Last night I gave a presentation at the monthly meeting of the Virginia Production Alliance on “Storyboarding for Film.” It was a ton of fun for me and I really hope that the folks who attended got something worthwhile out of it.
And since a few people asked for it, I’ve taken the slides from my [...]
In the late 1960’s, the people in a majority of New England states had a customary trust ritual in which you would be presented with a burlap sack full of angry badgers. In order to prove that you trusted the sack-presenter, you would be required to stick the appendage of your choice into the sack. [...]
I was laughing the other night about the fact that most of the time, I go to these figure nights, my drawings stink the whole place up. But when I come home all those bad drawings inform and improve what I’m working on. It’s good to draw without a real vested interest in the finished [...]
The final test for a ninja-in-training is the mastery of the claw machine that’s often found outside discount stores or at carnivals. Examinees are allowed only a single attempt at the machine. Failure results in immediate termination and perpetual humiliation.
Human stomachs are lined with additional teeth. When you hear your stomach growling, it’s really the sound of your stomach-teeth grinding.
There is no ailment that brutal blunt-force trauma to the base of the skull cannot cure.
Fleas are, by far, the easiest insects to kill.
All alcoholic beverages are infused with the ghosts of the dead. This is actually the reason why people behave the way they do while they’re drunk. They are momentarily possessed by the spirits that they imbibe.
Residents of New Mexico are incapable of pronouncing a word without including an ‘r’ sound in it. In fact, the previous sentence, when spoken in New Mexico, sounds a lot like this, “Residernts orf Ner Merxicar are incarpable orf pronarncing ar word withort inclurding arn ‘r’ sarnd irn irt.”
Your long-term memories are stored in your teeth. If you brush your teeth too hard, there’s an extremely high probability that you’ll forget your childhood.
