Well, aren't we our own miniature soap opera?

Yes, no kidding, she's gone. Relith, my former partner in crime, has packed her bags, the poor dear, and officially left. (See: last post by Relith)
Not the most graceful way to do it, actually- she acts like we were treating her like a slave, while she was disagreeable and resisted our attempts to compromise.
Anyhow, Ubu Panoozi is not dead or gone in any way. We still are complaining avidly to the annoyance of nonexistent readers, our usual dull shenanigans. I am struggling with CSS, Lea is drawing (for her own amusement), and I am venting my frustration at passerby.
Yes, Relith is gone, and she doesn't seem to be coaxed back with any amount of hot chocolate or promises. Her site- she disembarked with the promise that she WOULD create something, perhaps we could be affiliates?- is absent, but she is of course, you know, "working on it". In her usual, familiar Relith way.
Over the last few days I have done a number of uproarious, controversial things, and I have been called a "disgrace". That's lovely, right?
Unfortunately, this soap opera has frightfully low ratings.
Join us next time on 'Ubu Panoozi' for another installment of petty, boring drama and vague references to my trickery.
To be continued!

Decision

I have officially decided to leave ubu panoozi. i'm sorry Ayame,but i still feel as though my art is disregarded. that,and it's taken almost a year to plan this site,and we haven't even gotten much planning done. it shouldn't take this long to plan a website. a bussiness,maybe,but an anime fansite,no. sorry.

So, I didn’t get the part of Willy Wonka. D:

I'm using weird fonts to upload my blog because I discovered the (painfully obvious) feature of uploading blog posts from Microsoft Word. Wow, exciting. [/sarcasm]

I'm using Papyrus now. I've decided not to rant about not getting the part. It will not do any of you any good to hear about it. Nobody wants an annoyingly depressed blog owner, and besides, I've gotten over it, so I'm pretty chipper right now. Unfortunately, I have schoolwork looming and I got up late. Too late.

I was supposed to be doing something ridiculously important, but I'm far too busy updating a blog. I still think that this feature is nifty, but beware, many, many blog posts will be made in the future about nothing in particular, and proudly published. I had a nice weekend. Happy autumn, everyone out there! I'm starting to be annoyed by the constant grammatical errors I seem to make, due to the grammar checker disregarding context and it's somewhat unreliable.

My life is painfully uninteresting, I think. My whole day consists of work and whining, but I really can't rant about that. I am not going to get distracted by politics, either, despite the many issues that I often feel the need to rant about and the awful doings of a much-loved (give me a break) candidate. (I'm looking at you, Sarah Palin. Yes.) Word crashed when I got to the word candidate, because, apparently, it can absolutely not stand me voicing my opinion. Every time I seem to, it crashes. It's oddly hilarious. Or maybe Word just fails. Ha, I dare you to spontaneously crash, Word. I dare you. At least it recovered the thing. I feel like using different colors for the sake of it. Anyways, back to dull work. I shouldn't complain.

I've got a weird, stupid mind. You should see my to-do list that I made up. I'm not even funny.

Willy Wonka Wishes: And a half-hearted response to Itoe...

So, this thing I'm involved in (I loathe it) is providing a drama club a few cities over. They are doing a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I went to the casting call today, which was dull, and I almost died while I was forced to sing in front of people. I now empathize a bit more with people who fear public speaking, because public singing (singing in general) is my weakness. With acting, there seems to be a thrill before you get on, excitement, maybe a little dread, and anticipation, like a rollercoaster mounting the first hill. With singing, I think the rollercoaster crashed (I only sang a pathetic tidbit of Popular, and the words I had confidently memorized evaporated, deserted me, returned, and refused to organize themselves. But I only had one night to practice...). Anyways, back to my main point.
I only have one desire, one goal, one purpose in existing in this drama club... A wild dream...
I want to be cast as Willy Wonka.
Now, this may seem ludicrous for a female, especially after the singing fiasco (I felt dizzy), but I am reassured by the fact that I Read The Pants Off All The Other Wonka Readers.
Their performance was lackluster; I think I brightened up the role. When I complained that I must have failed, the others assured me that I did great!
The cold reading is always the best part. I do dread being emailed the assigned roles, though, because:
I only read as three characters- Phineas Trout, Willy Wonka, and Grandma Georgina.
If I do not recieve the role of Willy Wonka, I am left in a bad place. I wouldn't mind Phineas Trout so much, but Grandma Georgina seems bad, and I did not even read her well!
I am usually shunted aside in productions. I mean, I am not the best actor, but I want to be in the spotlight. It's just because of my singing thing.
It's Willy Wonka or nothing, folks. It is very probable that I will drop out if I do not recieve a good role. If I somehow, miraculously, get one, then I'm staying. But I only read for those three aforementioned characters, and I don't want to desert this.
Can anyone even envision a female Wonka? The other people who read have the advantage of being male; I just want to be Willy Wonka. He's awesome. In plays, I don't think it matters what gender someone is. I think I remember reading about a time where ALL the actors were male.
All hope is not lost; I have been acknowledged, and I think that the people running it will consider me.
Cross your fingers; pray; and if all fails, please stand by to console me.
Translation: Look out for a future emo rant.
And, about Itoe/Relith's post, I'm sorry. I think that designating someone as 'main' in something could create some hierarchy issues later, so let us not label each other. I don't want feelings of inferiority surfacing.
Please stay with us; I think it's in your best interests.
And pray for me to be Willy Wonka.

