It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns

How's it going my gumdrops? Before yesterday's Song Saturday blog was deleted last night, did you enjoy Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds featuring Kylie Minogue in "Where The Wild Roses Grow"? It was rather dark and morbid.

You may be wondering, "What happened?!"

Before I started working on today's Cartoon Sunday blog last night, I was in the middle of TRYING to delete an empty draft of yesterday's Song Saturday blog. The draft was a duplicate, that somehow merged itself with the Song Saturday blog I had ALREADY published yesterday morning.

Webs.com continues to have glitches with ALL their apps. Some of their apps have also been discontinued, including the Testimonials. About 2 weeks ago, I spoke to someone, who works in Webs' tech support by phone.

Supposedly, Webs discontinued Testimonials. Then, the man I spoke to by phone told me to remove my Testimonials page. In addition, he said to remove the most recent blog listing app from the About page, until Webs fixes it.

We are going into the 3rd week of 2018 and it has already been a SHITTY year for me both on and offline. If I didn't know any better, I would swear this is still 2017.

In case you missed yesterday's Song Saturday blog, I shared "Where The Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Nick Cave was inspired by the traditional, Appalachian murder ballad, "Down In The Willow Garden."

Like I said in yesterday's Song Saturday blog before it was deleted, "Where The Wild Roses Grow" features Dance-Pop singer, Kylie Minogue.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds [Featuring Kylie Minogue] "Where The Wild Roses Grow" Murder Ballads (1996)

Meanwhile, do you remember last year, when I shared David Romero's Other Lily?

Other Lily was another Animated Horror Short by Romero, that I shared last summer for Cartoon Sunday. As long as NOTHING terrible happens next weekend, you should expect another Animated Horror Short by him for Cartoon Sunday.

Today I am sharing David Romero's Animated Horror Short, Pine Devil. There is very little description about this short. However, if you watch Pine Devil, you should be able to form an idea regarding the story.

According to a brief summary I read, a man kills what seems to be the so-called "Jersey Devil." In the process, the man attracts REAL trouble and becomes prey.

Basically, the hunter becomes the hunted. Anyway, here is David Romero's Pine Devil for today's Cartoon Sunday.

David Romero Pine Devil (2016)

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Merry Christmas Eve my gumdrops! In the Cartoon Sunday blog I published 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that Adult Swim's Toonami block would be airing a Cowboy Bebop Marathon, AGAIN.

While miserable cheapskates, ingrates, AND misanthropes poured their misery everywhere both on and offline about having to celebrate Christmas and other December holidays, I used my time wisely.

Because we did NOT want to do any major cooking and cleaning this Christmas, we wrote a list of what dinners to order from The Cheesecake Factory. The restaurant will be closed tomorrow because it will be Christmas Day. With that being said, we will be ordering and carrying out our dinners tonight so that we will have them for tomorrow.

Aside from planning what dinners to buy from The Cheesecake Factory, doing the usual chores, and me boycotting Toonami's Cowboy Bebop Marathon, I worked on today's Cartoon Sunday blog.

Before I forget, I want to mention that TBS will be premiering American Dad's 15th season tomorrow night. Not only will tomorrow night's episode be a premiere, but also a Christmas episode. Yes, it will be a new Christmas episode on CHRISTMAS.

Click on the following link:

American Dad: "Santa, Schmanta" Promo (2017)

I cannot believe that TBS of all networks will be airing a brand new episode about the holidays ON a holiday. Most networks today air Christmas specials and movies 1 week or so before the actual holiday rather than on it. TBS deserves a gold star!

Speaking of animation and Christmas specials, did you know that in 2010, Elvira had an animated short for Christmas? Earlier this month, I discovered her animated short on YouTube. It's amazing what you find online.

Hopefully, my fellow Horror fans will enjoy it. I managed to stumbled upon a rare gem, that I never knew existed.

Elvira's Very Scary X-Mas is techically a Christmas Horror Stop-motion Animated Short. With the help of the creators of Killer Klowns From Outer Space, the animated short was featured on her show, Elvira's Movie Macabre.

If you are at least over the age of 30 and watched Horror films and shows during the 1980's, you should already know about Elvira and who she is. I don't expect younger adults and children to know about Elvira.

Even though the so-called "Mistress Of The Dark" is on social media sites like Twitter, chances are highly great that younger Millennials and Generation Z barely know much about her, if anything at all. Elvira was before their time.

