Be aware that this story contains the n-word, depicts violence, and ends badly for the characters in it. All in a day's work for Georgia's most religious fiction author ever.
Friday, December 14, 2012
It's no real pleasure in life.
It's no real pleasure in life.: A Good Man Is Hard To Find, one of the best short stories of the mid-20th century, read by the author Flannery O'Connor in 1959 at Vanderbilt University. You can read along with the text here.
Be aware that this story contains the n-word, depicts violence, and ends badly for the characters in it. All in a day's work for Georgia's most religious fiction author ever.
Be aware that this story contains the n-word, depicts violence, and ends badly for the characters in it. All in a day's work for Georgia's most religious fiction author ever.
RIP, Lucille Bliss: Voice of Smurfette and Crusader Rabbit
RIP, Lucille Bliss: Voice of Smurfette and Crusader Rabbit: 'TV historians will tell you that "Felix the Cat" was one of the first images ever broadcast on television (when RCA broadcast a Felix doll in 1928 on experimental station W2XBS) — but it wasn't until the late '40s that the first animated character was created expressly for TV. Crusader Rabbit appeared for the very first time on KNBH (Los Angeles) on August 1, 1950, and featured a Don Quixote-like title character aided by his friend Ragland T. "Rags" Tiger as they pursued adventures in serial (i.e. cliffhanger) installments.' On November 8th, the voice of Crusader Rabbit, Lucille Bliss, passed away at the age of 96. Ms. Bliss may be more familiar to younger fans as the voice of Smurfette, from The Smurfs, or as Ms. Bitters on Invader ZIM.
"Actors from her generation who came up in live radio, you'd do one or two takes with Lucille and she'd just nail it," said David Scheve, who owns TDA Animation and worked with Bliss. "She could do three or four characters in one [scene] and you'd never know they were all her. She was terrific."
Ms. Bliss spoke about being Smurfette back in 2006 to the Archive of American Television.
The Crusader Rabbit show was broken into 10 "Crusades", each made up of a different number of serialized episodes that were about four minutes long. From 1949 - 1951, ten crusades totaling 195 episodes were produced. But unless you're in your 40's or older, there's a good chance you've never heard of the show. The first 34 Crusader Rabbit episodes (two full "Crusades") can be seen in a YouTube playlist.
"Actors from her generation who came up in live radio, you'd do one or two takes with Lucille and she'd just nail it," said David Scheve, who owns TDA Animation and worked with Bliss. "She could do three or four characters in one [scene] and you'd never know they were all her. She was terrific."
"[After Crusader Rabbit,] Bliss went on to hundreds of voiceover jobs in both feature film and TV animation, with some of her best-known roles being the ugly stepsister Anastasia in Disney's Cinderella.... She also had roles in Disney's Alice in Wonderland and 101 Dalmatians; Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones and Space Kidettes; Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH; MGM's "Robin Hoodwinked" and "Droopy Leprechaun"; and Fox/Blue Sky's Robots.
Ms. Bliss spoke about being Smurfette back in 2006 to the Archive of American Television.
The Crusader Rabbit show was broken into 10 "Crusades", each made up of a different number of serialized episodes that were about four minutes long. From 1949 - 1951, ten crusades totaling 195 episodes were produced. But unless you're in your 40's or older, there's a good chance you've never heard of the show. The first 34 Crusader Rabbit episodes (two full "Crusades") can be seen in a YouTube playlist.
Tuning '77
Tuning '77: audio supercut of 90 minutes of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments from 1977 shows [via]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Best Drag Queen Rendition of Are You My Mother? EVARRR!!
Best Drag Queen Rendition of Are You My Mother? EVARRR!!:
Shangela—the absolutely fabulous contestant from RuPaul's Drag Race (seasons 2 & 3)—reads an absolutely fabulous rendition of the classic kid's book Are You My Mother?... and I wish she would never ever stop. Gather 'round, children!
Via!
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Shangela—the absolutely fabulous contestant from RuPaul's Drag Race (seasons 2 & 3)—reads an absolutely fabulous rendition of the classic kid's book Are You My Mother?... and I wish she would never ever stop. Gather 'round, children!
Via!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch DMX ruff ryde his way through an especially rousing version of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch DMX ruff ryde his way through an especially rousing version of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer": 
2012’s holiday hit has arrived to stop, drop, shut all those other songs down, and open up shop. New York City’s Christmas station, 106.7 Lite FM, managed to get DMX to commit to an especially rowdy version of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” live on air, and the results are spectacular. Not only does X know all the words to the song off the top of his head—a Christmas miracle considering his sordid past—but as he bounces near the mic, all of his chains clanking together provide a nice alternative to traditional jingle bells.
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2012’s holiday hit has arrived to stop, drop, shut all those other songs down, and open up shop. New York City’s Christmas station, 106.7 Lite FM, managed to get DMX to commit to an especially rowdy version of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” live on air, and the results are spectacular. Not only does X know all the words to the song off the top of his head—a Christmas miracle considering his sordid past—but as he bounces near the mic, all of his chains clanking together provide a nice alternative to traditional jingle bells.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Nicholas MinJay-Z
Nicholas MinJay-Z: Do you know what Nicki Minaj slowed down is? Nicki Minaj slowed down is Jay-Z, that's what (SLYT, lyrics are NSFW).
There's more if you're in to that sort of thing.
There's more if you're in to that sort of thing.
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