Ok..Greetings, Fans........Cassandra the Damsel of Doom, here- talking to you from my home away from -well, these two- until now, anyway. Welcome to the Pummeled Pomagranate ..... "the" Underground club for the ultimate hip, cool Goths making the scene. Sit down, relax, have a cup of juice, groove to the beat but don't bogart the vibes. {Whatever the hell that means}....Pluck your lyre,talk about anything you want...feel free to improvise....just one thing though...... if you DO leave....Take me With YOU????!!!!!!
I think we should just aim Disney and their 70000 lawyers at the Middle East.Who needs Apache helicopters???? should be over in a week.
And on that same note, I always wondered, instead of billions of dollars being spent on fighting famine in Africa, why don't they just open up a bunch of Mcdonalds?????
But...I was just told by a friend that the show was just pulled....so either Disney has very long arms or the reporting of the show brought it's idiocy to light and even the fundamentalists are starting to realize it was making them look bad on the world stage.Theres a big difference betwwen feeling strongly about your rights and your boundaries and announcing that Allah WANTS all Jews murdered. Of course, this is nothing we Christians were'nt doing 800 years ago.....the Muslims just have tio catch up with the times.
This is a little movie My sister made in 2004. I do the voice of the Narrator, as well and playing Joseph Stalin, and Mussolini's Hand...It's good Times...
so do I. If you think about it, they really had a very brief Rennaissance...
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....they were superlatively beautiful and well done up through WW2....then they started to falter as prices skyrocketed and short cuts had to be found....they got cheaper and less artistic as the 60s and 70s wore on.....and Lil mermaid turned it all around. For about 10 years you had a lot of brilliant stuff burst out on the scene{and I include so called bombs like Hercules, El Dorado and Iron Giant}as well as legitamate dogs{Looney Toons Back in Action, Osmosis Jones, Spririt of Cimaroon{shudder} and wow!!! poof!!! all gone!!! no one has the nerve to create any more 2D cause there've just been too many diappointments and the prices are so high to make one. I guess thats part of the Herc sequel problem.....if Herc cost 60 million and Home on Range cost 170{supposedly} you can imagine how expensive it would be to do it today.
Im officially tired of CGI....it all looks the same to me and even brilliant Pixar let me down with Cars which almost put me in a coma.
It was a heck of a lot better then Happy Feet...which SHOULD NOT HAVE WON THE OSCAR!!! I want 2 D nback man...it has more of a Soul. Meet the Robinsons was amazing though...
It's cute but it's trying to teach us something like Ferngully (sp?) did. And as facinating that is to a little kid as an older individual it's a bit like getting beat over the head about an issue.
I liked Ferngully when I was little. Saw it a few months back again and realized it wasn't nearly as great as I'd remembered it. Which is sort of sad actually.
I feel happy feet will have a same reaction in a few years.
Cars... not Pixar's best but for cheap entertianment not so bad. If anything the short was better than the movie. But that's because I love music and I'm biased in that sense... and slapstick is always fun.
Cars felt formulaic...which made sense because it was about formula cars!!!!!!
by Tara (no login)
gorgeous to look at....but the wit of Monsters Toy and Nemo was lacking. Also, to be honest I hate cars in general. Not to ride in,theyre good for that....but as characters. Tow Mater I just hated, he was such an idiot.Maybe because he looks like every other person here in NJ.Happy Feet flew...or swam....literally on the adorableness of the penguin chicks and the Baby Boomer sound track aimes directly at us parents. Take that away and you have one poorly written hodge podge of a movie with a confusing plot and no real oneliners to remember{although the sea lion atatck was impressive,I thought} and Robin Williams performance was embarrassingly inadequate}
we will call you when were on the road first thing, Im eating Swedish meatballs at the moment!!! we hopefully will be there by 10, definately by 12. I think we need to make reservations so Ill call tomorrow to make sure.
Today was amazing, it was so wonderful to finally meet you and Alex!! Even though our car ride was somewhat spazztastic it was definitely worth it for F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S Hillwood lol (my friends LOVE those green badges, by the way). I really appreciate all the treats, from the tickets to lunch to Cold Stone and I hope to see you all again really soon!! xoxo
Your welcome!!!! well yeah, we had a lot of fun too, and we have learned many things...Washingtons one way streets are hopelessly f%%$#$ up, and NEVER buy tuna fish sandwiches at Hillwood.But it was a wonderful dy, and youre just as nice as I thought you might be.
