As children, we all watched cartoons on saturday morning or on the work week in the afternoon after a long toil of school. Cartoons are just for kids as adults say despite the many attempts of stories in film which expressed the idea of talking about adult matter in an animated style. Cartoons aren't just for kids, they can be for anyone young or old but what's wrong with not showing something realistic like 'The Iron Giant'. Sure, the film is fiction which plays the idea of a huge robot but takes a realistic approach such as the military's reaction to the big robot, thinking it's a soviet weapon since it does take place in the Cold War era. In the film, there is a real & emotional scene in which the young boy & the huge robot find two men in hunting attire with rifles looking at the deer they shot, then flee away after seeing the huge robot. In that scene the robot touched the deer, thinking it's asleep then the boy says something along the lines of "It's dead, not asleep. They killed it with their guns. No one comes back when their dead." Which is really emotional & true although it's being spoken by a funky looking drawinhg of a kid. 'The Iron Giant' was shot in 1999, back when it was commonplace to deal with serious subject matter. I recently watched 'Batman: Mask of the Phantasm' (1993) which brought me back to the past but also I noticed the many guns & reminded me of the simple time back when children's cartoons had moments of violence or even death but was never R-rated graphic. It seems today things of that nature would never be allowed on the airwaves today. Sure, we can put the blame on the 9/11 attacks, but I think the real blame comes from bad parenting; "I don't want to have to censor what my children watch, why don't I just call my congressman & tell him to censor this for everyone who isn't really offended on what they see". I've dealt with those kinds of parents, mainly teachers who are much too PC to be a Mac. Here's a little story here, One time my friends & I planned to go to their house & watch 'The Lost World', the jurrasic park sequel, & we loved horror to where we watched these movies at night where our imagination would scare us like a madman for fun. Overall, we had no problem with watching gore, we knew this was all fake & overexaggerated violence. We had no problem with cursing, we knew if we didn't have anything good to say, we didn't say anything. We were the perfect young role models who loved R-rated horror or action & never imitated the fictional characters. All was perfect, we had our popcorn & our 3-D glasses ,since we had a 3-D VHS copy of it, then we left home. Why? Well, turns out my little sister's teacher warned my parents about a movie that looks 'Horrible' (as she said it) called 'The Lost World' to where she told her students (Along with my little sister) to prevent everyone from seeing this audacity. 'The Lost World', it's a PG-13 movie about dinosaurs acting like dinosaurs & one big T-rex accidently sent to a city in which he wrecks havoc. That doesn't sound like a horror movie to a 12 year old boy who wants to see nothing but 'Stuff Gettin Blowed Up!!!!' My parents took me home, said I was grounded because some Teacher in school said so. I never understood my parent's logic of censorship, I could watch 'Return of the Living Dead, Black Mask, Total Recall (1990), Pray For Death, Robocop (1987), Aliens, Predator & Child' Play', films that are gory enough to be NC-17-rated, but I cannot watch a PG-13 movie about Dinosaurs or an episode of 'Bill Nye the Science Guy? Bullshit. Just plain, smelly, non logical bullshit is what it is. It's the PC parent agenda where they are too lazy to sheild this kind of stuff to their children so they ask someone with higher power to censor it for everyone that does not need censoring. This is also one of the reasons why there are no more Afternoon Weekday Cartoons (here in these United States). I've heard the reasons why there are no more pokemon episodes aired at 3:00pm, & it's because of advertising money going to the cable channels, no more original programming, Netflix is killing television & the major element here, Parents who protested against Weekday Cartoon Blocks to be cancelled. "Oh, my kid isn't working on his homework because they are frittering their valuable time watching Ash catching them all. I should just have the cartoon block cancelled so my son/daughter could stop watching it." 

Bad censorship arrives from those who are to lazy to censor it for themselves. 

This next section talks about Censorship among a popular cartoon.

