Just posted them today!
www.ultra-gor.com/gallery/
Things went SOOOOOO much better than last year, but then last year was our first time at this gig and we had to learn things the hard way. Our position in the parade couldn't have been better as far as I'm concerned...a "Jazzcat" band in front of us, and classic cars behind! Weather cooperated too, with high temps in Piedmont only around 71. Super Jayhawk deserves a great deal of praise for being the anchor(along with Terraluna) of the whole parade logistics, as well as firing up the grill the next day at his place for those who marched/helped out in the parade. 37 Pounds of meat, including a 14-pound ribeye! NOM!


So far this pic seems to be the popular one out of the bunch:

(Probably because it shows we Critters have something to please everybody...cats, horses, rams, dogs, lizards, and gorillas!!)

 The Jackson 5 Christmas album I listened to all year round, and drove my parents crazy. "I'll be there" was heard on my maid's car radio when I went with her on errands. "Dancin' Machine" was on our jukebox in the gameroom.  His harmonizing with his own voice on "Off the Wall" I never heard anything like before. I used to impersonate him at Karaoke bars in the 90's and people said "Man, I gotta shake your hand, that's the best MJ impersonation I ever heard!" 
I never got to meet him or even get relatively close to him. All I wanted was to meet him and say "Please don't die! The world will never recover if you go before your time!" Another regret to add to my long list of regrets. Go ahead and call me crazy, I don't care. Will he even have a chance of going to Heaven?

 If anybody makes fun of Michael Jackson around me, I don't care who it is, you WILL BE PHYSICALLY HURT!!!! FUCK THE GODDAMN TABLOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When it really counted for something, I've never won anything my whole life.

Another reason why I'm glad I don't drink alcohol: your chances of getting laughed-at  by total strangers increase DRAMATICLY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ja6yJpA1E

I got a little smarter and used some photos from the Fursuit Database that I thought would look great under "neon light"! I'm going from A to Z in the database, hence the ones I did here were A-C:

  ANUBIS!       BINGO!

  BLUENEKO!  
  BRIDGETTE!     CORNWALL!

Just finished my two online courses in anatomy & physiology. The professor said taking these two back-to-back, in one's first quarter, was not forbidden, but was not at all recommended due to the difficulty. But...I'm kind-of in a hurry to get my billing/coding/terminology  certificate, so I took them anyway. Final results are in: final grades of a "B" in both classes!! I'm glad to know my brain hasn't rotted from all the unemployment!

Back in 1983 I saw for the first and only time the Rock-A-Fire Explosion at Showbiz Pizza. I never forgot the singing gorilla. Then FJ McLoud made it known to me that the RAE was still around on You-Tube today, For over a year I had checked Ebay daily for someone selling one of the highly collectible 1980's plushies of "Fatz Geronimo", the gorilla keyboardist. Once in a great while one would come up for auction and the bids would go WAY past my limits. But it looks like the bidders were sleeping this time! Fatz is now mine FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Aaron Fechter, the creater of Showbiz & the RAE, lives & works his magic in Orlando, FL. Next time I go home, I'm getting a pic with the REAL thing!! There's talk of a kid's animated show about the RAE coming soon, so I need to meet Aaron & Fatz before they get so popular they'll be inaccessible!

I just found out on their now-defunct website: Allied Costumes in Winter Park, Florida has officially closed. The deep recession was too much for them to survive. Ultra-Gor was born there 5 years ago this month. Between February and May 2004 I became attached to the owner Dennis, the seamstress Trish, and Allan the heavy-duty man, having to stop by weekly to check on the progress of the Big Monkey in Red. And we all were jumping up & down when the super gorilla looked at himself in the mirror for the first time and liked what he saw. This is very hard for me to swallow right now. I only hope the Allied people have found work elsewhere.

I just got through seeing the next Trek installment. People, unless you want special effects only for satisfaction, you're going to be confused at best, and PISSED OFF at worst by the end of the picture. The writers and directors didn't follow ANY rules regarding the Star Trek continuum. A romantic relationship between Spock and Uhura??????????? Excuse me?????????? They didn't even KNOW each other at the stardate supposedly in question. The only people applauding after the movie were people age 22 and under, only because they don't know any better. And don't even get me started about how WRONG the Enterprise was designed.

  NOUGAT!  ARF!  

  RAMMSTEIN! RED!

 TWILIGHT!   WEBBER!

Thanks to Terraluna and Foofurs for allowing me to come and help wrangle! The fair organizer, Betty, gave us all a NICE mini suite at the Hampton Inn very close by the fair, that had a pool & jacuzzi! A blustery-hot weekend, but still great fun. Friday, Kingsford "fished" for people to come to the Vacaville Library for the symposium on dragons. Friday night we chomped munchies at Mel's Drive-in, Saturday, Scabrous, Kingsford, Ralph Hood, Willy Wonka, Wolfen Dancer, and the "mild-mannered but dangerous" monk, gave all the street fair visitors the time of their lives, to the expense of almost every drop of kinetic energy in our bodies! How we all drove home safely is a miracle!
Go see the pics here:
www.ultra-gor.com/gallery/

Left: Hasbro's "Gargantuan Gorilla", one of the collectible "Battle Beasts" from 1986.
Center: Ultra-Gor, alien gorilla superhero, arriving on Earth 2004.
Right: Pittsburg State's mascot, "Gus", conceived long before I was born.

Somehow, I get the feeling red and gold were the perfect colors to choose for the Big Monkey's super-uniform! And NO, I was unaware of the existence of the other two gorillas when I got inspired!

Saturday was absolutely picture-perfect for a Critter gig! Fairyland's Bunny(Easter) Day had three Bunnies: Twilight, Angel, and Red(who changed his name for the day to "Berry-Blue" so kids wouldn't be dumbfounded by a blue bunny named "Red"!) Temperature was around 60, and the rain all week dried up to give lots of pretty flora for Saturday. Miss Kitty, Hazmat, Muffles, Skookum, and Ping were also there. A crowded day, too--economy has everyone saving money and Fairyland is a bargain for fun. CJ, Fairyland's bigwig, for once got in a picture with some of the Critters, which gives us MAJOR kudos! One photo turned out to be one of those "Man, I'm glad I thought of that!" moments:

If Ultra-Gor had a favorite comic, it would probably be...



ARACHNA-KONG...THE SUPER SPIDER-APE!
Hero Factory is sooooo much fun!

  STARFOX 
  ROGER FOX    GUSTY FOX  BERKELEY FOX  

See what I mean!  Wow...