Omg, HOW did I forget about dinosaur comics, I'm so disappointed in myself

Except SpongeBob SquarePants

I checked the Kickstarter and the last update was last August, after nothing since 2020, but that update is set to "for backers only"

Through the Gorge

This answered my questions about release pacing and Netflix collaboration, but it was obnoxious to read on mobile so here's most of it:

Wes Anderson announced in an interview with IndieWire that his upcoming Netflix movie “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” based on Roald Dahl’s 1977 short story collection, will only be 37 minutes long. The film is Anderson’s second Dahl adaptation after “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley. Notably, “Henry Sugar” marks Anderson’s first Netflix original. He told IndieWire that collaborating with the streamer was more out of necessity than personal preference.

“In my case it’s a little bit of a weird thing,” Anderson said about partnering with Netflix. “I knew Roald Dahl since before we made ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox.’ I met Lindsay Dahl, his widow, when we were shooting ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ like 20 years ago. For years I wanted to do ‘Henry Sugar.’ They set this story aside for me because I was friends with them. Lindsay kind of handed the torch to Luke, Dahl’s grandson. So I had this waiting for me. But I really couldn’t figure out the approach. I knew what I liked in the story was the writing of it, Dahl’s words. I couldn’t find the answer, and then suddenly I did. It’s not a feature film. It’s like 37 minutes or something. But by the time I was ready to do it, the Dahl family no longer had the rights at all. They had sold the whole deal to Netflix.”

“Suddenly, in essence, there was nowhere else you could do it since they own it,” Anderson continued. “But beyond it, because it’s a 37-minute movie, it was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie. You know they used to do these BBC things called ‘Play for Today’ directed by people like Steven Frears and John Schlesinger and Alan Clarke. They were one hour programs or even less. I kind of envisioned something like that.”

It appears “Henry Sugar” will be more akin to Anderson’s 2007 short film “Hotel Chevelier,” a 13-minute prologue to his feature film “The Darjeeling Limited” that starred Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman.

“It’s not quite the choice between a full-fledged cinema release and a streaming release because you would never distribute a short film like that and distribute it in cinemas,” Anderson said about his “Henry Sugar” adaptation. “They’d have to sell cheaper tickets or do a double feature… I had only a good experience with Netflix, but I’m very happy to be putting ‘Asteroid City’ in cinemas. Focus and Universal are doing it the real cinema way. That’s the way I really want my movies to be shown.”

I used to watch Hotel Chevalier on repeat, it's been too long

Edit: formatting and typo

Most cats shouldn't be bathed unless they're kittens with fleas, have some kind of condition requiring it or get some kind of mess all over them. But apparently sphynx cats need regular bathing because of oil buildup, to prevent acne and such. I didn't know that until I started seeing these sphynxes in baths pictures here lately lol

I want to believe, but not on account of Jaime Maussan lol

I was wondering who signed the fake money and found this

It had never occurred to me that there'd be lots of competing companies in the business of making fake money, but it makes sense

Yeesh I hope you're doing alright, I have such a fear of a surprise caterpillar sting, especially on the neck

Neat, I never even thought about why window panes were a thing. I like to make a game almost of not taking things for granted but that's impossible to do completely, and it's fun when some knowledge and insight comes along about an aspect of how things work that was invisible to me

I would have been glad for as many final tours as Slayer wanted, and I feel the same way about Miyazaki and his movies

Good lord, trigger warning! I'm so glad Lemmy is here to fill the void, but just when I think I've healed you hit me with this dang