tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692863810429386702024-03-13T04:29:05.145-01:00The NimblogI should be in charge of everythingNimbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02724786670568655103noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369286381042938670.post-13831425654515032142015-09-24T14:48:00.001+00:002015-09-24T14:48:50.226+00:00Hello!Well hello there!<br />
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If you have reached this site, it is likely because you saw it in the trailer credits for David Wong's new novel, <i>Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits</i>. And that's because I edited it together and chose fonts for it and whatnot!<br />
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Anyway, despite this blog looking as if it has been abandoned, I assure you that it has in fact not been abandoned; but I have a legitimate job now and so that has to take priority. I'm actually working on three posts: one about two bad advertisements, one about <i>Superman: The Animated Series</i> (those posts take a long time to do), and one about some background to making the <i>Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits</i> trailer that I think people will find enlightening. If you ever wanted to know how to make a trailer for a book, I am sure that it will prove very helpful!<br />
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Knowing that people are probably going to be looking at this site is really the (only) motivation I need, because I like it when people listen to me and the often silly things which I choose to talk about.<br />
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Anyway, while we wait for one of those posts to go up (it will probably be the behind-the-scenes one about the trailer first), which will probably be some time tomorrow, please take a look around. I recommend reading <a href="http://www.nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-superman-animated-series-posts-index.html" target="_blank">my ongoing series about the Bruce Timm Superman show</a>, or this time <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2011/08/fine-here-you-go-suddenly-hat.html" target="_blank">I wrote about the history of the opera hat</a>, or this time <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2012/06/roland-emmerichs-anti-shakespeare-movie.html" target="_blank">I wrote about Shakespeare</a>. Oh, and there was that one time <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2012/09/interview-john-cheese_10.html" target="_blank">I interviewed John Cheese</a> (aka the inspiration for the character John of <i>John Dies at the End</i> and <i>This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It</i>)!<br />
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I recently was reminded that I had a blog, and looking over some of the more recent posts, particularly the Superman stuff, I was inspired to jump back into it. I'm busy this coming week, so the post won't be happening then, but soon. Truth be told, I already had some of it written out, and screencapped, and whatnot. I just kind of ran out of steam.<br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-3.html" target="_blank">Previous Installment</a> | <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-superman-animated-series-posts-index.html" target="_blank">S:TAS Index</a> | <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-introduction.html" target="_blank">Introduction</a><br>
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If you're just now joining us, I'm currently examining every episode of the criminally under-discussed and under-appreciated <i>Superman: The Animated Series</i>, because I think it's the best moving-pictures version of the collective Superman mythos that has ever been done. <a href="http://www.nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-superman-animated-series-posts-index.html" target="_blank">Here is a link</a> listing all of the posts so far.<br>
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Also, because I'm discussing certain animation touches in this post more than normal, I've added some .GIFs! There were some technical difficulties in doing this that delayed the post more than my being sick did. You'll notice that there are little black bars around the .gifs and that they look to be in a slightly squashed aspect ratio, which I promise bothers me more than it does you, but if I spent any more time trying to fix it I'd never get it done. Also, I set the .gifs to output at the frame rate of the source material so that they'd be as smooth and accurate as possible, and then I remembered that some browsers will slow .gifs down if they exceed a certain amount of frames per second, so they may look a little weird in, say, Internet Explorer.<br>
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We left off with Superman flying away after saving a plane, and there's a nice transition involving a man recording Superman. We're shown the footage as his camcorder is displaying it, complete with blinking red "REC." Then the show zooms in on the footage until you can't see the "REC" anymore, we hear Perry saying "freeze it!", and the show pulls back out and we're at the Daily Planet, where Perry, Clark, Lois, and Jimmy are watching the video. And the "pause" effect is done really well--and, again, like many details in this show, was not, strictly speaking, "necessary," but it really helps sell it.<br>
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Still waiting for it to be on Netflix.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Hey, if you wouldn't mind reading the whole thing on my blog
