Let's Watch "A&E's Dinosaur: The Tale of a Feather"

Get a drink for this one.

Being the final episode on a series-length dinosaur documentary is never a fun time.  Because this is The Extinction Episode -- mostly.

Because as the title "Tale of a Feather" suggests, it's also about the evolution of birds from POSSIBLY MAYBE the smallish theropod dinosaurs.  Remember, it's 1991 and this is still a pretty outrageous theory.  It's also surprisingly frustrating to watch because John Ostrom has been in this series and they never get to naming which specific group of smallish theropods gave rise to birds and ahh, you guys are so close ahh ahh!!!

But never mind that because my.  God.  The.  Ending. 😵😱😰

You're not ready for how this dinosaur documentary ends.  I sure wasn't.  Let's not keep you in suspense any longer.  Here it is:

@babbletrish

The finale of the ‘91 A&E Dinosaur series. It’s… special. ##dinosaur ##documentary ##Weird90s ##wtf ##waltercronkite ##Dinosauroid

♬ original sound - BabbleTrish

 

I reiterate: what?

The longer version isn't going to help at all but here it is anyway:

 

@babbletrish

The full ending of A&E’s Dinosaur, in case you wanted to see the full horror of Dinosaur TV.##dinosaur ##documentary ##Weird90s ##wtf ##Dinosauroid

♬ original sound - BabbleTrish

 

They really ended this with Bioparanoia / the climate and/or nuclear apocalypse is inevitable and Dinosauroids.  Completely devoid of context Dinosauroids yet!  Like we never get the usual, "here's a very weird theory this one guy has and here's the statue they made of it", we just get... this.  Whoever dreamed up this ending has Cortical folds the depth of the Marianas Trench, not least because they ended with "Somehow after humans destroy themselves the dinosaurs will take over" and thought the people watching this would all be okay.  Incredible.

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Help me feed the birds!  I want to be among the last to get eaten when they take over.

Art of the Day!  Gosh what would an intelligent dinosaur look like?  We just don't know.

Let's Ring in the New Year with "Along the Moonbeam Trail"

As a fellow admirer of crows once sang in a song that has been drilled in the tooth of my memory since high school, maybe this year will be better than the last.  God I hope so.  I at least intend to blog more, when I can; anything that strikes my fancy and is also too weird and/or wonderful NOT to post about.

Case in point: "Along the Moonbeam Trail".  This is a short silent film recently restored to the best of the editors' abilities (here's hoping they find the ending).  I'd like to thank Tyler Greenfield for posting a clip on Twitter because it's honestly astounding that I've never seen it or heard of it.  It has everything!  It is not my Entire Aesthetic (for one thing, I'd have more than one [1] major female character and she'd do more than being a Deus ex Machina), but it's about as close as a movie from this time period could hope to be:

Everything about this is great but I'm torn between the random witch, the "pterosaur" who's really one of the first movie dragons, and the stegosaurus and his cute skink-tongue.

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Art of the Day!

I painted this back in 2018 and I'm reposting it here to bring this wonderful magical energy into 2021.  Happy New Year!

The 2017 "Beauty and the Beast" Tweetmentary!

Oh boy...

November 16, 2024
So, as you may have heard, Twitter is going through some stuff.  That's why the Tweetmentaries are gone.  I've just scratched the surface in transferring all my favorite Twits to The New Place, so salvaging the Tweetmentaries is a project for another day.  Stay Tuned.

December 4, 2024
We're back in screenshot form!  I'm going to link @Coelasquid's big Real People Beauty and the Beast thread since it's still up and I don't want to copy the whole thing.  

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The 25 Weird Days of Christmas Day 16: "Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen"

I think I may have to go back and update my old list of Weird "Nutcracker" Adaptations...



Oh wow...

* - It's Mr. B-Sharp!?
* - Most of these costumes are pretty cool.  The Lion and Raggedy Anne, on the other hand, are tragedies.
* - Santa begs for the Fairy to change the characters back into toys because they might get broken or fall in love.  "You weren't made for living!"  Have some existential horror for Christmas!
* -  So.  Turns out the idea of having a magical toy spy on your kids for Santa to make sure they're being good around Christmas isn't a new thing.  (This does not make it okay.)

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Art of the Day!

An oldie, but a goodie. Consider it a "stay tuned"...

The 25 Weird Days of Christmas Day 11: "The Polar Express" Tweetmentary!

I made a bad decision this week.

I decided this year should be the year I finally hate-watch "The Polar Express".  I live-Tweeted the whole ordeal, which swiftly became not the expected hate-watch, but an "Oh my God, what the eff is even happening?!?"-watch.

I'm trying Storify Twitter Moments for the first time since figuring out how the darn thing works - mostly.  This will be something.  Note that posts couldn't be edited for spelling or anything but they have been shuffled around a little for clarity.  Thank you, everyone who watched along and contributed.

November 16, 2024
So, as you may have heard, Twitter is going through some stuff.  That's why the Tweetmentaries are gone.  I've just scratched the surface in transferring all my favorite Twits to The New Place, so salvaging the Tweetmentaries is a project for another day.  Stay Tuned.

December 4, 2024
It's back!  In screenshot form!

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Art of the Day:

Shortly after watching this and indulging in some Christmas wine, I had a vision and created something wonderful and terrible for this year's Awful Christmas album:



(Let me be the first to say, in the cold light of morning, 😱😱😱)

Music is art! Have "Spirit of the Season":


Also, something I had in my head during the more deranged BS action scenes: