What was a Featured Pastime? The Featured Pastime was a section that did just as its title said: It featured something (anything from a band to a TV show) that I remembered from when I was growing up. Each pastime had a description and at least one picture to go along with it. However great of an idea I originally thought this was, it turns out it's hard to keep coming up with things from your childhood that are interesting, and it's even harder to remember to update the page. So, here are the few pastimes that existed--in all their glory--for you to read about.

Band -- The Moffatts
Brief Description: The Moffatts were a Canadian band of four brothers (one who was a year older and three triplets) who started out singing country music at the ages of four and three. Scott is the oldest brother, and the triplets are Clint, Bob, and Dave. In the mid-late-90s they decided to try to change their music style a bit, since they weren't breaking out in the United States the way they had hoped. They went Platinum in most every other country in the world (including Germany, Great Britain, and Canada), but were never able to really make it into the music scene in the US. They broke up, or rather, decided to take a break from the music business a few years later. Two of the triplets, who are also identical twins, Clint and Bob, started a band with two of their friends called Hidell. Scott started a band with some of his friends called the Boston Post. Dave decided to go to college. Now Clint, Bob, and Scott's bands have broken up, but the three of them plan to start a new band together sometime soon, and Dave works in a gay bar in Alberta called Desire. Dave was recently featured on Canadian Idol, but he was soon voted off after making it into the top 32.

Song -- Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry
Lyrics: Go on and close the curtains
Cause all we need is candlelight
You and me and a bottle of wine
Going to hold you tonight

Well we know I’m going away
And how I wish... wish it weren’t so
So take this wine and drink with me
Let’s delay our misery

Chorus:
Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone

There’s a log on the fire
And it burns like me for you
Tomorrow comes with one desire
To take me away... it’s true
It ain’t easy to say goodbye
Darling please don’t start to cry
’Cause girl you know I’ve got to go
Lord I wish it wasn’t so

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone

Tomorrow comes to take me away
I wish that I.... that I could stay
Girl you know I’ve got to go
Lord I wish it wasn’t so

Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I’ll be gone

Movie -- Nutcracker Fantasy
Brief Description: The Nutcracker Fantasy is no fantasy at all, but rather a nightmare created for children by some frighteningly unstable human being who thought creepy looking puppets would be fun... It's your typical Nutcracker story: little girl goes to stay with her weird uncle who gives her a nutcracker, nutcracker comes to life, little girl and he fight evil army of rats all night. However, in this version there's a little bit of a difference in the beginning.

For some odd reason the writer of this satanic puppetry added a character called the Rag Man. This movie begins with about a 30-second scene where a creepy old puppet man walks down the street with a bag on his back and a cane in his hand looking for little children who are awake past their bedtimes. If they are (and one unlucky one is) he turns them into rats and places them in his bag with his long, boney fingers. This man haunted me throughout my childhood and still makes me flip out to this day.

Never watch this movie. If you have, you can share in this Pastime and understand my hate for whomever fabricated the Rag Man in his head one night. I wish I had a picture of him for you, but unfortunately there is only one Nutcracker Fantasy picture that can be found anywhere, and it's the movie poster on the right.

TV Show -- Fluppy Dogs
Pictures. 1 | 2 | 3
Brief Description:
The Fluppy Dogs (Inki, Stanli, Dinki, Fanci, Ozzi, and Tippi), characters on an old Disney cartoon, are a group of dogs from another world. They have special keys that can open doors into more worlds, and on one of their trips they end up in our world. That's pretty much it, other than they are sort of adopted by a boy and girl who are constantly having to save the Fluppies from a mad scientist who wants to steal their keys (who often poses as a dog catcher...)