I'm offering up more of my doubles for sale here! I've got mostly gashapon, dolls, and figures. Everything's kind of small, so shipping won't be that expensive, either. Please take a look! If you don't like my prices, feel free to make an offer! Nothing over $10!

Rules:
1. I can only ship to the United States or Canada, sorry.
2. PayPal only. Buyer is responsible for all Paypal fees.
3. Please give me your zip code in your comment so I can calculate shipping!
4. All packages are sent out first-class mail, no exceptions.
5. No items are sent out until I receive full payment!

I NO LONGER PUT ITEMS ON HOLD.



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In an attempt to get my mediocre art out there, and to make a little money because I'm poorer than dirt, I am selling nine art cards that I have drawn myself. Each one features a past or present member of Nine Inch Nails in my own anime style. They're about 3" X 4" each, and will arrive in a clear plastic sleeve for protection. There is only ONE of each card, so once one is sold, it's gone!

I will only accept Paypal instant transfers or concealed cash (concealed cash is at YOUR OWN RISK!). If you wish to pay by Paypal credit or debit card, please ask me first. You will be expected to pay Paypal fees as well as the card price and shipping. I will NOT ship a card or cards out to you until I have received full payment. Unfortunately, I cannot ship anywhere but the United States.

Each card is $5. Shipping for one card is $1, while shipping for two or more will be $2. Please keep in mind that I have to buy the envelopes and stamps and card sleeves to send these to you! :)

Cross-posted to the Unofficial Modwheelmood Forum and The Nine Inch Nails Sketchblog



Click on the image to see a bigger view. Each card will be exactly as you see here. Please tell me title of the card(s) you want.

Top Row, left to right:
"Trent Reznor" 1 (in red)
"Trent Reznor" 2 (in black) SOLD
"Trent Reznor 1994" (in black) SOLD

Middle Row:
"Alessandro Cortini" (in brown)SOLD
"Aaron North" (in purple) SOLD
"Robin Finck" (in blue)

Bottom Row:
"Ilan Rubin - Kawaii" (in green)
"Jerome Dillon" (in blue)
"Jeordie White" (in sepia)

I've been trolling through Ebay and several online stores and communities to find additions for my ever-growing Sailor Moon collection, and finally I've decided to put up a wishlist for trades or selling. Anyone who has any of these items, let me know! :)

~SAILOR MOON~

FIGURES/DOLLS
Petit Soldier Sailor PLUTO Figure Pic
Petit Soldier Sailor NEPTUNE Figure Pic
Petit Soldier Sailor URANUS Figure Pic

Pink Base Super Sailor Moon, Mars, Chibimoon, or Jupiter candy figures Pic

Sailormoon World 6-inch Sailor Saturn doll Pic

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Sailor Luna doll Pic

Excellent Team Sailor Moon doll Pic
Excellent Team Sailor Mercury Doll Pic
Excellent Team Sailor Jupiter Doll Pic
Excellent Team Sailor Venus Doll Pic

Cutie Model Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter, or Sailor Venus Pic

BOOKS
Sailor Moon Official Illustrations Part 5 Pic
Sailor Moon Materials Collection Pic
Sailor Moon Infinity Collection Pic


~NON-SM ITEMS~

Azumanga Daioh Kagura in Yukata Plush Pic
Azumanga Daioh Sakaki in Yukata Plush Pic
Cardcaptor Sakura Cutie Heroine Tomoyo Figure Pic
Wedding Peach Angel Daisy Doll Pic

If you were a kid in the late 1980's or early 90's, like me, chances are you were seduced by a mass amount of junk food popularized by cartoon/video game characters of the day. I mean, yeah, the Sonic the Hedgehog macaroni and cheese was good, as was the Super Mario Brothers pasta. But I'm not here to talk about those so-fine products - I wanna talk about one of the most disgusting food items of the time - the Hostess Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pudding Pies.

Wikipedia can give you a standard description of these tasty treats horrors. But I wanted to describe them as I remember them in my childhood.

My mother would come home from the grocery store, her arms full of bags. I would be playing outside on my bike, and she would pull two TMNT pudding pies out of the bags - one for me, and one for my brother. My brother, always having been the more intelligent child, refused to eat his. I, always being the glutton, was happy to have two.

Until I bit into one.

Contrary to this commercial, TMNT pies were not all they were cracked up to be. The green coating of sugar on the outside was hard as hell, not to mention overpoweringly sweet even for a child, and the pudding inside was indescribably awful. And it got warm very fast. Eating that warm pudding was truly nauseating. The 'special edition ooze' pies were a hundred times worse - neon green pudding encased in a tasteless, crumbly pastry shell.

Yet, somehow, I forced both pies down. And I was apparently very retarded, because the next time my mother brought one home, I'd have forgotten how terrible it tasted and I'd get all excited. Until I ate it, of course.

