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What is the deal with Charlie Brown's teacher making him read War and Peace during Christmas vacation? Did she honestly want to ruin Christmas for him?

In a few short hours, it'll be the end of 2009 and the end of this decade. Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in the new millennium! Anyway, as always, here is my last of the few journal entry I have written this year. First thing to bring up: the obligatory listing of what I received for Christmas.

* A Nintendo DSi (Mario edition!)
* New Super Mario Bros. Wii (and its strategy guide)
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up for the Wii
* The Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story strategy guide (I had to buy the game myself later)
* Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street
* The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals
* Phineas and Ferb: My Funny Valentine
* The "Peanuts" 1960s and 1970s DVD collections
* A "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" wall calendar
* Some ornaments to hang on next year's Christmas tree
* A new Snoopy Christmas decoration
* A rather sucky computer keyboard that I hope to replace soon
* A Saints shirt and Fred Flintstone sleeping pants
* Gift cards at Barnes & Noble and Chili's
* A box of mint chocolates

Now then, remember how about a year ago, I said in my journal that I'd hoped that 2009 would be a good year? Well, I'd have to say I turned out to be wrong about that. :( For one thing, as if it wasn't enough that Disney decided to disregard their vault of TV cartoons by killing Toon Disney, Nickelodeon also lost my respect by airing a certain three-part special, whose title I won't mention, in which they basically sank the wrong ship in favor of the one that should have sunk. And of course, there were probably more celebrity deaths this year than in the past few years combined (the King of Pop and the voices of Mickey Mouse and Mario being the most shocking to me). True, there was some good things that happened this year, such as the Looney Tunes finally returning to Cartoon Network, and it was definitely cool to see Phineas and Ferb joining Scrooge McDuck and Buzz Lightyear at the Disney Parks Christmas Parade, but I can pretty much agree with :iconoctoberbride: in saying this, the last year of the 2000s, was the suckiest year of the decade. (In a piece of irony, I seem to recall 1999 as being my fondest-remembered year of the 1990s.) That said, let's say goodbye to this miserable year of celebrity deaths and hope 2010 will be much better. Happy New Decade, everyone!

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"Ah, Christmas! Time for Mama Luigi and his prancing reinbear!"
"That's Santa Claus to you!"

Well folks, Christmas Eve is here once again, and in just a few hours, me and my folks will be heading off to exchange gifts with our friends and family as we always do. Partly due to time constraints, I don't really have much to say in giving comments on the new Christmas specials I added to my viewing collection this year. The specials in question are this year's "Merry Madagascar", "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!", and "Prep & Landing", and from last year, "Dick Daring's All-Star Holiday Stunt Spectacular 5" (the Christmas episode of "The Replacements"). Suffice to say, though, I pretty much enjoyed all four of those, so I'll definitely be watching them again in the coming years. In fact, I can definitely say "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!" is already in my Top 5 favorite Christmas specials, right between "A Muppet Family Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas". What I can say, though, is that given all the promotion Disney gave to both it and "Prep and Landing" and talking about how they wanted to make both of them holiday classics, I'm tempted to start a poll asking which one the fans think was better. Personally, as you can tell from what I just said about my top five, I'm leaning towards "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!" myself, but rest assured, I thought "Prep and Landing" was really nice too.
That said, let me tell you folks about something I probably should've mentioned earlier but for some reason didn't.



During the night of December 4th, we got a brief snowfall. I managed to go out in this snowfall for a little bit to enjoy it, taking several pictures of it and writing "Ferb ♥ Gretchen" on our car's snow-covered windshield. Sadly, it was nowhere near as big as the winter wonderland we got last year, but given where I live, any snowfall around here is still worth talking about.



Now that I've gotten this written, it's time for me to get back to my annual holiday business of watching Christmas specials and exchanging presents. But as I've frequently said in reply to the comments I've gotten on A PxI and FxG Mistletoe Pic, Mario Merry Madagascar Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

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Well, here's a present from me anyway. Hope it fits.

