Barkitecture

Book by Fred Albert

List of houses, ranked approximately from favorite to least, as best I could atm:

1. Villa Dog
2. Red Rover
3. A Doghouse for Hobie & Ryely
4. On the Road to Zanzibar
5. Fido's Amazing Technicolor Dreamhouse
6. Muttropolitan Opera House
7. Chuck's & Lily's Campaign Tent
8. Gypsy Caravan
9. Foreign Correspondent
10. Hawaiian Doghouse
11. Rover's Rad Retreat
12. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
13. Chateau Neuf de Pup
14. !!!*SIT*!!!
15. Dog Cabin (should be made of artificial bones/treats)
16. Lassie Come Home
17. Budapet
18. Canine/Bone Order of Architecture
19. Upper Canada Doghouse
20. Chessie's Doghouse
21. Chateau du Chien
22. Reki
23. House for a Labrador Retriever
24. Niche a Chien
25. House of Coco
26. French Chateau
27. Growler's Grove
28. Capitol Hill Doghouse
29. Stella Dome
30. Trojan Dog
31. Doggy Bag
32. Gate of Labs
33. Bird/Dog House
34. Stealth Doghouse
35. Eddie's House
36. Villa Buster
37. Pet-a-Porter
38. House for a Modernist Mutt
39. Hut Dog
40. Untitled No. 2
41. The Soloist
42. All-Seeing "Eye" Doghouse
43. Garden Pavilion for Dave
44. Dog Tower

FROM INTRO:

1. Atlanta Humane Society
2. Bangor, ME
3. Marie Antoinette Niche-a-chien
4. Washington Irving Estate, Sunnyside 

Collages of some faves:

Flip-through video showing all:

Holiday haul highlights 2016:

-Liz Taylor Gardenia+Dior Poison, gift card for Bowlero (looks-incredibly-sexy alley) in North Brunswick (Bowlmor in Green Brook on Rt. 22 was the place Jules, Col, & I had gone laser-light bowling...I was getting them mixed up, but according to reviews the newly-renovated Bowlero is even greater...!)
-Ollivander's shop ornament (with Viewfinder hole on the back displaying Harry approaching the counter!)
-Dory coffee pot mug
-Beautiful Columbia fleece, Yankee candles, Beagle Funko, etc., etc.!
***5 lbs of Haribo Gold Bears!!!; Kiki the baby kiwi (#1606/2000, Open Squish design winner) & Chester the grilled cheese sammich (or Al, since Weird Al=Cheese Sandwich? "Specialty of the House?" Chester Al...an...something? XD) Squishables; Game of Thrones calendar (will use on fridge--Yearbook Dogs on my wall, princesses on fireplace as of now); "Essential Pokemon Book of Joy" (contains mad quotes from Team Rocket, including Cassidy & Butch!! <3); universal Harmony TV remote to replace my five different ones...although now I know I do need to replace the busted Blu-ray player too); Star Trek "beverage containment system" stein mug; coral-pink cardigan+purple hi-low tunic; candy apple hand sanitizer

Tons of pics and such...I really, really wish it had an album feature grouped by month or something, rather than just being an infinitely-scrolling monocolumnic (is that even a word??) thing... Also wish that .gifs weren't lumped in with your pics+vids. Love 'em, but they can be their own filter. Just one more won't hurt. ;p 

+More Hallmark Keepsakes! (with link to 2016 Dreambook video): 

Imma Talk Pokemon! Gen 7! Whoo!