I'm not saying all TMNT-themed foods were bad - the pizza was good, the cereal passible, and the ice pops with gumball eyes were totally kick-ass - but the pudding pies topped the list of gross. I can only assume the reason thousands of children choked these down was because it had the ninja turtles on the wrapper.

My cousin and I have started a blog created especially for people to get to know our original character, Kai. We'd really love it if you'd visit often! There's not much up now, but we'll be working on it!

I'm such a dork... I just had to post some pictures of my proud collections. (Some of them, at least. I didn't take pictures of my anime toys collection...) Enjoy!!

My Anime Collection: All my anime tapes and DVDs. I plan on buying more next week if I have the money, so this picture will be outdated soon... ^^;;;

My Manga Collection: Huge... not as huge as some people I know, but there's at least $3,000 worth of manga here!!! Also included are my artbooks, both anime and manga!

My Anime Plushies: Posing on my beanbag chair. I've got Kenshin and Kaoru from "Rurouni Kenshin", Shigure from "Fruits Basket", Kero-chan from "Cardcaptor Sakura", Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus, and Sailor Pluto from "Sailor Moon", and several Hello Kitty!s. *giggle* Aren't they cute??

My Dolls: My Japanese Princess Barbie and my Chinese New Year Barbie, along with my Japanese fans and a sake bottle, posing on top of my stereo!

My Workstation: A different pic than the one on deviantArt. Cleaned up and accessorized with my Japanese toys, my Sirius Black action figure, stickers, and the Trent Laura drew for me for my birthday. Yay!!!

What's The Deal With Ken?



"Is he really just a sponge, or is that just the way it looks?" --my brother


Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone realise that in the Barbie/Ken relationship, Barbie has been the breadwinner since their invention? She's been a stewardess, a pilot, an artist, a teacher, an astronaut, a mother, countless movie stars, and more. And what's more, she takes care of six or so younger brothers and sisters (which I suspect are not actually "brothers and sisters" - Ken and Barbie's illegitimate children, more likely). And yet, I cannot remember Ken EVER having a job. (Besides ballet dancer and Captain Kirk.) If anyone knows if he ever had a job, please tell me! All the Kens I ever saw were "hobby" Kens. There was Camping Ken, Shaving Fun Ken (though if that's your hobby your life is pretty sad), and various sports-themed Kens. Oh, and a groom Ken. But... those aren't jobs.

So after all these years, Ken is just a useless, tv-watching, binge-eating, lazy bum (as seen above)? He sends his "wife" (marital status is unclear) to go out and work her butt off for the sake of the siblings/children? Um, I can see that Barbie was meant as an empowerment thing for girls, but don't you think this lazy Ken who depends on a rich blonde to provide for him to live a lifestyle of indulgence is a little bit emasculating?

Not that I'm all... political about this. It just struch me as odd that in the, 60-whatever years Barbie and Ken have been around, that the dude's never had a job. What a bum. Seriously, Ken. Get a freakin' job already!

My Nine Inch Nails concert experience!!! It became hugely long, so.... click on the cut! :D

NINE INCH NAILS - November 8, 2005( Read more... )

All right, friends and family, be prepared for quite a long entry, because this was a very busy weekend and I didn't have the time to write up a new entry every night, so you get the enormous conglomerate entry today. Don't you feel special?

It all started on Friday, when Candis and I decided spur-of-the-moment that we were going to visit Provincetown (P-Town for short). Now be informed that P-Town is on Cape Cod. Candis had been there several times before with Chris, Andy, and Martha, so she knew exactly how to get there. We double-checked the route numbers with Chris just to be sure, packed lunch and we were off! It was a good ride down. It was hot, but we had a nice sea breeze, and we had bottled water to cool us off. ALBUMS PLAYED ON THE WAY THERE: "The Fragile" (both discs) by Nine Inch Nails; "Echobrain" by Echobrain; "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" soundtrack. On the way down, we managed to find both my parents! Not literally, of course. But there were signs for a town named Dennis, and someone had a licence plate that said 'Connie'! It was funny. ^^ We stopped at a nice rest place and had our snack (Pop-Tarts and saltwater taffy that my mother had bought Thursday night in Newport), took a few pictures, discovered our cruise control was broken, and generally relaxed. After the rest stop, it took us about another hour and a half to get to P-Town. (Traffic.)

Also let it be known that P-Town is known as kind of a gay community. Not that that bothered us in the least. There were also hundreds of small children and their parents, it being a vacation town. Now this was my first trip to P-Town and in fact my first trip to Cape Cod; so I was psyched up. And I was not disappointed! P-Town is very loud and hot, but it's fun and interesting. After parking, our first task was to find a shady spot to eat lunch - PB&J, water, and more taffy. We finished lunch around 1 or so, and decided we'd have to leave around 2:30, because Candis needed to be home by 5 so she could go to a - *snort* *chuckle* Kelly Clarkson concert with her friends *choke*. (She won the tickets, which was the only reason she was going. *snort*)