With the holiday season upon us, it is once again time for me to bring up my webcam of stacked-together screenshots from Christmas cartoons. I apologize for the fact that it has arrived a little late this year. I wanted to wait until I had recorded both "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!" and "Prep and Landing" (on the same DVD+RW, no less), so I could add them in. But problems with my computer this week put a damper in those plans, so I couldn't get this thing ready to put up till tonight. But hey, at least that screenshot of Michigan J. Frog with a snow-covered Kids' WB! logo made a nice placeholder, didn't it?
Suffice to say, this is probably the best version of this Christmasy webcam of mine yet. In fact, as the title of this journal says, I did quite a bit of revamping to the webcam this year. For one thing, this year I decided to make the picture as a PNG to preserve the crispness of the image. (However, due to problems with Imageshack, the full-sized version is still a JPEG.) Also, as I did back in 2007, I decided to completely change the order of the screenshots, now putting some of the classics up at the top (in fact, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "The Little Drummer Boy" are now in the opposite of the spots they used to have here!). This led to me redoing the pattern with the screenshots of Christmas specials set in the Looney Tunes Extended Universe, as you may notice. Of course, another good thing to go with revamping the order was to add in screenshots from "A Muppet Family Christmas", "A Goof Troop Christmas", and more specials that I didn't get to put in previously, besides this year's aforementioned new Disney specials. And there are a bit of new additions to the webcam this year. Last year's webcam had 58 screenshots; this one has 72. And besides adding in more specials, I also used new screenshots for "A Very CatDog Christmas" and "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol", and replaced the "Christmas Flintstone" screenshot with one from "A Flintstone Christmas" (they pretty much uses the same basic plot, anyway). As before, let me list the specials featured in this webcam, highlighting the new additions and allowing you to check the lists from 2006 and 2007 for comparison.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965)
"The Town Santa Forgot" (1993)
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1966)
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964)
NEW! "A Muppet Family Christmas" (1987)
NEW! "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!" (2009)
"Rocko's Modern Christmas!: Can't Squeeze Cheer From a Cheese Log" (1994)
"A Garfield Christmas Special" (1987)
"Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales" (1978)
"The SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas Special" (2000)
The Fairly OddParents!: "Christmas Every Day!" (2001)
"Pluto's Christmas Tree" (1952)
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: "Koopa Klaus" (1989)
"It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special" (1992)
Rugrats: "Babies in Toyland" (2002)
NEW! "A Flintstone Christmas" (1977)
NEW! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "The Christmas Aliens" (2004)
ChalkZone: "When Santas Collide" (2004)
Animaniacs: "'Twas the Day Before Christmas" (1993)
"Shrek the Halls" (2007)
"Doug's Christmas Story" (1993)
"Frosty the Snowman" (1969)
"Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too" (1991)
"A Very CatDog Christmas" (1999)
The Powerpuff Girls: "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas" (2003)
As Told By Ginger: "An 'Even Steven' Holiday Special" (2001)
Rocket Power: "A Rocket X-mas" (2003)
"A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" (1995)
TaleSpin: "A Jolly Molly Christmas" (1990)
"Arnold's Christmas" (1996)
"Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas" (1992)
Darkwing Duck: "It's a Wonderful Leaf" (1991)
NEW! "A Goof Troop Christmas: Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas" (1993)
Donkey Kong Country: "The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights" (1999)
Earthworm Jim: "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls" (1996)
Bonkers: "Miracle at the 34th Precinct" (1993)
Freakazoid!: "In Arms Way" (1995)
"The Year Without a Santa Claus" (1974)
NEW! "Merry Madagascar" (2009)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: "Holly Jolly Jimmy" (2003)
Danny Phantom: "The Fright Before Christmas!" (2005)
Kim Possible: "A Very Possible Christmas" (2003)
"He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special" (1985)
"A Chipmunk Christmas" (1981)
"A Johnny Bravo Christmas" (2001)
Invader Zim: "The Most Horrible Xmas Ever" (2002)
The Ren & Stimpy Show: "A Scooter For Yaksmas" (1995)
"Yogi's First Christmas" (1980)
Teamo Supremo: "Happy Holidays, Mr. Gruff!" (2002)
Histeria!: "The American Revolution - Part 1" (1998)
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (1989)
"A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" (2001)
NEW! American Dad!: "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" (2007)
NEW! Futurama: "Xmas Story" (1999)
NEW! "A Jetson Christmas Carol" (1985)
"Christmas Comes to PacLand" (1982)
"The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree" (1979)
NEW! The Replacements: "Dick Daring's All-Star Holiday Stunt Spectacular V" (2008)
Mucha Lucha!: "The Match Before Xmas" (2004)
The Wild Thornberrys: "Have Yourself a Thornberry Little Christmas" (1999)
NEW! Tom and Jerry: "The Night Before Christmas" (1941)
NEW! Codename: Kids Next Door: "Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y." (2005)
My Life as a Teenage Robot: "A Robot For All Seasons" (2004)
Scooby-Doo: "The Nutcracker Scoob" (1984)
NEW! American Dragon: Jake Long: "Hairy Christmas" (2006)
NEW! Chowder: "Hey, Hey It's Knishmas!" (2008)
"The Smurfs' Christmas Special" (1982)
RETURNING! Pokémon: "Holiday Hi-Jynx!" (1999)
"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (1970)
NEW! "Prep & Landing" (2009)
"Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol" (1962)
"The Little Drummer Boy" (1968)

