Here’s the last two members of our animal family. A male cat named Finnegan Floppsie but better known as “Buster” and Phoebe Meeker. We got them both from a Michigan feline rescue. We were hoping to get siblings of some kind (female/female, male/female) but Phoebe and Buster were the next best thing – they had been foster cared for in the same home. So if not actual siblings, they were at least friends before we brought them to our house. And they get along great together (except sometimes Buster gets a bit hyper and plays a little too rough). Both are super affectionate cats. Phoebe is our dairy kitty – she loves milk & cheese. Buster has a weird allergy but we don’t know to what. He’s licked the fur off his back legs, his whole stomach and parts of his front legs. This makes him look very silly. BellaBear loves them very much too. We really got lucky with this batch of pets.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Bestest Cats in the World!
Best. Decade. Ever! The 70s: We Are The Freakies!
I don't remember what Freakies cereal tasted like but I know I ate a lot of it! I still have my set of Freakies plastic figures (I even painted their eyes white and gave them other color highlights). This is a great collection of Freakies cereal commercials from the 70s. And I don't even remember Cocoa Freakies! Groovy.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Flea Market Finds: Knickerbocker Pinocchio Puppet
Just this past weekend, we went to the annual in-door flea market at McMoran's in Port Huron, MI. I seem to have good luck there and this year was definately not an exception. Besides buying a stack of comics for .25 to $1 (including many issues of DC's All Star Squadron from the 80s) and getting three Toy Biz Spider-Man Classics action figures still in the package (just like Marvel Legends) of Kraven the Hunter, Beetle & Scorpion, in the very last row of tables, I found this little guy. My eyes lite up like a kid on Christmas morning! I knew exactly who he was - Pinocchio! But not the Disney version. He's from the 1962 Videocraft series, produced by Rankin/Bass, "The New Adventures of Pinocchio." I fondly remember watching reruns of this "Ani-Magic" show on CBC Windsor Channel 9 in the 70s (along with The Friendly Giant and Mr. Dress-up). And I'm a huge Rankin/Bass fan (have to watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer every year!) Pinocchio is in excellent condition, very clean. The only problem is the finger trigger on his controller is broken off and some of his strings are fraying. Otherwise, he's in great shape and only cost $5 (that also included a Flintstone's Pebbles push button puppet). Pinoc is now proudly hanging in my comic book/tool area in the basement.
Musical Discovery of the Month: The Heavy Blinkers
From their album The Night & I Are Still So Young, which came out a few years ago, this is Canada's own The Heavy Blinkers with one of the most colorful videos around. Follow the adventures of a young cupcake as he journeys to Candy Land. Will he recover his missing cherry? Will he find true love? Hey, it's a super cute video so I bet the answer is yes to both questions! Their website is under construction but they do have a MySpace page for more info on the band.
You Know You're a Star Wars Geek When...
You know you're a Star Wars geek when you refer to spoiling food as "turning to the Dark Side."
