Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

I'm here to announce today that I have just recently opened up two new clubs. They have the similarity of being clubs for shippers of two cartoon couplings that I support, but they are in two different places.



Today on DeviantART, I've started up ~LoudXCharity, a club for shippers of Loud Kiddington & Charity Bazaar from Warner Bros.' "Histeria!"...



...and last Friday, I started up a new Yahoo! Group for shippers of Candace Flynn & Jeremy Johnson from Disney's "Phineas and Ferb". [link]
So if anyone reading this journal entry is a shipper of either one of these two pairings, that's good news for you! Enjoy!

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Y'know what other part I can't stand? This!

If someone by the name of Alfred Hundana (dragon_heart620) wants to add you to their list, don't accept it. It's a virus. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them you will get it, too. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus. Please pass this on to everyone on your list. We need to find out who is using this account. Sorry for the inconvenience. Right click on your group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to all plz

So whatever you do. Add this name to your block list right away!

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Am I gettin' warm?
You're goin' in the right direction!

Well, that's an interesting coincidence. I posted a whole bunch of stamps just yesterday, and then it turns out that today is the day DeviantART picked to fully start up their new look for the user pages. Well, OK, that's not really notable, but I figured it was a good time for me to update the journal so that I can make note of my new club memberships. I gotta admit, even though I didn't think much of giving it a try when they were offering us to do so, I like this new look, particularly since we can now have ten gallery deviations (and favorites) linked to from our profile pages again.
But here's something I should make mention of here, especially fitting given that I've now been promoted to moderator on - my petition to have "Histeria!" released on DVD has just hit 1000 signatures! Now it should only be a matter of time before Warner Home Video gets around to giving the show the same kind of DVD sets as "Tiny Toons" and "Animaniacs"; this is something they should definitely be releasing instead of crummy single-disc releases of "Scooby-Doo" and "The Smurfs".

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You think it's time I started writing something different here with each entry?

As I write this, in just one day and a few hours, 2008 will be over. And yet, for me, it feels like just yesterday I was drawing that picture of Numbuh 2 & Numbuh 86 saying "I do."
Well, it's a bit hard for me to say this past year was truly good to me. As if it wasn't enough that Toonami and Kids' WB! both passed away this year (with the latter now only living on as a website that doesn't even really live up to its name), and Disney's announced that they're doing the same thing to Toon Disney and replacing it with Jetix Disney Disney XD next February (most likely the dwindling ratings were caused by Jetix driving the viewers away if you ask me), there's also the fact that my hard drive somehow died in June and caused me to lose a good portion of my files. And to add insult to injury, some of my YouTube videos have been removed (though I luckily managed to save them all as MP4s beforehand). Plus, it also looks like, unless they get a huge amount of money donated to them before the day after tomorrow, my favorite video game MP3 resource, Galbadia Hotel, probably won't be around anymore. But there were at least some good things to happen in the world of pop media this year, such as the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, "Tiny Toons" and "Freakazoid!" finally coming to DVD (now if they'd only hurry up and do the same for "Road Rovers" and "Histeria!", not to mention finishing "Animaniacs"...), and the addition of "Phineas and Ferb" to the Disney Channel (well, technically, the premiere was in 2007, but I missed seeing that). And as for me, I've turned out some of my best pictures this year, such as the special anniversary pictures I did for "Freakazoid!", "Animaniacs", and "Histeria!" But you probably knew that. In light of the aforementioned tragedies having already past (except of course for Toon Disney being killed and replaced), maybe 2009 will be a good year.
That said, here's what I got for Christmas:

* $100 cash, plus a $25 American Express card and a $20 Barnes and Noble gift card
* A new VCR/DVD recorder to replace the piece-o'-junk that's currently in my room
* The "Phineas and Ferb" talking plush dolls (including Perry!)
* The "Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6" DVD set (of course)
* Kirby Super Star Ultra for the Nintendo DS (and I've already gotten 100%!)
* "The Fairly OddParents: Season 6, Volume 1" DVD set
* "The Chronological Donald - Volume 4" DVD set (now I only need to get the third volume and I'll have the whole collection!)
* The DVDs of "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!" and "The Man Called Flintstone"
* The Nintendo version of Monopoly
* A MEElectronics portable media player (which I guess is like a video iPod)
* A "Histeria!" t-shirt and mouse pad! (made thanks to my dad sending the anniversary picture to WalMart.com)
* Another pair of Mario boxers
* A dartboard
* A foot massager
* An electric razor
* Some candy

Well, with this journal entry out of the way, I'll be watching "Rudolph's Shiny New Year", one of the two New Years' specials I've got, tomorrow (but not the other one I have, "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown", but that poor blockhead definitely was not having a happy new year there), and spending the day or two after that watching some selected episodes of some of my favorite cartoons (after Cartoon Network has finished the "Looney Tunes" marathon they're airing on New Year's Day), but I've still got some new pictures itching to come up. Until then, though, I've finally gotten around to writing up a new poll after almost two years without updating it. That said, Happy New Year, everybody.

