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09.13.09

Sit Down Shut Up: “H.S. Confidential” Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch, Shop talk | (0)
Hilariously labeled at Hulu as Season 2, Episode 1. Don't be fooled, Fox is just burning off the remaining 9 episodes that didn't air from the initial 13-episode order. It's still cancelled. And since these episodes will only be up at Hulu for 17 days after their inital air date, enjoy while you can. If you're prone to enjoying Sit Down Shut Up, that is. (Edited 9/30/09 to remove dead Hulu link.)
05.11.09

Sit Down Shut Up Episode 4: “Back In Time” Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch | (0)
Episode 4 is really my favorite among the first six episodes scheduled to air this spring. I think it's one of the more successful scripts to capture that Arrested Development style. [Edited 6/9/09 to remove dead Hulu link.]
05.04.09

Sit Down Shut Up Episode 3: “World’s Greatest Teacher” Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch | (0)
The third episode of Sit Down Shut Up for those who may have missed it due to Fox switching the airtime to 7pm on Sundays, which means I wouldn't bet the rent on renewal at this point. Still, the show begins to gain its footing despite the network's lack of faith--next Sunday's episode is particularly good, of the remaining three to air during this sweeps cycle. [Edited 6/1/09 to remove dead Hulu link.]
04.16.09

“Sit Down, Shut Up”–did I mention it’s by the guy who did “Arrested Development”? Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch | (0)
On Sunday, the new animated show by Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested Development) premieres, on Fox at 8:30 (right after The Simpsons). It's what I've been doing for the last year or so. Did I mention it's by the producer of Arrested Development? Because it is.
04.09.09

Adventures in audio Comics, Oh my wacky job, Sales pitch, Shop talk, Spandex fetish, Theory for free | (0)
Somehow I was talked into a hideous, rambling, freestyle riff on pop culture, storytelling, comic book trivia and Ice Castles with the always-affable Ted Seko on his IDIOT ENGINE podcast. It's so nice I had to do it twice! So if you really want four hours of my dulcet tones, well...
03.27.09

The Last Vaudevillians Oh my wacky job, Theory for free | (0)
Last month I went to a seminar on animation acting, where it hit me that in the peculiar fraternity I belong to (which includes women--pardon the language), we're the last inheritors of an aesthetic that has long vanished everywhere else. This seminar proposed that John Barrymore--along with Charlie Chaplin--was something of an acting standard to strive for. I'd never really thought about animation acting in that way before, that it's an artform that relies on techniques established in the first third of the twentieth century. Techniques that, if a live-action actor were to use them, would seem extremely stylized and somewhat ...
03.12.09

“The orgasm should be less Ren and Stimpy-ish” Oh my wacky job | (0)
Just another discussion at work that reinforces the idea that, yeah, maybe what I do isn't...normal. Actually, I didn't even bat an eye at the comment until someone else pointed out it was an "only at my job" moment. I guess I'm too used to this kind of stuff.

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