Time to add onto this! Favorites:

1. Bruxish
2. Litten
3. Oricorio (Pom-Pom, Sensu, Baile, & Pa'u)
4. Morelull
5. Shiinotic
6. Wimpod
7. Lycanroc (fave forme is Midday)
8. Xurkitree (Okay, now this one's clever. Berserk, circuitry, tree. Body of wires, fingers are exposed gold filaments, tail and toes have plugs, covered in bulbs, with a spiky light-up star thingy for a head. It's just...creative. And Christmasy. :D)
9. Pheromosa (ooooh, the smexy lissome Pokemon ;p)
10. Primarina
11. Type: Null
12. Brionne
13. Golisopod
14. Toucannon ("Follow your nose!")
15. Popplio
16. Minior
17. Wishiwashi
18. Charjabug
19. Silvally
20. Jangmo-o
21. Crabrawler
22. Comfey
23. Cosmog
24. Bounsweet
25. Palossand
26. Sandygast
27. Tapu Fini (Lele reminds me a bit of Pinkie Pie xD)
28. Lunala
29. Nihilego (jellyfish-like, again)

OH, and of course the Alolan forms of Ninetales, Vulpix, Dugtrio, Exeggutor, Muk, Grimer, Sandshrew, Sandslash, Meowth, & Raichu! Those are great.

Other standouts:

Mareanie and Toxapex are...interesting...like some kind of sea star/urchin combo?? With a bit of jellyfish at first?? Hm.
Lurantis, the orchid mantis.
Dewpider (& Araquanid): Bubble helmet! And also, I WILL NEVER be able to pronounce this one without imitating Lump Maroon ("DEWPIDUURRRRRRR!!!")
Mudsdale
Crabominable is a Yeti crab!! :D xD
Salazzle--um, wow. xD;
Kartana: Whoo, origami! (And also chopsticks, and takeout boxes and menus?! :-o)
Celesteela: Okay, new Pokename to associate with Celestia over Cresselia. And what a bizarre design.
Buzzwole: Sheeeet, dat skeeter be swole AF!! Larry the Lobster+Crimson Chin+mosquito=Buzzwole. "Of all my muscles...my brain is one of them!"
Guzzlord & Necrozma are friggin' scary (& the former gross as well. xD)
Oranguru reminds me of the live-action (or, well, CG) King Louie.

The entry from 7/5/16 is the one where I attempted to rank 252 favorite Pokes prior to the full release of G7 (so there are now, total, as of this moment, 802.) Being able to narrow it down to <300 is quite the achievement, trust me.

Munna's a cute one too...kinda reminds me of a piggy bank, Easter egg, and pink version of a Parcheesi elephant smashed together. xD But, not nearly as much as Phanpy resembles the Parcheesi elephants!! ;-3

And then for MLP: FiM...

Best S5/6 eps:

• Make New Friends But Keep Discord (TREEHUGGER!!)
• The Mane Attraction (COLORATURA, AKA RA-RA!)
• Hearthbreakers (LIMESTONE PIE!)
• Amending Fences (LEMON HEARTS!)
• Canterlot Boutique (SASSY SADDLES! Love seeing her turn up anytime! And that goth pony...oh lordy, so many minor/bg characters I had to note in the LJ! [6/25/16])
• The Saddle Row Review (The 80s dancers...! xD)
• Top Bolt (Vapor Trail!)
• Viva Las Pegasus ("Siegfried & Roy"......XD)
• A Hearth's Warming Tail (Professor Flintheart, aka Snape-pony!)
• The Times They Are a Changeling
• The Cutie Map
• The Cutie Re-Mark
• To Where and Back Again
• Tanks for the Memories
• On Your Marks
• Scare Master
• The Crystalling
• Gauntlet of Fire
• Every Little Thing She Does
• Princess Spike
• The Fault in Our Cutie Marks

Weaker S5/6 eps (ones I had the most issues/difficulty with--many others were kinda eh/mediocre/somewhere-in-the-middle):

• Spice Up Your Life
• The Cart Before the Ponies
• Crusaders of the Lost Mark
• The Gift of the Maud Pie (Maud rules, but they only did half the "Magi" story! Wtf??)
• Stranger Than Fan Fiction
• Applejack's "Day Off"

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EDIT: Ahhh, here we go at last...a ginormo banner/background/collage thingy of all my favorite Pokémon and then some! But just a few; all'd be imposhibru. ;b (And until they release yet another frickin' generation in a few years?? )

(Had to re-upload with a little Houndour sneaked in there 'cause like, what in HELL was I doing...?!?! Then again...past a certain point I don't even know what's in there exactly, and the "Fave Pokemon By Type" entry is somewhat more relevant/searchable...) 