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Happy Day Before Christmas, everybody!

As I write this, it's Christmas Eve, "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July" is playing on TV right now, and we'll be heading off to visit our relatives and exchange gifts in a few hours, so I might as well write up a new journal entry for the day.
I've spent the past month watching many Christmas cartoons and films; in fact, I've watched at least one every day this month, so you might say I've been having my own "25 Days of Christmas". Naturally, I managed to add a few new specials to the repertoire that I was watching (or revisited them in some cases), so I figure I might as well make mention of them here, as I did in 2004, 5, and 6. And since I didn't write something like this last year, I'll make mention of those as well. But since I probably don't have time to write up lengthy descriptions of each one or maybe don't feel like writing them, I'll just write short little comments for each one.

2007
* "Frosty's Winter Wonderland" - The original sequel to "Frosty", which has a case of recycled jokes and introduces the eponymous snowman's wife, was seen by me on ABC Family last year and on YouTube this year. I'd buy the DVD of this if I wasn't certain Warner Bros. is probably gonna release a deluxe edition in the future.
* "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July" - I woke up early and caught this on ABC Family on Christmas Eve last year and decided to watch it. And I kind of enjoyed it. Continuity freaks will like the references made to earlier specials, like the appearance of the whale from "Rudolph's Shiny New Year".
* Freakazoid!: "In Arms Way" - When I saw this on In2TV with Spanish audio in 2006, I knew I'd have to check it out in English. So I downloaded a video file of it the following year. I deleted said video file afterwards 'cause I knew I'd have it on DVD soon.
* Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: "Holiday Time" - In spite of the oddity of the fact that the characters never call the holiday by name despite how obvious it is that they're talking about Christmas, I still enjoy this simply for the scene where Zurg steals Buzz's morning newspaper.
* Timon & Pumbaa: "Don't Be Elfish" - I don't really know what to type here. I just kinda liked seeing "The Lion King"'s wisecracking duo playing mall Santa and helper so they can get the Disneyverse equivalent to the Nintendo 64.

2008
* "The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree" - Although this is now on DVD, it wasn't available at any of my local video rental stores, so I had to watch a poor-quality VHS rip on YouTube. Ah well. Still, as someone who was raised on the books, I enjoyed seeing a Christmas story with Stan & Jan Berenstain's ursine nuclear family in animated form. I still like the "Meet Santa Bear" story book better, though.
* Scooby-Doo: "The Nutcracker Scoob" - I've never been much of a "Scooby-Doo" fan, but this Christmas, I thought I'd toss the dog a bone Scooby snack and watch his original Christmas cartoon, since I had it on a tape recorded off of Cartoon Network in 2000.
* Rugrats: "The Santa Experience" - Although I ranked this in my Top 50 Christmas Cartoons, I've never really had a copy of this special of my own. Which is why I taped it off of Nicktoons Network when they aired it this year.
* "A Goof Troop Christmas: Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas" - The source of the quote in this journal's header, I taped this when Toon Disney aired it this past Saturday, for I knew it would probably be the last time it'll ever air.
* The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries: "It Happened One Night Before Christmas" - The recent DVD release of this show's first season gave me a new special to watch for Christmas. Featured here is Granny's rarely-seen brother, who happens to be Hubie and Bertie's owner, and a rare instance of Sylvester, Tweety, and Hector working together.
* The New Batman Adventures: "Holiday Knights" - The last two Christmases, I watched the first "Batman" Christmas episode, "Christmas with the Joker". This year, I decided to watch the second one as well. And I instantly recognized much of the animation from seeing them in the Kids' WB! promos.
* Chowder: "Hey Hey, It's Knishmas!" - My friend ~seconteen13 recommended I should see this, so I caught it as soon as the next time Cartoon Network aired it. And yes, I liked it. Thanks, Seconteen.

Of course, I didn't just limit myself to watching Christmas specials, decorating trees, and making many contributions to the Christmas Specials Wiki. The other night, my mom and me made some Christmas cookies like we did last year, and yesterday, I fixed up a gingerbread tree all by myself. And naturally, I've also been reading Christmas storybooks and Christmas-themed stories in my comic book collection, even Christmas strips printed in the strip collection books I've got of "Garfield", "Calvin and Hobbes", "U.S. Acres", and "FoxTrot". So yes, I pretty much have been having my own personal "25 Days of Christmas" in this room of mine. This is about all I can think of typing for now, so Merry Christmas, everyone, and again may I say, be careful of all icy patches!

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