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In the Completely Unexpected and Fairly Goofy Dep't: the HomerEuro

by Diane Duane August 10, 2008

A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain.

No, really. (more here and here)

 

By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece. (Just sayin’…)

Tags: Homer+Simpson, Euro, coin, forgery, hilarious, Simpsons, counterfeit, defacement
August 10, 2008
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Something strangely cool

by Diane Duane August 6, 2008

Watching “Justice League Unlimited” as Gaeilge / in Irish.

(Unfortunately I don’t seem able to find any online links to demonstrate how it looks / sounds. But TG4, the national Irish-language service, is showing it at the moment.)

August 6, 2008
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Help Save Totoro's forest

by Diane Duane July 24, 2008

Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog —

TotoroForestProject.com

Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much-loved character “Totoro”.

Over 200 top international artists from animation, illustration and comics are donating artwork especially created for this cause. Find out more about the auction event, preview the incredible art collection, and please consider supporting the Totoro Forest Project with your generous contribution.

 

 

Tags: Totoro, Hayao+Miyazaki, forest, conservation, auction, animation, comics, illustration, catalog, international
July 24, 2008
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"Does just what it says on the can"

by Diane Duane June 6, 2006

As the commercial over here would have it.

Bunny Suicides

Absolutely not worksafe if your boss finds it odd that you should break down in front of the monitor weeping with laughter.

June 6, 2006
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"In the mansion of free speech cartoons have an honourable room…"

by Diane Duane March 26, 2006

My favorite article from the Times this morning…

A free society survives partly because the powerful are mocked, and their pretensions undermined. Religions, which guard their own illusions carefully, are particularly ripe for satire. And they should be…

Orwell once remarked that one reason fascism never took off in Britain was because the sight of a goose-stepping soldier would prompt your average Englishman to giggle. Someone is now silencing the giggles. And our world is a lot creepier because of it.

Tags: cartoons, South Park

March 26, 2006
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Scooby-Doo and me: relationship amnesia

by Diane July 31, 2002

A note to the Scooby madness: in having a casual look at one of the Scooby episode guides, I find that I’ve written two episodes that I don’t even remember. Egad.

The interesting thing is that the original scripts seem to have been misplaced somewhere along the line; otherwise the titles would have been in my CV a long time ago. (After six house-moves in sixteen years, this probably shouldn’t be a surprise, even though not one of the moves would even register on the NESFA “move scale”.) Oh well….

July 31, 2002
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Scooby-Doo and me (and Scrappy, of course)

by Diane July 29, 2002

This is plainly one of those weeks when my past is going to come back to haunt me with unusual insistence.

Starting this morning, Cartoon Network Europe has programmed an entire week of Scooby-Doo, during which they claim they’ll be showing every single Scooby episode ever shown. Meaning my episodes as well… I’ve been wanting to get these on video for a long time: this looks like my chance. Not that I ever want to show these to anybody, mind you. I’ve just been trying to collect all my TV work for a while now, and the Scooby episodes have been the big hole in the collection.

Peter’s feeling is possibly that this is a lacuna that should stay lacunic, or laconic, or something. Well, too bad. He can watch the History Channel next week. He spends too much time watching tanks anyway.

July 29, 2002
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