I had hoped - no, we had all hoped - that children's TV never got more soul-pulverizingly bad, or more lysergic, than the Krofft Super Power Hour (thanks for nothin', Bob). I should have guessed, before reading it on the WFMU blog, that Japanese TV - which even on a good day is more frighteningly weird than the Kroffts - would have taken the (urinal) cake.

Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus), your standard octopus-and-peanut-in-love-with-walrus ménage-à-trois, can be enjoyed here and here. Buy him here if this leaves you starved for more.

Now excuse me while I wash my eye sockets out with soap.

I do occasionally think about what I am posting. Seth Scriver: my fave Flash artiste in the world?! Is he? Yes. But close on his heels is the mysterious Joe Horne. Who is Joe Horne??? Why does he haunt my dreams? WHY?? He made Stevie and Zoya, and then what... Baby Huey or something. What does this mean??

Did you ever wish you had the ability to draw, and bring to life, all those neurotic heavily-perfumed karaoke-singing subdebs that you see on the bus? YESSSS! No? Not really? Arthur de Pins does it very very well, and I wish him the best. Poor guy!!

A picture is worth a thousand words, bla, bla, bla. Fine, but this collection of pictures needs a little explanation, if you ask me. Apparently Link Hogthrob was an historical character.

Thank heavens for WFMU blog. That's all I know.










and speaking of Link... use this site for all your future questions about Muppets and such. More than you will ever need to know.

Just a reminder: the reason we stay home from school on Tuesday March 7? To celebrate Happy The Electric Company Is Finally On DVD Day.

Hey now! If you haven't been to Seth Scriver's site in a while, you might not know that for only $30 (Canadian! that is only $26.20 for you Amerikanischers) you can have your own custom-decorated wine bottle separator! Mr Scriver is still my favorite flash artist in the whole wide world. I make it a point to re-watch at least a half-dozen of his short films every few weeks, and you should too.

I happen to know that if you order a VHS copy of his animation, he frequently provides a complimentary one-of-a-kind oil painting on the Maxell cardboard VHS box. Unbelievable! Save up for this one!

30 seconds of new cheerful niceness from Studio AKA. The site is all-flash, and hard to navigate. Try "news" and then clik on the entry that has kissing cacti...

Do you find that a lot of online bloggy arty stuff (featured here at AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, f'reinstance) is, y'know, fun and eye-catching, and free, which is wicked awesome... but not usually very funny? How often does online bloggy arty stuff literally make you laugh? Seriously! Like, not often. Here's a blog of sketches by Dan Krall that actually made milk come out my nose.

DID YOU KNOW? You can still order from the 1979 Sears catalog? Just mail your 1979 money in a vintage envelope, with 1979 stamps. I don't know... it's worth a try.

No... no you can't. Sorry.

You can still look at it, though, courtesy of retrolounge.

Wonder Pets is a new kids' show premiering on Nick Jr. at 11:30am today. It has bona-fide (not synthesized) music, all the dialogue is sung like an opera, and the visuals are a hypnotically mesmerizing photo-animation style - along the lines of Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann's crazy photo-books, but animated. Very cool, especially if you are 5. But not exclusively. I think it's great.

The “behind the scenes” video features future animation industry titan Jen Oxley... send her money and chocolate while she is still accessible!