- The world’s oldest post office goes for sale…buyer assumes the responsibility of undelivered mail.
- An interesting idea…but I thought it already existed. You’ll have to correct me if I’m wrong.
- Tennessee text law
- Clowns deal with the fact that 60% of children are afraid of them.
- During a speech Obama pulls out a tissue…the appropriate reaction? CLAP you fools!
- Man call woman ugly, woman does the only logical thing and stabs him with a kitchen knife
- Today’s time waster game is brought to you by the discovery channel
- Need to pay rent or eat (like me) AT&T may owe you money
- Who will be next? The brother or the taco bell platter? Cuba’s uprising
- And following the Cuba stories: how the CIA tried to assassinate him…again and again
- Madonna vs. Marylin…I don’t know if I’m happy about this or not
- Another reason why fad diets….are just not cool
I have yet to come out of the geek closet, though it’s clearly written on my face as “Lola” the embodiment of a 6ft Tina turner is in a “queens” show. This is what happens when you get an inexplicable smile on face while looking at the economist magazine, and reading Lord of the Rings four times in a row. So, I ask you….why didn’t anyone tell me about Skywhales?! This is incredible. Have you seen it? What about you there, in the back, wearing the Dragonriders of Pern tee shirt? Ever heard of Skywhales? Yeah?
DAMN it. I’d never even heard of Skywhales until just now. What a huge, unsightly gap in my nerducation.
An old friend and I were just wasting many precious hours of life watching old-school music videos and cats having psychotic episodes on YouTube when he suddenly asked “wait, time out, have you seen Skywhales?” Nope, never heard of it. He made with the clickies and I promptly spilled wine all over myself.
Completed in 1983, Skywhales is an animated short about a race of green-skinned humanoid aliens who live on a floating island in the upper layers of a gaseous planet’s atmosphere. To survive, they hunt enormous manta ray creatures in pedal-powered airships. As this fansite author puts it, Skywhales “is a window onto an alien way of life–language, culture, taboos… as complete a picture as a short film has ever painted, and its final revelations are nothing short of haunting.”And how! The “boo bee boo boo bee” stuff is a bit grating at first, but hang in there. It’s epic, some would say. Uber, even. Circle of life. See it! Skywhales! (Sorry, I just really like saying that. “Skywhales!” While making jazz hands.) But seriously. It’s gorgeous and poignant and disturbing. Like your mom. With a Mohawk.