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In the meantime, enjoy this hilarious video of Groucho Marx on <i>What's My Line?</i>:<br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-seriesepisode-1-last.html" target="_blank">S1 E1: The Last Son of Krypton, Part I (A)</a><br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-2.html" target="_blank">S1 E2: The Last Son of Krypton, Part II (A)</a><br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-2_19.html" target="_blank">S1 E2: The Last Son of Krypton, Part II (B)</a><br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-3.html" target="_blank">S1 E3: The Last Son of Krypton, Part III (A)</a><br />
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<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/06/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-3.html" target="_blank">S1 E3: The Last Son of Krypton, Part III (B)</a><br />
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The good news first: I have <b>storyboards for the opening sequence! </b><br>
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Okay, now for the bad news: I have been feeling really <b>sick</b> recently and I think I'm coming down with something. I didn't want to go without an update for the next day, so I'm going to write up as much of this episode as I can before I need to start crawling into bed to try to head whatever-this-is off at the pass, and I'll schedule this post for publishing just in case I end up oversleeping.<br>
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Anyway, when last we left our hero, he had dodged a missile so successfully that it flew off in another direction and ended up hitting a plane's wing. Superman was... not thrilled about this turn of events.<br>
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The plane rescue sequence in <i>Superman Returns</i> was justly praised, and is one of the few universally-admired things in that movie. That being said, there's one aspect of the animated plane-rescue that I prefer. It took me a while to put my finger on it, but I think it's that the plane is closer to the ground and so Superman has to worry not just about saving the plane and the people on board, but about keeping everyone in the city safe as well. Don't get me wrong, the plane scene in <i>Superman Returns</i> has a different goal in mind, and it's still probably one of the best "Superman rescues people" scenes in live-action. I just like that the animated plane sequence has that added dimension.<br>
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In case you're wondering what the best "Superman rescue" is in the comics, I actually wouldn't pick any sort of big action set-piece (though again I am far from the foremost expert on comic-Superman). I think <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGnSUs_6uqSSLzSNivWWukjT8wBvtmMk4axwcPyER2oQ6gsAn4SYq05bkq_2vSlkIocOfg7c1PZCI5yPlTe3A47ArCXi2sk2Gw5bHOpMbFIrFCUWP_w40XV94svMIzMglqkM4zKQ-6fA/s1600/Superman_3_bestrescue.jpg" target="_blank">this one is the clear choice to lay odds on</a> (from <i>All-Star Superman</i> by Morrison and Quitely). I'm not going to lie to any of you: I tear up or cry every time I read that. It's even better in context.<br>
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Anyway, at this point in his life Superman, it becomes clear, has never really had to stop a plane before. We know this because he goes right for the tail and tries to hold the plane back by pulling on it, which, as anyone can tell you, is the classic mistake of a first-timer.<br>
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Of course, the tail of the plane breaks off instead.<br>
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Superman berates himself with a biting "Nice one, Clark." Then he heads to catch up with the plane.<br>
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It's just three words, but it accomplishes a lot and I love it so much. Tim Daly's delivery is spot-on (I'll be talking more about Daly's voice-acting soon--I've got a whole series to cover here, I don't want to say everything at the beginning), and it's just a great little character moment. It really humanizes the super-human. I don't think I'd ever heard Superman talk to himself in the middle of a rescue before (I certainly can't think of anywhere else).<br>
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In the storyboards for this sequence (done by Butch Lukic), the tail of the plane doesn't break off: it's going too fast for Superman's fingers to do anything but dig grooves into it.<br>
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EDIT: Dana Delany retweeted my link to this blog post, which, uh... I didn't see coming. She has a lot more Twitter followers than I do, so I'd imagine there will be some people reading who are new to what I'm doing here. For those who are: this is actually a series of posts, and I try to do a new post about this show every day. Every two days at most. I hope you'll stick around! If you want, you can subscribe via email (top right column) or <a href="https://twitter.com/Nimby_Esq" target="_blank">follow me on Twitter</a> so that you don't miss any updates, because this won't be the last time I talk about Superman or Lois or Lex. Feel free to comment as well; I like to know people actually <i>read</i> what I wrote.<br>
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We cut to Metropolis. Appropriately, the very first thing we see in Metropolis is a <i>Daily Planet</i> delivery truck. On a nearby TV, there's a news story about the mysterious "angel" of Metropolis, and an interview with a little girl who fell from such a high story of a building that it makes me unsure of how great I feel about Metropolis's building codes. At any rate, according to the girl, she was saved by a blue angel with red wings.<br>
