Night Sky Photography -- 05-07-2020 -- Full Flower Supermoon & Venus With Constellation Auriga

Good evening fellow stargazers!

Tonight I thought I would travel one town over to neighboring Richburg, South Carolina and get a shot of the last supermoon of 2020 rising in the east over the town. 

I was able to capture three shots: the first of the moon just over SC Highway 9, the second in the same spot with the brightness adjusted to get a better shot of the surface of the moon itself, and finally one gorgeous close-up of the surface of the full moon itself.

The May full moon is also known as the Full Flower Moon, or Milk Moon.

Tonight Venus can be seen on the outer edge of the Constellation Auriga, in the middle of a sort of upside-down obtuse triangle with the bright stars: Betelgeuse, Capella, and Aldebaran.

Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel (which cannot be seen in the photo) is the second brightest in the Constellation Orion. Capella, in the Constellation Auriga, is the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega. Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Constellation Taurus and the fourteenth-brightest star in the night sky. 

I was able to capture all of the major stars of the Constellation Auriga, and the top of the Constellation Orion and outline them in the photograph, however most of the stars in the Constellation Taurus were too low in the horizon and faint to clearly capture, although Aldebaran cam out clear enough.

The month of May will be the last full month that the bright planet Venus will appear in the western evening sky for the year 2020.

On June 3, Venus will swing between the Earth and sun in its orbit, reaching the point called inferior conjunction by astronomers. Afterwards it will transition over to the eastern sky before sunup.

Throughout the month, Venus will be falling lower toward the sunset while the small planet Mercury will be rising in the western evening sky. On Thursday, May 21, 2020, the two inner planets will be within one degree of one another in conjunction. I'm hoping to get a few good shots of that -- clear skies willing. 

Well I hope y'all enjoyed my evening photos. I hope to have more in the near future, but until then have a wonderful Dixie evening, and keep your eyes to the night skies, y'all!

Nazis Surrender To Confederate Flag -- Happy VE Day From Dixie!

The following is an associated press article written in April of 1945, a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945 telling the story of a group of an U.S. infantry company displaying the Dixie Cross (Confederate battle flag) during the invasion of the Third Reich and accepting the surrender of a company of 103 German soldiers.

The story is an account written in a letter home by U.S. 1st Lieutenant Jack Shelton Harris of Richmond, Virginia (1922-2014). Harris would also later serve in the Korean War (1960-1963). His service to the U.S. military would include several awards: 3 Purple Hearts, 2 Silver Stars, 1 Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.

So the next time a member of the divisive forces of hate and reaction (if they are alt-Left or alt-Right) try to equate the beautiful Southern Cross of Dixie as a "Nazi flag" you remind them that it was U.S. soldiers of Southern and Confederate descendant who were among the first REAL antifascists.

Some of the U.S. soldiers, tanks, and planes that freed Europe from the fascists, liberated the Nazi concentration death camps, and ended the Holocaust flew the Confederate flag. Nazism was defeated by Southern-born men whose grandfathers wore the hallowed gray and butternut of the Confederate soldier.

That's also major part of our shared Southern heritage and identity and the history of that flag too -- and one this writer is proud of!

Have a wonderful Dixie Day, y'all!

May The 4th Be With You & The State Of Star Wars

Well folks, last December I went to the theater and saw Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker. 

Yeah, that happened. 

I mean what else can I say about it after the trailer and my complete lack of enthusiasm for seeing the next installment of Disney's woke space tragedy starring Mary Sue, uh I mean Rey, and a bunch of other diversity hire characters that I really didn't have any serious interest in at this point. 

Oh don't get me wrong, as much as I dislike what Disney has done to the franchise I still planned to go see the film when it arrived to the theaters. I just was not looking forward to it with any great interest. After the travesties that were Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story, by this point it almost felt like I did going through the motions of watching The Simpsons after season 10, simply because it was there. 

The only thing that would have driven me to actually go shill out the money for a ticket to see the movie (which thanks to a co-worker's busy schedule I didn't actually have to do!) is seeing the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga that has been a part of my life-long fan obsession for as long as I could remember.