In this Christmas Horror Stop-motion Animated Short for today's Cartoon Sunday, Elvira hunts for the perfect Christmas tree.

Elvira's Very Scary X-Mas (2010)

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How's it going my gumdrops? There is literally ONLY 7 more days until most of us celebrate Christmas and only 4 more days until Pagans celebrate Winter Solstice. Hanukkah began last Tuesday, December 12th and will be ending in 3 more days.

Have most of you finished shopping for presents? If not, this will be the LAST week for you to do your shopping.

I keep saying "most" because as I have said many times over the last 3 years, Orthodox Christians do NOT celebrate Christmas, until January 7th. Therefore, they STILL have ample time to finish all their Christmas shopping.

As a quick word of advice to the ladies, make sure to wear COMFORTABLE SHOES, while shopping. This excludes wearing high heel shoes. I was not even wearing high heels, last night and my feet were killing me.

Without a doubt, my thighs and feet definitely got a full workout, last night. I wonder how many calories were burned from doing last minute Christmas shopping and how many miles I personally walked in 2 MALLS for 4-5 HOURS.

Last night, I went Christmas shopping for a LONG time and with my oldest aunt.

After the amount of time we spent shopping, I almost did not work on today's blog for Cartoon Sunday. Hopefully, I will have enough time this week to rewatch last night's episodes of Black Clover and Naruto Shippuden.

Because I kept falling asleep during Black Clover, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, and Naruto Shippuden, I had to keep rewinding all 3 shows last night.

Had I known that I would be feeling sleepy after being gone Christmas shopping for so long, I would've recorded those shows on DVR. Next Cartoon Sunday, I will be sharing a rare short as a Christmas gift to Horror fans. Stay tuned!

Speaking of Cartoon Sunday, I have another Animated Christmas Horror Short to share with you. Have you ever witnessed a dark and creepy-looking figure at the bottom of your stairs, during the time of Christmas? I can't say that I have. This is coming from someone, who normally sees the creepiest figures.

Much like the previous Animated Christmas Horror Short, Llama Arts adapted Mr. Nightmare's A Christmas Horror Story into another animated short.

Be prepared to feel a little disturbed after watching A Christmas Horror Story for today's Cartoon Sunday.

A Christmas Horror Story {Animated} (2016)

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How's it going my gumdrops? Did you enjoy Rachel F. Williams' music composition, "It's NOT Christmas"? Spooky-sounding, don't you think? It sounds somewhat Halloweenish for a Christmas Song; Christmas meets Halloween.

As a quick update for those, who may be interested, Toonami will preempt its regular schedule for Cowboy Bebop and Dragon Ball Super Marathons on December 23rd and 30th. Therefore, you won't be missing anything in that regard. So, continue having fun celebrating the holidays with family and friends.

Meanwhile, if you happen to be in the mood for something more festive yet creepy, It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns is the right place to be these next few weeks. You can expect to see Animated Christmas Horror Shorts.

During this time of season, have you ever received any creepy unknown phone calls or messages?

Llama Arts adapted Mr. Nightmare's The Phone Call into an Animated Christmas Horror Short. Imagine a snow storm around the time of Christmas.

As Alex and Jeffrey's parents go to visit their sick grandmother, they are left at home. Before leaving, Alex is informed by their mother that Uncle Joe will be at their house.

Jeffrey automatically assumes, that Joe will ONLY be with them as their babysitter. Shortly after Alex and Jeff's parents leave, Alex receives an unknown phone call. It's from their uncle.

Is Uncle Joe already there?

The more unknown phone calls, the creepier this short gets. Watching The Phone Call is like watching an animated short as a Christmas Slasher.

Before answering any unknown phone calls, this Animated Christmas Horror Short should make you think TWICE. With that being said, get ready to be creeped out watching The Phone Call for today's creepy yet festive Cartoon Sunday.

The Phone Call (2015)

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How's it going my gumdrops? So, how did you like Austin Dickey's collaboration with Into The Flood yesterday? In case you missed yesterday's Song Saturday, here it is once again in the following link.

Song Saturday: Austin Dickey [Featuring Into The Flood's] Krampus (2017)

Meanwhile, about 3 weeks ago, I meant to watch Black Clover before its premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami block last night.

Black Clover's Toonami Promo (2017)

So far, Black Clover looks like it is a parody of Blue Exorcist, Bleach, and Naruto. Those are 3 Shonen Jump Action Anime I like, that Toonami fanboys love bitching about because they are not the Dragon Ball and One Piece franchises.

