"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Happy Thanksgiving! (Or Thursday, as the case may be.)
If you have time, why not check out Turkey Week over at Inventing Situations and join in all the capping goodness? I’m going to try to be there later this evening myself, time and possible overeating notwithstanding.
In the meantime, here’s Ze Frank with his Thanksgiving wishes.
Now I’m going to go listen to “Alice’s Restuarant” and enjoy too much food. Have a great day!
[Note: this was cross-posted to the Kaleidotrope weblog.]
One of the major impetuses (impeti?) for starting up Kaleidotrope was seeing some of the really great zines that were already out there. For me in particular, these included publications like Flytrap and Talebones and Electric Velocipede. But the biggest influence and inspriation of all, I think, was the consistently weird and wonderful Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
It’s been brought to my attention that LCRW is celebrating its ten-year anniversary. That’s a little mind-boggling, but the success they’ve enjoyed couldn’t have happened to a better publication. Check out this new issue, if you haven’t already, or send them a little love.
I can only hope that Kaleidotrope survives a quarter of that long.
“All writing is the same in that you try to put yourself in that person’s shoes, and you sit at your keyboard and you make up lies until they sound like the truth.” – Brian K. Vaughan
Oh man. Director Robert Altman died this morning at the age of 81.
Of his films — of which, unfortunately, I’ve only seen a small handful — my favorite is probably McCabe & Mrs. Miller…although it’s with some chagrin that I must admit my fondest memories are probably still of Popeye, which I saw a number of times as a child. In fact — and this may be a bad idea, and the film may not stand up under the adult critical eye — but I’ve added it to my Netflix queue.
RIP, Mr. Altman.