I won't mention spoilers here, even though by this time everyone knows what happened. My brain is still processing the fact that the glorified fanfiction I saw on the big screen was the actual conclusion of, not only to Disney's sequel trilogy, but of a journey that began in May of 1977. 

To quote Darth Vader rising from the table at the end of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith: Noooooooo!

Now look, before y'all go on thinking oh this guy is one of those bitter fanboys who hates having a waaamen as a main character, let give you some background on how much Star Wars means to me as a fan.

For over 40 years the Star Wars franchise was space opera and sci-fi adventure at some of its best....before the dark times, before The Mouse.

There has not been a moment in my life where I did not know the name Star Wars. I was born in June of 1976, about 11 months prior to the original Star Wars film being released on Wednesday, May 25, 1977. 

As a young Southern boy, I loved watching the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope with my family and all three of the original trilogy films in the early to mid-80s. I grew up throughout the 80s soaking up every bit of Star Wars that I could find, from pop-culture references of it on Jim Henson's Muppet Babies to the appearances of the cast on reruns of The Muppet Show. I even watched those gawdawful Ewoks and Star Wars: Droids – The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO Saturday morning cartoon series in the mid-1980s. 

I think I might have even watched the Star Wars Holiday Special once as a kid -- after which my brain probably completely repressed the memory to protect itself from that particular travesty.

I was completely hooked on the story of space wizards with glowing lightsabers battling evil in a sci-fi setting. I owned and read Shadows of the Empire, the three-part Heir of the Empire Thrawn trilogy, and a number of the older Expanded Universe (now Legends) stories. 

When the remastered trilogy movies made their way to the theaters in 1997, I went and saw each of them on the big screen (I didn't actually get the see any of the original trilogy in the theaters and only saw them on VHS, or movie channels like Showtime). I did like most of the George Lucas' revisions, uh kind-of, even if I believed most of them were unnecessary -- and I still say Han Shot First dammit! 

Then about twenty years ago back in May was the anniversary of the continuing saga of Star Wars with the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace prequel movie....which I actually enjoyed. 

Yeah I know this will put me at odds with a number of fans, but I was never one to knock the prequel films, or crap on them for not being the original trilogy. They were never supposed to be the original trilogy. Do I think they were perfect films? No. Do I think they were better than the original trilogy? Hell no! But they did bring their own unique additions to the cannon lore of the Star Wars franchise and tie together with the original trilogy very well.

Plus they had some of the most kick-ass lightsaber duels of the entire saga to date. There are very few fans today who won't admit to having John Williams brilliantly composed theme Duel of the Fates playing in their brains whenever they see an awesome sword fight, or swing their own plastic lightsabers. 

Granted fans expected more than Jar-Jar Binks and Podracing back in 1999 and maybe fan expectations were raised a bit too high after the outstanding expanded universe created over the two decades between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace by a fandom that was starving for new Star Wars content. Still, if one does not try to compare the prequel trilogy with the original trilogy too rigidly, as I choose not to, then a fan can still find stories that fit both trilogies together nicely. I got through them and even enjoyed them because I accepted them for what they were -- a three-part origin story for the trilogy that I grew up with in my formative years.

All the same after another two decades most fans can look back and see Lucas' guiding hand and respect for the original story in the prequel films -- especially compared to what has come out of now Disney owned Lucasfilm over the last few years. Even the Star Wars The Clone Wars animated film and subsequent Cartoon Network television series is seen today by most fans as a brilliant addition to the franchise. 

Now I know I have been hard on Disney and the corporate shills at Lucasfilm, but I am nerd enough to admit that they haven't completely destroyed Star Wars -- well not just yet.  

Yes many agree that they have devalued Star Wars considerably, but in the hands of people who respect the original vision they can still produce some good content. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Rebels Disney Channel series were both well done in relation to staying true to Lucas' vision. Not without their flaws, to be certain, but still seen by many fans as good storytelling. Certainly The Mandalorian series is widely panned by the Star Wars fandom as well made, and the final season of Star Wars The Clone Wars was probably more anticipated than The Rise of Skywalker ever was -- thank you Dave Feloni!

