{"id":1388,"date":"2010-04-01T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:38","slug":"experiment-have-seen-linkys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Experiment have seen linkys!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy April Fools Holy Thursday linky. I was all keen to do an April Fools Pantheon of Plastic entry, following DavidR’s suggestion, but after far too long clicking through action figure custom galleries and flipping the pages of Tomart’s Encyclopedia & Price Guide to Action Figure Collectibles<\/em>, I still hadn’t found any photos that felt like they could play. No doubt I’ll have a great idea as soon as I post this, but oh well.<\/p>\n

I did find this great action figure of DavidR<\/a> though.<\/p>\n

To continue the action figure theme, via DavidR’s gene-brother HamishR, here are 20 action figures with unusual careers<\/a>. Also, the ten most baffling action figure accessories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flatlander pointed at this interview and response with a young right-wing politico on the subject of Earth hour<\/a>. It is hilarious, and we should all seize the rhetorical flourishes on display for future use. Everyone likes \u201cI think my argument is so powerful that it’s not necessary to talk about it\u201d but I am fond of “it fails on three fun-loving levels”, which must be an actual talking point for him because he repeats it in both interviews. Outstanding.<\/p>\n

The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t destroyed the universe yet, but it did give us a Tweet that will be remembered<\/a> long after Twitter has faded away.<\/p>\n

Elyssa a.k.a. The Moon Whispers, late of Wgtn and now home in Italy, has released a bunch of free music<\/a>, including a new track Tutto Intorno e Ombra<\/em>. (You have to subscribe to her email list to get the download link.) From the site: “Elyssa writes enchanting dark ballads with evocative vocals and a storytelling slant. ”<\/p>\n

From Rodger: Polka Face! Wunnerful.
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Seen the Scarface School Play<\/a> yet? As a hoax it was never gonna last more than five minutes, but as a piece of wacko guerilla pop-art, it’s something amazing.<\/p>\n

Weird<\/em>, the Weird Al biopic. Am I the only one who genuinely would love to see a Weird Al biopic? A doco would beeven better.
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“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”<\/a> from Aaron Paul<\/a><\/div>\n

Two linky from Dylan Horrocks: 1. What the tea party rage is actually about<\/a> (See also: teabonics<\/a>) (And Doonesbury<\/a>!) (And Polatik<\/a>! Oh man, so much wacky.)<\/p>\n

2. The real scandal in climate change research – uncovering the small company backing lots of sceptic propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n

And a round-up of linky about Dylan<\/a>, interviews at BoingBoing, newsarama and more. Tomorrow I’ll be going to the NZ Comics Weekend<\/a> opening, and hopefully on Saturday too to see the Wgtn launch of the first NZ edition of Dylan’s classic work, Hicksville<\/em>. Bookman Beattie writes about Hicksville here<\/a>. Dylan is a lovely chap and a great creator, and is currently serializing new work free on his blog: hicksvillecomics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Sitting next to my computer for the last few months has been an issue of Cerebus, the long-running nearly indescribably series by Dave Sim. I picked up a stack of them in a ten-cent sale a decade ago and have finally been working through them. Sim was a champion of the comics form and provided a showcase for plenty of up-and-coming creators, and a back-up in this issue (#177) is by a woman named Nina Paley. She, I remembered instantly, had written and drawn some great funny strips for Dark Horse Presents back in the 90s (and indeed, Sim’s intro mentions Diana Schutz, editor at Dark Horse). What, I wondered, had become of her? Well, it turns out she made a movie: a full-length animated feature called Sita Sings the Blues<\/em>. Roger Ebert gives it an extensive and glowing review here<\/a>. Ebert:<\/p>\n

“By this point, I’m hooked. I can’t stop now. I put on the DVD and start watching. I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord. You might think my attention would flag while watching An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw<\/em>. Quite the opposite. It quickens.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s back in the circuit because it’s just been made available, free, under a Copyleft license. An interview with Paley at CBR<\/a> tells the fascinating story.
\nAnd you can watch the film here<\/a>. I haven’t, yet, but I will, because it looks AMAZING. And now I can put that Cerebus issue away!<\/p>\n

And finally… Death Metal Louis Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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