Inuyasha continued

To continue from my last installment, I should have recalled that many, many, many, kits and kaboodles of people already know the basic story of Inuyasha, who he is, and whatever. I am just so in love with the anime series, I don't care how many times they run the whole series of episodes over and over again, every single season of it. But I do really welcome anyone who is a fan of Inuyasha to drop a comment, on anything, the aspects of demon swords and other weapons, to the relationship between Inuyasha and his older brother Sesshomaru (who is drop-dead good-looking for a cartoon character, if I do say myself!), to the intrinsic technicalities involved in Kagome's traveling to and from her time to the feudal era (how hard can it be? She drops down a well! Ah, but what can be happening when she does that, all you physics fans?) (Or should I say metaphysics?) At any rate, what I keep doing is waiting for Naraku, the also good-looking, somewhat, but still very evil villain, to trip up somehow, and finally get himself vanquished by Inuyasha (I can't remember, you see, what happens, as all the seasons of episodes are so long, and I don't know if it's ever finally come to an end anyway. Isn't Inuyasha ongoing?) Come to think of it, I DON'T think that the show has ever completely ended yet. And what I like, and what I keep constantly, to my great chagrin, missing, are the two-hour long Inuyasha movies. I've only seen one or two, and I think so far there have been three or four. Hopefully they will show them again, or else I can find the DVD's in the movie stores, probably for about twenty or twenty-five dollars. (Let's hope no more than that!) How about you out there? Have any of you found it easy to find the Inuyasha movies on DVD, at reasonable prices?
Well, I will close again for now, and come back hopefully with some more mature topics, I guess I should peruse the newspapers again, but debatable subjects can get to be so dry and boring, can't they? I just thought good old Inuyasha would be good for a break, as I am fond of him; us big kids do still like our cartoons, and mine are anime.

Inuyasha (?)

Does anyone know who Inuyasha is? I, of all people, most certainly do; I spend five nights a week with him, staying up till 2:30am for him, sometimes 6:00am....oh does that sound fantastical and amazing? Not really, for Inuyasha is an anime, a Japanese cartoon, what they would probably also call manga (with the first "a" short). It's a rollicking tale about a girl from this modern day (presumably Japan) who falls down a well on the property of her grandfather's old shrine, and into the time of the feudal era, when there were demons and half-demons in abundance, wandering monks and priestesses, and a lot of mayhem and magic and sword-swinging going on. This girl, called Kagome, happens to meet a half-demon, Inuyasha, who is pinned to a tree by bespelled arrows. Somehow it comes to be realized that she is the descendant of the priestess Kikyo, and carries the magical Shikon jewel inside her. Thus being so, she is somehow able to release Inuyasha from the tree, and it turns out that he has long been intent on acquiring the jewel for himself, to become a full-fledged demon. In all this, of course, the jewel not only is released from Kagome, but shatters into a million pieces that spread over all the land. (more next time!)

The vagaries of keeping up with your computer

You know, as you lie peacefully on your couch, being a potato, watching the tube, your computer isn't just sleeping on your desk. Oh no, it's interacting with other computers, talking to itself, and blissfully watching your Neopets die. Yup. It's waiting for you of course, it knows you're there. And when you finally drag your body up to the chair, it pretends to spring to life, yawning, at your touch on the space bar, when in reality it's always been there and is actually saying, Where the hell have you been?! Now thank goodness mine is pretty good-humored and cooperates pretty well, taking me to the right places, functioning properly, etc. But now remember, if ever you leave your computer sitting for a long time, it may very well still be awake.....and THINKING!!!

Re Hummingbirds: Sweet Attraction

This is in addition to my previous "Hummingbird Catspaw Shower": I believe there would also need to be a couple of little hummingbird feeders nearby or under the shower, with special hummingbird syrup or sugarwater, whatever they like or need best; I believe they come with covers that have only a hole big enough for the hummingbirds' beaks, so the solution wouldn't get diluted from the shower above. Please let me know, folks, if my info is incorrect in any way, I would most certainly appreciate it!

Wild Hummingbird Shower!

Hey, I was listening to Backyard Habitat on Animal Planet on tv, and I suddenly envisualized the wildest little shower for our cute little hummingbird friends; granted, now, that the birds would be brave enough to come beneath it: it would be a shaggy set of four tiger-striped cat legs, paws and all, giving off the gentle mist that the birds would love to come beneath and bathe their wings in; a funky image, no? The only problem is, WOULD the hummingbirds fly beneath the catpaws for the watermist, despite what they look like? Or would they know that they weren't alive? In other words, it would be a test of the birds' intelligence. Do any of you out there think they would pass? Drop me a comment and let me know.