Unlike many old time fans, I do not see the original trilogy films and Star Wars specials through rose-colored nostalgia glasses. They certainly had their flaws also, and I have never been one of those George Lucas Is God And Can Do No Wrong fanatical fans (and yes even now some of them still exist). Nor am I necessarily one of those fans that thinks that Star Wars peaked with Empire Strikes Back -- even if I do agree it was likely the best of the films so far.

However, when it comes to making serious feature films and putting them in the hands of directors pushing identity politics and personal agendas ahead of the original vision for Star Wars and the formula that made it work, I think a vast majority can agree that Disney/Lucasfilm sucks for the most part at storytelling -- Rogue One notwithstanding, which actually was a good if not completely flawless film itself.

My final verdict based on what I have seen is that Star Wars is not entirely dead, just frozen in carbonite and hanging on the wall of Disney The Hutt's palace waiting for someone -- anyone -- to sneak in and thaw it out. 

Have a wonderful Dixie Day, and May the 4th be with y'all, always! 

Night Sky Photography -- 05-01-2020 -- Constellation Leo The Lion & Waxing Gibbous Moon

Good evening, fellow stargazers!

This evening our lovely Luna in her Waxing Gibbous phase can be spotted near the bright star Regulus -- the heart of the Constellation Leo The Lion. I was able to get these wonderful shots of all the major stars, as well as a beautiful close up of the waxing gibbous moon. 

I hope y'all enjoyed these photos. Be sure to look towards the western sky in the early evenings for bright Venus as May will be the planet Venus’ last full month in the western twilight sky for the year 2020. We’ll all be able to watch it sink closer to the western horizon day by day, finally disappearing in the sunset glare. On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, Venus will swing between the Earth and sun in its orbit, reaching the point called inferior conjunction by astronomers. Afterwards it’ll transition over to the eastern sky before sunup. 

Y'all have a good night, and keep your eyes to the night skies. 

My Adolescent Cartoon Crush Is A Russian Cult's Deity -- Seriously, I'm Not Joking!

Do any of y'all remember watching your favorite cartoons as kids and realizing that you were focusing just a little too much on one of the characters? I mean sure the other characters were great, but there was always that one character in particular that you identified with who was just so smart, so cool, so amazing at everything they did and so good at vanquishing bad guys -- or maybe they could have actually been one of the villain themselves?

Very recently in doing research for a topic for this blog, I came across a somewhat interesting reddit post regarding these cartoon crushes. It was a discussion by adults telling the stories of cartoon characters that they'd some attraction to at one point or another.

Even though we'd all seemingly had them, nobody usually ever talked about focusing on certain characters in some of our favorite TV shows, or animated films. Many adults today consider those tiny little torches we carried for those certain special animated characters to be a bit embarrassing to say the least; just a little blip on our journey to adulthood. 

However, now that we're all older and (mostly) more mature, we can finally admit that -- between about the ages of around 10 - 15, or so, in that strange gap in adolescence between childhood and the march toward becoming an adult -- these cartoon hotties always gave us feelings that we're not quite sure how to deal with. 

For Gen-X folks like your favorite blogger, and later the Millennial generation, we've all had our share of crushes on certain animated characters in our formative years. Given the animated shows of the 1970s through the early 2000s, we had a wide variety of awesome characters to choose from.

Now, before I go on, I would like to point out that not all of these were necessarily immature sexual attractions by early adolescents -- although if I were referring to that, I'd have to confess that Princess Teegra from Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice (1983) did cause me to wear out that old VHS tape pretty fast when I was around 14 or so.

For the most part these cartoon crushes were largely characters that some of us just personally identified with, or maybe wanted to be like in some significant way: a defender of the innocent, a superhero, a soldier, a fantasy character, a furry character if that is your thing, or even a bad guy character that had that certain charisma that you wished you could adopt for your own personality.  

Cartoon crushes come in all forms from human characters, anthropomorphic animals or furries, fantasy creatures, robots and cyborgs, and even villains at times.

