"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
You know, Neil Gaiman is right, it is amazing that this isn’t news:
So the U.S. Department of Education is declaring about 200 television programs inappropriate for closed-captioning and denying federal grant requests to make them accessible to the hearing-impaired.
Here’s the full list of disapproved shows. There doesn’t seem much rhyme or reason to it, but it’s nice to know deaf people will be protected from Judge Wapner’s Animal Court.
I know I said I was going to stop short of categorizing my short film reviews by ranking, but I guess I lied to you. I’ll try not to let that happen again, honest.
In other semi-news, I’ve uploaded the most recent issue of the Monty Python Society newsletter, which features the more or less complete list of silly Pennsylvania state slogans. The so-called official new slogan will be announced tomorrow. (I can hardly wait!)