Wri ter's block

As you can see from the small, tortured-looking individual to your left, I have what is called writer's block; once upon a time however, this little dot was animated, tried to write, scratched its head, then furiously threw its feather quill down and stomped on it, thereafter looking very chastened. I have been feeling quite the same. Nothing will quite flow; I do, however, have a newspaper article I believe I can comment on, stuffed somewhere in my tote bag, I used it for our current events slot one day at our one o'clock meeting at the clubhouse. When I have a chance today, I'll try to put it in here, it's quite a pertinent article, very important for our schoolchildren today, and their self-defense. Hey, guess what? I've broken my writer's block! (chuckle) That's always a good ploy, get on the keyboard and just start typing, and nine times out of ten, something will come out; now, whether it's decent, that's another guess. But languish no more, little guy now you'll be more like your friend
well I was going to say, the cool carrot, but I can't seem to add an image anymore! Blast. He would have been cute as an ending. Oh well, some other time.

"Pot"lollies?!

Children looovve candy; children of all ages love lollipops, including us "biggest kids". Parents love their children, and want to protect them; but what good, as the article goes, are anti-drug campaigns on TV and in school if companies like Chronic Candy and Pot Suckers confuse the issue by selling.....you guessed it: pot-flavored lollipops? Such candy has been highly promoted (unknown as to how well it's selling yet, but you can guess the appeal to the adult market!), and the companies that make them claim their products are only flavored with "hemp essential oil", not containing THC, marijuana's active ingredient, but hold the phone; they also say these products are only intended for ages 18 and over, IF you visit the company store. But yet the pot-flavored lollies and gumdrops ARE available for minors to buy online and at the discretion of the stores that sell them, including Spencer's in Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach, which sells Stoner Pops (!) Go figure. And whether or not the candy does get you high (mayhap only psychologically?), the entire setup is rather unappealing; it smacks of the dope pusher, putting his wares into candy to hook kids to make more money (the bottom line). I mean, what adult who might have or have had kids would be able to suck on one of those lollipops and read Mary Jane Candy Co.'s slogan, "Every Lick is Like Taking a Hit", and think of their own offspring? Whoa, look out, Guilt City; or Shame City, whatever. The sentiment's the same, the dirty old man giving candy to children in order to lead them to a bad end. And the girl who wrote the original article did have a point, when she said that by selling the flavor and image of the drug, the companies were essentially selling weed itself. Even I can see where a curious kid might surreptitiously buy one of these lollipops to try the taste, and then think, Hm. That's pretty good. I wonder what smoking it would actually be like? I mean, teenagers and adults are the same in that respect, plant a seed in their minds, it almost always will grow into something! And that bad ol' Mary Jane Candy Co. even sells its ganja gumdrops in dime and nickel bags, for realism sake---for crying out loud. That's going a little too far. But people aren't letting them get away with nothing: the Georgia legislature, Long Island, are making moves to ban the candy; and in Texas, they almost were able to vote on a bill to make the sale of cannabis confections punishable by a $4,000 fine. Wow! A bit harsh for candy, but not for what it's made out of, and the ramifications of it. Besides, we have some very good anti-drug campaigns going on, one of which received appropriations of $119 million in fiscal year 2005. These drug campaigns are saving young lives, and it's not worth the money spent on them to waste it by promoting marijuana, in a form that appeals to children. Now, I must say here that I have some reservations, for the possibilities of finding avenues of pain relief in marijuana for people with terminal illnesses, but that's about it. I repeat, it's just not worth it: contrary to my old flower child spirit, my older and wiser spirit can now see that if marijuana were legalized in this country, another, enemy country could probably just arrange to get everyone over here stoned, then come in and truly "waste" us.

I welcome your comments.

The Lady's New Web Page

Hello, one and all! I know I haven't been here for quite awhile, but I'm back. Just thought I'd give a plug to my new web page, My Wild Green Fields. First of all, here's the URL for it:
http://www.geocities.com/deborah_opphouse/mywildgreenfields.html . I've only done the first page so far, and I need to add a guestbook and Post comments page. But it's a start! Actually, before I settled on mywildgreenfields as a domain name, I was led by the deep green color of the design to think of other green things I'm interested in, such as herbs: therefore, I first thought of coltsfootinthe dunes.com. A bit of fantasy indulging there, for since when has the herb coltsfoot been found in sand?! Nope, usually "green fields" is the location for that, specifically meadows, perhaps hillsides. Well, I'll add some more later. Ciao!