So I decided to do a three-month long social experiment on my facebook page earlier this year and asked my friends and colleagues online if any of them had a cartoon crush in their youth they would like to share. I was amazed that a number of my friends who admitted to having a cartoon crush. Many of these are people my age and younger, though a few Baby Boomers even chimed in listing characters from the older cartoon and anime shows.

The cartoon crushes ranged from a variety of shows and characters which included:

1 - Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)
2 - Robin Hood and Maid Marion from Disney's Robin Hood
1 - Mighty Mouse 
1 - Underdog 
2 - Flynn Rider and Rupunsel from Disney's Tangled 
2 - Scarlett and Lady Jaye from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 
2 - Penny from Inspector Gadget 
1 - Daffy Duck from Looney Tunes 
1 - Peppermint Patty from Peanuts 
2 - Sailor Mars and Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon 
1 - Trixie from Speed Racer 
1 - Asuka Langley Soryu from Neo-Genesis Evangelion 
2 - Bart Simpson from The Simpsons 
2 - Chel from The Road To El Dorado 
1 - Esmeralda from Disney's The Hunchback of Noter Dame
1 -  Cheetara from ThunderCats (and I second that one!)
1 - Helga Pataki from Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! 
1 - Maleficent from Disney's Sleeping Beauty 
3 - Kim Possible and Shego from Disney's Kim Possible 
1 - Lola Bunny from Space Jam 
3 - Winry Rockbell and Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
2 - Prince Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender 
1 - Raven from Teen Titans (the original)
1 - Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
1 - Revy from Black Lagoon
 
And finally the ever-popular Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- who got a whopping 8 responses from guys (and at least one female).  

Some of the choices listed were not even from animated shows. One person told me they had a crush on the genie animation from the beginning of I Dream Of Jeannie. Another mentioned Princess Daphne from the 1980s interactive game Dragon's Lair, or Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda. Another was the holographic A.I. woman Cortana from the Halo game franchise, several of the female cast of Fortnite, and one lady who even admitted to a crush on....Mr. Clean?

Uh....yeeeeeeah....

Many of those who responded offered their reasons why they choose those particular characters as their cartoon crushes. Others simply posted the name of the character. Overall, the responses were overwhelming positive, and convinced me that my own cartoon crush wasn't so weird....either that, or maybe I just know a whole lot of weirdos on facebook? 
 
As for yours truly, my childhood cartoon crush was none other than the talented Miss Gadget Hackwrench from Disney's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. 

Gadget Hackwrench from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
(Image courtesy of Disney)

Okay, y'all can stop laughing now your jerks!

Yes, I'll admit it, between the ages of 13 to 14, I had an absolute affection for a fictional cartoon mouse.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers was probably one of the most popular Disney cartoon series of the early 90s after the original DuckTales. The series premiered on Saturday, March 4, 1989 on the Disney Channel and would run three seasons of 65 episode until Monday, November 19, 1990. The show would enjoy great rerun viewership over the next several years on the Disney Afternoon lineup until 1993, and later in 1995-96 as part of Disney Channel's late afternoon Block Party lineup with other great Disney shows like TailSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears among other great shows.

The cast of Disney's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers TV series.
(From left to right): Dale, Gadget, Chip, Zipper, and
Monterey "Monty" Jack.
(Image courtesy of Disney)

The series involves the title characters, Disney mainstays Chip 'n' Dale, who create a detective agency that solve crimes that involve rescuing missing pets, or seemingly low-key thefts that usually end up leading to larger criminal conspiracies that the Rescue Rangers ultimately thwart by the end of each episode. 

Chip and Dale are both joined in their missions by the other Rangers: the cheese-addicted Aussie strongman character Monterey "Monty" Jack, a blue housefly named Zipper who does all of the little jobs that the others usually can't like picking locks or crawling through small places, and of course the resident inventor and mechanic of the group, Gadget. 

At then 13 years old, I was completely captivated by the cartoon series -- so much so that I always swore if I ever got a tattoo it would be the Rescue Rangers logo. I never actually did though, or any other body ink for that matter; at least not yet. 

Gadget is a young blond-haired female mouse who serves as the team's pilot, mechanic and inventor. She wears a purple mechanics jumpsuit with blue goggles on her head, and has absolutely no problem getting her hands dirty while working on her inventions. 

