You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading
Animation
Thank you for being a Super Golden Friend: What happens when superheroes retire and move to Miami
SNAPSHOTWhat happens when four superfriends retire and move to Miami to share a ranch style home? This is a pilot I’d like to propose to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, if I knew anyone who worked there, and if all the licenses could be obtained. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It appears Continue Reading
Uh-oh robots! Is it really time to get Connected?
SNAPSHOTWhen Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet ‘her people’ at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond Continue Reading
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? More episodes now amusingly haunting Boomerang
If you’re keeping count, and why wouldn’t you be, you would be well are that Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? is the thirteenth iteration of the beloved character and his attendant gang of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred since the franchise launched way back in 1969. While my heart will always Continue Reading
What was life like for Bo Peep before Toy Story 4? Lamp Life fills us in
When we come across someone we haven’t seen in a while, we intellectually know they’ve likely done a LOT of living since we saw them; it stands to reason unless they spent the intervening period between meet-ups sitting in a dark room humming manically to themselves. (It’s not as much Continue Reading
Awww stormtroopers are (alien) cat people too
SNAPSHOTI Miss You is a touching animated short created by artist Henrik Tomenius about a Stormtrooper missing his cute little alien cat who is far, far away. (synopsis (c) Laughing Squid) I’m a Rebel Alliance kind of guy. I want the goodies to win … and the baddies? Well, I want them to be bested, Continue Reading
What kind of Spider is Lucas? Don’t JUMP to conclusions
If you haven’t noticed by now, Lucas the Spider, full to brimming with childlike glee and enthusiasm, is a pretty talented fellow. Created by animator Joshua Slice, and voiced by the artist’s nephew, Lucas can play music, befriend spiders who normally don’t hang out with arachnids, and weaves the most Continue Reading
Do Rick and Morty and Back to the Future have anything in common? Turns out they just might
SNAPSHOT As we see in today’s boomer, millennial and zoomer animosity, generational divides can seem so impenetrable that connecting with each other might as well require time travel. ‘Back to the Future’ made this literal when Marty had to meet his parents at his age to understand them. In the Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a goodnight!
Merry Christmas from the 25th Century … and also from me! Thanks for a wonderful year of pop culture goodness and here’s to an even better year of books, movies, TV, graphic novels and songs in 2020! But wait … this is the most wonderful time of the year so Continue Reading
Rudolph stages the 80s montage-iest of comebacks in RED #Christmas
SNAPSHOTRed had the word at his hoofs, the most famous and talented reindeer on the sleigh. But fame, money, Does and his playboy lifestyle got the better of him. His fall from grace was epic, the party lifestyle getting out of hand, and eventually, he hung up his harness and Continue Reading