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We pull out from the television, now in the offices of <i>The Daily Planet</i>. Some of the staff are watching the news on a huge screen. "If it wasn't an angel that saved her, what was it?" the TV reporter asks, closing the piece.<br>
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A woman in a purple blazer and a skirt points at the TV with a ruler. "Friendly pigeons," she says.<br>
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet LOIS LANE. <br>
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Let me make one thing very, very clear: I absolutely <i>love</i> Lois Lane, and it's mainly because of this show. I LOVE this show's Lois. She's essentially been dropped in from a Howard Hawks movie (specifically, <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/63243" target="_blank">this</a> Howard Hawks movie, except Lois, unlike Hildy, would never want to quit being a reporter), and it's just fantastic. (When I looked up the Delany interview I mention in a moment, it turns out she thought the exact same thing, so it's good that her performance really managed to convey that.) It is by far the best take I have ever seen. She's got that tough, competitive element to her that I think a lot of the portrayals of Lois either forget about or don't get quite right, although I'll admit I don't really remember much about Lois in the Christopher Reeve movies.<br>
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The tough, competitive element is definitely in the original conception of Lois. In <i>Superman</i> #3 (in a story which was reprinted in <i>Action Comics</i> #6), she tricks Clark into following a false lead so that she can cover a story that her editor thinks is... well, you'll see: <br>
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Which only serves to <i>immediately</i> make Lois scheme out loud:<br>
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At the same time, the show's portrayal of Lois also has her feminine side, if you want to call it that, which we'll see in a moment.<br>
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"Whatsamatter, Lois? Don'tcha believe in angels?" one of the men asks.<br>
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"It's TV, boys," she says. "Just a trumped-up story to boost ratings."<br>
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"And maybe sell some papers?" asks a man whose eyes look like inverted commas, showing her the Daily Planet's front page.<br>
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Cut to: Perry White's office. Lois barges right the heck in.<br>
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Perry looks mildly startled, but not very surprised, which is excellent.<br>
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<i>Directed by Scott Jeralds, Curt Geda</i><br>
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This episode opens with a very brief recap of events from the previous episode, and then launches right into the next part of the Superman origin: being found by the Kents.<br>
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In this version of the story, the rocket leaves hyperspace or whatever at some point just outside our solar system, and heads straight for Earth, getting a bit of yellow sunlight on Kal-El's face. Meanwhile, on Earth, the Kents are driving along in a pick-up truck at night. The rocket flies overhead.<br>
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A nice touch here is that the rocket has little auto-boosters on it that guide it gently to the ground, and that it lands in the shallow part of a pond/lake. This explains why no one started wondering what was up with a huge, unexplainable crater, and it also makes sense that Jor-El wouldn't design a rocket that couldn't land on its own. His kid's inside there, after all.<br>
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Either boosters on the rocket heat up the water in the lake and create a ton of steam, or the rockets turning off create a lot of smoke (the latter idea is supported by Jonathan coughing when he's looking around), or some combination of both, which lends a nice sense of atmosphere to the proceedings. Jonathan gets out of the truck, flashlight in hand, and says, "Holy Christmas! What was that?"<span id="goog_2090341611"></span><span id="goog_2090341612"></span><br>
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Martha Kent spots something in the pond and makes her way towards it.<br>
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As she gets closer she discovers that it's a rocket, and then walks up to it, which seems a little foolish on her part, since this is the Cold War and everything, but we'll give her a pass on that one. Perhaps it was just her motherly instinct. (I would have preferred that the rocket popped open to reveal Kal-El earlier or that the cockpit was transparent and she could see him from the edge of the lake). <br>
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Interestingly, in the first issue of <i>Superman</i> her name is Mary, not Martha (she's also called "Mary" in 1948's <i>Superman</i> #53, in a story I've seen credited to the unfortunate Bill Finger). Jonathan isn't given a name at all, and the Kents are described as "an elderly couple."<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Man, this Comixology edition looks a little washed-out. I'm going to scan the panels in myself for the next post. </span></div>