My only slight disappointment was that the presentation was less....museum-y than I expected....there were not as many intimate personal articles as I had been led to expect{ie, clothing, diaries, toys,}and there was little or no provenance attached to what we did see. Hate to sound like my own didactic self{well, no actually I dont} but for someone who had the amazing and unique opportunity to see and be in and witness Russia in the 1930s....not 25 years after the Revolution.... this Post gal did'nt exactly bother her pretty little head with unnessessary details. This is not a museum...it's the personal collection of sparkly things of Marjorie Merriweather "BOY AM I RICH AND YER NOT" Post.Like I said, I tend to want to view things that can tell you about the people, the times, the tradgedies.That sure doesnt fill the bill, but as I suspect that place is a mecca of old lady bus tours they dont want to overthink the deal. Its a pretty place to be, and that's that.And if you have a basic knowledge of the times youre OK...After a visit to a place like that Jim always sides with the Bolsheviks.
Did you hear there was some desire over in Russia to have the Royal Family reburied and dubbed martyrs????Hows that for short term memory.
But everything was so...shiny!!! Lol and sparkly!!! I couldn't help being a giddy little girl But ol' Marjorie seemed like a show off "richer-than-thou" type for sure. I think I did hear that thing about reburying the Romanovs, but I thought the bodies were burned...? I think they ended up identifying the bones (or ashes, I don't remember) of Alexei and Anastasia in the nineties, I feel like I watched a movie about it in highschool.
And there's the big History final tomorrow, and I'm actually kinda excited to take it, does that make me a nerd? Most likely, but I'm proud dammit!! Oh, this relates because it covers the fall of the tsars, the Bolsheviks (including my boy Trotsky!) and all those goodies haha
...and tried to burn them but the Red Army was incompetant{to paraphrase Ares...."yer So good at murder but So bad at body disposal"}...it appears they did have skulls and femurs and all that left over and lying around and doubtless you know that there are eye teeth of saints that whole cathrdrals have been built in honor of, so the amount of protein left over by the Romanovs could really get the Catholics hopping. There's only one problem. Theyre not martyrs, they're murder victims, and tragic as the death of their children was, the parents had it coming in Russian spades.
I want to take that up but I'm real busy... we'll see. We'll see... if I have a bit of down time what happens. That would actually be fun to marker render by hand... :D
.then they could visit{Id clear all the hollowed out cat heads from under the couch} and teach me how to color and wow!!! then youd see something!!!I can color real primatively, just filling in the colors....but i can shade too well. Sometimes I cheat by coloring and playing with the craquler filter to make it look :"ancient", that kinda works.
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I just looked up tutorials and taught myself. It's mediocure but it works I think. In no way am I like the animation majors here (at least the ones that can draw) but it kills sometime when I have time to kill. Which is sparing these days.
Kat re the kids.....how much do ya trust me???{Hades grin}
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send it and Ill make you all the copies ya want!!!...Ill make you copies of...I dont know...{God the Devil and Bob??? French Stewart and ALan Cumming??}
Maybe the Black Adder series with Rowna Atkinson??? pretty funny stuff and very herkish??!!
Ill send you something cool back. Are you a Blackadder fan??? want a copy of Funny thing happened on the way to the forum????
.....can I get you interested in I Claudius????
........I always wanetd to do a site....I Claudius For Dummies.Hosted by the Herc chars. { My my..just HOW many copyrights would I be hurling down on the ground and doing the Mexican hat dance on????}No but really, there are these weird paralleles....if you dont mind a stretch or two. Claudius is not a divine, magically strong adorable teen hero, but he is part of a large dysfunctional royal family all of whom see him as a clumsy idiot due to his club foot and polio when he was 3{"That boy could wreck the Empire by just taking a stroll through it!!"}.....The Emperor Augustus is a lot like Zeus...wise, loving kind avuncular but easily irked by pissy problems he doesnt want to deal with.He wants everyone to be happy, and like Zeus, hes frequently not too bright at seeing evil plans afoot, cause hes essentially too nice to suspect anyone, especially a family member. Hades would adore Livia,The Emperors wife who cunningly poisons everyone she can.....even to smearing poison on the figs while theyre still on the tree{Cue Hades...."Babe, I'm *impressed!!!!!*"} Claudiuse's best pal is King Herod, King of the Jews, a happy go lucky rascal who always has an Icarus-like wisecrack to offer....Caligula reminds me a lil of Adonis, he is insanely vain, spoiled and debauched....well you get the picture.....its a good series, it really is. Of course its very soap opera like....you have to be wayyyy into serios dialogue to enjoy it.
Some time ago we had a disgreement about rap....and although there may be ....what passes for positive rap out there.....it seems that most people see it as a negative influence. Go figure.
