Captain Wacky

@CanceledJeanne @EPM106 I also remember reading that he didn't like the title RETURN OF THE KING (it gave away the ending), and he wanted the book titled THE WAR OF THE RING

@EPM106 iirc Tolkien didn’t like the title The Two Towers. The publishers chose it and he argued it didn’t make sense because there’s more than two towers in the volume.

Movie explanation is much better, I don’t even honestly think Tolkien believes himself when he sees that Minas Morgul is one of them. The Nazgûl are barely even in that one!

Over at twofiftyone.net you can now check out all of Extinction Week, five funny pieces about the end of human and animal life.

Richard Lewis on Buster Keaton youtu.be/UxQhaDQ19NA via @YouTube My heartfelt love and strength to those battling daily health issues. I’m battling #parkinson’s . I can only wish we all could channel the calm and courage in the face of calamity as effortlessly as my hero, Buster Keaton did on screen! 🙏❤️🌈 @MichaelJFoxOrg

EXTINCTION WEEK continues on 251, today's piece by @AnthonyScibelli. twofiftyone.net/2023/07/26/car…

This is probably the highlight of this entire film where the animation is concerned. Every drawing of Yzma's crazed eyes are as hilarious as Eartha Kitt's performancd, and the timing is frame-perfect. Stevan Wahl animates the shots of her going down the hill.

Is anyone doing the joke Oppenheimer was a real weisenheimer? I’m not a joke thief but if it’s out there I’m going for it. “He who hesitates is lost”, right gang?

Millions of dollars on the line and we were just kinda winging it. Second recording we ever did. Tom Ruegger, our producer, said, "make something up here."

Excited to announce EXTINCTION WEEK at twofiftyone.net, humor about the end of humanity et al. Today's is a group effort by @HeyLittleTank, Chris Gural, @lancehansen, @arundurvasula, Zack Rhodes, Jeff Kulik, @baby___kiss, @julienlperez, me. twofiftyone.net/2023/07/24/pos…

@MikeReissWriter I think maybe he means Peter Coyote? (He might have played a social worker "Erin Brokovich")

My tour guide in Taiwan tells me I look just like that actor who plays police and the FBI men. He has a pockmarked face. He starred in the movie about a social worker, who helps a woman who just got out of prison. He was also in that movie with the alien. Who could he mean?

One of my favorite stories from my pal @david_steinberg about Tony Bennett. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Letjk7…

Oh what fun!

@NeverMadeFilm From his NYTimes obit

@NeverMadeFilm Enjoying today's episode about JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0. The joke with George Jessel, though, is that he was well known, especially at the end of his career, for performing eulogies. Even in the '70s, I think that was kind of a throwback reference

Get Up Offa That Thing! @mpershan and 251 are back! feat. @MelissaBalmain @HeyLittleTank @baby___kiss @julienlperez @AnthonyScibelli @BreddMiller @KristinaLibby and more... Dance 'til you feel better (and subscribe) here: theamericanbystander.substack.com/p/get-up-offa-…

@pop_arena Wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly on Paramount+

When the folks at Teen Titans Go wanted to do a little Freakazoid episode, I was overjoyed to hear they also wanted to record Ed Asher, David Warner and Joe Leahy for a little reunion. Sadly I wasn't able to be with them...but after all those years...they still had the magic.