As always, this webcam will be up all through December (at least till after New Years' Eve), especial given how late it arrived this year. Hope you folks enjoy seeing it here, and until my next entry, happy holidays! (And if you want, you can also check out the similar webcam I made for :iconhisteriafan17: on his page. ;) )

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Sorry about that, Compy. Need to get some... Endust.

Yes, folks, it's a new journal entry from me. I finally got around to updating this thing. It kinda feels like those two hiatuses Strong Bad did in his e-mail checking, doesn't it?
I'm not entirely sure why it is I left this journal dormant since St. Patrick's Day. Maybe I just didn't feel like there was anything notable for me to write about. Maybe I just really liked seeing that fake screenshot of Loud & Charity kissing on my page. Maybe it's because there's just been too many depressing things happening these past several months, such as all the celebrity deaths.
But whatever the reason, this week seemed like a good time to finally get around to writing a new journal entry so I can let you, my watchers, know that this journal isn't dead. Besides, with Christmas coming, I'd be needing to update this thing anyway, what with listing the things I'll end up getting and updating my Christmas webcam again. Not to mention I needed to fix up my list of friends and clubs in my footer. But this week certainly is a good enough week to update my journal, at least in pop cultural media. New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the game that's at the top of my wish list, came out this past Sunday. And this Saturday is when 4Kids wraps up its run with the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchise with "Turtles Forever", which I can already say is definitely gonna be better than a certain other TV special that aired earlier this year and shall remain nameless (but was aired on the network that now owns the Ninja Turtles).
And here's another thing I really should've done an earlier journal entry. By coincidence, it ties into my previous journal entry rather perfectly. But it also relates to "Phineas and Ferb", which is appropriate since next month they'll be joining the Grinch, Charlie Brown, Jeremy Creek, and others as the stars of beloved Christmas television specials, and Disney's going to town with the marketing for it, to the point that I'm surprised the boys aren't also planned to show up at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year.



Over on Yahoo! Groups, I went and started up clubs for shippers of Phineas/Isabella and Ferb/Gretchen back in September, coming full circle with the one I started for Candace/Jeremy. Fans of one or both pairings are welcome to join. As I said last time, enjoy!

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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". groups.yahoo.com/group/Candace…
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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