Things I Have In Common With My New Best Friends, The Cartoon Raccoons From "Pom Poko"

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• A mostly-friendly but sometimes cheerfully antagonistic (i.e. drumming) relationship with my own belly

• “Too fun-loving and too fond of tasty treats to be a real threat, unlike foxes and other shape-shifters”

• Able to use “illusion science” to transform

• “Occasionally wear clothes”

• “tend to assume cartoon-like form when doing something outlandish or whimsical”

• Euphemised in a North American context, e.g. “raccoon pouch”

• Resentful towards suburbanization

• Tendency to quickly forget whatever I’m mad about

• Tendency to quickly forget whatever I was planning on doing earlier in the day

• Easily persuaded by charming men voiced by Dietrich Bader

• Easily commanded by persuasive women like Tress MacNeille

• “A visual style vacillating between poetic realism and comic cartoonishness”

• Usual strategy for dealing with problems is “hope I forget them”

• Temporary victories often amount to nothing

• Plan on becoming an extremely stylish, ostentatious old man

• Energy drinks will solve my problems!!!

• When bored of work, will look for holes in walls to jump into so I can run away and scrounge for edible garbage