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She's not called anything in the newspaper comics because I don't think the Kents are mentioned there even a single time. It's some random guy on a road who finds Kal-El (well, it would be "Kal-L" in the newspaper strip) and turns him in to a nearby orphanage, and then suddenly a panel or two later Kal-El's being called Clark Kent. In the novel, the 1940s serials, and the black-and-white TV show, the Kents were called Eban and Sarah. "Jonathan and Martha" were, thankfully, established in <i>Action Comics </i>#158 (1951). Interestingly, Batman's mother is named Martha as well.<br>
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The cockpit window pops open automatically. Martha gently lifts Kal-El out of the rocket and brings him up to where Jonathan is standing. Jonathan says a couple things to the effect of "You don't know where that thing has been," and they wonder if this is part of a Soviet or NASA experiment. "Do you think NASA's missing a kid?" Jonathan asks. And that's funny and silly, but honestly, that's probably the only thing he could think of. I mean the baby looks human enough, so your mind is obviously going to try to work with as sane an explanation as possible. And if you ask me, it seems more speculative than it does 100% serious.<br>
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I should point out that the Kents do a lot of moving in this simple scene. In cheaper shows, or anime, usually characters don't change positions or use as much body language as the characters in the DCAU shows, and this will be a level of detail kept throughout the series: characters move around when they don't, strictly speaking, need to, in the same way that flesh-and-blood people do. It's quite well-done. Each little movement is reflective of the things the characters are saying or talking about and the way they feel.<br>
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Anyway, Martha says that it's a child and it needs their help. Jonathan is slow to come around until she hands him the child. Jonathan comments on how strong the baby's grip is, and then we hear a sound like knuckles popping.<br>
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So Jor-El blows up the door into the room.<br>
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Notice how, even though Brainiac is now smaller, the room is still this great vertical chamber, making both Jor-El and the monitor look tiny. This is because they want at least some part of you to pay attention to the room itself. You'll see why.<br>
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"This is a breach of security, Jor-El," Brainiac intones. "A violation of statute..." and then he names the exact statute and subsection of the offense as Jor-El looks at the terminal inside to figure out what is going on, because of course he does. From a writing perspective, you need to give him something to do while is Jor-El is taking a few moments to figure it out, but you also don't want it to just be "you shouldn't be here" / "I know" repeated back and forth. And this is a good thing to give him.<br>
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Jor-El looks up from whatever he was examining. "You're downloading! You're transmitting your memory to a satellite!"<br>
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Remember how I told you it would be important to know that there were satellites orbiting Krypton? And you know how Jor-El mentioned the satellites when he was first talking to Brainiac, and how Eyepatch Council Member talked about Brainiac surveying the planet? Well, here's the payoff for that.<br>
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"You're saving yourself!" Jor-El continues.<br>
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"I must." Brainiac replies. "After all, am I not the repository of all Kryptonian knowledge? Should I not be saved above all?"<br>
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<i>Directed by Dan Riba</i><br>
<br>
<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-superman-animated-series-posts-index.html" target="_blank">All S:TAS Posts</a> | <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-introduction.html" target="_blank">Introduction</a> | <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2014/05/superman-animated-series-season-1-ep-1.html" target="_blank">Next Installment</a><br>
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We start off with a neat <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C06rNqK1vo" target="_blank">minute-long theme song</a> (I'm sorry that whoever uploaded that otherwise nice-looking version of it was an idiot who stretched the frame out) that includes the most dramatic part of this episode right at the beginning. It's a little long, but if it's your first time watching in a while, you don't mind so much, especially if you didn't like Hans Zimmer's music in <i>Man of Steel</i>. I guess minute-long theme songs are a thing on kids' shows for some reason (the more I think about it, the more examples come to mind), and the music is good. Unlike the animated <i>Batman</i>, which used the Danny Elfman movie theme for its intro, <i>Superman</i> gets a new one, courtesy of the late, great Shirley Walker (who also worked on <i>Batman</i>), and while it's not <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vrfEoc8_g" target="_blank">John Williams</a>, there's actually a lot I like about it and a few things I even <i>prefer</i>. The theme song also gives you tons of shots which say, "This is what Superman is about."<i> </i>It does get to you when watching these all in a row, though. At least if you're impatient like me. Also, I don't think they ever update the clips, so it's always shots from like, the first five episodes only.<br>
<br>
