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Stuffed Celebrity Animals

July 12, 2010

– – In times long past, kids actually had cowboys as heroes!  They had no superpowers,  but could shoot a gun out of a bad guy’s hand, or win in a fistfight without getting their hats knocked off.  People when they got shot didn’t even bleed or lose body parts!

“How lame!,” declares one present-day kid.

“Totally gay!,” agrees another.

–No, it’s true!  I swear! – -There were cowboy heroes like the Lone Ranger, Sky King. and Roy Rogers!   Said cowboy heroes had their animal sidekicks, especially their horses and occasionally a dog.- -Well, when Roy Rogers’ famous horse Trigger died, he had the deceased equine preserved, as in stuffed.  Once featured at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Mo., Trigger is now going on the auction block at Christie’s in Manhattan, and is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $200,000!  Also being sold are the preserved remains of Roy Rogers’ dog, Bullet.

– –Happy Trails to You, famous old furries!

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Basil Brush, Superstar!

June 22, 2010

– – Kids these days would probably roll their eyes at the notion of being entertained by a hand puppet, but in the days of yore young ‘uns were entertained by such as this and worse…

Combine a star who’s a hand puppet with British television and humor and you have Basil Brush, a fictional fox character who may be a glove puppet yet grows on you (like a glove), and can be hilariously entertaining. Created in 1963 as a children’s show character, Basil has evolved but always been portrayed as a well-spoken fox who can be appreciated on a variety of levels. A puppet who claims to dislike puppets, Basil’s most prized possession is his “brush,” the traditional name for a fox’s tail (for which we are rightfully known).

In more current incarnations, Basil has been depicted as having a family that is every bit as dysfunctional as many of our own. With his “Boom!-Boom!” catchphrase, I ‘d be proud to call Basil my foxy friend…



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Barf the Mawg…

March 28, 2010

– – It’s still hard for me to believe that John Candy is dead, taken way too young of a heart attack in 1994 at only 43 years of age.  John created many memorable characters, but as a furry I love him most for his creation of the half-man, half-dog (or Mawg, also seen as Mog) Barfolomew in the 1987 Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, an obvious parody of Star Wars and Barf a cheaper version of Chewbacca. The film did modestly at the box office, being issued as it was ten years after the movie it parodied.   Brooks’ blend of slapstick and genre parody was getting old even in 1987, but the film remains funny and a cult classic.

Memorable quote: “It’s not that we’re afraid, far from it, it’s just that we’ve got this thing about death…It’s not us!”  Who better to be his own best friend than this marvelous John Candy creation?– –RIP, John, and thank you…

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Robotic Groundhog?

January 28, 2010

– – Groundhog Day is coming soon, and it brings a slew of visitors to an annual festival in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania in what may best be described as high silliness.  Each year on February 2nd, otherwise sensible men in high formal dress including top hats rouse Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog from his heated burrow and bring the rascal out to determine whether or not he’ll see his shadow, which in turn supposedly determines whether or not we’ll have an early spring or another six weeks of winter.

Now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are contending that it’s unfair to keep the famous groundhog in captivity, and subject him annually to the the huge crowds, noise, and bright lights that accompany the appearance of thousands of people on Groundhog Day in the tiny borough 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.  PETA is suggesting that Phil be replaced with an animatronic model groundhog…that’s right, a fake Phil!

I’m usually a friend of PETA, but a robotic groundhog somehow just wouldn’t be the same…Phil is kept in a climate-controlled environment, and annually is inspected by the state Department of Agriculture.  The President of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club says that the animal is “being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania.”   At least he is less likely to appear dead along the roadside, where I see most of his cousins.– – Besides, who ‘ya wanna listen to?–The genuine article, or some fugitive from Disney?   😉

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Fenrir Rocks!

January 24, 2010

– – I, for one, am glad that furries will be well-represented at the end of the world…

…In Norse mythology, the eldest son of Loki is described as a gigantic wolf, Fenrir, who was raised in the home of the gods, Asgard. Being a monster, the gods identified him with the prophecy that a wolf and his family would someday destroy the world.  Getting a bum rap, Fenrir was then chased,  caught, and locked into a cage while still a pup to avoid the catastrophe!- –Cruelty to animals! When he grew into adulthood, the Norse gods chained him, but Fenrir broke the chains!- -Good show and all that!   Dwarves then made a magical chain out of six elements, with the chain thin but strong enough not to be broken.  For good measure, poor Fenrir was put a mile down into the earth and chained to a rock!  This bites…and Fenrir did, taking off the hand of Tyr, the god of war…

…But on the day of Ragnarok (Doom of the Gods), Fenrir will escape, devour Odin, and join the other giants in a great battle before the end of the world!- – Wouldn’t ‘ya love a ticket to see that?!- -Can’t keep a good wolf down!

