Panda Power!

Christmas this year at our house could have easily been renamed "Panda-mas" ~ complete and utter Panda-monium! We have many many panda toys and products ~ from the panda bento box to the panda raincoat to a solar powered panda nodder! There is no lack of pandas in any department, we even have panda chopsticks!
We found this crazy source for panda stuff ~ Tokyo Jazz Panda not to mention all the cool shops in Oakland and such. Sally is still crazy about pandas. Her tiger phase lasted about a year and a half, who knows how long this panda trip will be? Only time will tell. Well enjoy the photos.

Happy Holidays!

Please enjoy this animated flash movie I made for Sanrio ~
http://www.sanrio.com/holiday2008/

Holly Jolly and some tinsel too

It's that time once again, to find some holiday music and make festive and what not. For me it's gotta be the Sufjan Stevens album - Songs for Christmas or The Three Suns - Ding Dong Dandy Christmas. Also David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries set the mood as well as watching the Christmas story or any holiday claymation by Rankin/Bass. It's been a long time since my last post on this sad sack of a blog, but hey I am working like a mad man these days, so it's okay.

For more holiday music that will blow your mind, check out this incredible blog called Ernie (Not Bert) ~ tons of great music for free!

Bodhi Day

Namaste! My nifty keen Life in Hell Calendar tells me, today is Bodhi Day! (December 8th) It is the day that Siddhartha Gautama became enlightened as the Buddha. Learn more!

Happy Chester Greenwood Day!

Happy Chester Greenwood Day! Yes it is time to celebrate the inventor of the ear muff ~ It all began in 1873 with some cold ears ... I am not sure why this special day celebrating the man and the invention of ear mufflers or "Greenwood's Ear Protectors" came to mean something to me but it's nice to have fuzzy warm ear muffs on when you're out and about with a proper hat on & it's freezing cold outside. I speak not from experience, since I live in Oakland, California ~ where the temperature remains in the high forties during our coldest days in the winter. But the rest of you - enjoy thine ear muffs!

Bark at the Moon!

Happy Birthday, Ozzy Osbourne! YEAASs! Let us honor the dark lord of RAWK, the prince of darkness himself, OZZY! Don't deny your roots people. I began my adolescence with Ozzy, Motley Crue and the like ~ Yes, it's Ozzy's 60th birthday! On a personal note, I've written O-Z-Z-Y across my knuckles many a time during Junior High and I'll never forget camping as a Boy Scout and playing BARK AT THE MOON as loud as possible at midnight ~ So many great songs like Crazy Train, Iron Man, Mr. Crowley, Suicide Solution, Warpigs, I Don't Know, Bark at the moon, Paranoid, Over the Mountain, Miracle Man - not to mention some other Black Sabbath classics like Fairies wear boots & Sabbath Bloody Sabbath of course. Happy Birthday, Ozzy! (Cue flame throwing demoniod robot creature ... now!)

Thanksgiving story

Yes this is my first post in over a week ... What can I say ~ it's that time of year when life gets hectic and overwhelming all at once, aah yes the holiday season! So I had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Chris & Kip's this year, astoundingly magnificent I should say except for the fact that I sat next to Jake (SICK BOY) during our private screening of Quantum of Solace (We have a friend on the Academy awards viewing list - Sshhh!) And after Friday's traditional turkey leftovers and multiple slices of pie & watching The Duchess by the warm fire, I began to feel not so well. Saturday and Sunday were spent trying to sleep with an anvil inside my head, the sinus pain was awful. Luckily I recovered enough to hop back to work on Monday ... Well that's my story.