Monthly Archives: December 2012

Mutant muppet party puppets

Posted on December 27, 2012 by phb256

I had an idea to combine Muppet GIFs and Rock ‘n Roll GIFs by working with the awesome Sequestered in Muppets video, but I couldn’t do justice to the original. So instead I used the mutant muppet party puppets from The Coup’s … Continue reading →

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Ozzy ’70

Posted on December 24, 2012 by phb256

I saw the rock ‘n roll GIF assignment and thought I’d give it a shot. Inspired by BeShort’s rendition of Girl Talk and remembering a video of Black Sabbath doing War Pigs way back in 1970, I thought I would try making … Continue reading →

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Hollywoodboiled

Posted on December 22, 2012 by phb256

I came to hardboiled fiction from a few different angles. I grew up reading comic books, so the jump from things like The Shadow and Robert E. Howard comics to pulp fiction to detective stories is practically inevitable. Another thing … Continue reading →

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More wikiness

Posted on December 17, 2012 by phb256

Writing for Wikipedia is a challenge. When we write as students, it’s all about: What does the teacher want? What will make him/her happy so I’ll get a good grade? Whereas with an encyclopedia it’s all about: What will be … Continue reading →

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The Big Blow

Posted on December 11, 2012 by phb256

It’s too bad time constraints knocked The Big Blowdown off the reading list. It makes a nice closing book because of the way it connects to so many of the others, from echoing minute details (“The Doc put fire to a … Continue reading →

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Somebody’s Top Ten + 4

Posted on December 9, 2012 by phb256

I noticed that Devil in a Blue Dress showed up on someone’s list of the fourteen best private eye novels of all time. I have no idea why they decided to choose fourteen, or who they polled. It’s nice that … Continue reading →

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I want you to see the bullet coming.

Posted on December 4, 2012 by phb256

I listened to Devil in a Blue Dress on CD rather than read it. I think you lose something doing it that way – it’s a different kind of experience. As I wrote before, the narrator becomes part of the … Continue reading →

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