Category: News

Donlad Duck – Der Fuehrer’s Face

A German brass band (including Hirohito on sousaphone and Mussolini on bass drum) marches through a small German town (where everything, including the clouds and trees, is decorated with the Nazi swastika), singing the virtues of the Nazi doctrine. Passing by Donald’s house, they poke him out of bed with a bayonet to get ready for work. Because of wartime rationing, his breakfast consists of stale bread, coffee brewed from a single hoarded coffee bean, and a spray that tastes like bacon and eggs. The band shoves a copy of Mein Kampf in front of him for a moment of reading, then marches into his house and escorts him to a factory.

Upon arriving at the factory (at bayonet-point), Donald starts his 48-hour daily shift screwing caps onto artillery shells in an assembly line. Mixed in with the shells are portraits of the Fuehrer, so he must interrupt his work to do a Hitler salute every time a portrait appears. The pace of the assembly line intensifies (as in the classic comedy Modern Times), and Donald finds it increasingly hard to complete all the tasks. At the same time, he is bombarded with propaganda messages about the superiority of the Aryan race and the glory of working for The Führer.

After a “paid vacation” that consists of making swastika shapes with his body for a few seconds in front of a painted backdrop of the Alps, Donald is ordered to work overtime. He has a nervous breakdown with hallucinations of artillery shells everywhere. When the hallucinations clear, he finds himself in his bed—in the United States—and realizes the whole experience was a nightmare. The short ends with Donald embracing a miniature Statue of Liberty, thankful for his American citizenship.

What Disney has in store for us

Disney/pixar’s animation release timeline (after WALL-E) is:

Bolt (2008): A German Shepard version of Buzz Lightyear in that he’s spent his whole life on the set of a tv show in the style of Thunderbolt (the dog-hero show that the 101 Damations puppies watch, which makes me wonder if the name Bolt is an homage/tip off for nerds like me to notice).

His isolated life makes him think his tv powers are real and probably has some self realization story arc similar to Buzz’s after he meets a cat named Mittens and a hamster that never leaves its ball.

The Princess and the Frog (2009): Disney’s first black princess. first return to traditional 2D animation since Emperors new Groove.

Rapunzel (2010): Originally, the film’s plot revolved around two ‘romantically challenged’, real-world teenagers who are transformed into Rapunzel and her Prince by a disgruntled witch who can no longer stand happy fairy-tale endings. However, since production was halted in 2004 for major retooling, Glen Keane has “promised” that the film will revert back to the fairy tale’s “literary origins” and be less of a steaming pile of shit than what was just described.

King of the Elves (2012): Based on Science Fiction writer Phillip K. Dick’s 1953 short story fantasy about a band of elves living in the modern-day Mississippi Delta who name a local guy working at a gas station their king after he helps save them from an evil troll.

Cars 2 (2012): Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater travel the globe in a series of excuses to make more inside references and jokes about or otherwise concerning non-american made automobiles. joy.

Toy Story 3 coming in 2010

Toy Story 3’s release is particularly significant because John Lassater of Pixar specifically made it part of the negotiations for the Disney-Pixar merge that he could veto any such project. Pixar is serious about not having frivolous sequels like disney has done, and will only sign off on them if the story line merits it. toy story 3 was attempted more than twice with several script rewrites and pitched. Disney planned to make it on their own in their computer animation department (that made chicken little) when their deal with Pixar fell through/expired. when they realized how stupid it was to lose Pixar and decided to buy them, Pixar only agreed if part of the deal was that Pixar would take over control of Disney Animation. That’s what happened and the new Pixar wing of Disney shut down Circle 7 Animation and its version of Toy Story 3, which was that all Buzz Lightyears got recalled back to Taiwan.

This would have completed the plot trilogy in that –

TS1: Woody and Buzz leave the house through a mishap and must work together to return to Andy
TS2: Woody leaves the house through a mishap and Buzz & Co must save/return him to Andy
TS3: Buzz leaves the house through a mishap and Woody & Co must save/return him to And

The new plot for TS3 has the toys in Andy’s room being dumped into a day-care center after, Andy, departs for college (a prospect raised in Toy Story 2). Barbie (who appeared in TS2) will be back along with bf Ken and Ned Beatty (google for his filmography or look on imdb.com) has a role which hasnt been released yet.

Cheney Glasses Mystery Reflection

Hmmmm… what is Cheney looking at?…

This little Rorschach has apparently generated quite a buzz online:

The picture has been posted, linked, enlarged, enhanced on dozens of Web sites in the last 48 hours. While popular on left-wing sites, its sheer curiosity value appeared to have drawn interest from around the blogosphere.

The photo was popular on the news-sharing site reddit.com yesterday, drawing hundreds of comments from readers. An item on the picture appeared Tuesday on a blog for the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post newspaper; that was in turn picked up by the megatraffic site FARK.com, where it quickly became one of the site’s most popular recent posts.

Should I feel like a total nerd that I didn’t find this on ANY of the prementioned sites, but rather on Abcnews.com (from which the text is lifted)? :/

So what’s it look like? I read, what to me sounded like really stupid hypothesis such as “a terrorist” or “an alien”. To me, in appearance, its obviously a lady in a skimpy bikini, or possibly nude. She has her shoulders bent and is leaning against a railing in front of a table or bar on perhaps a pier or yacht.

Right?…

When you’re done guessing, go ahead and discover the oddly normal truth by viewing the enlarged version… here….

Cat poo coffee: $100 a cup

I want to say that if I didn’t read it on a reputable news source like UPI, then I wouldn’t believe it.. but… I would… :/

The British department store Peter Jones has announced plans to sell coffee, harvested from the dung of Indonesian jungle cats, for $100 a cup.

The pricey coffee known as Caffe Raro is a blend of rare Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and Kupi Luwak, an Indonesian coffee bean that is harvested from the bodily waste left behind by Indonesian civet cats, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.

The blend is made by Italian company De Longhi.

“It is in high demand from coffee aficionados. They will relish the chance to buy such a rare coffee. After all, only 200kg (440 pounds) of Kupi Luwak coffee is produced each year,” a De Longhi spokesman said.

Joe Teixeira, head of catering for Peter Jones, said the store’s customers are more concerned with unique experiences and an appetite for the weird and the wonderful, whatever the expense.

“The fact the coffee includes a bean ingested by Indonesian civet cats gives them an experience they couldn’t get anywhere else in the world,” he said.

The store said money made from sales of the coffee will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.