Kabochachacha.

I'm going out tonight and won't be back until after midnight. So a quickie post of some kiddie's pumpkin drawings.

That's the happiest carnivoristic pumpkin I've ever seen.

Pumped Pumpkin!

So few students add any English to their pictures.

Adorbs.*

*Please shoot me if I ever use the term Adorbs again.

Quietest gal in the classroom sure is talented.

Yay. Venom.

So few students do anything apart from their pumpkins that I need to promote those who do.

YAY! Chainsaw man and Puchita!

A couple of old costumes showed up in My Facebook Memories. I should gather these all up in a single album someday. I'm a driftnet. I ended up giving away half of my fish to the kids in the bar and to the gals who wanted one.

Hulk smash puny Vampire!

Anyone want a Harry T?

Get Outta here.

Tons of movie reviews over at The Manhole Cover and spooky comics at The Horrors of it All.

That's it for tonight. I'll leave you with a pic I scammed from the net of the Creature.

A Pretty Good Friday.

Not a Great Friday, just a pretty Good one. I spent a few hours going through two boxes of Simpsons goodies, most of which I'd forgotten I had. I'll start with my favourite find, some Burger King toys from 2002. (You can pick up your own set here. Darn, only 19.99$? I was hoping they'd be worth more.)

I'll go in order that the episodes were aired, so I need to start with an episode called, "Hungry are the Damned", in which Kodos or Kang decide to chow down on humans in a tribute to the Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man". Here is Part 1, you can find the rest yourself...

As you can see, the TV screen shifts from the title to a scene from the show.

Wait a sec, that isn't the same episode as above. Okay, this is going to be tougher than it looks.

In that case, I'll just choose figures at random and comment when I can.

Such as, "King Homer" from Season 4.

Observe that though Homer is monochromatic as was the original King Kong, Marge's hair is clearly blue.

Another Kaiju related one is Bart donning a Godzilla-esque outfit.

Oh, it looks like Bart is getting all destructive, but it's only to piss off his sister.

I added in a back shot so you can see it's a costume.

Hmm. There doesn't seem to be an accompanying episode. It isn't the one where the Simpsons go to Japan (my fave!). The most similar would be from an NES Game. (Sheesh.)



There we go, Ned as a werewolf.

Though the episode is entitled, "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily Did" is an obvious reference to a certain Summer movie, the writers changed him into lycanthrope for kicks.



Okay, Otto as a zombie?

Or is he just chilling with some ghosts. I'm not sure.

Ah well, here's some zombie action for you.



Marge as The Bride.

Though Marge's hairdo is an obvious spoof of Elsa Lanchester's coiffure from The Bride of Frankenstein, there isn't a specific Marge as the Bride clip. Rather, here is Homer in a Frankensteinian episode.



Professer Frink turns invisible, man.

Once again, no corresponding episode. There have been Frink Horror episodes, but not one where he vanishes. So instead, I'll give you the inspiration for Frink, the Jekyll/Hyde spoof, The Nutty Professor. (And NO, not the one with Eddie Murphy.)



Well, speaking of Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Hibbert undergoes a transformation.

Nope, the episode is Hyding from me. (teehee) Instead, we'll show a favourite episode...

But Michael, this is anachronistic, it came out after the Burger King toys were issued.
Quiet you!



Finally (because this took a hell of a lot longer than I expected it would), it's our favourite groundskeeper, Willie as The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

Fashion faux pas, don't put flippers on all your limbs!

Nope, no episode, instead here's a Trick or Treat. The original BK commercial advertising these figures!



Tomorrow (unless I find something else to post instead) will be more Simpsons' figures and toys but with a lot less commentary.

The Asset.

Yay! Kudos to The Shape of Water (SofW from here on in) for taking home four Oscars. Here is a deleted scene from the movie where the Amphibian Man aids an injured Pepsiman.

I saw the movie last Friday and wish they had kept this scene. Here is the flyer for the film.

   

Biggest disappointment would have to be that there were NO goods to be bought, not even a Clear File! Good news that it won Best Picture, Director, Production Design, and Original Score. Bad news that none of its actors won awards and that it was snubbed for Best Makeup.

Best Picture: Of the 9 nominated, I've seen Dunkirk, Get Out and SofW. The others have yet to be released in Japan so I can't really comment on them.

Best Actor: Yay to Gary Oldman for finally winning. Too bad to Daniel Kaluuya for his great performance in Get Out.

Best Actress: Frances McDormand can do no wrong, so no surprise here. Too bad to Sally Hawkins in SofW.

Best Supporting Actor in a Supporting Role: Richard Jenkins was great in SofW and it would be nice to see fellow Canuck, Christopher Plummer win another. I'm certain Sam Rockwell is deserving though even if he did edge out costar Woody.

Best Supporting Actress in a Supporting Role: Apart from the sassy Octavia Spencer, I can't really comment on the others cuz I know nothin' about their performances.

Best Animated Feature: I'm certain Coco is great and I look forward to seeing it when it's released here. But since it'll inevitably be dubbed only, hopefully it'll be on the flight home in a few weeks. I am just SO pleased that Boss Baby didn't win. Though I must say, the stickers are popular among my students.

Best Cinematography: I am not disappointed that Blade Runner 2049 won. That is all.

Best Costume Design: Of these choices, I'd only seen Beauty and the Beast (meh) and SofW. Phantom Thread? What's that all about?

Best Directing: Woohoo! Guillermo del Toro won. Say no more.

Best Documentary (Feature and Short): I know nada about them so I'll say nada about them.

Best Film Editing: No complaints about Dunkirk, it was great though I would have liked to see Baby Driver get a nod.

Best Foreign Language Film: I know nada about them so I'll say nada about them.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: When did Hairstyling get added to this category? About the same time that monster designs stopped getting nominated thus I am thoroughly annoyed that SofW was snubbed. That being said, kudos to Kazuhiro Tsuji for his Makeup on transforming Oldman into Churchill.

Best Music (Original Score): No complaints with SofW winning this one. John Williams has enough Oscars.

Best Music (Original Song): Get ready for Remember Me to be the new Let It Go!

Best Production Design: All good choices but way to go to SofW.

Best Short Film (Animated): I am angry that Revolting Rhymes didn't win. Nice to see that an alleged rapist won instead. (Sarcasm alert!)

Best Short Film (Live Action): I know nada about them so I'll say nada about them.

Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing: Dunkirk sounded great.

Best Visual Effects: Quite frankly, I think all of these movies would be deserving recipients though Kong or Apes should have edged out the others.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Dang, it would have been so cool for Logan to have won. Alas. Maybe Black Panther can win next year.

Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Woohoo Get out of here, Get Out got it out of here!

Over the next few days, I hope to see some of the speeches on YouTube. Let me know if there are any I should definitely keep an eye out for. So far the only one I've seen is the In Memoriam clip and I was very pleased that Haruo Nakajima (Godzilla suit actor) made the cut.