunch of ads and they were very catchy. Back in my Psychology days, I attended a workshop on "Sexism in the Media" or some such nonsense. These media watchdogs would watch commercials frame-by-frame to be sure we weren't infected by any subliminal messages. Well, they showed a reel of a whack of ads and one of them was one of these "I'm a Pepper" bits and there were a bunch of cheerleaders. Sure enough one of the cheerleaders who was being swung in the air by David was NOT wearing any panties and in their vigilance, the hawks caught it. The commercial was yanked. I raised my hand and offered an interesting tidbit for their perusal. After Mr. Naughton starred in "An American Werewolf in London" (my favourite lycanthropic flick), he was axed due to the graphic violence in the movie and the fact that he ran starkers through the zoo baring his bum. I guess the producers of Dr. Pepper aren't very good at turning the other cheek!