Pure Looney Tunes
As has been hinted, there is a secret plan here at Banana Oil.
When we first told one fellow blogger the details, he smiled and said "you know, of course, that this is pure Looney Tunes, right?"
Indeed.
That plan is just about to come to fruition, and we must cease posting for a time.
To those of you who know, thanks for humoring our somewhat less than reasoned reasons for doing this thing. To those who don't, look for a somewhat more forthright explanation no later than mid–January.
There will be no updates to this blog for an undetermined period of time. It may be less than a week, or more likely close to a month.
We are off, on a grand and lunatic adventure.
Blog Roll Updates
This entry was posted at
19:37 GMT on 22 December 2003
What between packing, our online classes, and devising new and subtle tortures for the Assistant to the Copy Boy, we've been quite lax about updating our blogroll here. Today we make a quick attempt to rectify the situation.
First is the Italian blog we mentioned earlier this month, Zitti al cinema, which means, roughly, "Shut up at the movies!" Well, actually, more like "Be quiet at the movies," but we thought it needed a little more emphasis in English.
Another Italian blog which has linked us is run by Emanuela Zini, who also is in love with movies (dig the photo from Touch of Evil up at the top!). We've exchanged a few emails with her, and she is just as kind and intelligent as "Marquant" from Zitti al cinema.
(We're also including links so that you can have Google translate those blogs into English. Sometimes the translation is understandable, sometimes not. And the quote is from Miller's Crossing.)
In mostly-monolingual America, Chris Puzak's Distorting the Medium blog long ago linked this site, and he has many interests in common with our staff. However, he sometimes goes off on long multi-post odysseys about heavy metal music, and we always seem to tune in right in the middle of one of those, which we find off-putting. Today, however, he has a few interesting posts about the state of American comic books.
We're also adding the Iraqi blogs we linked earlier this month: Healing Iraq, Iraq the Model, Iraq at a glance, The Messopotamian, and Hammorabi.
For a long time Tiger had us linked, then delinked us because we did not reciprocate. Pure laziness on our part, and we now link him without any expecation of reciprocation, as atonement.
A long long time ago, we linked to Four Color Hell. We intended to blogroll them, and now have, but they are on hiatus for the holidays. Figures.
Our September post dedicated to the admiration of Morgan Webb is our highest-traffic post ever, clocking in at about 5% of the total traffic for the main page. We said we'd link Morgan's blog. But it's not there anymore. So for now you will have to settle for I (heart) Morgan Webb.
Now we really, really need to finish that Keaton post...
Agog
This entry was posted at
20:38 GMT on 21 December 2003
Our jaws lie at our feet. Spittle pools on the floor.
This...
...this...
...it's just too good to be true.
Then we watched the trailer.
That sound you heard an hour ago was the Assistant to the Copy Boy's reaction to the action of his pineal gland, which dumped ten gallons of endorphins into his bloodstream the moment he laid eyes on the poster. The Editor in Chief locked his door an hour ago, and all we can hear from his offices are the trailer on an infinite loop, and moans of purest ecstasy every few seconds. Our expectations have been raised so far that they can never be met.
Or can they?
This mysterious Kerry Conran just keeps upping his ante, and he's met every bet so far. Can Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow possibly live up to our impossible geek dreams?
We won't believe it until it happens.
But the Fleischer Superman DVDS and the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serial DVDs have gone into permanent default on our player, anytime we're not watching something else. Now can somebody please put the Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher serials out, please?
And this movie. We must have a print and a DVD of this film. NOW!!!
That is all.
(Via AICN.)
