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There are new cartoons for kids that are ripping on our childhood. For instance, there is a new Voltron cartoon out. I hate to be the to say this, but it isn’t half bad. Take into consideration that Voltron was monster of the day that the Lion force had to battle with the same formula. This new one takes the multi-arc strategy to storytelling.
Plus they added kids.
I know, I know. Fucking kids. Yes, they have kids. This isn’t for you or me, it’s for children and this is their Robin. A way to view the show’s continuity from a relatable point of view. Voltron is pushing three decades. Most kids haven’t heard of Voltron unless their parents introduced it to them. It would be their gateway drug like it was for most of us into Anime.
My six year old has watched the show from Netflix & Hulu. He knows the show. He’s familiar enough with the show to starting humming the theme on occasion and then start the transformation chant. You can expect that someone with a background of the show, he’s want more of the same. Reject change and just want the show to be the same damn thing over and over again. He likes the new one too.
It’s easy enough for him to get and plot lines are pretty simple. There are two sets of bad guys now. Lotor and Galaxy Alliance both want Voltron destroyed. Both for different reasons. One for a simple reason & the other for a reason that made Lotor’s seem nobel.
There is an upgrade to all the tech in the show. New deux ex machina devices for all the cast members. The lions all retain their look with some rendering. But the space of the cabin areas does seem too great. Minor quibble, this is Nicktoons so there is a budget and there will be recycling in a way that the Japanese will call excessive.
But really my six year old likes the show. Even the music. We’ll see how long that last.
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Here we are on campus as Spring Fling looms and the people who run the Spring Fling have placed a SuperSlide on the Mall.
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Another panel is underway, but this is all I’m going to show, because it’s late here in Tucson and I want some sleep before the kittens wake me up at 6 am. Which I might actually get up and start to draw some more. I’ve missed this sensation of creation.
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It’s about damn time that I started on a comic. Here’s the first panel.
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I’ve been purchasing things for my boys for a while now for Christmas. I learned after a while that leaving everything until the last possible moment is a bad idea. Last year I had fun and went a month early, even did Black Friday and did 32 hours of uptime after a large dose of turkey. This year I started further back and just have gone forward with no hint of trying to do Black Friday.
It’s been a combination of eBay and early hits at stores with one Craig’s List for godo measure. Outside what we still ned to get for Kid A, Kid B was sorta cheap.
This is the latest acquisition for Kid B, two Republic Gunships from Star Wars. It was a lucky purchase since normally these things are hella expensive, the listing was ‘Gun Ship’ and not ‘gunship.’ This slight error made it so there wasn’t a ton of people bidding on this item.
Four hours before, I had a bid on another gunship and that one settled at $70. A couple days before that one stopped at $120. All of a sudden, 2 for $61 was the sale of the century. Here is a photo of what they look like. Once everything is has been sent in, I’ll be taking photos of everything. It will be a nice list of goodies.
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When the Oatmeal talked about what things never need to be photographed, one of them was the idea that you don’t really need to take a photo of yourself in the bathroom. I have a slight disagreement with that. Back when I was working in Phoenix making greeting cards, I was able to make my own. I had an image on the front and one on the back. This is the one on the back. It might possibly be one of the few images that I really like of myself. Maybe it’s the absurdity of it image. Or the fact that I sent it out as part of my Holiday cards that year.
I got your lump of coal right here.
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When I was at the ACE Hardware getting glass and I see this magnificent pipe wrench that was three feet in height. I can only imagine how many people need a wrench that’s this large.
FYI: It’s $300.
Pipe wrenches
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Stare at the center for 30 seconds. A good hard stare at the center. Then immediately whip your head and look at your hand. You might want to hold up your hand and look at it.
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I purchased a car on 10.10.10. This is my first ME car in nearly 7 years now. The last one died on 12.24.03. It’s taken me a while to get a new one, but the price of this car in comparison to the shuttle ride is just insane. I’d be better off just driving back and forth. It has two things that I couldn’t live without, a/c and fuel economy.
It was either this car or an Ford Ranger previous owner sold after they collected enough Marlboro Miles for the a pimped out Ford F-350. It reeked for cigarettes. It was odd because, my dad, he smokes heavily and it smelled stronger in that truck then it did in his house.
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