Posts Tagged with "cartoons"

Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

Each one of us picks a few things to glom on to as a child, a movie or a piece of clothing or even a kind of food, and those things become part of the furniture we carry around upstairs. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson—think Charles Addams, but infinitely more threatening and hallucinatory—is definitely in my own [...]

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Introducing…The Civet!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Introducing…The Civet!

Last night I fooled around a bit with this 3-D movie site, Xtranormal.com. I made a movie, which is embedded below. It’s a bit hard to make out some of the computerized voices, so I’ll paste the script below that. Civet: So, Broccoli Man…is this your first superhero convention? Broccoli Man: Yeah. Sucks we have [...]

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Chittyland

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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My friend Andrew Chittenden has just launched a webcomic, Chittyland. Definitely worth a look.

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Introducing…Owl Jolson!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Quite randomly I ran across this old cartoon, which I love. I spent large chunks of my childhood watching old movies and cartoons, which made me old-fashioned while I was still new. Not the easiest way to be in our day and age, but full of peculiar joys and secret treasure. …and yes, I do [...]

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Unpacking my feelings about David Foster Wallace

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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The New Statesman has an interesting article about David Foster Wallace in light of his suicide. For various reasons, lately I’ve become more interested in Wallace, even though I have read only a smattering of his work. I am too impatient to enjoy his longer-form writing, as virtuosic as it clearly is. I acknowledge its [...]

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Food Repair

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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Dennis Perrin unearthed this great old George Meyer sketch (from “The New Show,” Lorne Michaels’ ill-fated 1984 followup to SNL). I’d never seen it, only read it–it was collected in Laughing Matters, a very nice collection of written humor and cartoons edited by Gene Shalit.

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Breaking the unwritten law…

Friday, June 8, 2007

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…of all Newsbreaks all the time, but occasionally something must be said. I plan to break this rule a couple more times in the next few weeks, as the relentless tides of my obsessions have thrown up an gnarled, weed-strewn essay or two. Friend and fellow Record alum Mollie Wilson is in the midst of [...]

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I cannot in all good conscience…

Monday, February 20, 2006

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…be silent about these extremely funny cartoons. I found the link through David Wong’s Mirth Canal, which I invite you to check out, in addition to his site, A Pointless Waste of Time.” The article about the ten greatest unmade sci-fi movies is worth the price of admission. Which, of course, is nothing.

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If you watched Warner Bros. cartoons as a kid…

Monday, July 14, 2003

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…then you’ll love this catalog of products from ACME. Many’s the time when I could’ve used an ACME product or two. “Be popular! Be a rock!” With the ACME Artificial Rock, of course.

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