Bluish Barn

This Thursday, 9pm SHARP, we’ll be doing a special pre-screening of submissions in the ‘experimental’ category for next Spring’s Ann Arbor Film Festival. Mostly animation. Nothing longer than 15 minutes in length, and most under 5 minutes, so it’ll be easy to come and go as you please.

There will be a gong. If anything gets unbearable, and a majority of people strike the gong - accounting for tastes, democratically - we’ll immediately stop the film and start the next one.

This is a essentially a volunteer service for the embattled A2 Film Fest, weeding out the crap so their more ‘expert’ screeners don’t have to waste their time. But I’ve taken out the real long ones and the ones with terrible blurbs, so this should be fun and full of surprises. And besides, as any halfway decent artist knows, sometimes the biggest pile of crap can be more inspiring than the most polished diamond.

I’m posting these here because yahoogroups wouldn’t let me send them to our group. Let me know what you think. I found some stuff online and had some fun with it, since these are only airing on WCBN. I might have gone a little overboard.
played out

no elves in Ypsi

buy with confidence

You’re gone, but I’m still doing your dishes.  Soon those and the rest of your hidden stains will be gone entirely.  You will be missed.

Now there are three dudes living at the Bluish Barn.  Just look at us with our cute little black toiletry bags on the shelves of our cute little bathroom cabinet:

Cute, right?  It will be this way till January, when two young women move here from Argentina.  (American women.)

Which reminds me: one day I was sitting in my room when I heard Mikey on the porch talking to some friends who were walking by.  The friend said, “Mikey, you live in, like, a real house.”  No doubt he was noticing the semi-regularly hand-weeded front garden and new begonias in the planters.  He continued:  “There must be a girl living here.”

What Mikey didn’t tell him was that, although there was a girl living here at the time, the ‘girliness’ he was noticing was all mine.  I take Mikey’s friend’s assumption as a compliment.

Which reminds me: if you’re a friend of Mikey’s, even though Mikey’s gone, you’re still welcome here, at screenings and anything else.  Mikey would’ve liked it that way.

Among the unexpected delights to be had last Thursday was the enhancement of all our vocabularies with a few choice words from the year 1939, presented here for those who missed the screening.

Thanks to Anne, a first-time guest at the Bluish Barn, for having the guts to go somewhere she’s never gone before and watch two whole movies with people she’s never watched two whole movies with before. And for helping us notice these.

constitutional n.

A walk taken regularly for one’s health.

fourflusher n.

A person who tries to bluff other people.

galoot n.

A person, especially a clumsy or uncouth one.

vazoom [oops. see below.]

[No definition found online. Can anyone find one offline?]

wallop v. tr.

1. To beat soundly; thrash.
2. To strike with a hard blow.
3. To defeat thoroughly.

Some of these are not all that archaic but I think still merit revival. Extra points to anyone who can use them all in a comment on this post.

But first I have to finish tweaking the layout and whatnot.