Odd Thoughts

by kartooner on March 31, 2005

Some­times strange phrases, thoughts and ques­tions lurk around in my head, to the point where I have to either write them down or tell them to some­one in order to pre­vent myself from for­get­ting them. At which point I either receive a stiffle of (…)

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The State of Animation

by kartooner on March 28, 2005

My wife and I were watch­ing the mak­ing of Disney’s Oliver and Com­pany on DVD. Unlike today’s exten­sively (and some­times exhaus­tively) researched “making-of” fea­turettes, you could tell this one was used more so as a mar­ket­ing tool. Halfway through the fea­ture, the (…)

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Oxymorons

by kartooner on March 23, 2005

In George Carlin’s book, Brain Drop­pings, Car­lin lists his favorite oxy­morons, includ­ing but not lim­ited to: Assis­tant Super­vi­sor Orig­i­nal Copy Lim­ited Life­time Guar­an­tee For­ward Lat­eral Par­tial Cease-Fire Unin­vited Guest Full-time Day Care Busi­ness Ethics Just in case you didn’t know, accord­ing to Hyper­dic­tionary an (…)

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Curveballs

by kartooner on March 15, 2005

Life is a com­pli­cated and yet beau­ti­ful entan­gle­ment of thorns and roses. Just when you feel com­fort­able sud­denly a mul­ti­tude of paths open up before you and then you’re left decid­ing which is the right one to fol­low. Which one will lead (…)

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