Watching: the first series of The Ren & Stimpy Show. C doesn’t get it. I’m not sure I get it myself anymore. What’s funny about watching the lungs of a badly-drawn psychotic chihuahua come out through his mouth ? I don’t know but I started laughing as I wrote that down. Ren & Stimpy’s enactment of “Robin Hoek & Maid Moron” is one of the great epic fantasies of our time, & should have been on the list.
Off to Lisbon for a week tomorrow, back the following Tuesday. What’ll we do til then, Ren ?
6 Comments
November 10, 2009 at 7:48 am
Yes – this form in use for non-Disney content is always commendable. There are subtle and not-so-subtle shifts along the spectrum of sick/horror-toon: try Happy Tree Friends and the gloriously macrabre Salad Fingers. Both confined to YouTube rather than scuttling free in HMV (I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojoICRzSCOo
Enjoy Lisbon.
November 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
That would be ‘macabre’. I have a Dell Inspiron with anti-spellcheck keyboard.
November 10, 2009 at 8:16 am
I’ve got the Mac version of that.
November 11, 2009 at 12:24 am
Mike Fleetham has clearly (and commendably) not been down to his local McDonalds lately. Isn’t a “macrabre” a new seafood burger?
Anyway. Ren & Stimpy series one: Blimey, that takes me back and I suspect that – were I to encounter it again – I’d be chuckling too. In fact the mere thought of “Powdered Toast man” (featuring Frank Zappa as the Pope) has me grinning rather foolishly.
November 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Andy – you have added a much needed chuckle and a sliver of pride to my bleak Sunday evening: to be commended for biting my thumb at the food-fad-following foundation that is McDs.
November 17, 2009 at 6:42 am
Since you mention the list, I have an excuse for some belated suggested aditions, but as a newcomer am hesitant about barging in with a laundry list, so I’ll just give a brief subset of my enthusiasms.
The Girl in a Swing, Richard Adams
The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, E. T. A. Hoffmann
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
Where the Blue Begins, Christopher Morley
Rain in the Doorway, Thorne Smith
The Stirk of Stirk, Peter Tinniswood
Jog Rummage, Grahame Wright
Paul Auster
James Blaylock
Michael Cisco
Avram Davidson
Charles G. Finney
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Edward Whittemore
La Valse by Debussy
The Marx Brothers
Black Orpheus (the movie)
Carnival of Souls (the original movie)
I hope that wasn’t excessive.
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