We had an ulterior motive to going to P-Town, you see. We are getting seriously pumped for the NIN concert in November (BTW, Treznor announced a new sales date for tix - September 10, I believe), and already we are buying the clothes we want to wear. Now in P-Town there is a shop called Spank The Monkey. The first floor sells stuff like bohemian clothes, beaded curtains, bongs, old concert posters, etc. But the upstairs is a - ahem - sex shop, to put it bluntly. But they have a really, really good selection of fishnet stockings, which we want to wear to Treznor's concert. So we covered our virgin eyes (not so virgin after some of the things we saw in there) and hurried past the scary stuff until we came upon the stockings. You never saw such a selection! Some of it was scary, but lots were very, very cool. And only $5 - $12 a pair! After much deliberation, we picked out the stockings we wanted, paid, and beat a hasty retreat out of there. X_x Never again. In another store, Candis picked up a ring as a going-away present for Chris (who is leaving for college in Florida soon) and one for herself; in yet another store I finally bought that red-and-white poster featuring all the rock stars! ^______^ And we stopped by a True Value to look around, where we got P-Town stickers for our cars. We looked into a few other shops, as well. ^^ Fun, fun.

When it came time to leave, we hopped in the van and drove off. ALBUMS LISTENED TO ON THE WAY BACK: "Re-LOAD" by Metallica; "Thirteenth Step" by A Perfect Circle; "With Teeth" by Nine Inch Nails. But guess what? WE GOT LOST. We took a wrong turn at the rotary or something, because after driving along a two-lane highway for nearly two hours, we realised we were not where we were supposed to be. Where did we go through? Oh... Braintree, Quincy, Tiverton, Fall River, Newport... we were halfway to Boston before we could stop for directions. The directions we got at the gas station got us even MORE lost! We called Candis' father for help, but he got us even more lost. We stopped at ANOTHER gas station for gas and directions (after calling to tell Chris, Andy, and Martha to go see Kelly Clarkson on their own). While Candis was pumping gas, I called my father. He was not pleased to hear we were lost again (by now I think we were in Portsmouth), and since he was at the marina where there is no reception and a thunderstorm, he kept breaking up and I could barely understand what he was trying to tell me. But what I could decipher jived with what the gas station guy told Candis, so off we went. AN HOUR LATER, we are still lost. Every sign we saw saying 'Providence RI' led us in huge circles, plus we missed a few exits. By now we are hot, hungry, tired, and aggravated. The water was gone, and all we had to eat were extremely salty pretzels. But some divine force must have taken pity on us, because we saw a sign that said "Now Entering Swansea". After that was a sign reading "Swansea Mall Road", and we took it! BLESSED SWANSEA MALL! We appeared just down the street from it, and nearly cried in relief. We called our parents to say we were at Swansea Mall and could get home now, and then we were gone. So in summary: TIME TAKEN TO GET THERE: 2 1/2 hours. TIME TO GET HOME: 5 HOURS! We left at 2:30 and didn't get home until nearly 8!!! We suck.

Hang on a little longer! I'm almost done.

Saturday was uneventful, but on Sunday Candis and her brother traB accompanied us on the oat. THEY were there, even more annoying than usual (if that's possible), but we escaped by taking a ride in the inflatable with Daddy. When we returned THEY were leaving (good), and so were Rick and Mary Jane (bad) and Jeremy and Tracy (also bad). After they were gone, it was kayaking time! First Eddy went, then me. I took a longer ride than I should have (I'm certainly paying for it today with this aching back), but it really helped me unwind. Then it was Candis' turn. She tries to get in - and flips over! She tries again - flips over again! A third time! She almost made it, but then - flop! ^^ We were all giggling, it was so funny. So traB tries. He gets in successfully, paddles around a bit, comes back, tries to get out, and... SPLOOSH. Truly, the Frey family was not made for kayaks. But it was very funny. Then it was time to come home. Candis and traB stayed for supper and everyone had a turn in the shower, but when I tried to take them home their parents were MIA. Neither Candis nor traB had a house key, and they couldn't get in touch with their parents, so they stayed over our house for the night. Her dad called on her cell phone at 12:30 AM, giving us both heart attacks as he woke us out of a sound sleep!!! Grr... but all's well that ends well.

Sorry for the hideously long entry. ^^; I apologise. Thanks for sticking around.

~~*THE LEGEND OF TREZNOR*~~

There was a maaaaan! A strange, enchanted maaaaan! Well... not really. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, (or not), a fangirl happened to click on a picture of Trent Reznor. The file was saved as "treznor.gif" - as in T. Reznor, Trent Reznor, duh. Well, after seeing that, the fangirl could not help laughing, and dubbed Trent "Treznor", which sounded to her like either a superhero or a giant robot from an anime. She told her friends and family, and they thought it was funny too. And from then on, Trent Reznor was known as "Treznor".

True story. I swear. But I only dubbed him Treznor a few days ago. Dunno why it turned into a old-fashioned story about a strange, enchanted man. Well... he is kinda strange... enchanted? Who knows... Ah, well....