Captured at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 26, 2009:

Direct link to view photo:
http://cannellefraiche.bratzheaven.com/photos/robyn-bratzdancecrewzjade.jpg

Simply put, Bratz Dance Crewz Jade is one bad-ass Bratz doll. Those Mockery Girlz — oops, sorry, I meant to say Moxie Girlz — are nothing compared to Bratz.

And this photo I captured of my Bratz Dance Crewz Jade doll will be part of the brand new "Kool Kat Jade" Bratz Photography Project that I'm working on. The project will be a reboot of another similar project I did way back in November 2005 featuring my Bratz Treasures Jade doll, because I was very disappointed with how that project turned out. It has become a very painful eyesore for me to look at, and I want to replace that project with one where I want to do this Bratz character justice.

I knew by purchasing Bratz Dance Crewz Jade from the Wal-Mart store in Whitehall, Pennsylvania in November 2008 that this doll represented the urban hip-hop funkdafied attitude and fashion passion that Bratz has been long known for. The street style fashions, the colors, the accessories, and even that funky updo hairstyle — this doll could not have been a more perfect choice for this new project. And, since I am an individual who is a fan of rap and hip-hop music (specifically, the era from 1988 through 1997, because today's mainstream rap and hip-hop music sucks), I searched for a rap music track that I believed would identify with my Bratz Dance Crewz Jade doll. It did not take very long for me to find that rap music track and envision what such a project involving this Bratz doll would look like.

I captured this photo of my Bratz Dance Crewz Jade doll at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I had been to the Harrisburg area many times during my Bratz shopping journeys, and it is definitely a great city to visit. It was also the first time in approximately ten years that I had visited the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex. I surveyed the complex in order to familiarize myself with the area and to figure out where I wanted to capture this photo of my Bratz Dance Crewz Jade doll. Fortunately, I found an area where my photo would cover a good portion of the State Capitol, as well as one of the administration buildings adjacent to the complex. It was one of the best locations I chose for such a photo, but it also ended up making this one of the more difficult photos to capture.

While a few of the photos for my new "Kool Kat Jade" Project will be captured in Pennsylvania, other photos will be captured in other places. I will not reveal where or when these photos will be captured, but I will say that there will be a lot of variety in the new "Kool Kat Jade" Project. It's a very large scale project that will harness plenty of multimedia, and it will take time for me to work on it and complete it. However, my new "Kool Kat Jade" project will be a fun project where I can continue to experience the joy and excitement of being a Bratz fan — despite that this project will be the first one produced after the Bratz franchise is discontinued after January 21, 2010 (UPDATE 12/23/2009: According to this blog entry, Bratz will not be discontinued after January 21, 2010. In addition, there will be two Bratz Photography Projects preceding this project, both of which involve Meygan). This photo of my Bratz Dance Crewz Jade doll sets the stage for what's to come, and it can only get better from here.

Bratz Dance Crewz Jade comes with the following:

• Working street-inspired girl gear
• Personalized boom box that really plays a song
• Dance stool
• Speaker
• Practice outfit
• Perfomance outfit
• And more moxie than that worthless Mockery Girlz fashion doll line. Oops, I did it again, just like Britney! It's pronounced Moxie Girlz!

All four characters in the Bratz Dance Crewz collection (i.e., Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha, and Jade) will be featured in my new "Kool Kat Jade" Bratz Photography Project.

Finally, I should point out that my new "Kool Kat Jade" Project will be nothing like my "Plain Jade" Project from early January 2009. That project was a minor or interim project, completely different and based on a different Bratz collection (bear in mind that my "Plain Jade" Project was, after all, an "old-school" project: http://cannellefraiche.bratzheaven.com/b2evolution/blog1.php?p=57 ).

Can't we all just get along?????

Lots of people who visit my Bratz Heaven Blog are sending me hate mail! It's not difficult for me to see why. I thought that it would be a good idea to devote several blog entries to those amazing individuals who have written me stupid and angry E-Mails, praising them for going through all the trouble in ripping me to shreds and making themselves feel as though they accomplished something incredible in their lives. Through their kind and thoughtful words, they inspired me to post their infuriating rhetoric so that you and I can sit back and laugh at them and their stupidity.

