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!
Yoshifusa Utagawa etched this of Kiyomori at the Nunobiki Waterfall.
Along the same lines, Kuniyoshi painted this rendition of Kiyomori visiting the Nunobiki Waterfall whereupon Nanba no Jiro is struck down by the ghost of Akugenda Yoshihira.
I need a segue to tonight's movie now. How about William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress about his final days in the insane asylum at Bethlam Hospital (Bedlam)?
It's a pretty lousy segue yet it does allow me to speak of the movie I watched tonight called Bedlam. This 1946 gem stars Boris Karloff as the Head Physician of the Bedlam Asylum, offering those with a tuppence to view his loonies. Billy House as the wealthy Mortimer and Anna Lee as Nell, the gal who takes pity on the inhabitants stand out.
Most surprising to me is seeing the immortal Ian Wolfe as the Greatest Lawyer (also a Loonie). He was ancient in this movie and barely aged twenty years later when he was Septimus and Mr. Atoz in two episodes of Star Trek. 15 years, later he looked exactly the same age as Hirsch, Mrs. Carlson's butler on WKRP.
Not very much Halloweeny stuff going on so far, so here is a Bearbrick of The Phantom of the Paradise!
(Hey! I just figured out why it was so cheap. It's missing a hand!)
To top it off, I have some chocolates that I have yet to consume featuring Jack and the gang.
I'll end tonight with a Kana-Hebi (Grass Lizard) that one of my Grade 3 kids proudly showed off for me.
I went to my weekly card game on Friday as per usual, only this time instead of driving, I brought a six-pack of Corona.
I bought this cool bucket and as a bonus, it came with 6 beers! Afterwards, I went out with a friend and ended up at Karaoke until 5:50 a.m. when the first subway started. Needless to say, I took the day off from blogging yesterday. Besides, it was rainy and gloomy. I did watch the new Syfy show, Day of the Dead, before bed. Kind of cheesy writing with some truly unlikeable characters but the zombie makeup was fairly well done.
I also watched Elvira's Haunted Hills. Good mindless fun.
For lunch today, I had a package of ZomRamen.
Unfortunately, one only gets the purple noodles, one needs to add the eyeballs and veggies and any other desired ingredients.
I thought it'd be best to serve it in a Jack bowl.
Here it is in all its purplish yumminess.
Hey, it comes with a ZomBear comic!
I'll sample the other two packages of ZomRamen in coming weeks.
Not much else going on today so I decided to go climb a mountain...
This video shows the beginning of my journey:
And the actual trek:
It wasn't quite as strenuous trek as I thought it might be.
The translation to the above is as follows:
Japan's lowest
mountain "Hiyoriyama" Hiyoriyama is 3.0m above sea level, and
according to a survey by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan in April
2014, it is widely known as "the lowest mountain in Japan". became.
It used to be 6.05m above sea level. It is 40m north-south and 20m east-west,
and has a good view of the sea side. It is known as a famous place for the
first sunrise of the year.
Every year on July
1st, the "Mountain Question of Mt. Hiwa" is held to coincide with the
opening of Mt. Fuji, which is the highest in Japan. .. The beginning is said to
be an artificial mountain that was adored mainly by locals in 1902, and it was
adored for the purpose of observing the sea (day-to-day) and making it a
landmark from the sea side. In addition, when the Ofunairibori (now Sadayama
Canal) was opened during the Kanbun period (Edo period), earth and sand were
piled up, and a fish farm was opened in the Taisho period. There are various
theories such as the accumulation of earth and sand when doing so.
In 1991 (1991 AD),
it became "the lowest mountain in Japan" in a survey by the
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, but after that, in 1997 (1997 AD),
it was handed over to Tempozan (Osaka City). rice field. However, due to the
effects of land subsidence caused by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku
Earthquake (Great East Japan Earthquake) and erosion caused by the tsunami, it
became the "lowest mountain in Japan" again. rice field. Ten years
have passed since the disaster, and many people have come to visit again, but
from now on, it is also a mountain that plays an important role of
"passing on the scars of the disaster to posterity."
Traditional Hill
Preservation Society.
(Sorry for the Google translation and the blue background.)
Here are a couple of shots of the ocean. First a couple of pano shots.
And a couple of wading birds off in the distance.
After the beach, I drove along for a bit and discovered a mini-shrine at the side of the road parallel to the river. Undoubtedly it was a tribute to the tsunami of a decade ago.
I like the juxtaposition of the pre-tsunami guardian lions and the recent re-sculpts.
And we have a kick-ass sky in the background.
En route home, I passed a large Garden Centre that I'd always intended of visiting. And it has DINOSAURS!!
There are a few other animals on display (all part of a competition).
I was hoping I'd be able to buy a pumpkin. I haven't seen them for sale anywhere!
These were not for sale. There were a couple of those mini pumpkin-shaped gourds as I came in but the place was closed at 4:30. I did manage to snap some bushes that were in costume.
And some final shots of the sky...
Finally I popped into a BookOff near my home and grabbed a pair of Maleficent Qs.
Finally, here is the t-shirt I wore today, courtesy of LootCrate.