Here is my stance. If you can sit and watch such an ugly, cartoonishly generic-looking Anime with a protagonist that screams:

Then you can watch Bleach, Black Clover, Blue Exorcist, Naruto, etc, etc.

Krampus seriously needs to pay these entitled, man-children, who act smaller than their shoe sizes a visit. Since they are SO obnoxious and bratty acting, he needs to throw them in his basket or red sack and send them straight to hell.

Those bratty fanboys do nothing except repulse other viewers from watching shows, that upstage their pwecious Dragon Ball and One Piece.

Speaking of Krampus once again this weekend, I have another animated short. It features Saint Nicholas' evil sidekick, that punishes misbehaving children. In 2012, Clement Gore published his book, The Krampus Night Before Christmas.

Mitch Mommaerts produced the book promo for The Krampus Night Before Christmas. Gore's promo was also illustrated by Gil-T and features Michael Goral as the narrator. Clement Gore, Mitch Mommaerts, Gil-T, and Michael Goral should all be praised for their creativity and being innovative.

With only 2 MORE DAYS, until Krampus makes his rounds to punish all the naughty children, here is the animated book promo for Clement Gore's The Krampus Night Before Christmas for today's Cartoon Sunday.

Clement Gore The Krampus Night Before Christmas {Book Promo} (2012)

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How's it going my gumdrops? How did you enjoy yesterday's Song Saturday blog? We now have ONLY 4 more days until Thanksgiving. Today's Cartoon Sunday blog before Thanksgiving is a major contrast from yesterday's Song Saturday blog.

If you personally know me or at least paid attention to the home page and content on It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns, then you already know or SHOULD know that I have a dark sense of humor. The content in today's blog is living proof of it.

Don't let that child friendly-looking illustration above fool you. The animated short, Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving is not "child friendly." This darkly humorous short comes from The Jackal Group.

About 2 weeks or so ago, I discovered Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving through the YouTube channel, AOK. Without a doubt, AOK's content is meant for adult viewers.

On their channel, they claim to be "the home to hilarious topical animations and live action comedy sketches poking fun at everything from politics to pop culture."

When I originally watched Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving on YouTube, I could not help laughing. Last night, I re-watched this short, while drinking Spearmint Tea and almost did a so-called "spit take."

If you happen to be a proud Vegan or a Vegetarian-eating, "Animal Rights Activist" and is easily "triggered" by political incorrectness, you may find this educational yet darkly humorous animated short to be offensive.

Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving is violent, which was why I said it is NOT "child friendly." However, you CAN check out an older Cartoon Sunday blog.

Cartoon Sunday: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special (2014)

While watching Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving for today's Cartoon Sunday, I highly recommend not eating or drinking anything. You could do a spit take.

Talkin' Turkey Talks Thanksgiving (2016)

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How's it going my gumdrops? Because we were celebrating my grandmother's 77th birthday, I published Song Saturday 2 days ago. Yesterday we celebrated her 77th birthday at Red Lobster for lunch. Hopefully, MORE people remembered to thank veterans for their services, while celebrating Veterans Day.

Aside from celebrating Veterans Day yesterday, it's Cartoon Sunday. This animated short I'm sharing with you today was a short I meant to share last Sunday. The Face Shop is a Dark Comedy Animated Short created by Noella Borie.

Originally, The Face Shop was Borie's thesis film meant for children in May 2010. It's about the 11-year-old boy, Neil who has no face. Neil's monster friend, Manny takes him to a face shop so that he can find himself a suitable face.

When I watched The Face Shop a few weeks ago, it reminded me of the 3D Stop-Motion Dark Fantasy Horror film, Coraline.

Coraline [2009] Fan Made Trailer (2014)

In case you have never watched Coraline, it was based on the Children's Dark Fantasy novella by Neil Gaiman; If you never watched Coraline, I highly recommend doing so. You will see some of The Face Shop's similarities.

Even though Coraline and The Face Shop were meant for children, adults can be easily attracted to both. This is especially if you are a fellow Gothic Horror fan.

Not only did I notice that the illustrations for Noella Borie's The Face Shop looks very similar to Coraline, but it also looks abstract enough to pass as a potential animated short for Adult Swim.

Don't believe me? Watch Borie's graphically disturbing yet abstract Dark Comedy Animated Short for yourself.

Noella Borie's The Face Shop (2010)

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How's it going my gumdrops? We now have only 2 more days until Halloween. Have you been enjoying your Halloween Weekend? Mine hasn't been the most exciting, I will say that much.