 There are a few cartoon blocks that still air such as 'Vortex' but that's more of a rehash block where they air cartoons that have been aired in other blocks in the past. One cartoon which stands out is 'Dragonball Z Kai' which was first aired back in 1996 in it's semi-edited format, then re-aired in 1999 which showed more than the previous version such as blood, gore & tid-bit allusions to 'Master Roshi's' pervertedness. This was aired in the kids block & no one ever questioned the content until now that it's aired on both 'Vortex' & 'Nicktoons'. These new versions of the classic, now retitled 'Dragonball Z Kai' took away the blood, the hardcore fight scenes & renamed Picolo's move from 'Hellzone Blast' to 'Orange Blast'. I'm not saying censoring to fit the product into a child friendly blast is bad but it's too late, my genoration already knows about the gore, blood, & popo once being colored black; Plus the uncut episodes are on the shelves of every entertainment story, it's gonna be a suprise when little jimmy finds out Goku cut cell in half. In my opinion, I see this as a difference between decades, parents didn't care if I saw gore in 1999, but now in 2013, we gotta think of the children!!! 
This also dates back when 'Pokemon' hit big here in the United States. Pokemon was both censored & had a few episodes banned due to Political Correctness amongst the bearly hurt, post 9/11 society. First, whenever Ash & his friends ate rice balls, the translation named them 'Japanese Dounuts'. That reminds me of this dubbed karate film in which one of the fighter's called a noodle plate 'Spaggetti with Chili'. Secondly, a few episodes did no air either because they showed buildings blow up or because they were "Too Japanese & we need to show our kids this is 'Murica!" 

Overall, my point is censorship is good, when you do it in your own house in your own time without the help of PC parents. 

JB: The title sounds like a bad R&B sounding 'rap' song.
JP: Now why do you say that?
JB: Because rap music does not sound like rap anymore, it sounds like much more Explicit & egomaniacal. 
JP: I don't see it.
JB: 50 cent singing about jewelry & women? Don't see that? Either way, rap music should be another topic but today's collaboration/ interview like topic is 'NEIGHBORS". I (jebus) hate my current neighbors with a fiery passion,while Junette here doesn't care.
JP: They are the emo kids of the neighbor world, I see them but I just don't care if they either get hit by a car or funnier, fall down stairs.
JB: Hey, this is a family friendly blog, ages 8 to 80, that's our demographic.
JP: I doubt anyone over 40 is on the internet. Plus you showed me our facebook page & there's no one over forty, all teens & young adults so we can say anything. FCC isn't going to kick us out for shouting PENIS!! Plus I can punch you in the yarnballs if you edit this out.
JB: IT IS NOW OFFICIAL, SCREW THE KIDS, WE ARE NOT UNDER FCC RULE, YAY INTERNET!. Let's get back to focus here, you want to start first or should I since I feel my neighbors don't need the publicity.
JP: Go first, I would laugh if some Television Scout read about your neigbors, tracked them down & made a Reality T.V show of them. 
JB: Hey, it's Amurica, I would begin smoking if that becomes reality. ...Back in my youthfull days, there used to be an old man who used to live below us (I've lived in the same apartment building since birth) whose name I still remember, Mr.Yoshinaga. He drove a toyota truck & loved to give out candy to us when we played in the parkinglot near his home. He gave us candy, We said thank you, we loved the man, Also he watched cartoons. Then one day he left, don't know why. There were plenty of reasons, one being he was a very very old man, maybe moved to a retirement home but my older sister was quite a joker, she told me Mr.Yoshinaga moved because he was a Sexual Predator under parol. 
JP: That's just mean there.
JB: Yeah but maybe she had some truth there, he wacthed cartoons, gave kids candy....He's not a child rapist. That's some PC parent bullcrap my older sister fell into back in the early 2000's, Mr.Yoshinaga, you are one nice man & that's a trait that's missing today. If you are over 20, giving kids candy out of good cheer, you will be considered a child predator. It's stupid. Then later after that nice japanese man left came a puerto rican family.
JP: Puerto Ricans in California.
JB: Hey, it's America, Also they might've been half Mexican, you know what I always say when people begin to judge because they are a certain race even thought they have a different skin type?
JP: What do you say?
JB: (Credit to Ms.Zarro, best English teacher for telling me this saying) EVERYONE'S DONE EVERYONE!!
JP: Makes sense.
JB So these people, freaking annoying as crap. The men of the family, they were cool, they did their thing which was fix cars, we did our own thing which was play ball in the parking lot. The ladies on the other hand, them ladies loved to judge. It was like a scene from 'Edward Sicorhands' where all these housewives in their big hair wrapped around curls begin to gossip about Edward & his sicorhands at the Salon. These bitches did not gossip in secret, they practically yelled the dirt they spoke about a person. I even heard one of them say "Look at that boy, fat kid. Fork up the fun." 
JP: Typical.
JB: I didn't whine about it, they were all mean bitches. I think once, one of them vomited red & her son just placed newspaper around it. I could not help but laugh & step on the paper.
JP: Weirdo
JB: Wow, thanks for boosting my esteem. 
JP: My pleasure
(Shakes hands)
JB: So, let's not get carried away here. These ladies were bitchy & gossip ridden. I did not see how they made friends here in 'Harbor Chitty'. 
JP: I read that article, hilarious & true.
JB: Later on they left  without knowing their name & then another family moved in & these were the worst of the worst. Don't know their names but for the reading pleasure of the audience here, I'm going to call them the Waky Wanker Family.
JP: Go on jebus, We aren't restrictive.
JB: So The Waky Wanker Family consisted of A woman (A bitchy woman), A Man (A drunk man), A boy (A stupid boy), & A Girl (A creepy girl). So these people were broken, we have yet another gossiping woman, A drunk man who just loves to yell & break bottles. Once the girl of the family tried to stab her brother with a butter knife & closley succeeded.
JP: Closley suceeded?
JB: He cut him with the butter knife, he had the scars to prove it. Later on they began to play loud music late nights at a weekday. We called the cops for them to turn it down, that's when we became enemies to them. Cheeky bastards.

