My eyes fell upon a brief article in a newspaper in which Michael J*ckson alleged he had been manhandled by police during his arrest. I thought, at first, that the article said he had made his allegations in a “Sixty Mimes” interview. Then I saw, no, different program. That’s too bad. There should be an interview show called Sixty Mimes.
- Interviewer: …
Guest: Pardon me?
Interviewer: [Stands up in a large "Y" shape]
Guest: …Why?
Interviewer: [Nods. Points at guest. Cradles invisible baby in one arm, invisible chicken carcass in other.]
Guest: I think I can see where this is going.
Interviewer: ["Feeds" invisible chicken carcass to second interviewer who is lying on floor, making snapping motions with arms]
Also, I see that Franck Le Calvez is suing Disney because he thinks Nemo is too similar to his 1995 book “Pierrot le Poisson Clown“. No idea what a poison clown has to do with a cute little fish. Maybe they’ll make *his* book into a movie, and then kids will go around flushing clowns down toilets.
Meanwhile, it’s snowing here, steadily. I took the train to work today because I didn’t relish driving my Doblo into a ditch this morning. Yesterday I had to call the auto club to send a mechanic to give me a jump start because where I live was one of the coldest spots in Austria yesterday, and the Dobl
I get a bit nervous when there’s talk of flushing clowns down toilets…
Finding Nemo IP suit
Thesis Note: French author Franck Le Calvez is suing Disney for stealing his small, clownfish children’s-book hero. He claims that Finding Nemo is too similar to his 1995 book Pierrot the Poisson Clown. (Via metamorphosmism. Mig’s entries are always mu…
Carnival of the Scribes II
Cripes, there’s a lot of web pages to go through. Over at Carnival of the Canucks, the tradition (four weeks old, now) has been to update and add to your page of links throughout the day. Well, it wasn’t going…
Even worse, your truculant cat would have peed on the seat.
that mime thing really cracked me up….
but oh my. the fish really does look like nemo. it will be SO ANNOYING if disney wins this case just because they have more lawyers than the french guy.
Not that I would ever want to defend Disney for anything, but I read somewhere that Nemo was in development for a long time; it would be helpful to know whether that predates the French book’s genesis in 1995 (I believe one of those articles linked mentioned that date).
Also, I mean, it would probably be hard to draw one clownfish that didn’t resemble another clownfish, I’m thinking.
it could have had fewer stripes, you know?
le poisson=fish
Carnival of the Scribes II
Cripes, there’s a lot of web pages to go through. Over at Carnival of the Canucks, the tradition (four weeks old, now) has been to update and add to your page of links throughout the day. Well, it wasn’t going…