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Eric Spiegelman

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Pals:

Aaron
Bashir & Diallo
Dana
Dave
Mark
Mogle
Molls

Old Jews Telling Jokes: The Mug!  Coming soon to an online merchandising discount retailer near you.
Coming soon thereafter: Old Jews Telling Jokes: The Breakfast Cereal!  With a prize inside.  (Fiber.)

Old Jews Telling Jokes: The Mug!  Coming soon to an online merchandising discount retailer near you.

Coming soon thereafter: Old Jews Telling Jokes: The Breakfast Cereal!  With a prize inside.  (Fiber.)

Unintended victims of the Google Street View face-blurring algorithm: Medusa mural, Blair Underwood.

Unintended victims of the Google Street View face-blurring algorithm: Medusa mural, Blair Underwood.

We’ve taken to calling it the “Charlie Rose of Horror.”  First guest: Robert Englund, who is due on set in an hour. standing outside my office!

We’ve taken to calling it the “Charlie Rose of Horror.”  First guest: Robert Englund, who is due on set in an hour. standing outside my office!

Two fantastic things:

1) Kickstarter

2) The Designing Obama book, by the “Design Director” of the Obama campaign, that you can finance/order via Kickstarter.

The Beaux Arts Ball of 1931: A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building and Joseph Freedlander as the Museum of the City of New York.
More.

The Beaux Arts Ball of 1931: A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building and Joseph Freedlander as the Museum of the City of New York.

More.

liana:

Wipe that stupid grin off your face, Griffith Observatory. You do realize you’re wearing a dodgeball on your head? And still the shit-eater, huh? All right, I’m cutting you off now. The astronomers disapprove.
(Costumier: Eric)

For an added dose of realism, I placed dozens of miniature tourists beneath her clavicle, and supplied them with flashbulbs and quarter-operated telescopes.

liana:

Wipe that stupid grin off your face, Griffith Observatory. You do realize you’re wearing a dodgeball on your head? And still the shit-eater, huh? All right, I’m cutting you off now. The astronomers disapprove.

(Costumier: Eric)

For an added dose of realism, I placed dozens of miniature tourists beneath her clavicle, and supplied them with flashbulbs and quarter-operated telescopes.

The Five Stages of Costume Grief

1. Rejection.  “Meh, The Most Interesting Man in the World is … fine, nothing special.  I can do better.  How about … slutty Balloon Boy?”

2. Denial.  “I can’t think of anything, but I’m sure it will come to me if I just spend a few hours playing iPhone Skee-Ball.”

3. Anger.  “Goddamnit!  Some asshole stole my idea!”

4. Panic. “Only 24 hours left!  If I don’t figure it out now, I’ll have to do the slutty Batman costume from American Apparel.  (Dials iPhone. Pause.)  What do you mean you’re out of slutty Batman?!?!”

5. Acceptance. “Sigh.  Suit, tie, scotch glass.  Don Draper again.”

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

My grandfather saw Babe Ruth hit a home run.*

Recording made in 2005.

*Some liberties may have been taken with the facts, but I see this as largely irrelevant at the moment.