It's been too long since I've come on here! It's been on the back of my mind for a long while I've simply been to busy. I could show you what I've been busy with but I fear boring you with endless assignments that involve creating full advertisement campaigns, surreal photomanipulation, cd covers, magazine layouts... the list really goes on and on.
I've officially reached the higher level classes for my college and it's proving to be quite time consuming.
But really I just stopped in to say hi! and that I haven't abandonned you all. I have finished art stuff for you too to give but sadly I have not got it with me.
Oh and my net has been down for 4? months... that's another reason for the vanishing act.
Anyway. Done going on about why I've been missing.
.....people have been dropping in here on and off for 8 years now...Ive literally seen kids from middle school graduating college, and of course,the older they are, the busier!!! glad youre doing well, and we look forward to anything you'd like to contribute. The doors always open, the fig smoothies always cold!!!
I honestly dont have the time I had for my site any more.....my kids are no longer little,so I dont have that big an excuse to watch toons any more{and they yanked the show AGAIN!!!} and these days Ive gone from babysitter and chief cook and bottle washer to full time chauffer....."Mom can I have a ride???"...I'm starting to dream those words.We're much better off financially so we're doing a lot of work on the house and garden, as we speak Im getting my floor scraped, the front of the house is getting power washed, the bathroom is getting upgraded, a million things to do in the yard, I'm starting to look into the college situation for Gillian and group home possibilities for Alex {which I admit is pretty tough to face up to, cue Icarus screaming}Im not good with large stacks of paper and many numbers....so I do a lot of shuffling.....Im down in Philly to help my sister out with her husband who hads Alzheimers disease and is getting worse and just took the car out for a spin in the backyard, crashed into a tree, and my mom wants to takes us all on a cruise to Alaska.
So...Im amazed I still have time for the site, except that I do have a touch of insomnia{surprise surprise} and I find tinkering with Adobe and Dreamweaver very relaxing. Its like knitting, except that instead of a scarf no one wants I have a website for a toon no one wants. Lol...except US!!!!
I think you should update once a month like I do, and just have one big fat juicy update at a time, updating evey day or every week is too time consuming. Let em wait!!! youve got the market cornered!!!
By the way, congratuations on your promotion, that's wonderful news.
I think the more life starts getting more life-like (ha... my English skills rock!) I'm beginning to understand my sisters Peter Pan complex. And I've officially reached that 10 year thing where I really miss the 90's and being 12... it's sad.
But I'm enjoying myself over all. And being busy isn't all that bad.
I can beat that!!! I miss the 70s!!!! ....man, you know yer getting old when you see lava lamps in antique stores!!!!...but age is a frame of mind....it really is.And evey era of your life comes with huge joys and,well, some losess....but I noticed it gets sweeter all the time.
I had an odd memeory just now.........I remember the first time my daughter saw a dead seagull on the beach when she was very little, and I was wondering how she'd react{some moms rush ahead and hide dead critters so the kid wont cry} But I let her look at the bird and was standing by to field questions or tears. I got neither.
"Don't you want to know what happened to the poor seagull??" I asked her.
She shrugged. "It's OK, Mommy I know it died. That's just part of the Bicycle Of Life."
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FOX Pilot Employs 'Dreadful' Voices
Kattan, Stewart and Roberts start the cast
December 6, 2006
Chris KattanProducers of "Two Dreadful Children" think they've found some funny people to lend their voices to their animated FOX pilot.
Or, at the very least, they've hired French Stewart and Chris Kattan.
Dave Hemingson ("Kitchen Confidential") is producing the pilot presentation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the enlightened series focuses on a family of rednecks who discover that their fraternal twins are geniuses.
Kattan and Stewart will voice the family's neighbors, with Meredith Roberts ("Help Me Help You") voicing one of the twins.
In addition to his long run on "Saturday Night Live," Kattan has built a feature film resume that includes "Corky Romano," "A Night at the Roxbury" and the upcoming telefilm "The Year Without Santa Claus."
As for Stewart, the "3rd Rock From the Sun" vet will next be seen in the Hallmark Channel original "Pandemic."
I think he's a riot, and really hope he catches a break soon. Hes done a lot of things, but nothing ever seems to get to where I can see it. Theres this .....dimension where all French Stewart stuff goes to, and its never seen again.
You know what almost made me cry...reading that list of all of the Actors who guest starred on Herc...but the eps never got aired. WHY?! I would give three of my four limbs to see all of them finished. I would give all four...but I need to be able to send my letter for Operation Olive on the 27 of June...
