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This might seem trite to you. It may strike you as too commercial, too predictable, and possibly even cheesy. If so, all I can say is, that one or more of the following is certainly true: You don't have a penis, You weren't 17 years of age in 1981, and you didn't tell your mother you were going to the bookstore but actually went to the movies where you engaged in interstate commerce for only like the tenth time in your life just before showtime.

There's this somewhat old series of animations called Soft Outer Crust that are short, violent and hilarious.

I thought that South Park episode was awesome, but like Warren, it might just be the nostalgia kicking in. For me, it was the local science fiction convention where I grew up, because it was a place where my parents had no problem letting me run around unsupervised, perhaps oblivious to the fact that they were showing the occasional R rated movies in the movie room. A great situation for a teenager.

There don't seem to be any clips of it up, but I just saw this weekend, for the first time, "Tales from the Far Side." Gary Larson did two shorts in the 90s that were fantastic, and they are available as a pair on DVD. Well worth getting.

I thought this was awesome:

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Yeah, that was really good, dead_elvis. Thanks for sharing.

I've seen a wall-art animation before, but it was only done on the inside of one room, in a house -- I've never seen it done outside on city walls before. I saw this documentary in March called "Bomb It!" which is about tagging and spray-paint artists. Apparently the police in Rio de Janeiro are so busy with other things that graffiti artists typically aren't bothered and are mostly allowed to do their thing. I don't know if that's also the case in Argentina, where this was made, or if the artist had to be sneaky about it and work quickly.

My only real objections to graffiti art are when it is done on private property, or when it involves violent turf-war type stuff. Other than that I've seen some pretty neat stuff.

Yeah, same in Cleveland. Well, there are a couple cool pieces by this one artist but I can't remember if I ever found out the guy's name. But besides that one guy, there's this one ubiquitous tagger who puts his initials ("HEK") on everything. Pretty boring!

Not even the crazy-elaborate, multi-color lettering? Aw, man.

That is effing brilliant. I may have to print out some of those. Graffiti on my property would make me want to sit watch on the roof all night with a rifle, but I have seen some really good pieces on trains, abandoned buildings, bridges, etc.

Here's a music video that features a singing lemon:

Good, but not as good as the orange singing Carmen:

(One of the formative television experiences of my childhood).

(It was on Pinwheel, btw, not Sesame Street).

Finally got around to watching "Big Buck Bunny" - thanks, dead_elvis! Anything with evil squirrels is OK by me.

I just reviewed this one for the Cleveland film fest:

The quality isn't great, but isn't that always the way with YouTube...

I gave it effervescent praise. I am easily bought off by animation, especially if it is the good ole fashioned kind and not that gadawful CGI.