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Dear Puffin,
Much has happened since I last posted. I have finished a 400 mile move, which will hopefully be my last for a very long time. I’m positively sick of moving every damn year. The Pats lost to the Bills in one of the strangest games I’ve ever been unable to watch. And the Red Sox were eliminated in a particularly humiliating and historically accurate way. I’ve had one of my teeth rebuilt. And I’ve finally gotten a job. With whom, you ask, hoping that I’m finally living up to my potential, as my 3rd grade teacher used to say, and fulfilling my dream as a policy advocate for the ACLU. But no Puffin. I must disappoint you. I’m working at an unnamed national chain bookstore. For minimum wage. With no benefits.
More later Puffin. I have to go to day 2 of indoctrination. And I have to go buy pants.
Love
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
Updates will resume shortly. I’m currently between houses and the fine fellows at Verizon refuse to deliver the blinky box with the internet in it. So I’m stranded in my house with nothing but physical paper books and my knitting.
To tide you over and reduce your withdrawal symptoms I give you Salvador Dalek.
Love
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin,
The Arrested Development movie has been in the works for ages and ages (and ages), and much like Dance of Dragons, I won’t really believe it’s happening until I’m actually sitting in a movie theater watching the credits roll. But there have been some interesting rumors flying around, like ScreenRant’s highly dubious scoop from an unnamed source who claims to have talked to an unnamed person involved in the movie in an unknown capacity. This person suggests that the plot may run thusly:
Ron Howard is making a movie about the Bluths using an A-List cast. But Dr. Tobias plays himself because nobody wants to play him in the movie. The Bluths decide to make their own movie in contention with Ron Howard’s.
Am I skeptical about the source? Yes. Do I think this would be a great great storyline? HELLS YES! It has a delightfully Tristam Shandy-esque intricacy of plot and the opportunity for more cameos than It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which I believe holds the record for most cameos ever. So in honor of this probably bogus development, I’ve put together a roundup of cool Arrested Development stuff. And I shall lead off with something I’ve shown you before Puffin, the Arrested Development version of Clue! Go over to Pleated Jeans to see the game board, the suspects, the murder weapons, etc.
Shirtoid has a bunch of great Arrested Development shirts. Like this one of the Bluth family crest. Or the Blues Brothers mashup. I think that one is an especially good idea. Their #1 hit would of course be a cover of Divinyl’s I Touch Myself reworded as I Blue Myself.
Chase Black did a great Star Wars/Arrested Development mashup poster.
Olly Moss, who I’ve mentioned before, did a silhouette of Gob and Franklin which I think is pretty cute.
Kyle Hilton has done a great series of Arrested Development paper dolls. I do think it’s a little unfair that Tobias gets two sets and Oscar gets ignored. No one loves Oscar. It’s very sad.
Matt De Lanoy has recreated the model home and the staircar in lego form.
And finally, it wouldn’t be a roundup without something from Bill Mudron, the genius behind the art deco Doctor Who posters, the Mucha Amy Pond, and the Madam Vastra slaughtering cybermen print, which I need to purchase for my mother’s birthday. Anyway, this is a Peanuts/Arrested Development mashup. Follow the link for purchase info.
I can’t wait for the movie Puffin. Even if it’s bad, I’ll enjoy it.
Love
MacGuffin
Previous roundups
Alarm Clocks from Heaven and Hell
Art Nouveau Slave Leia, sinful Disney princesses, and more
Variations on a theme: Game of Thrones
Dalek Propaganda Posters and Doctor Who Miscellany
Dear Puffin,
Here on the east coast we’ve had an earthquake and a hurricane. So I thought it might be a good idea to talk about some of the less well known disasters in our nation’s history. Such as The Menacing of the East River Bridge.
Or the Great Pittsburgh Zombie Outbreak.
Or the attack on Boston Harbor by the Beast from the Unknown.
Or the destruction of the Washington Monument.
Although officially known as the Washington Monument since plans for the magnificent obelisk were underway while the first President was still alive, the name is something of a misnomer as the currently standing tower is actually a replica. The first Monument, completed in 1862, was attacked and destroyed soon after by “Potomac Patty,” the local river monster who had been won over to the secessionist side of the Civil War by promises of “fresh fish flesh” from the Confederate Army. As photography was scarce during the war, this is actually a photo of the re-completed Monument with an artist’s likeness of Patty grappling with the tower.
Or, for that matter, the original design of the Statue of Liberty. As we all know, Frédéric Bartholdi first envisioned not a shining beacon of freedom featuring Lady Liberty, but a dire warning depicting Krgyyx threatening the world, as he was wont to do.
All of these edifying prints by Matthew Buchholz can be purchased on Etsy.
These are so going in my foyer.
Love
MacGuffin
Other posts tagged as Art:
Renaissance Celebrity Portraits
Dainty China Dolls of Horror and Gore
Art Nouveau 2: The Ladies of Firefly ad Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who meets Le Petite Prince
Art Nouveau 1: Slave Leia, sinful Disney princesses and more
MacGuffin,
I was a great fan of the semi-defunct Poor Taste Museum. If I can win this raffle, I’ve purchased roughly 864 tickets so I have good chance, I will have a one of a kind submission to the collection!
You too can have a piece of history.
The Republican Party in Arizona’s Pima County, which is represented by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), is in the midst of a fundraising raffle, $10 per entry.
The prize: the same model of gun that delivered a near-fatal blast to the Democratic lawmaker’s skull outside a Tucson grocery store in January.
I simply can not fathom the group-think which convinced anyone that this was an acceptable thing to do. The Arizona GOP is my perpetual nomination for Asshole of the Day, but this really belongs more in the Poor Taste Museum.
Yours in Bruce Campbell and all his glory
-P
