Having just read the book before seeing the movie and being a long time fan of Neil Gaiman, I was already at a disadvantage going into the movie with high expectations. However, Henry Selick's vision met most of those expectations. It was visually stunning, like nothing I've seen in animation before. The characters were wonderful adaptations from ( Read more... )

Because, well... Iron Man doesn't have man boobs.

But I think this will do nicely.


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Maybe you've heard of the Kosbees Saga. Some independent animator made a bunch of flash cartoons about a bunch of different Bill Cosby's living together. It was amusing. But not amusing enough for the real Bill Cosby. He sued. Or something.

Anyhow, the show has been reinvented and now is being featured on that Acceptable.tv thing that VH1 is running ( Read more... )

The Unofficial Threadless  Threadcakes contest has announced the winners!

Sadly, my pandamonium cake did not place in any of the top five winning slots. BUT, according to the very public vote breakdown, it did get 3 votes! Yay!

*happymonkeydance*

Supposedly, everyone who submitted a cake gets some Street Team points (which is like the equivilant of ( Read more... )

Last night,
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No matter how you feel about Will Ferrell, you'll probably be amused by THIS. (Links to youtube)

Notcot.org. Randomly cool stuff, all entirely visual things. Which means you don't really have to read to enjoy them. It's like the Denny's menu version of Metafilter.

Sadly, the internet is the reason why I haven't read a book in years.

Written by Simon Rich

MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.

DAD: O.K.

GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.

DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.

UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.

DAD: We all are.

MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.

DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.

MOM: If they ask ( Read more... )

I wanted to honk, I really did. I like to appear smarter than I really am. That's why I have more unread books than read books on my shelves. I saw the phrase in my title on a bumper sticker this afternoon. I didn't honk, I had no idea what it was. But I couldn't wait to get home and look up on wiki what exactly Punctuated Equilibrium was.

It's a ( Read more... )

Working hard here at Little Apple Puppet Inc. Putting together scripts for two shows at the moment. One about a Bunny who wants to leave  home to discover the world and another story about a Lazy. Lucky Dog who learns the the value of hard work ( Read more... )