(Note that everything written in fuchsia are my comments.)

And, if you would like to send me hate mail, please click here. I will not reply directly to your hate mail, but I will post it in a future blog entry for everyone to laugh at. Thanks! :-)

Hate Mail #1: In Response To "Blame Bratz Heaven....For Success Of The Moxie Girlz?"

Comment: http://cannellefraiche.bratzheaven.com/b2evolution/blog1.php?p=58&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c315
Blog: BHBlog
Post: Blame Bratz Heaven....For Success Of The Moxie Girlz?
Author: BratGuy (IP: 189.179.54.127, dsl-189-179-54-127-dyn.prod-infinitum.com mx)
Email: benjafonseca@yahoo.com
Url:

you sounds so arrogant thinking moxie girls are a sucess in the world only because you talked much of them in your blog, dont you think??? (Mm-hmm, I see. And you sounds so ignorant thinking you're a success only because you spend all your time hating on anyone who isn't a Moxie Girlz fan like you, don't you think???)
who are you by the way??? (Sweetie, nobody gives a shit who the fuck YOU are) a president?? (Yup, I'm president of the "Fuck Soulja Boy For Killing Rap And Hip-Hop" Fan Club! Thanks!) a famous por singer?? (Gosh, I didn't know Soulja Boy was poor! Well, now we all know why that awful bubblegum teen pop music he's performing on the radio is contributing to the death of rap and hip-hop!) or what??? (Huh, did you say something? What?)

get off of your cloud kid (What? And FYI, I'm not a kid, but if you'd like to meet someone who is, walk up to a mirror and look at the douche bag staring back at you, kid), i dont think moxie girls are a sucess (What?) only "bacause (because) the great and popular robin barnette said things about them in his blog" (What? I didn't know I was a guy! I guess I must be so great and popular after all! Thanks for pointing that out, you dumb little prick!)
be real..... (Like, "what"ever....If this pathetic dumbass represents the type of fanbase that the Moxie Girlz are going to generate, I seriously fear for the future of this brand new fashion doll line by MGA Entertainment! What?)



(UPDATE 11/27/2009: Can't believe this same douche bag spammed my blog with another dumbass comment. Guess he does not know the meaning of the word mod-er-ate-d....)

Comment: http://cannellefraiche.bratzheaven.com/b2evolution/blog1.php?p=58&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c320
Blog: BHBlog
Post: Blame Bratz Heaven....For Success Of The Moxie Girlz?
Author: BratzGuy (IP: 189 140.254.239, dsl-189-140-254-239.prod-infinitum.com mx)
Email: benjafonseca@yahoo.com
Url:
oh my god!! you posted my email and my IP adress!!! (Oh, so you noticed? Well, I suppose you won't mind then if I post your follow-up to your E-Mail and IP Address....wow, look at that! I just did! Thank you for your order!) i wanna cry, im afraid (I'm very sorry that I hurt your feelings....NOT!),what i gonna do now!!! (Well, let's see, there are three options: 1. Stop posting your bullshit on my Bratz Heaven Blog and making yourself look like a total fucking idiot; 2. Visit a website such as http://www.moxiegirlz.com/ , to show your support for this brand new fashion doll line by MGA Entertainment; or....) please spider-man come to save me!!!!! (....3. Seek medical attention immediately)

beware of hackers.... (What the....????? Oh, never mind, if there are any surgeons out there reading this at the moment, please send "Benja" — or whatever the hell his name is — an E-Mail and offer him free brain surgery. Hurry, before that crystal meth spirals him into a coma! *LOL*)

Before I started this crazy and insane universe called Bratz Heaven, I used to write movie reviews for an old website I did. The following is a review I wrote for the movie "Catch That Kid."

This movie review is being presented as is, with no editing changes.

