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Woo hoo! Today Zippy meets the Oslo Banana. Bill Griffith’s tribute will surely increase interest in the fate of this beautiful piece of industrial art. (If you look super close you can see my name between the first and second panels, along with that of the wonderful Norwegian filmmaker, whom I put in touch with [...]

What’s the worst mega-movie I’ve ever seen, Titanic, or Revenge of the Sith? So much craptitude, so much money involved. Well, at least Star Wars is finally done, eh? Almost 30 years of samurai moves and noisy explosions in space, over (’til George tries to create Episodes VII-IX, my gawd!) Matt had to trick me [...]

Matt received the most unintentionally amusing email. ‘Seems his Mom’s car has been broken into twice, so they’ve decided to get a P.O. box (no, the logic doesn’t follow, but who knows how the mind of a WASP works?) She says– get this!!– that “there’s too much thievery on our street.” The thieves!! They stoles [...]

Ismail Merchant is dead at 68. With partners Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory, Merchant made wonderful films exploring the constraints of British society– Howard’s End, A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day. Maybe it was their “outsider” status that gave them such an amazing vantage: Merchant was Indian, Jhabvala is a [...]

These latest episodes of Lost are killing me! When everything’s revealed– the monster/”security device”, what the hatch is/holds/emprisons, how a ship got on top of a hill, who the others are, why Walt seems to be able to read minds, what the numbers mean– I’m either going to die of shock or have to fly [...]

Contracts are signed, resignation letters printed and submitted, urine tests scheduled– I think it’s safe to announce what I was hinting at last week: Matt has taken a high-paying, 12- to 18-month contract and is leaving the suckers place he’s worked at for… wow, three years! That’s the longest since Kinkos back in college, Matt, [...]

Today’s parents have a new tool to drive their non-breeder friends mad. More insidious than emailing 50 digital photos, blasting Radio Disney at parties, or letting toddlers answer the phone, it’s baby’s own blog, written in first person, of course: “My room is very cool with fishies on the wall… I know why I am [...]

Portland Opera‘s current production of Abduction From The Seraglio is great!! It features Erick Avari as the benevolent (and quite sensual) Pasha, a moving train (instead of the brothel), and one of the funniest performances I’ve seen in a long time– Osmin, the Pasha’s paranoid lackey. “Poison! Daggers! Too funny, and the perfect foil for [...]

Someone at Fark was talking stick figures, which somehow led to this site: 2001: A Stick Odyssey. I thought that would be the oddest 2001 tribute out there. I was wrong: here’s one with Legos. Now I want someone to animate that bizarre Japanese Lego version of the Holy Grail. All this amateur film love [...]

Oh, I’ve been working on the drywall, all the live long day… If I don’t get this done soon, I’m going to go insane, hey… * Drop some tabs and enjoy the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory trailer. * Real, insane letters to various people in Duluth, GA, regarding that runaway bride. Don’t you [...]