The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

Young Flapjack embraces the carnage.

A while back, my talented chum Danny Cantrell landed a gig composing all the music for a new animated children's show and enlisted me to fiddle for it. The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is the cracked brainchild of Thurop Van Orman (previously a writer for Powerpuff Girls). I'm at a loss to describe Orman's vision properly, but if you were to picture Ren & Stimpy style shenanigans unfolding in a beautifully watercolored Treasure Island setting, you wouldn't be too far wrong.


Flapjack is an innocent young cuss with an unquenchable thirst for adventure on the high seas. He's being raised by a somewhat overprotective blue whale named Bubbie, and his best friend/partner in crime is a scraggly, no-pants-wearin' pirate with two peg legs who goes by Captain K'nuckles. Hilarity and high jinks ensue.

In addition to being gorgeously drawn and painted, Flapjack is rife with non sequiturs, uncomfortable silences, and gross-out humor, so I thought you perverts might appreciate a heads up. We've been working on --and giggling over-- this weirdness for months now. (Wish I could show you the Tentacular Lovecraftian Horror episode. So warped.)


Nothing says quality children's programming quite like a pair of hairy, floppy, tattooed man teats. Unless it's fart noises. Flapjack has plenty of both.

The first episode premieres today on the Cartoon Network at 8:30pm, EST. Folks with cable and a hankering for "ADVENTURRRRE!!!" are encouraged to tune in and report back.

Currently listening : Ruupert Dances In Fins Release date: 2001-07-27

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A Free Man’s Worship
Category: Life

"To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation. For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn our thoughts away from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is no only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."

Currently reading : Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects By Bertrand Russell

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the fight in the dog
Current mood: vital
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

~ e. e. cummings


photo by Bunny

It’s been a trying month, logistically, physically, emotionally. I’m going to be without dependable internet for the next two or three weeks. Please standby.

(With gratitude to Sharon Van Etten for reminding me of this quote, and for her achingly beautiful voice.)

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Please sign petition to release our friend Diz from Dubai prison
Category: Friends

http://www.petitiononline.com/cle2008/petition.html

Please take a minute to sign this. We need to get Diz out of there.

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Top list anxiety.
Current mood: betrayed
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

Tch.

Some sort of MySpace glitch just scrambled up my "top list" when I went to add Elegi (yaaay Tommy!) and I don't have the patience, energy or time to sit down and suss out who exactly went where before it happened. The whole notion of a "top list" is just so icky in certain ways. Thinking about it too much brings back the same panicky, cruddy feeling I used to get at junior high slumber parties. I am tempted to remove it entirely.

Rest assured no matter what, I lubs mah frenz.

Gonna be in Vancouver with Faun Fables for the next few days. See you after election day.

x

~Mer

Currently reading : Riding Toward Everywhere By William T. Vollmann Release date: 22 January, 2008

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Greetings from the Dubai tourism board.
Category: Travel and Places

My friend Mil Von's partner Diz was arrested last weekend in Dubai for carrying melatonin, an over-the-counter aid for jet lag. That's just the beginning of a long, ridiculous horror story for Diz and his loved ones.

Read the mind-boggling details Mil's LJ.

It's been an incredibly surreal, senseless fucking nightmare for him, and we're all worried.
Please, if anyone out there knows anyone they think might possibly be able to help, please contact Mildred (her info's up on the site), and repost.

Deep gratitude to Warren Ellis and Boing Boing for spreading the word.

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COILHOUSE BLOG & MAGAZINE LAUNCHES TODAY.
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

Hear ye hear ye! Today, I am verrrry proud to announce the launch of Coilhouse:



COILHOUSE is a love letter to alternative culture, written in an era when alternative culture no longer exists. And because it no longer exists, we take from yesterday and tomorrow, from the mainstream and from the underground, to construct our own version. We cover art, fashion, technology, music and film to create an alternative culture that we would like to live in, as opposed to the one that's being sold or handed down to us. The result, in the form of articles, features and interviews, is laid out on our blog and in our print magazine for all to see. If our Utopia is your Utopia, then welcome! Anyone can contribute, and we encourage you to go to our submission page and get in touch..

We've been bubbling/toiling/troubling this beauty out for months now. I can't tell you how pleased I am to see it go live.

Many thanks to brilliant Nadya Lev and bold Zoetica Ebb for coaxing me up the ramp of this good ship. I can't wait to see where our travels take us. I sincerely hope you'll join us.

We place great emphasis and importance on the process of sharing and collaboration. Feel free to repost any and all pertinent information elsewhere.

Thanks, all.

Links:

Livejournal RSS feed.

Add Coilhouse on Myspace.

Currently listening : Valerie & Her Week of Wonders - O.S.T. By Lubos Fiser Release date: 27 November, 2006

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HACKED!!! SO, SO SORRY!!!
Category: MySpace

Obviously, I have no interest in hawking Macy's gift cards.
My sincerest apologies to all for the spam.
Have changed password.

xo

~Mer

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Every Day Sunshine
Category: Music

MySuck's blog interface continues to confound and frustrate, so.... Bumbershoot blog is up here.

Currently listening : Dr. Madd Vibe’s Medicine Cabinet By Angelo Moore Release date: 15 November, 2005

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playing with Edison Woods @ Cafe Du Nord 8/22
Category: Music

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