A really nice touch in the theme song is that (like <i>Batman: TAS</i>) <i>nowhere</i> does it display the title "Superman." It lets the iconic S do all the talking. The last shot is Clark Kent pulling apart his shirt (what would a Superman theme song be without that?) to reveal the S--<br>
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--then the screen drops to black as the camera pulls in toward the S and eventually passes through it. Or maybe it's the S that's moving. Whichever it is, it looks neat.<br>
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<br />
While I would rank <i>Batman: The Animated Series</i> higher if I was making a totemic list, I still have a lot of room in my heart for Superman. Also, <i>Superman: TAS</i>
doesn't get talked about nearly as much. It's always in <i>Batman</i>'s
considerably dark shadow. So I think it would be a neat thing to really
examine.<br />
<br />
And with the recent <i>Man of Steel</i>
being, well, what it is, I thought it was a good time to revisit a show
that made such an impression on me with its representation of Superman, Metropolis, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor. I've revisited it before, but this
time I'm really looking at it to try to figure out exactly why I think
its concept of the character holds up even better than the Christopher
Reeve movies (although Christopher Reeve's portrayal of Superman and
Clark Kent casts a shadow of its own; he is not the problem with those
movies) or <i>Lois & Clark</i>.<br />
<br />
So this might take a while, but I think it will end up being pretty fun!<br />
<br />
Also, if <i>Superman: The Animated Series</i> is not your thing, don't worry: this blog will not turn into All Superman, All the Time. There will also be Batman!<br />
<br />
(And other things that are not about comic book heroes).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
DISCLAIMER:<br />
<br />
I am not in any way a... Superman historian, I guess you'd call it. I
don't own any issues from the Silver Age, I don't know what happened in
Action Comics #56 off the top of my head, nothing like that.<br />
<br />
So
what I'm trying to say is that I am in no way trying to say that I have
some sort of deep, long-acquired insight that makes me the ultimate
authority on what the "proper" representation of Superman is because
I've read the comics. Because I haven't really read the comics. I just
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Pretty much all the readers of this blog come from <a href="http://www.cracked.com/forums/" target="_blank">Pointless Waste of Time</a>, the forums at <a href="http://www.cracked.com/" target="_blank">Cracked.com</a>, so no doubt <a href="http://www.cracked.com/members/John+Cheese/" target="_blank">John Cheese</a> needs no introduction. However, since he insisted on drawing up a legal document before this interview began, I am now contractually obligated to write one.<br>
<br>
Mack Leighty was born, like so many great men before him, in a log cabin that he built with his own hands. Then, like Jesus (and Shakespeare!), his childhood years are lost in a fog of mystery, until we finally catch up with him joining his best friend David Wong to write for Wong's website Pointless Waste of Time, writing articles as John Cheese (also like Shakespeare!). This incarnation of John Cheese was a little different than the John Cheese his newer readers might know and fear today. John then started the website Juvenile Comedy after an argument with Wong over whether or not to spend the ridiculous amount of money they'd accumulated on illegal mongooses or a nice set of Wedgwood china.<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">They had <a href="http://www.johndiesattheend.com/AoJaD/20051128.shtml" target="_blank">completely forgotten</a> about the Xbox 360.</span></div>
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John Cheese later became a regular article writer, and then a columnist, at Cracked, while also gaining a permanent layout job behind the scenes and offering his services to the Editorial team as a contract killer.<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">He usually does all three jobs without pants. (Again, <a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2012/06/roland-emmerichs-anti-shakespeare-movie.html" target="_blank">like Shakespeare</a>. The parallels are downright spooky.)</span></div>
<br>
I had the contractually-obligated pleasure of sitting down and talking with John a few days ago, and managed to get a fairly professional interview. We discussed his early work; his opinion on the old media vs. new media issue; his friendship with David Wong, the man who made the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Criminals list famous once he was added to it; John's <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-know-its-time-to-get-married/" target="_blank">upcoming marriage</a>; giving him one good reason not to kill me where I stood; why he was holding a knife; me not being a hired assassin, really, John, I swear, I've never even <i>heard</i> of the League of Squancho; and which was the quickest way to get to the hospital.<br>
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I arrived at the restaurant ten minutes early, eager to begin.<br>
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As I waited for John to show up, I looked over my notes once more, steeling myself for the most important and so far only interview for a blog that I need to pay more attention to.<br>
<br>
He entered the restaurant and I tried to catch his eye, but the hostess had begun talking to him and so his attention was routed to her. Their exchange lasted an unusually long amount of time, and when it was over her eyes were different colors and he had somehow exchanged his necktie for a bow tie that closer inspection would prove to be made of construction paper.<br>
