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This is a pretty good example of being a sketch guy. Helping Robert Smigel do the first televised Triumph voice.

This is a pretty good example of being a sketch guy. Helping Robert Smigel do the first televised Triumph voice.

Friday nights in high school, my parents and I always bonded over pizza and a rented movie. I'm incredibly grateful that throughout my childhood they were okay with letting me watch the likes of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers. They were okay with a bit of sex or foul language as long as there wasn't any glorified…

Friday nights in high school, my parents and I always bonded over pizza and a rented movie. I'm incredibly grateful that throughout my childhood they were okay with letting me watch the likes of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers. They were okay with a bit of sex or foul language as long as there wasn't any glorified…

Well, it's got to get a few volumes under it's belt before it reaches that epic status, but the first book was certainly delightful. It really made me wish that Jim Henson could still be around to adapt it. Those plumber creatures had some serious muppetesque banter, and I'm pretty sure it had an allusion to the…

Well, it's got to get a few volumes under it's belt before it reaches that epic status, but the first book was certainly delightful. It really made me wish that Jim Henson could still be around to adapt it. Those plumber creatures had some serious muppetesque banter, and I'm pretty sure it had an allusion to the…

Bone and Amulet are both fine series from Scholastic, but I feel really grateful to the publisher First Second for upping the ante and making high quality comics for all age levels. Zita the Spacegirl has the potential to be as epic an adventure and as accessible as both those series.

Bone and Amulet are both fine series from Scholastic, but I feel really grateful to the publisher First Second for upping the ante and making high quality comics for all age levels. Zita the Spacegirl has the potential to be as epic an adventure and as accessible as both those series.

At least we still have this: http://robotjeffgoldblumfig…

At least we still have this: http://robotjeffgoldblumfig…

Watched the first half of season 1 of Boardwalk Empire. It's really satisfying to see Steve Buscemi in a role where he displays confidence and swagger, yet is still be able to pull out a startled "Jesus!" a la Ghost World.

I saw this last week at the Library of Congress' Audiovisual Collection. They had live, on-stage, musical accompaniment via Wurlitzer organ. It was magnificent.

Well, this does happen to be the film that Disney instructed his animators to take visuals from for that sequence.