…payback time, you see, is hell!- –You go, Fenrir!!!- -Bite the power!

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The Wolfman Cometh!

January 18, 2010

– – Is it here yet?- -Is it here yet?- –You gotta excuse me if I sound like Eric Cartman or perhaps Bart Simpson, but I just can’t wait for the February 12, 2010 arrival of The Wolfman. – – Can you blame me?!

The cast of the 1941 original was awesome, with Lon Chaney Jr,  Claude Rains,  and Bela Lugosi on board, but this remake will have Anthony Hopkins, Benecio Del Toro (the Wolfman), Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and Art Malik.  Universal is striving to re-image their classic horror masterpiece, and from all I have read, does a great job!  Ain’t no school like the old school…

So bring on the slavering man-beast, and let’s do something dastardly and perhaps scandalous to fair maidens as they run through the moors!- –Let’s go where the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon shines at night!- –Heck, I wanna live there!

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“Gumby” Creator Dies…

January 10, 2010

– – Gumby’s creator Art Clokey died Friday at the age of 88.  The shape-shifting little green flexible guy grew out of a student project Clokey produced at the University of Southern California in the early 1950’s called Gumbasia, which led to shorts featuring Gumby and his horse friend Pokey, who seemed to be a practical, reality-based equine.

Gumby’s swooping head was based on the cowlick hairdo of his father, and Clokey’s wife suggested that he give Gumby the body of a gingerbread man.    Gumby eventually became one of the most familiar toys of all time, although his creator didn’t allow merchandising for seven years after Gumby was on the air, not wanting parents to think they were exploiting their children.   Clokey also created the moralizing and often satirized claymation duo, “Davey and Goliath” for the Lutheran Church, using the money gained to help bring a Gumby series back to television in the 1960’s.  “Moral Orel” on Adult Swim is one such satire of the Lutheran Church contracted work, described as “Davey and Goliath meets South Park.”

Eddie Murphy brought a surge in Gumby’s popularity in the 1980’s with his send-up of the character on Saturday Night Live, who Murphy depicted as profane and cigar-smoking.  Clokey, however, said he enjoyed Eddie Murphy’s portrayal.

As Eddie Murphy’s character might have said , “My creator dead?- -Dammit!” (pardon my French…)   😉

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Heroic Golden Retriever

January 6, 2010

– – Saturday night in British Columbia, Canada an 11-year-old boy was gathering firewood in his backyard when his18-month-old golden retriever ran towards him, jumping over a lawn mower and into the path of a charging cougar!

The dog, appropriately called Angel, took the brunt of the cougar’s attack and when Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived, they found the dog under the front porch with the cougar’s jaws locked around her neck.  Two rounds shot into the cougar’s rear end were unable to break the death grip, and it was subsequently necessary to fire a third shot and kill the cougar.

Angel the retriever suffered extensive injuries including a fractured skull, but underwent surgery and her vets hope for a full recovery.  Greater love hath no dog than this, right?


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“We’re All Mad Here…”

December 16, 2009

– – I confess that I’ve always loved Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, and especially had a soft spot for the Cheshire Cat…well, said feline has never looked better or toothier than in the upcoming March of 2010 version by Tim Burton!–Who better to capture the notes of madness, darkness,  and menace in the piece than Tim Burton, especially with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter?!  Stephen Fry plays the Cheshire Cat.

It’s very hard to do justice to Alice In Wonderland, and many attempted adaptations have fallen short of the mark and been disappointments; the recent SyFy Channel’s adaptation comes to mind, while it did have its moments.– This could well be the definitive version!– The Cheshire Cat looks ten times creepier than in all previous versions!!!

…It’s gonna be a weird, wild Wonderland in amazing 3D…March 5th, 2010 can’t come soon enough for this fox!




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“Fantastic Mr. Fox!”

November 6, 2009

the-fantastic-mr-fox– -Worth a look and arriving November 13th is Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated adaptation of the popular 1970 Roald Dahl children’s book by director Wes Anderson.

Voiced by George Clooney and Meryl Streep,  Mr. and Mrs. Fox have lived a peaceful life in the wilderness with their son, Ash.  Resorting back to his old ways as a cunning chicken thief,  Mr. Fox uses his formidable slyness to outwit three evil farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens, endangering the animal community and forcing them to unite to fight for the land that is rightfully theirs.- – Fantastic Mr. Fox also features the voice talents of Bill Murray as a lawyer badger!

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