Having fallen embarrassingly behind in the maintenance of Acmenoveltyarchive.org, I thought I would make an attempt at bringing the following item to people’s attention before its too late:
Cartoonist Chris Ware and ‘This American Life‘ Host Ira …
Archive for November, 2004
I can’t be the first person to come up with this idea, but I’m amazed it hasn’t actually been executed yet. Maybe it has and I just don’t know it.
FADE IN: CUBICLE.
BORED EMPLOYEE (ON PHONE): Yes. (LONG PAUSE)
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11.23.04
“I’m not entirely convinced that any of this is real.”
Nice quicktime movie juxtaposes Popeye (The Sailor Man) with various anime stereotypes.
I finally got my hands on that functional japanese gramophone model kit thing that I wrote about here. What follows is my review! Get excited!
I’d previously been thwarted in my efforts to order it through Amazon Japan. …
11.21.04
11.19.04
Wow… Just – WOW. People got paid to record this in an expensive studio. I’m amazed there hasn’t been a flash video for this in a b3ta newsletter yet.
RIYL: People sticking their heads in your room and saying …
11.9.04
- ask.metafilter answers yet another of my ridiculous nostalgic questions.
11.9.04
More behind-the-scenes photos from ‘The Island’
- A sci-fi movie that wisely uses the city of Detroit to approximate the gritty metropolis of the future. These props are probably the closest we’ll ever get to public transportation. Thank you auto industry!
11.9.04
- Tinfoil Hat firmly in place. Crap.
Adrian Tomine did this week’s New Yorker Cover. Just in the past few months, Seth and Adrian Tomine. The only complaint I can possibly come up with is that they inexplicably don’t offer these ‘cartoonist’ covers through their reproduction site…
Speaking as a person who has done some programming, the following bits of information are troubling:
- Instances of computer errors in Bush’s favor (In Ohio) have been confirmed (Link, Similar story in NC).
- “One thing that is …
Back before I started ‘updating regularly’ again, I wrote a big piece on obscure Canadian 70′s rockers Klaatu (There was a persistent rumor that they were the Beatles re-formed). You can read it here. Jamie Vernon, the man responsible …
11.4.04
Official Venture Brothers Website Live
- From the creative team behind The Tick animated series.
11.4.04
Venture Brothers Creator’s LiveJournal
– with behind the scenes goodness!
Fox has already called Ohio, CNN maintains it’s still too close, and I’m going to bed. Meanwhile, people are still voting in Ohio (link to first-hand account). I really hope Kerry stands his ground and waits for each …
11.2.04
the only show I watch religiously – begins its 6th season on November 16th.
In the past few weeks I’ve been finding some great stuff in the ‘Dollar Racks’ in the front of my local Target store: dollar DVD’s.
Just before Halloween I managed to pick a few schlocky 60′s horror double-feature discs (One …