Her character is brought to life by the remarkably talented voice actress Miss Teressa "Tress" MacNeille, best known as the voice for popular 90s animated characters like Babs Bunny (Tiny Toon Adventures), Dot Warner (Animaniacs), and Arnold's Grandma Gertie Shortman (Hey Arnold!), and over a dozen characters on The Simpsons -- just to name a few. 

Gadget's personality was based upon the inventive female character Jordan Cochran in the 1985 movie Real Genius. She's a combination of the "cute girl next door" combined with an obsessed and quirky inventor. Gadget has a natural warmth about her that makes everyone welcome and pleased to see her. She's very loyal to her friends and frequently goes out of the way to help them.

She first meets Chip and Dale in the third episode of the five part origin story Rescue Rangers to the Rescue (Season 2, Episode 3) when Monterey Jack was seeking help from her recently deceased father, a famous mouse aviator named Geegaw Hackwrench. Having no other obligations, Gadget joined the group -- which later became the Rescue Rangers team -- in their mission to retrieve a stolen jewel and prove the innocence of a retiring police detective who was framed. Once the team is established, Gadget lives with Chip, Dale, Monterey, and Zipper at their headquarters in a hollow oak tree in the city park.

Gadget Hackwrench is pretty much the female version of Angus MacGuyver with a little bit of Winry Rockbell thrown in there for good measure. She has the uncanny ability to take discarded and unrelated items and invent nearly anything with them, which she attributes to the fact that she has a "mind-bashingly high IQ" and is easily bored.

In addition to building and maintaining the Ranger Plane (and later on the Ranger Wing) Gadget is the one responsible for the various technological items used by the team and is regularly inventing new vehicles and tools for the team's use. Like most eccentric inventors, she can become extremely focused on her work, and therefore oblivious to the world around her. Gadget usually assists the team via her numerous inventions. Unfortunately, her creations don't always work the way she intends and have sometimes failed at just the wrong moments to cause the team trouble.

One of the things that makes Gadget so likeable is that she has her quirks. She thinks so much from an inventor's standpoint that it tends to make her naive at times. When Gadget is excited about her inventions, she's known to use scientific jargon freely and talk at an extremely rapid pace. This tends to leave anyone listening to her clueless as to what she actually means as she talks a mile a minute and often times reiterates when she talks. A good example would be explaining that her latest invention "will be ready in a jiffy....well, maybe two or three jiffies." 

Gadget is also known to say "Golly" whenever she's surprised by something. 

One of the main personality traits that personally attracted me to Gadget's character is the fact she is constantly thinking and often times has trouble focusing on just one thing to do, or one way to do things, as exhibited in the episode Gadget Goes Hawaiian (Season 2, Episode 33). This is a trait common with ADHD, or with people on the autism spectrum that I struggled with at a young age and continue to work on even today. Some fans speculate that Gadget character might well be an Aspie herself.

However once Gadget overcomes her rapid-thinking and finds her focus she can invent at a staggering pace, for example, her armored gyro-mobile in The Case of the Cola Cult (Season 2, Episode 14) -- one of my personal favorite episodes of the series, and one that will have more significance later in this article.  

While her character comes off as generally friendly and outgoing to people, with just a little bit of snark and sass at times, Gadget can also be easily angered on occasion as seen in the episode Dirty Rotten Diapers (Season 2, Episode 38) after being driven to the breaking point in her calm nature by a ring of thieves. When she reaches that limit beyond where her cute veneer is lost and she gets all riled up, our dear Gadget can become a total badass, and God help the bad guy on the receiving end of it!

Her creative and mechanical genius, open concern for her friends, and even her scatter-brained autistic tendencies all combine to made her very attractive to a generation of fans, and I'd say one of Disney's strongest female characters at the time. 

In the show, both Chip and Dale are attracted to Gadget, and often compete for her attention, although she is portrayed as being seemingly ignorant of these advances. On more than one occasion she has upset Chip and Dale's romantic advances more than once, simply by being blissfully ignorant, or too focused on her inventions. This ends up being a running gag throughout the series.