Because Adult Swim's Toonami chose to repeat the same Samurai Jack Marathon last night, that aired for Memorial Day Weekend, I dismissed it. The people, who run the network and the block, schedule the most idiotic programming.

Considering that this was supposed to have been a Halloween Weekend, it would've been more logical to have a Stardust Crusaders or Tokyo Ghoul Marathon than to re-air the Samurai Jack Marathon for a more infantile crowd.

On October 19th, which was 2 Thursdays ago, I watched Tokyo Ghoul: Jack.

Tokyo Ghoul: Jack Trailer (2015)

Like I mentioned in a previous Cartoon Sunday blog about the Tokyo Ghoul franchise, it has 2 OVA's. There is Tokyo Ghoul: Jack and Tokyo Ghoul: PINTO.

Both OVA's are prequels except Jack is a prequel about Kisho Arima and Taishi Fura. 12 years ago in OVA 1, both were high school classmates. Arima was an undercover Ghoul Hunter, who worked for The Doves. Fura, on the other hand, was a juvenile delinquent in high school. 

Taishi Fura quit the baseball team to play hooky with his mischievous friends. That was until a ghoul wearing a Jack-O' Lantern as a mask, killed 1 of Fura's friends and took his other friend's right eye. She became partially blind after being attacked.

To avenge his friends, Taishi worked with Kisho to hunt down the ghoul, Lantern. You may be wondering why the ghoul is called "Lantern."

Obviously, this ghoul wears a Jack-O Lantern as a disguise, even though her eyes glow red like all the other ghouls. This OVA definitely has some twists at the end. All those Toonami fans, that love nit picking the Tokyo Ghoul franchise should really take time to read the character summaries.

Reading the summaries for Tokyo Ghoul's characters gives a much better clarification than the actual Anime. When you read and listen to the summaries, they give you a better understanding of Tokyo Ghoul's premise.

What does Tokyo Ghoul: Jack have anything to do with the protagonist, Ken Kaneki?

While reading and listening to the character summaries about Kisho Arima, I learned that he was a hailed genius character within the CCG at 16 years old. In Tokyo Ghoul: Jack, you will have the chance to see the mysterious character known as ARIMA work as a Ghoul Hunter with the CCG from his youth, then rising to the top.

Kisho Arima is more significant in Tokyo Ghoul than we EVER realized.

Throughout Seasons 1 and 2, the name, ARIMA was thrown around loosely. With Tokyo Ghoul having such a large cast of characters, it was hard to differentiate who the real terrorists were in the series.

In the Tokyo Ghoul Manga, Kisho Arima takes the protagonist, Ken Kaneki (recently renamed "Haise Sasaki)," and becomes his mentor. Even though Arima mentors and trains with him, Arima is given orders to kill "Sasaki," if he loses his self-control as a ghoul.

Hopefully, Season 3 of Tokyo Ghoul will explain more about Kisho Arima next year, since he was last shown with Ken Kaneki in Season 2's finale. So much was left unfinished.

Then again, I was recently told by someone on AnimeNation, that Tokyo Ghoul's 2nd season was NOT canon. In other words, this last season we just finished watching was nothing more than a filler arc.

Because Season 2 was a filler arc, it is much better to read the Tokyo Ghoul Manga. Otherwise, you can always read the character summaries, which summarizes what REALLY happened with each character in the story.

Hunting for the English Dub of Tokyo Ghoul: Jack was like pulling teeth. Since I could not find the OVA in English Dub, you will have to watch it in English Subtitles.

Anyway, here is Tokyo Ghoul: Jack for today's Cartoon Sunday. Click on the link below.

Tokyo Ghoul: Jack [English Subtitles] (2015)

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How's it going my gumdrops? Did you enjoy yesterday's Song Saturday blog? After sharing yesterday's blog, I noticed there were still others reading and +1'ing blogs I published last week.

That's not including a spambot, that refused to quit spamming the shit out of my Song Saturday blog about The Bangles. The more I deleted, reported, and told him to stop, he persisted.

This led to me disabling the comments section on that particular blog; Everyone can still comment on the rest of these blogs except "Song Saturday: The Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian."

As a quick reminder, next Saturday night, Adult Swim's Toonami block will be doing ANOTHER Samurai Jack Marathon for the so-called "Halloween Weekend."