Coder's Rights

My first post on this blog. As I am the person thats doing all the coding for Ubu Panoozi because SOMEBODY *coughLeacough* is too lazy to remember much HTML. What I've been wondering about is...How much control on the graphics of a layout do you think a coder for a multi-person run website should have,assuming theres someone there to do various images? As a coder and an artist,I think that the person coding the layout should be aloud to do some,if not all,of the graphics for the layout assuming they are willing to. Some people seem to think differently *coughAyamecough*, as,even if the person behind the coding specifies a desire to do the graphics,their art may get pushed aside so the main artist can do the art,even if the complicates things and annoys the coder. Sometimes if the coder does the graphics before the webmaster/webmistress(assuming the coder isn't the webmaster) knows of the layout,they may get unfairly confronted for not letting the main artist do the graphics,even if the layout is just for fun. For some of those reasons,I have been thinking about quiting Ubu Panoozi. And I probably will. I plan to think it over for a while,though.

My Opinion: The Youtube Community

Well, the Youtube community has definitely evolved over the years, but people who praise if for being a completely diverse group who brings you lots of videos usually know very little about what actually goes on on Youtube. I'm not saying that I'm some sort of expert on the Youtube community, but I have hung around some people. I've witnessed people bragging offsite about how they love Youtube because they can neglect proper grammar and typing skills. I've seen haters attack something they didn't like. I've seen almost impossibly stupid comments about Japan and how it is cool posted on videos of Chinese martial arts because the person was mistaken. Yes, Youtube is diverse. Though it mainly consists of different groups of really stupid, mean people.
There are a lot of users, and trolls, video flamers, haters, and noobs are just going to come, but this is a highly concentrated amount. Most haters attack anything they don't like, regardless of the reason. Trolls are just disruptive, but Youtube doesn't seem to have any standards for dealing with them. People commenting on an Anime Music Video often get sidetracked into heated discussion about pairings. Rabid fans defend their favorite artist, song, show, book, or anything to the end, but it just creates more trouble. I think it's time that everyone faced up to the fact that Youtube is unfriendly. You can find a few gems in there, but not before wading through the rubbish left behind by others.
I honestly think that Youtube needs to shape up. Obviously, you don't need to listen to me, but their community is vicious. It's full of people without a sense of humor. It's all about opinion, I guess. I acknowledge that people have different opinions on things. Stating your opinion is not the same as being rude. And is it really necessary to flame every single video of a pairing you don't like? Some Youtubers seem to think this. They go out of their way to cause trouble by posting comments with excessive swearing, rudeness, and many other tactics. Miley Cyrus is perhaps the most targeted person currently. Now, I don't really enjoy her, and she's not the best singer, but I'm not creating a fuss about it. The poor girl has enough trouble already, being involved with the current Scandal of the Month every time she takes a breath. Anyways, people are absolutely awful to her. They call her names, degrade her, spread rumors and slander. Then people fight back. Of course someone ought to do something about it, but with that mentality, it's going to cause an outright war, especially because there is immaturity on both sides. Fans who hurl themselves valiantly into the fray often just cause more chaos and unhappiness. And once the ball is rolling, people keep on commenting, recycling old issues and keeping the war going. These things can go on for ages.
A previous issue on Youtube was cruelty. All too often someone would post a video of them killing a spider or small animal. The issue is partly resolved now (I'm happy to see that many videos were removed) but it could return. Not all of these people are trolls. Personally, I would just report and avoid these videos, but many people take it upon themselves to send some acid comments and shocked, outraged rants to the posters, but if you want to play hero, prepare to have the thing go out of control. Fortunately, most people commenting on the video will be against it in this circumstance, but often owners of these sorts of videos are very ready for the barrage of unhappy messages. Often these people are trolls, and I think the Youtube community should all repeat the constant wise rule: Trolls are there for getting attention, and taking up arms against them is just giving them what they wanted.
Since many people on the Youtube community seem unable to distinguish trolls from regular people, they just go all out automatically. It's a troll breeding ground over there.
It's best to be polite in your opinion when commenting. Even the most politely phrased comment that only says: I don't like this show very much, sorry, can be taken wrong and will be targeted. Commenting just to state that you don't care for a certain thing is tedious, and though you can involve this in your post, be careful. Youtube could probably be a better community, but they're sidetracked with Miley Cyrus and other important matters. This is the sort of thing where people don't work out their differences.

Hello there.

Okay, I was going to post a message, but then I accidentally sent it when someone emailed me. Hi, this is Wilted/Ayame/Pink/whatever and this is the dramatic start of Ubu Panoozi the blog.
Definitely not the start of the ideas, though.
That was a long time ago. Ubu Panoozi was named January 1st, 2008. We're looking forward to bringing you random stuff when the site actually launches!
I have some ideas that will be kept secret because they might get stolen without ever being posted.
Theft happens a lot since this is the Internet.
Blogging is fun, though.
When Ubu Panoozi starts, I'll be the main but not sole writer, which I am a little apprehensive about due to my inexperience... But I do love to write.
I might just discuss some topics here, because this blog is a good way to write about things, and how I feel about the Internet in general. It's a pretty informative place, but sort of like a booth with Misinformation written on it at times. Getting fooled by hoaxes, silly urban legends, scams, and exaggerating people is easy sometimes.
The Internet has made me a skeptic! It's so sadly true.
Anyways, this blog probably won't be very good since I'm not a professional writer and I tend to get off-subject.
Let's make this clear, though: Ubu Panoozi isn't a news site. We may reference and comment on news, but our goal is not bringing you news because there are many, many other sites and lots of wannabe sites, too, to do this for you. We don't have authority.
We, do, though, have failed attempts at humor. That was not one at all.
I need to learn not to get off-subject. >_<
Anyways, welcome to our blog, Ubu Panoozi!
(A rather ludicrous name.)
It probably will be ignored, but it's good practice for the WEBSITE.
You can learn more about us elsewhere on the Internet.
Just look around.