Date of "Catch That Kid" movie review: February 16, 2004

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Catch That Kid / ** (PG)

By: Robyn Barnette

CAST:
Maddy Phillips: Kristen Stewart
Molly Phillips: Jennifer Beals
Tom Phillips: Sam Robards
Austin: Corbin Bleu
Gus: Max Thieriot
Mr. Hartman: John Carroll Lynch
Mr. Brisbane: Michael Des Barres

Fox 2000 Pictures presents a film directed by Bart Freundlich. Written by Nicolai Arcel, Hans Fabian Wullenweber, Erlend Loe, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Running time: 92 minutes. Rated PG (for some language, thematic elements and rude humor).

It's unusual for me to watch a movie such as "Catch That Kid" during the month of February. This is one of those movies that I would traditionally reserve for the month of October, when a movie such as this plays out like an ABC Afterschool Special for the Generation Y Crowd. But how many ABC Afterschool Specials are there about a girl who loves to climb? Or a girl and two of her best friends manipulating their way into pulling off a bank heist by robbing $250,000? Certainly not many, but "Catch That Kid" is a movie that will delight children as well as their parents. It's clever and ingenious enough to belong in the same category of children's movies that include "Agent Cody Banks" and "Spy Kids," but it seems too content in following the path of those movies instead of isolating itself to become something original.

The premise of "Catch That Kid" is simple, but it's preposterous enough for us to shake our heads in disbelief. Children pulling off a bank heist may not exactly sound like a great idea for a movie. Then again, "Catch That Kid" is a movie whose target audience is children, so anything is possible. In the beginning of the movie, we watch a twelve-year-old tomboy named Maddy Phillips (Kristin Stewart) scaling the heights of the local town's water tower, and she tells her mother Molly (Jennifer Beals) on her cell phone that she's "just hanging out." Maddy is known throughout the town as "Climber Girl," and she earned that nickname because of her interest in climbing after her father Tom (Sam Robards) accomplished the greatest moment in his life when he climbed Mount Everest. During his climb up the mountain, Tom endured a serious injury to his spine, and the injury's effects catch up to him when he suddenly collapses one evening and suffers paralysis of his legs. His only hope for recovery is surgery; however, the surgery for his type of injury would have to be performed in Denmark at the whopping cost of $250,000, and the family's insurance policy does not cover a single penny of it.

Molly is a bank security specialist at the Harderbach Financial Building, and she requests a loan in order to cover the costs of the surgery. Unfortunately, Molly was unable to meet the deadline in architecting the bank's security system, and the bank's president Mr. Brisbane (Michael Des Barres) informs Molly that, "We don't have a heart....all we have is paper and a vault." Meanwhile, Maddy architects her own system in obtaining the $250,000, so that she could pay for her father's surgery. Molly invites Maddy to the Harderbach Financial Building, where the bank's security manager Mr. Hartman (John Carroll Lynch) gives Maddy an extensive tour of the bank's facilities — including a safe that stores gold bullion worth $25 million. Maddy's best friends are Gus (Max Thieriot), a mechanical genius; and Austin (Corbin Bleu), a computer hacker. With their help, they diagram a plan to break into the bank's safe and steal the $250,000. They execute the heist during Harderbach Financial's black tie office party, blending in with other party guests and sneaking past security cameras, motion detectors, and a couple of bumbling security guards. Maddy climbs 100 feet to get to the safe and break it open, but she learns that her mother redesigned the safe's access code. Only when she figures out the access code does she realize the importance of pulling off the heist and pulling it off for her father.

I have a certain fondness and appreciation for children's movies, but I can't express that same fondness and appreciation for a children's movie such as "Catch That Kid." This movie is....well, it's not bad, but it's not good, either. In fact, it's the type of movie that you watch once, throw away, and then move on to something else. "Catch That Kid" does not contain anything special or interesting, much less anything special or interesting that represents an innovation in filmmaking. It does, however, contain an exciting and thrilling go-cart chase toward the end, as Gus and Austin zip their way through city streets and evade several police cars. But aren't there enough movies that feature exciting and thrilling chase sequences? Absolutely, even though I have never seen actor Robert DeNiro star in any of them.

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