Harbor City, more like Harbor Chitty.
I know I said Chitty, I meant to say something else but I have to remind myself, this is a family friendly blog, we have to keep the obcenities where they belong, behind bars. Anyways, why do I hate the city I live in? Nothing, that's why, nothing that interests me or anyone my age or younger. Sure, there's a park across from my street but what's the point of going there when some preschool kid tells you "You're too old to be on the slides." or the classic "Get off you poopface!". There's a thing called YOUNG FOREVER kid, you'll experience it when you begin to envy youth. Anyways, this suburban/ghetto is like living in a small town where every boy has to be a cattle farmer & every girl either has a choice to become a doctor or beauty pageant woman & rebellion is useless because there's no one there to see it. Instead of a cattle farmer you can either be a dead beat guy or a soccer player, that's neither fun or alluring.
Every time I see a shop with a 'For Lease' sign, I always hope this better be a place worth going for like a 7/11 or a comic book shop or at least a petshop. They either end up being a horrid massage parlor or a cheap auto inscurance place, like we need another one of those. I do not understand why we continue to have places no one would ever do business in. (Maybe there are a bunch of scumgurglers awaiting for another massage parlor, don't know) Massage parlors, how many are there? Twenty three at least in this city alone, how many inscurance places? Seventeen along with those cheap mexican ones owned by a persian guy. What I am trying to get at is businesses in towns tend to be built upon the kinds of demographics live there. Of course every town needs banks, supermarkets & pharmacies, but why the hell is it that the town I'm in is nothing but Inscurance & Massage Parlors? Along with it, why the hell are these places still standing & earning revnue. My suspicion is they might be under government subsidy, but woudn't they be under a huge debt? There must be a large stupid popularity 'Up in herr' (sorry to sound so sassy) because these places such as "Senior Sombrero" & the funny "Everyone State" inscurance are getting revnue from bozos. There are tons of Teenagers & kids I see walking in the streets, why am I not seeing places for us to hang out around. There are tons & tons of open spaces only used by people who trash the enviroment around them & crackheads. Those places could be mini-parks or even places that us young people would love to come to everyday like a library.
There used to be a mexican restruant that served french fries which always gave my interest, three days after a barbershop called 'Hall of Fades' opened, they moved. Why? If I was to interview them, they might as well give me a racist response which also leads me to question, this town is composed of hispanics, asians, african americans & whites, WHY CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG HERE??? Last time I checked the calendar, it's 2013, not 1957. We are all jerry mandered into these sections which annoys me, but that's because I'm such an Anti-rasicm activist & anything regarding narrow-mindedness angers me. More demographics, more revnue which is why restraunts that have more clientelle tend to last longer, am I right?
I could stay here & ramble on & on about 'Harbor City' but I have little time now. 
I kid you not, if you want to see a spitting image of Harbor City, if you are into gamming, play 'Grand Theft Auto' ranging from I, II, II, Liberty City Stories. 
Those games not only stick to me for being violent & erratic, but stick to me becuse the people walking in the street & the enviroment in that game is a perfect copy of what 'Harbor City' is to me.