<br>
He sat down, de-napkined his silverware, and spent a moment glaring at it. When he had finished, he looked up at me expectantly.<br>
<br>
I started with the most important question.<br>
<br>
"Did you manage to see where the restrooms are?"<br>
<br>
He pointed me in a direction that was somewhat correct, and when I returned from my adventure, I discovered that John had already ordered for both of us, and that he'd already eaten the food he had ordered for me.<br>
<br>
I sat back down at the table and cleared my throat. John settled himself into an attentive pose.<br>
<br>
Suddenly I realized that somewhere on the way back to my chair I had become extremely tense. I clutched my legal pad like a life preserver and felt my panic-freeze sweat soften its edges. I looked up to this man. Not, like, in a Martin Luther King, Jr. way, where you idolize him for a world-changing achievement--<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(his mustache)</span></div>
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--but more in the way where I thought he was cool and wanted him to think I'm cool, too.<br>
<br>
I decided to launch into my first question before I could think about all the ways I might end up disappointing him.<br>
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<span style="color: #0fcd06;"><b>Nimby:</b></span> How do you think your writing style has changed over the years?<br>
<br>
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>John Cheese:</b></span> When I first started out on the net back in 1997, all of my writing was based on the surreal. I used to set up innocent sounding, fictional situations and then make them progressively more corrupt and bizarre as the article went along. Since it was all character based, I could take an article like that anywhere I wanted. There was no research. No facts. Just silliness.<br>
<br>
Not long before I came to Cracked, there was a transitional phase where I mixed reality with surreality. For instance, I'd write about finding a new girlfriend, but during the course of the article, I'd have it break down into a ninja type of fight, complete with back flips and ridiculousness.<br>
<br>
Now, I've stripped out the fiction completely. There is no character. And it turns out that the reality-based articles that have a personal touch pull an absolutely insane amount of traffic. People want to read something they can relate to--and though my old fiction pieces had value on a comedy level, they never had the support and following like my Cracked pieces.</blockquote>
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<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">An arm, wearing red spandex and a red glove, drops down
from the roof of the newsstand. The news-guy whirls as
the arm slaps two bucks on the counter and grabs a
Newsweek.
The owner rushes out the door... looks on top of his
kiosk.
There's nothing there. He looks up, all around...
nothing. He grins and holds his fist in the air. </span><br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">OWNER</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">ALRIIIIIGHT!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">CUT TO THE FIGURE, atop the WTC. Still hanging. He pulls
the Newsweek out of his belt and stares at the cover in
the moonlight.</span><br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">SPIDERMAN (V.O.)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">How can I expect them to get it.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I don't
even get it.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I do wish they'd at least
get my</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">name right. It's Spider Man...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">not
The Spider Man. Jeez. Boneheads.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I need
a better publicist.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He rips the magazine easily in half, then in quarters,
then in eights... somewhere in here we realize that this
takes more strength in the hands than you or I have. He
releases the stamp-sized shreds. Camera drifts with them
as they flutter down over the city like confetti.</span><br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">SPIDERMAN</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Wouldn't they have kittens if they</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">knew
Spiderman wasn't even a man.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Just a kid
named...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">yeah they would have kittens, that would be groovy and the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">PETER!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">CLOSE UP on an elderly lady yelling. "Peter... you're
going to be late!" It's morning and she's calling up the
stairs to...</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">PETER PARKER. Age 17. Peter is in the bathroom, popping
a zit in the mirror. He puts on his glasses and checks
his look in the mirror. Still the same. Nerdy. He
doesn't care. Screw 'em.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">James, where's the real Peter Parker? Is this like a movie about the Clone Saga or something?</span></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He grabs a big stack of books and heads downstairs. Over
breakfast we meet his aunt MAY and Uncle BENJAMIN. Nice
people but way too old to be the kind of role-model
parents a kid needs. Still, he loves them even if he
forgets to actually mention it 99% of the time like any
kid.
