Archive for March, 2007
Drooly Bunny-Chan
March 31st, 2007We like to do the occasional jaunt to the Japanese-owned dollar store near our neighborhood. Today I was looking at the kids’ items and I spotted the item at right. It’s the packaging for a tiny rubber stamp (not pictured), with the stamp’s impression below. This beady-eyed bunny apparently loves strawberry shortcake so much, it […]
Wasting Away Again
March 29th, 2007I’m somewhat amazed that Todd Haynes’ legendary underground film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story has been up at Google Video for several months now without getting pulled. See it before Richard Carpenter catches on. (hat tip to William)
Girls in White Dresses
March 29th, 2007Here’s what happens when stodgy chronicler of American history Smithsonian Magazine takes on ’60s Girl Group music. The article is very dryly written and unengaging, making obvious points and dwelling too much on Motown (which granted has some overlap with the Girl Group sound, but still …). The best thing about the piece is the […]
Feudin’ Fillies of ‘48
March 27th, 2007So I’m sitting here at my computer, getting over another flu and nursing an ailing s.o. while simultaneously attempting to squeeze a 9 page playbill design into 8 pages. Between all that work I’m scanning through several dozen weblogs and wondering why so there’s so little inspiration to be found there. Seems like the bloggers […]
I Can Only Draw Cats
March 25th, 2007Drew this while chatting on the phone with Christopher. Here is Eero napping on top of her beige carpet-festooned kitty condo.
Update the Feed
March 24th, 2007A week later and I think I have a semi-solution for the scrubbles.net feed problem. Most of the new scrubbles.net feeds are being redirected to FeedBurner. For now I’m keeping the old, non-functional feeds. It’s useless to say this (since the people who need this most won’t be able to see it), but to get […]
Popcorn in Bulk
March 23rd, 2007WFMU shares 79 versions of the song “Popcorn” at their weblog. Gershon Kingsley’s original version of the tune sounds so different from the Hot Butter hit of two years later. I enjoyed James Last’s trumpet-heavy take as well. And don’t forget The Marimba Band of Fairfax High School’s charming cover, contributed by Otis Fodder last […]
Ladies in Waiting
March 21st, 2007Just spotted that DVD Savant has an item about Warner Home Video readying a series of Cult Camp Classics DVD boxes for a June 26th release. All four sets look tantalizingly good, but the one that had me really jazzed was the “Women In Peril” one containing latter-day vehicles for two aging movie queens (Joan […]
Fussbudgets Rejoice
March 19th, 2007Look at what Fantagraphics will be giving away as part of Free Comic Book Day on May 5th — The Unseen Peanuts, a collection of rare strips which never got reprinted in those ubiquitous old Peanuts paperbacks. Some of these strips have already been collected in the Complete Peanuts volumes, but it’ll be nice to […]
Four for the Feeds
March 18th, 2007Still working out the kinks on this WordPress conversion, but I have a few new (to me) weblogs to share which I can across during the transition period:
Vintage Pop is the latest venture from J.D. Roth of Folded Space. This one deals in early 20th century American pop culture, and he’s already off to a […]
Betty Hutton: Ball of Fire
March 16th, 2007Earlier this week, I was saddened to hear about the death of singer-actress Betty Hutton at age 86. What a roller-coaster life she lived. Hutton is one of those odd, semi-forgotten performers that old movie fans rarely have neutral feelings towards. Many find her brassy personality annoying, but personally I love her total lack of […]
Dumb and Dumber
March 15th, 2007A couple of articles to make you question the intelligence of Americans - first up the L.A. Times has a piece on how TV games shows have gotten progressively easier over the last decade or so. A depressing read which reminded me of how much my own family absolutely adores Deal or No Deal. Granted […]
The Case of the Missing RSS Feed
March 15th, 2007Another update on the Great Scrubbles.net Migration - it appears that all of my feeds are now dead. I’m working hard on getting this fixed, despite knowing squat about feeds and how they work. Under the old setup, the atom feed was the only functioning feed in the bunch. Now I want to get all […]
The New Scrubbles.net
March 14th, 2007Hi, I’m back … I spent the last week migrating this weblog over to WordPress. To make a long story short, the old Movable Type system was getting bogged down with spam comments. The situation got so bad that I often couldn’t access the control panel until early evening — then I’d be consumed with […]
Taking a Break
March 8th, 2007I’m taking a short hiatus to do some retooling around here. Movable Type and/or my server is running real slow and it’s driving me crazy. If you’ve attempted to leave a comment and it results in a slow load, I’m sorry. I will try and get this fixed.