Surprise! We’re back with more music! And at long last, we’ve got what you’ve been asking us for…a Christmas record! Our first official album, “We Wish You The Merriest,” is coming to you this holiday season! Here’s a sneak peek!✨
Arthur the freakishly intelligent cat has taught himself to open doors by jumping up and pulling down on the handle. He now owns the house.
More Rockefeller Center with @lizgillz! “We Wish You The Merriest” album available now—and hey, you can also order the record in green!🎄
Monday night Mancini
Found a couple of old clips from my first year of animation class at RISD. Clearly I never had a highbrow phase.
Found a couple of old clips from my first year of animation class at RISD. Clearly I never had a highbrow phase.
If it’s possible for a cat’s expression to look like he’s sitting for a photograph in 1890, somehow Arthur just pulled that off.
Just a suggestion for how the Pope should follow this up.
Just a suggestion for how the Pope should follow this up.
@macfarlaneseth and @lizgillz have gifted us a new lyric video for their track, “That Holiday Feeling” from their new album, “We Wish You The Merriest.” Watch now!
This man showed every comedy writer and producer alive today exactly how it’s done. He inspired all of us to elevate the genre to something beyond just the laughs. He leaves behind a staggering entertainment legacy, with the crown jewel standing as perhaps the greatest sitcom ever, “All in the Family”, a modern-day viewing of which is enough to humble any of us writing for TV. Even more impressively, he flew 52 combat missions with the Air Force in WWII, and was decorated for his service. How many of us in the industry can say we fought the Nazis, AND made some of the best TV of all time? I once asked him to tell me about his experiences in the war, and what it was like to fly consecutive missions with such frequency. He said the worst days were when he didn’t really know the rest of the guys in the crew. Only a born comedy writer could risk his life to help smash Hitler’s regime and then say the toughest part was the social anxiety. And even though he lived to 101, he never became an old man. He could have stuck around a hundred years more, and never become creatively bored or apathetic, even for an instant. I will miss my friend Norman Lear, but if there was ever a life to be more celebrated than mourned, it’s this guy. He did it right.
“We Wish You The Merriest” makes a great holiday gift! @lizgillz @dreamtownmusic1 @ververecords
Went to the same high school as Admiral Perry—here we are sharing a wall instead of a spaceship. #theorville
Amazing work on the Kaylon Interceptor, now available from Master Replicas! @theorville
Amazing work on the Kaylon Interceptor, now available from Master Replicas! @theorville
Wishing you the merriest! 🎄
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Someone on Twitter recommended this book a while back, and I finally got around to it. A really fascinating breakdown of the way we process stories and fiction, and how it may be impacting the dangerous evaporation of our shared sense of reality. Check it out, you’ll enjoy it.
Many people would agree that the internet, and in particular social media, has in profound ways eroded the quality of the human experience. (Yes, I recognize the contradiction of posting this on a social media platform.) For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibility in this intriguing book, which urges the development of “a public lane on the information superhighway.” He points out that at this stage of our culture, the internet is like driving a car or using a phone: it’s inconceivable to function without it. Therefore, there should be, as Bernie Sanders has suggested, funding “to build publicly owned and democratically controlled, co-operative, or open-access broadband networks.” To put it another way, not just bookstores, but public libraries as well. “Librarians are the original information workers,” Tarnoff writes. “They retrieve, classify, curate, and contextualize information, and they do so not for profit, but as a public service. This is a service that is sorely needed in online spaces.” The pitch put forth in this book is complex and fascinating, and too layered to sum up here. It’s worth checking out for yourself.
Never read this before — Thoughtful and wildly engaging speculative sci-fi from the legendary David Gerrold.