Aunt May is thin and fusses over Peter too much. He
indulges her. When he has time, which he doesn't this
morning.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I agree, James, I've read a couple of the comics and in no way are Uncle Ben and Aunt May ever good role models because they are just too OLD to understand KIDS. Well, except you, you seem to be doing a great job. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Peter's parents were killed in a plane crash when he was
six. He woke up one day without a family. Somehow he
always felt guilty that they went away. As if he had done
something wrong. His 17 year old mind tells him it was
just fate, just a random accident... but deep in his
subconscious that scared 6 year old still cries, begging
for them to come home... he won't cause trouble anymore...
he'll go to bed when they tell him.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ugh.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">[...]</span> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Peter is a bright kid. He doesn't have many friends. He
is ostracized for his interest in science. Our MTV
culture frowns on people who think too much. Intellectual
curiosity is decidedly un-hip. Who cares about where the
universe came from or how the Greeks hammered Troy? Did
you hear the new Pearl Jam album?</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Peter is defiant. He thinks they are the real losers.
They'll be flipping burgers while he's discovering the
cure to cancer.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We'll see who wins in the long run.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He wears his isolation like a badge... with an air of
superiority.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">James, I want this Peter Parker to get punched in the face. Is that what you're doing here, like a... parody or something? Something that's bad?</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">[...]</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He has the 17 year-old's sense that he knows everything
about the world, and can see so clearly all the things
that are wrong with it. In fact he is very insulated and
knows almost nothing about human nature in all its
complexity. He doesn't even understand himself very well.
Because his life of the mind is his badge of superiority,
he frowns on the pursuits of the body.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sports? Forget it. Bunch of jock boneheads crashing into
each other. Like stag elk in rut. Senseless violence.
Girls? Good in theory, but how do you talk to them?
Dancing? No way. He tried it once. Not a pretty sight.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Peter is a virgin. And apt to remain that way for a
while. He's your basic sexually pent-up adolescent.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you for clearing that up James, it really helps me understand the character better.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">At the same time, in some neighborhoods, he is a local
legend. Crime is down, and the friendly neighborhood
Spider Man is a welcome sight. And everybody wants to
claim him.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Black kids think he's black. White kids white. Hispanic
etc.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Spidey man ain't no white dude. He too down. What I'm
sayin. You see his moves? He definitely a brother."</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"No way, home. My brother knows a guy that talked to him
once, man."</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Italians say he's Italian.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Gays think he's gay.</span><br>
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Every. Single. Time. some tragedy happens, members of the "New Media"--or "Old Media" outlets with web content--release, and promote, the same article (both the same as before and the same as everyone else's). It is quite possibly the most template-y, "insert X here" type of article imaginable. Therefore, it is the best. It's ingenious. Journalism is supposed to be easy, after all--easy to do, easy to write, easy to read. As a reporter, you just repeat stuff that other people repeat! How much thinking could you possibly need for that? Again, it shouldn't be hard--if it is, you're doing it wrong!<br>
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When you hear about a tragic event or major news story, your first thought, save perhaps concern, prayer, or both, is to ask for more information.<br>
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And The Huffington Post, among others, ingeniously answers a question <i>you didn't even ask</i>.<br>
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Notice how V-Shield-Girl's breasts manage to stay perky inside her armor! And Lightning Cleavage's breasts manage to stay perky in spandex!<br>
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Displaying this in a bookstore will definitely attract women to comics! Look, she's saving some pathetic clod who's just wearing tacky boxers and is a loser yet somehow also muscular! See? It's not sexist at all!<br>
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I know, I know, this is not what was supposed to be coming next, but the interview is proving surprisingly hard to put into a post.<br>
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Anyway, this post goes out to the lady behind <a href="http://anastasis.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">GOD! GIRLS! GUNS! PIE!</a><br>
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Orloff [<i>the writer of the movie --N.</i>] brushes off such criticism of his movie as a knee-jerk response
to an “academic subversion of normality.” “When you learn it’s not fact,
it’s a bit unsettling,” the screenwriter said. “Why not question
everything you’ve been taught?” </blockquote>
Well, yes, in that
situation I can see how that would happen, although as far as I know
Orloff hasn't begun questioning the moon landing or the traditional
dates of Ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period.<br>
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The studio plans to concurrently release <i>Last Will. & Testament</i>,
