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[phosfate]

Came home yesterday to huge stack of packages. I would like to say HOORAY for cheap books off eBay. So, HOORAY. The first three Malory Towers, a nifty Angela Brazil, a thing on 60s pop culture, and a box lot of Sailormoon R UFO catchers that eBay at large ignored and I got for $5.00. It has everybody in their school uniforms, including the Spawn and her Luna-P ball, plus Tuxedo Mask. It was like Christmas, only cheaper.

Alas I'd spent the entire day stuffing envelopes, then taken a metal luggage cart in the kneecap, so I went to bed at 8:30.

JoAnn's had a remnant of wonderfully hideous orange fur, so I am making a large stuffed broken carrot. I have had the following conversation with five people:

"What'cha making?"

"Stuffed carrot."

(silence)

Sharon's Juri is coming along, and I hope to finish Gretchen's...um...those white thingies from Princess Mononoke. Yeah. Them.

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[tangletoy.livejournal.com]

Captain Carrot! Now I have to go digging in the cellar for my comic books again.

kodama

[danakate.livejournal.com]

I think those little white spirit things from Mononoke Hime are called kodama. They're sometimes cute but sometimes alien looking. Although a little freaky in the fact that their heads can turn all the way around.

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You are right, ma'am.

Hm. They make joints for turny heads. Hm. Hm.

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[danakate.livejournal.com]

You could scare the shit out of people with that, I'm sure, if applied...appropriately.

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[gkkstitch.livejournal.com]

Funny comment from somebody whose icon is a cat wearing a bikini and drinking a pina colada! You just be nice to my little alien heads. :-)

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[danakate.livejournal.com]

Well, the kodama are pretty cute! (And there's a bullet train line "named after them," too!) Just...alien looking sometimes. I like how they can walk upside down and stuff.

But I'm more partial to some of Miyazaki's other cute animal things. Like the little totoros.

*sings the totoro song*

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

Ebay, fount of all inexpensive entertainment! (And some really expensive entertainment, too, so no bidding when drunk, boys and girls.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, my innate Scroogitude keeps me in line. And I can't type when I'm drunk.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Stuffed carrot! That's brilliant.

[gkkstitch.livejournal.com]

Kodama.

Ko-da-maaaaaa

:-D

Hey, did you get the homemade heath bars I sent you back after Christmas??

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You mean the tin with the lovely toffee 'n chocolate saltines that I sort of kind of ate in its entirety?

Um, maybe.

[kannaophelia.livejournal.com]

Which Brazil? I'm horribly jealous of the UFO catchers, too.

And, oh, I get the guilty terror I always get when people begin MT, that maybe having not grown up on the books they won't love them, and it will be somehow be my fault. ~grin~

I'm about to hit the antiquarian books and fashion dolls sections on Ebay.au for comfort materials, right about now...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Um...it's not in front of me. The New Girl at St. Chad's, possibly?

Anything good on your eBay hunt?

[http://users.livejournal.com/hugsnkisses_/]

Dude, Malory Towers rocks. Ah, those wacky kids and their tricks on Mam'zelle.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Alicia, with her snarky remarks in the train station, is my new hero.