^-^  

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pwush 

MLPMerch.com

Holy shit, I just found the most invaluable website--or, rather, I just realized how fully awesome and useful it is. Got my checklist going, plus the "wishlist" (for most-wanteds, unacquired blind-bag figures & brushables, "non-character-characters" to keep track of, & generally other fave pieces.)
And, of course, my pony board! /)^3^(\

My suggestions to the site owners would be: a) If possible, let users switch their lists between the default release-date order and a custom most-to-least-favorite order. b) Have the lists display in many columns, not just two (utilize as much of the screen as possible, reduce the scrolling.)

Hollywood's Best Female Characters - HBFC

WELL, THAT was nuts...picked approximately 150, and nominated another 80+. I was guided by their list, which was nearly exhaustive (but still significantly lacking--hence my additions), and seemed to be sticking to adult (or at least teen) humans. 

Votes included:
Merida, Ariel, Belle, Aurora, Mulan, Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Tiana, Giselle, Jessica Rabbit, the Bride (aka Beatrix Kiddo); Daenerys, Arya, Margaery, Brienne, Katniss, Lucy Ricardo, Laverne & Shirley, Thelma & Louise, Sandy & Rizzo, the Golden Girls, Carla, Edith Bunker, Reba, Cruella, Maleficent (ONLY the animated one), Annie, Morticia & Wednesday, Marge & Lisa Simpson, Mrs. Robinson, Private Benjamin, Maude, Winnie Cooper, Carol Brady & June Cleaver, Blanche DuBois, the Carries, the Dorothys, the Marias, Daphne, Elle Woods, Piper Chapman, Elise, Eve, Heidi, Helen, Hildy & Holly, Ilsa Lund, Jeannie & Samantha Stevens, Jenny, Jo, Julia Sugarbaker, Janeway & Uhura, Ma Joad, Mallory Knox, Mame, "Hot Lips," Martha, a few Marys, Hit Girl, Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West, Mona Lisa Vito, Mystique (just Rebecca's; no offense to Jen, but I really only loved her in X2), Nikita, Peggy Bundy, Rebecca, Rhoda, some Roses, Satine, Scarlett, Stella, Storm, Sugar Kane, the Hayley Mills Parent Trap twins, Velvet, Wilma & Betty, Xena, Annie Hall, Amelie, & Nurse Ratched.

My additions:
Elsa & Anna (Frozen); Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games); Miranda Hobbes (Sex and the City--HOW FUCKING DARE THEY INCLUDE THE OTHER THREE AND NOT THE CLEAR BEST ONE?!?!); Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation); Lilith Sternin-Crane (Cheers/Frasier); Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy); Frenchy (Grease); Amber Mariens (Clueless); Elle Driver & O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill); Ouiser Boudreaux  & the other Steel Magnolias; C.C. Bloom & Hilary Whitney (Beaches); Jane & Judy Jetson; Pocahontas; Jasmine (Aladdin); Melisandre, Olenna Tyrell, Ygritte (Game of Thrones); Alice Kramden & Trixie Norton (The Honeymooners); Mirage (The Incredibles); Megara (Hercules); Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame); Mother Gothel (Tangled); Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove); Ursula (The Little Mermaid); the Evil Queen (Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs); Lady Tremaine (Cinderella); Madame Medusa (The Rescuers); Capable (Mad Max: Fury Road); Ulla (The Producers); Idgie Threadgoode & Ruth Jamison (Fried Green Tomatoes); the four stars of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; Roxie Hart & Velma Kelly (Chicago); Brenda, Elise, & Annie of The First Wives Club; Madison (Splash); Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors); Anastasia; Crysta (FernGully: The Last Rainforest); Thumbelina; the Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus); Princess Mononoke; Annie Oakley (Annie Get Your Gun); Janet Weiss, Magenta, Columbia (Rocky Horror Picture Show); Ophelia (Hamlet); Allison Reynolds & Claire Standish (The Breakfast Club); Nancy, Rochelle, Sarah, & Bonnie (The Craft); Daphne Blake & Velma (Scooby-Doo); the Baby-Sitters Club; Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings)...you could go on with a few besides Hermione from HP, Kida & the other Atlantis ladies, etc., but that was enough. xD