a documentary about the authorship debate, through First Folio
Pictures (a production shingle whose president is none other than
Roland Emmerich) and has been providing materials to educators that
encourage teachers to “make this thought-provoking new film part of
your class plan.”</blockquote>
And this worries me. I think teaching class materials based on <i>Anonymous</i> is a bad strategy: it's giving kids an inaccurate and incomplete picture... because <i>Anonymous</i>
didn't go far enough. It's true that conventional views of Shakespeare
are completely false. But not in the way most people think. Let me
elaborate.<br>
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When I heard about Roland Emmerich's <i>Anonymous</i>,
I was excited. Finally, a movie that wasn't afraid to take on
conventional scholarship and challenge long-held beliefs about
Shakespeare. But then I saw a photo of Shakespeare from the movie:<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Apparently the film thinks so little of Shakespeare that he doesn't even know which direction to bow in</span></div>
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I'm sure you see the problem here.<br>
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You
see, Anti-Stradfordians (people who don't believe Shakespeare wrote the
plays) often say that we don't have any evidence that Shakespeare ever
read a book, and that we don't have anything that shows he wrote the
plays besides copies of works that were allegedly by him and had his
name attached to them on the cover somehow, and some obviously mistaken
contemporary accounts.<br>
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But that brings us to an urgent, basic issue that needs to be sorted out before we can begin questioning identities:<br>
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I take one, mainly to show support. They could be street-preaching about how America is the new Sodom and jezebels tempt honest young men in the streets or what the hell ever, but instead they're just quietly handing out copies of the New Testament, being ignored by most people.<br />
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So, as I said, I take one. The man smiles at me. I encounter another one a little farther down. The New Testament is small and thin, about the size of a box of playing cards, and it rests in my pocket where this new Gideon can't see it.<br />
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Gideon: Would you like one, sir?<br />
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Me: No thanks, I'll wait for the movie.<br />
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I show him the New Testament.<br />
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Me: Nah, I'm just kidding, I already got one.<br />
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He smiles. As I walk away, he calls after me, as an afterthought, perhaps worried that I haven't fully been sold on the book.<br />
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Gideon: Well, it's, I mean, it's almost as real as a movie!<br />
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Me: Haha, yeah...<br />
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I resume walking. A moment passes.<br />
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You've probably seen a lot of local commercials that make this mistake (perhaps they even drop some phresh beats and lay down a rap!) but national commercials are also guilty of this. Companies, here's the thing. Just because your song is catchy <i>doesn't mean that it's likeable.</i><br>
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The people who made the NAPA Know-How commercial don't understand this.<br>
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Okay, so, to start with, we've got this:<br>
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When the very first words of your commercial are the protagonist talking about how he doesn't care about other human beings (evidenced by his careless disposal of the very organ he is lacking), you should know that your character is going to come across as broken at best and insane at worst. We'll see which it turns out to be.<a href="http://nimblogthing.blogspot.com/2011/09/fixing-bad-commercials-singing.html#more">read more! »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Hey, if you wouldn't mind reading the whole thing on my blog
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In fact, at the restaurant where I encountered this machine, the workers proudly told me that it was the first one in the state. Badass.<br>
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In short, those old-school drink machines you may know and love--the ones with nozzles for each drink, like so:<br>
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may become as much a part of our past as the Stone Age.<br>
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That's right, say hello to the new kid in town:<br>
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THE SPACE AGE DRINK MACHINE.<br>
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Now, I know it doesn't look like much, but that's just 'cause I didn't get a very good picture of it. So I'll have to paint a picture... with <i>words</i>.<br>
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(I could just find a picture of it from the internet, but to do so would be to acknowledge that there are other sites out there carrying this story, and I'm just not ready to do that.)<br>
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Imagine one of those self-serve ice-cream machines. Now imagine only one dispenser thing.<br>
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Or, imagine one of those Coinstar machines:<br>
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Or one of those stand-alone ATM Machines:<br>
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I hope that's clear enough.<br>
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Find out more about the machine that will change the entire world after you click read more:<span><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span><br>
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