Now here I admit a little bit of a shipping bias since I always loved the few moments Gadget and Dale shared together. I don't really remember why, but I always thought they would make the better couple. Not sure if it is the fact that Dale can have his own moments of brilliance when it comes to inventing things like the spy gadgets in episode Double 'O Chipmunk (Season 2, Episode 32) or just the fact that he shares the same sort of scatter-minded tendencies that Gadget has (Dale often times uses the word "Zowie" when he is surprised). 

"Forget a man in uniform, what I really like is a boy in a
Hawaiian shirt." 

Gadget is also a retro favorite among fans of the furry fandom community and anthropomorphic animal cosplayers. You can find a number of images online of professional cosplayers and ordinary people dressing up for fandom conventions portraying our favorite mousey inventor and the other Rescue Rangers themselves. Apparently Gadget is a childhood favorite for many adults from my generation and 90s children.

Unfortunately, that also applies to people who are allegedly adults who seem to still hold some attraction for her well past puberty. Let's just say if you ever plan to do an Google image search for Gadget, I would strongly advise using the parental lock, or with the Safe Search filter on; otherwise you're guaranteed to see images that will murder your childhood dead in unspeakable ways. So, for the sake of your innocent memories of Gadget Hackwrench, please for the love of your furry deity, be careful on the internet! 

I almost had my childhood ruined several years ago by one certain Rescue Ranger themed skit on Robot Chicken which we shall never speak of again. 

Yeah, when it comes to my cartoon crush, I much prefer to remember Gadget for the awesome character that she was in my early teenage years: strong female character, pilot, mechanic, inventor....and apparently the central figure of worship in a Russian cult.

I'm totally not making that last part up, folks!

There's apparently a group of Gadget fans in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod who have built an entire religion around her likeness called Gadgetology. 

Members of the Russian Gadgetology cult preparing to hold a
ritual service for their deity -- Gadget Hackwrench.

The members of this cult believe with all their hearts that Gadget is a divine being, a goddess, who lives on another plane of existence, or a parallel universe. The members of the cult burn candles around a poster size image of the cartoon and chant to her to grant their wishes. They pray to posters of Gadget, write songs and poetry about her, and place stickers of her anywhere they can.

Gadgetology followers regularly meet online and even hold offline events where they pray to effigies of her, celebrate her birthday, serenade her with songs and poetry, and give little offerings to her image.

Basically, these people want to communicate with her directly, to shake her anthropomorphic hand and see her mousy inventions firsthand. They believe that she will manifest herself into our reality if enough people wish for some hard enough and long enough. Some of them even believe Gadget has already visited other dimensions to bless fans from parallel universes for their faith.

There are no less than three denominations of Gadgetology which are not mutually exclusive: Traditional Gadgetology, Progressive Gadgetology, and Apocalyptic Gadgetology.

This is a level of fandom devotion that goes beyond just a simple cartoon crush, but hey, if it makes them happy, and they aren't sacrificing live animals, or anything, more power to them.

So there you have it, a cartoon character than I identified with and had a small attraction to around 13 and 14 years old has become so popular, not only is she a cosplay favorite, she's now literally a goddess to a couple hundred Russians. 

All I have to say about that is....bet none of y'all had a cartoon crush who was deified! Ha ha! 

No seriously, I like the idea that one of my favorite protagonists in one of my all-time favorite animated shows has brought people so much joy, and had such an impact on their lives they still care about her. That's the power of fandom folks, and it is a force to be reckoned with.

While I cannot say that my own love for Gadget ever reached such levels of devotion, I did learn from her character that being different and unique are not bad things -- they can be even be great strengths, even your own personal superpower, if utilized in the right ways.

Granted I can't invent things from a few spare parts, but I know how to use my imagination to create good work for people who enjoy my online content.  

Always be uniquely you and find your own style. 

My Gadget button, a gift from a previous girlfriend
who also shared my love for the TV series.

Have any of y'all learned anything from having a cartoon crush in your youth, or in the present day? Let me know in the comments section below, and tell me if you enjoyed this article. 

  

Have a wonderful Dixie day and y'all come back now, ya hear!