dunf in space: February 2023

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Image: Alessandro

Money, not honey for Cokey the Bear

The studio behind Sharknado has announced Attack of the Meth Gator is coming this summer.

Crisis at Crayola General Hospital

In painting, red, yellow and blue are primary colors.

In physics and light, primary colors are red, green and blue.

Mussels That Catch Fish

If the phrase, "a faceful of baby juice" does not offend you, today's zefrank1 science lesson may be just the titilation you require.

It's about mussels, those clam-things.

Is it risque? Or xxx-rated? I'm not sure.

Monday, February 27, 2023

Cyber surgeon

The letters are easy, it's the symbols and caps that cause coronaries.

Aislin, Globe and Mail?

--Aislin / Globe and Mail

While Montreal patriots paddle and bail to save the Montreal Gazette from the dark waters of Postmedia bean-counters and faceless hedge funds, has the Globe and Mail sent out a lifeboat?

Drawn from the Headlines debuted in Saturday's Globe, ostensibly soliciting weekly topical art from the world's best cartoonists.

But Terry Mosher--aka Aislin--was first up at the plate. An odd coincidence?

In a week when Montreal's only English-language newspaper is in distress, is that a Globe/Aislin fishing boat?

LOST SONGS: The Touch of Your Lips - Boss Brass

Legendary for a reason.

Canada's Boss Brass lopes thru a barely-remembered love song from over 75 years ago.

Sweet.

Song: Ray Noble (1936)

Recording: Phil Sheridan (1994)

The Boss Brass includes: Rob McConnell (valve trombone), Moe Koffman (flute, soprano & alto saxophones), John Johnson (flute, clarinet, soprano & alto saxophones), Alex Dean (flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone), Rick Wilkins (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Arnie Chycoski, Steve McDade, Guido Basso (trumpet, flugelhorn), Bob Livingston, Jerry Johnson (trombone), Ernie Pattison (bass trombone), Gary Pattison, James MacDonald (French horn), John MacLeod & Dave Woods (trumpets), Al Kay (lead trombone), Bob Leonard (baritone sax), David Restivo (piano), Ed Bickert (guitar), Jim Vivian (bass), Ted Warren (drums).

Arranger: Rick Wilkins

Cokey the Bear

Cocaine Bear grossed

$28.4 milllion

over the weekend.

"I saw Avatar and Wakanda Forver on their opening weekends and the theaters were practically empty. Audience response was lifeless – you could’ve heard a pin drop in those theaters ...

Cocaine Bear was not one of those experiences. Saturday night, 7:20 showtime, packed theater and the crowd ate it up. I heard applause in a theater for first time since No Way Home."

--Ojai Doge / Deadline

Security to the front, stat!

Trouble in dark places

You could break a tooth on a french fry.

Another old coot

So drooling is perfectly okay.

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Gordon Pinsent ( 1930 - 2023 )

Sixty years an iconic actor, from Stratford to Rowdyman to King Babar, more than 150 TV and movie credits. The face of Canada.

Below, Gordon with Strombo, and Red Green.

Pinsent

He made us laugh. He made us cry. He brought our province to the world stage. He represented us in a way like no other. Thank you, Gordon Pinsent, for all you did for the arts, for Newfoundland and Labrador, and for our country. My condolences to his family and all who loved him. pic.twitter.com/w9kjGD4NBS
— Andrew Furey (@FureyAndrew) February 26, 2023

Furey is Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador

Images: vocm.com

It's the legs at the front that are hardest

Nightmare alley

My epitaph: Never ran for student council.

Medical over-reach

Bada-boom.

How road rage begins

Unfinished business

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Party on, bear

There is no new movie I want to see as much as Cocaine Bear.

It opened yesterday.
My favorite film critic has seen it.

"Cocaine Bear allegedly, is based on true events,

in much the same way

that “Pinocchio” is based on string theory"

Anthony Lane writes in the New Yorker.

"It's a film about a bear that does coke: eats it, snorts it, hunts it, sneezes it, and,

at one rapturous moment,

showers in it."

There's a drug drop in a forest.

Enter hungry bear.

Bad things happen.

Trailer below.

Lane thinks Cocaine Bear

will be embraced by

cackling weirdos

at midnight showings.

My hand is up.

I once saw a radio guy grind his teeth,

while trying to talk at a party.

It was pretty much gibberish.

But really fun.

I need to see a bear do that.

"Get ready for Fentanyl Hyena, Meth Bobcat, and the uncompromising Skunk Skunk,” Lane writes. "The possibilities, I regret to say, are endless."

The trailer is a classic.