[2/2/17: Aaaand, THR does it again! ~500 choices for favorite actors...top faves have check marks...
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Berenstain Bears Christmas Sweepstakes

Let's just see whether or not this HTML code for the giveaway shows up as the box it's supposed to, shall we?

<a href="http://www.oureverydayharvest.com/2016/10/berenstain-bears-christmas-fun.html"><img border="0"  src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMb34JUyPGmPlBKv7foS6riZ1UVXHGPOkHBmNQDlWN4XWLzaactiHV0lwhoiePZyHwahtNQPAWVHt9XiKp3P0EKNy2tL8Kbi5pccT9eO-Bwlk3b0PTQXpj27jkHMR4W0igS3ajU50e9rlw/s640/Berenstain-Bears-Christmas-Sticker-Activity-Book-Giveaway-Button.jpg" /></a>

...of course not.
Figures.
But anyway, the entry page is here.

Finding Dory: Tank Gang Deleted Scene

Oh, boy. Dory'll be out on Blu-ray already next month, and now I've seen me first deleted scene...which is quite possibly the most interesting one.

Sure, Bubbles the all-of-a-sudden-genius doesn't sound a bit like himself, and I wanted them ALL to have some significant moments/lines in the film (there are seven of them, they're like a Star Trek crew...or The Baby-Sitters Club...)--but, this little scene alone would have been 9,999,999% better than the little logic-challenged post-credits blip we received. The Gang deserved to be in the film BEFORE the credits, and they were pretty much the most exciting thing to me, alongside Dory's story itself. Confound it all! Even without Dory, such a subplot would have greatly enhanced the film!
I can accept what was included, but it can only be truly redeemed with another sequel or short film. So y'know what, since this exists and they REEEALLY didn't want to have to eliminate it, I am going to right now officially decide that it DID go down this way. Mission Impossible Tank Gang #SquadGoals, helping Marlin & Nemo rescue Dory...before getting captured by the institute themselves, then escaping, and then fiiiinally meeting up with Marlin/Nemo/Dory/etc. at the frick-frackin' Great Goddamn Barrier Reef. AIIGHT??!? Sound good?? Eeeeyup!!

 Eta: Just took a closer look at Nemo's classmates in this shot. You've got a parrotfish, and a yellow/purple one up top that looks like some kind of striped variation of the Bicolor cherub (Centropyge bicolor.) I love the color combinations here--seafoam+lemon on that generally butterflyfish-shaped one, the green-spotted yellow guys, the purple+red crab...I just can't understand why they, like Lisa Frank, included a combination of actual species and made-up ones. Real tropical fish are so stunningly beautiful and artistic-looking that there's no need for people to draw randomly-colored and -patterned "new" ones, though that happens all the time.
Thankfully, almost all of the speaking characters in Nemo & Dory are real species.
Of course Nemo, Pearl, Sheldon, & Ted are (Amphiprion ocellaris, Opisthoteuthis californiana, Hippocampus kuda, Forcipiger flavissimus.)

Edit: Judging from the art book, they should have not only included the deleted tank gang scene but also shots of little Blenny the psychedelic fish (Anchor's "fish friend" from the shark meeting in Finding Nemo), cow- and/or boxfish in the kelp forests (FOR SURE; Ostraciidae is one of my favorite families, how could you POSSIBLY even consider omitting those wicked-awesome dudes?!? Especially when you're spending so much time in KELP FORESTS?!?), and certain other interesting-looking (if not actually real?) creatures I don't recall seeing in the film.