The Grand Guignol

"The Grand Guignol theatre closed its doors in 1962. 'We could never equal Buchenwald,' said its final director, Charles Nonon, on the theatre's decline and fall. 'Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things, and worse, are possible in reality.'"

Sure, blame your theater's closing on the Holocaust. Hack.

Wishlist!

December means wishlists!

A Grittier Planet for a Grittier Time

You know what superhero I'd really like to see get the Frank Miller treatment? Captain Planet. Wheeler would have a drug problem, Linka would have become a prostitute, Captain Planet shoots polluters in the balls, etc.

Hold on a minute. A quick Google search reveals that my idea is not wholly new to the internet. I have to concede that adding Al Gore to the equation makes it even better.

Ever the Optimist

What an exciting time to be alive.

Chorus Line of Blind Orphans

Silhouette Masterpiece Theater is wonderful. They're so beautiful but quirky and silly as well. I want to paper our bedroom with these and have lazy days with breakfast in bed giggling over them.







All of these lovely pictures and more can be found here.

Personal Moons

I still love this. It's one of the loneliest and most beautiful ideas I've seen well realized.

Joe Biden Booed

Vice President-elect and Pennsylvania-born Joe Biden was booed yesterday during the Eagles game. CNN says that he "whispered" to reporters that he and his wife watch most Eagles games but that he also liked the Giants, citing this as a potential reason for why he would be booed. But this theory rests on the assumption that Eagles fans are remarkably informed about politicians' personal lives. I think the real reason is a combination of these three sub-reasons:

A. Football fans tend to be more conservative than the general population of the country.
B. The Democrats in the crowd mistook him for John McCain.
C. Philadelphia can be a cold, aimlessly angry place when the team is down.