[Toonami Promo]: Samurai Jack Halloween Marathon (2017)

If you're like me, you may be asking "What does another Samurai Jack Marathon have anything to do with Halloween?" Believe me, it doesn't. It would've been more logical to air a Tokyo Ghoul Marathon. Then, follow it up with OVA 1, which is Tokyo Ghoul: Jack. At least it is a Horror Anime and OVA 1 has a Halloweenish theme to it.

Tokyo Ghoul: Jack OVA 1 Trailer [English Subtitles] (2015)

Tokyo Ghoul: Jack features a ghoul, that wears a Jack O' Lantern over her head as a mask, while she's on her killing spree. I will explain more about OVA 1 next week for Cartoon Sunday.

Obviously, Jason DeMarco and The Toonami Team don't know how to schedule their programming. The fans have been complaining about next Saturday night's schedule, since 2 weeks or so ago.

On another note, I thought I would share something a little different for today. If you have a fondness for Dark Humor like I do, you may enjoy today's animated short.

This animated short was created by a Portuguese teenage filmmaker, who goes by the name of Manusfilm Studios. His real name is Manuel Ferreira. Ferreira claims that he loves "combining visual excellence with powerful storytelling."

The animated short, A Deadly Visit is a darkly humored animated short, which is in tribute to his late grandfather, Dom Zito. He died in 2015.

A Deadly Visit is about The Grim Reaper paying an 89-year-old lady, named Mary Ann a visit to her house. Watching him explain to the old lady, that he is there to "harvest her life" is hilarious. She's already deaf and wears hearing aids.

Then, Marry Ann offers The Grim Reaper milk and Chocolate Chip Cookies. Those Chocolate Chip Cookies she baked were highly irresistable to him.

Aside from Mary Ann treating The Grim Reaper like a special guest in her home, she begins justifying to him why she is not ready to die. Mary Ann is supposedly a "good person." This is where the short has an interesting twist.

Is this 89-year-old lady a good person or not? Wait until you see what Mary Ann does to The Grim Reaper. Then, you be the judge for yourself.

With that being said, here is A Deadly Visit for today's Cartoon Sunday.

Manuel Ferreira's A Deadly Visit (2015)

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How's it going my gumdrops? It is refreshing to see that some of you liked yesterday's blog, which featured Helicopter Girl's "Satan's Seventh Bride." Like I said before, it was something different than the usual. Let's continue this trend for today's Cartoon Sunday blog.

As you look at the gif above, some of you are probably saying, "Aww, look at that black sheep! Isn't it cute?!" Don't let that black sheep's cuteness fool you. Today's short takes a horrific turn. Do you remember the English nursery rhyme, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"?

"Bah, Bah, a black Sheep,

Have you any Wool?

Yes merry I Have,

Three Bags full,

Two for my Master,

One for my Dame,

None for the Little Boy

That cries in the lane."

In the 1744 London anthology, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" was published. Mother Goose's Melody was the next surviving anthology with a similar rhyme to the original.

The last line was revised as "But none for the little boy who cries in the lane," in the 1765 Mother Goose Edition. Over time, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" was modified as saying:

"Baa, baa, black sheep,

Have you any wool?

Yes, sir, yes, sir,

Three bags full;

One for the master,

And one for the dame,

And one for the little boy

Who lives down the lane."

In 1761, some theorists have claimed this nursery rhyme was a complaint against Medieval English taxes on wool and that it was about the slave trade. By the 20th Century, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" became a controversial subject.

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" sparked debates about "political correctness."

There are those, who automatically associate "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" with American Slave Trade from The South. Considering how obsessed Americans are with "political correctness" ad nauseam, it goes without saying, that the nursery rhyme is "racially dubious," "racist," etc.

Author, Katherine Elwes Thomas, however suggested in the 1930 book, The Real Personages of Mother Goose, that "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" referred to those who resented the heavy wool taxation.

This was especially, when it came to the Medieval English "Great" or "Old Custom" Wool Tax of 1275. This heavy wool taxation lasted, until the 15th Century.

Aside from the controversy, Axeman Cartoons gives a sinister yet apocalyptic meaning to the nursery rhyme, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."

In this Horror Animated Short, it appears that the black sheep is out for blood, while seeking restitution for something. Honestly, I could not tell you what that guy did to the black sheep to cause all hell to break loose. It's as if the black sheep turned into Damien from The Omen.

Yes, the black sheep is that evil! Anyway, here is Axeman Cartoons' Black Sheep for today's Cartoon Sunday.

Axeman Cartoons' Black Sheep (2016)

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