Here are this year’s pumpkins, with great designs by Eric. I admit I’ve done better carving jobs. Sorry the pictures are fuzzy, but this old 1.3 megapixel camera is very motion sensitive in non-flash mode.
Day: October 30, 2006
Post-Pumpkin Post
As a follow-up to my post on “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” click here for a brief NPR feature about the cartoon.
Note: Lucy is shown holding what didn’t exist 40 years ago — TV Guide the size of a magazine, and not a digest.
Raspberry Heaven
There’s lots of Azumanga Daioh on YouTube™, but as a follow-up to a previous posting, here are the end credits, framed by the commercial break outro and intro. The “Raspberry Heaven” catch-phrase is very catchy.
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Movies/Wordpress/Anime/azumangadaioh.flv 320 236]
It took a couple of episodes to see past the underlying wackiness. Something I didn’t realize at first is the show deals with some very contemporary themes about growing up that in previous generations were simply not presented.