Play Music Videos on Your Page

Since this page is about to scroll off in a couple of days, I thought I would post this video from my favorite group, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. You can easily get the code for your own page displaying your own video by clicking on the link under the video.

After-Thanksgiving Sales Revealed

Some people grab food, lock the door and turn on the TV the day after Thanksgiving. Others get up in early morning unearthly hours to wait in a cold line, in the dark, at a store somewhere. I belong to the unearthly group, being a morning person. I get a kick out of it the crowds, the stores, the people - whatever. And they call it "Black Friday."

My sweet husband found this link to what some of the Black Friday ads will be. Get a head start and plan your assault early!

How Evil are You?

Here's a test from my friend, George C. Test your level of "evilness."

How evil are you?

Zathura - The Movie

We saw this movie today. I enjoyed it over all, but my husband gives it a thumbs down. It is almost a perfect clone of Jumanji -- much of the same plot, only without Robin Williams and in a different scenario. A game is played with real-life consequences.

Here's the review from Rotten Tomatoes which gives it a high rating. (I am not sure how much I trust Rotten Tomatoes since it was sold to a media company and is no longer the little independently-run site that it used to be. Still, the site is useful.)

The children in this movie yell and fight throughout the whole thing. A family that just screams and mistreats each other during nearly the entire time, is hard on the ears and sanity. This is one bratty group of kids -- so unlikable and stupid beyond belief. At one point, the oldest kid can make a wish. They are in a dangerous, life-threatening situation and they know it, things are falling apart, enemies want to eat them, they only want to go home and what does the oldest kid wish for? A football! It was not even humorous or cute. I wanted to throw something at the screen.

After the first 13 minutes, my husband wished he hadn't come and wanted to go home. Inspite of my anger at the stupid people here, the children in the audience laughed a lot. The old-fashioned game board was charming. Kids could relate to this. Apparently, they did not worry about the countless illogical scenes (and there's a million of them - don't keep a tally or you'd be writing during the whole movie) or seem bothered by the constant bickering.

The special effects were fantastic. If you are good at suspending logic, the action here could keep you on the edge of your seat. Just when glass is crashing all around and the house is a wreck, they manage to find more glass to crash around.

Walking out of the movie, I heard a 10-year-old child say, "Wow! That was fantastic!" Yes, this appeals to that age very well. Sitting in group audience and hearing the children around me laughing was worth the ticket price. Not much beats the sound of children in happy laughter.

Happy Veteran's Day & Recipes

To my dad and friends and all others who are veterans or currently serving:

              

I found a cute page of Veteran's Day Recipes. The Patriotic Cheesecake sounds very good.

Tiny Animation

I am really caught up in animating these days. This is my latest little creation from my IMVU.com avatar today.

A good place where I get many other animated pictures is from Animation Factory. I am a member, but they give free pictures away every week or month or so to anyone who visits.

Little Black Kitten

Visit the sweet black kitten in the link below. When you get there, try moving the mouse (don't hold down the button) over different parts of the kitten to hear him purr or see him move his paw, ears and more - just adorable. (Thanks to Lil S. for the link below.)

 Little Black Kitten

Photoshopped Avatars

Half the fun of playing with dolls, er, designing your own avatars is refining them with Photoshop and making something of it all - movies, animations, etc. I think I will put one in a picture and post it on my photo blog.

I added a beveled edge to make this look a little more 3D. (More like a size 40D, but that was the way she was made - an emaciated teenager with a large bra size. Reality has no place at IMVU.com.)