A while back Eva and I watched Over the Moon

and since then she sometimes plays one of the songs (it is quite catchy), which has kept this movie in my thoughts.

So, I have to say, the design for Lunaria is something else. Clearly the artists had a vision, and they just ran with it. Good for them. If the writers and songwriters had been similarly bold and inspired, this would've been a better movie, but as it is, it's... average. It's an average kid's movie. It goes exactly where you expect at every point, in exactly the way you expect. Even the songs, though catchy enough, are... pretty much what you expect. Also, they randomly brought along our main character's stepbrother to the moon with her and then forgot to give him anything to do, which just irritates the crap out of me. If he can't advance the plot, can he advance anybody's character development? Or get any development of his own? No, apparently not. If he has no job in the story, he should stay home.

Oh well. There is a pangolin. I thought he was a dog at first, but he's definitely a pangolin. I do like pangolins!

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I usually buy only pre-peeled garlic.

I am more than happy to pay the markup for that convenience. We use a lot of garlic. A clove of garlic a day keeps the vampire away, but ten cloves a day keeps everyone away.

But the pandemic is heating up again, and we can't get pre-peeled garlic through grocery delivery, so I caved and got a garlic roller. It's cheap enough.

It's fun to use, and certainly effective... but once this is done, I'm gonna go back to my jars of pre-peeled. It's just a little faster.

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