i heart velma

A 14-year labor of love: The trailer for the completely hand-animated feature film The Saga of Rex by Michel Gagné.

The Post described: “This social crisis is worse than you think. The departing guests won't mercifully continue on their way. They will pause and chat so long with the arriving throng that the hostess will have to cry merrily, ‘Isn't this wonderful? Come on in, all of you, and let's make an afternoon of it!’ What the host will mutter isn't for publication. The crowd won't stay to supper, though; the darling children, gamboling together like little cats and dogs, will soon get everybody so lathered up that their parents will disentangle them and gladly go away in opposite directions. Hughes assures us that a situation like this has never been known to arise among his neighbors in Vermont — he says he heard of it happening to a family in California.” (The Saturday Evening Post, June 17, 1950, p. 3)

last light on the icefields parkway, never disappoints no matter how quickly it gets dark after

Felt like doing something picture book like.

sweets for sweetie mustardyellowaura

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

So I am OBSESSED with Zadie Xa and Benito Major Vallejo’s show at the Esker Foundation right now.