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{ Monthly Archives } December 2006

There’s The Problem

For some reason, this short clip exemplifies all the splendor and horror of TV character acting. Related posts No related posts.

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Whiteboard Animation

Excellent animation with those stinky whiteboard pens. Didn’t Abby’s dad make a similar film once? Related posts No related posts.

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Fair Trade, Organic, blah blah

It’s getting so easy to shop like a normal person (i.e. find stuff you want to buy and buy it) but do so fairly and eco-liciously. Easy! Easy! That’s the key. Ten Thousand Villages – fair trade arts & crafts etcetera. They buy directly from the artisans. SERRV International / A Greater Gift – same [...]

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Sho Chiku Bai Nigori unfiltered sake

Way back when MussMyHair was supposed to be partly a place to exchange picks for affordable (or even cheap, if good) wine between Squidocto and the Crushinator. Well the other night both of us were at Saigon Grill and had this sweet delicious sake. And I had a little notebook, so took notes. This sake, [...]

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Global warming coastline maps

New England becomes an island off the coast of North America in these interesting maps of the possible future. Frightening, if you think about it (and realize that this is about 300 ft, so it’s not right-away), but also cool in that same way that thinking about the flooded city was cool when I was [...]

2006 12 12 crushinator nature
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Sammy

Requiem for Sammy the cat. Related posts No related posts.

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Robot Detective

Robotto Keiji is a snappy dresser. Check out the excellent outfits the bad robots he fights (further down the page)! What appears to be the opening sequence is used as the visual for this fragment of a music video. This show is but one of a massive load of live-action transforming-protagonist Japanese sci-fi shows (the [...]

2006 12 08 crushinator art
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Masked Man

Lenny Bruce sketch (he’s doing all the voices) edited to provide the narration to this little-known tale of the Lone Ranger. The animator, Jeff Hale, worked on the B-17 sequence in Heavy Metal. Related posts No related posts.

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Pig Toss

Seems Kevin Pugh of Mississippi is into tossing pigs and other animals. [Police Lt.] McCaskill said Pugh was accused of walking into the hotel and throwing the 60-pound pig over the counter. “He said it was a prank,” McCaskill said. “It must be some redneck thing, because I haven’t ever heard of anything like it.” [...]

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Across da whole wide woild

Crazy Eddie was a Brooklyn-based discount electronics chain in the northeast USA in the 1970s and 80s. This Doo-wop Crazy Eddie ad (reinfecting my brain after years of other things taking over the role) was probably the best they did, but most of the rest had a lot of the hand-waving late night WPIX-FM DJ [...]

2006 12 06 crushinator NYC
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Krazy Glue

More YouTube weirdness. Hands up who remembers this tv ad (think late night, when local stations still showed movies (when is the last time you watched broadcast tv?)) But the Jimmy Cagney impression? Why? There is something hypnotic about the audio, the litany of things that can be repaired. Here’s hoping/fearing someone has Crazy Eddie [...]

2006 12 06 crushinator NYC
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