beatonna: Gee whiz it’s like this guy time traveled to Right Now and went on the internet and asked what people think is funny.  Because the answer is bacon, for reasons I know not. I’m just glad to finally understand that Scout’s ham costume in To Kill A Mockingbird has an antecedent and doesn’t just exist in a surrealistic cultural vacuum.

beatonna:

Gee whiz it’s like this guy time traveled to Right Now and went on the internet and asked what people think is funny.  Because the answer is bacon, for reasons I know not.

I’m just glad to finally understand that Scout’s ham costume in To Kill A Mockingbird has an antecedent and doesn’t just exist in a surrealistic cultural vacuum.

To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout: Ham Costume

In response to Jon Sung’s autoreblog of two Leon pictures, I was inspired to fabricate a Problem Saloon-style recreation of a sign I hung over my desk for three years to remind me to turn in my paysheet.  It slightly disturbed my colleagues, who took its sentiment rather the wrong way.

In response to Jon Sung’s autoreblog of two Leon pictures, I was inspired to fabricate a Problem Saloon-style recreation of a sign I hung over my desk for three years to remind me to turn in my paysheet.  It slightly disturbed my colleagues, who took its sentiment rather the wrong way.

via Maud, featuring Ein.

via Maud, featuring Ein.

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the “Approved for ALL Audiences” Green Screen in preview trailers isn’t a standardized color?

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the “Approved for ALL Audiences” Green Screen in preview trailers isn’t a standardized color?

It’s the hundredth anniversary of Universal Pictures, and I’ve been waiting for the inevitable re-brand of their logo to commemorate the occasion.  Here it is at the end of a compilation of all their film-openers over the years, but while the new logo is impressive in scope and volume (I’d been hoping it would be more visually in keeping with the excellent Universal Television logo shown above, which I’d admired at the end of episodes of Community), all it really does is make me miss the one from the late-nineties even the more.   Third from last in the clip reel, I associate it both with a number of films I enjoy, but also with the readiness of the theatrical experience.  The silence of space, with these massive letters swiftly floating out to position themselves… for me, it has always been a metaphor for the silence of the audience and the majesty of the spectacle they’re about to witness.  The revision, with it’s accompanying theme music seems to me more about the brand, about trumpeting the company and not the product.

It’s the hundredth anniversary of Universal Pictures, and I’ve been waiting for the inevitable re-brand of their logo to commemorate the occasion.  Here it is at the end of a compilation of all their film-openers over the years, but while the new logo is impressive in scope and volume (I’d been hoping it would be more visually in keeping with the excellent Universal Television logo shown above, which I’d admired at the end of episodes of Community), all it really does is make me miss the one from the late-nineties even the more.  

Third from last in the clip reel, I associate it both with a number of films I enjoy, but also with the readiness of the theatrical experience.  The silence of space, with these massive letters swiftly floating out to position themselves… for me, it has always been a metaphor for the silence of the audience and the majesty of the spectacle they’re about to witness.  The revision, with it’s accompanying theme music seems to me more about the brand, about trumpeting the company and not the product.

Please tell me someone has a link to the Craig interview with Space Ghost

I was just following up on that reference myself, and Wikipedia has no listing of Ferguson ever actually appearing on the show.  They may have recorded it and not ended up using it, which is both a real and a surreal pity.

(Source: Wikipedia, via cowgirltits)

Headline fron Tuesday, June 27, 19[smudge].   By the way, DC, when you want to use this sourcepoint in future retcons (or future Elseworlds) to update the character, June 27 fell on a Tuesday in the years 1995, 1989, 1978, 1972, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1944, 1939, 1933, 1922, 1916, 1911, and 1905. 

Headline fron Tuesday, June 27, 19[smudge].  

By the way, DC, when you want to use this sourcepoint in future retcons (or future Elseworlds) to update the character, June 27 fell on a Tuesday in the years 1995, 1989, 1978, 1972, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1944, 1939, 1933, 1922, 1916, 1911, and 1905. 

Today is the anniversary of the death of Laura Palmer, and twentieth anniversary of the year of the release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.   PDF excerpt of the 2011 Simon & Shuster re-release of The Diary of Laura Palmer. Online transcription of the book. Dear Diary, I know who he is. I know exactly who and what BOB is, and I have to tell everyone. I have to tell someone and make them believe. Someone has torn pages out of my diary, pages that help me realize maybe … pages with my poems, pages of writing, private pages. I’m so afraid of death.

Today is the anniversary of the death of Laura Palmer, and twentieth anniversary of the year of the release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.  

PDF excerpt of the 2011 Simon & Shuster re-release of The Diary of Laura Palmer.

Online transcription of the book.

Dear Diary,

I know who he is. I know exactly who and what BOB is, and I have to tell everyone. I have to tell someone and make them believe.

Someone has torn pages out of my diary, pages that help me realize maybe … pages with my poems, pages of writing, private pages.

I’m so afraid of death.

I was once chastised by a student for dressing up as V for Hallowe’en, before the Guy Fawkes mask became so omnipresent.  She literally said, in her bombastic manner, that “teachers shouldn’t be allowed” to wear such a fearsome symbol.  I can’t help but wonder if the Occupy coverage has her curled up in a shivering, fetal wreck.

I was once chastised by a student for dressing up as V for Hallowe’en, before the Guy Fawkes mask became so omnipresent.  She literally said, in her bombastic manner, that “teachers shouldn’t be allowed” to wear such a fearsome symbol.  I can’t help but wonder if the Occupy coverage has her curled up in a shivering, fetal wreck.