Day 377: My Story Pitches For The Upcoming Hungry Hungry Hippos Movie

originally published January 11, 2013 Back in October, a news item plopped onto my desk like a sack of wet rubber thimbles. Perhaps you remember it. Hasbro, the toy company behind Nerf, Play-Doh and Catchphrase, announced that their film division, which runs out of a tiny yet surprisingly whimsical windowless office on the Universal Pictures […]

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Day 376: Quince-Brogels’s Lost Operas

originally published January 10, 2013 We are extremely fortunate to have acquired the private journals of Elias Quince-Brogels, the noted early 20th-century composer of such memorable operas as Tessitura di Spinach and Luogo’s Serenade To His Coffee Table. And while some of the journals allow us a tremendous insight into the man himself (it seems […]

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Day 375: Circus Of The (Xerox) Stars

originally published January 9, 2013 The Apple Macintosh gets a lot of credit for breaking computer users out of their DOS-command prisons and allowing them to unleash their freedom within the first true point-and-click world. Surely the great Apple, pioneer of the way we listen to music, Facetime our nieces and ignore one another around […]

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Day 373: Advanced Sex Ed, Taught By A Last-Minute Alternate Teacher The Day Before He Got Fired

originally published January 7, 2013 Alright everyone, settle down in your desks. You’re probably wondering why I’m here teaching you today. Well, Mr. Villanova booked the rest of the morning off for the Estonian Amputee Pride parade. No, those are all his own limbs; he’s just driving one of the floats, I think. Anyway, as […]

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