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Coraline the Movie

Entertainment, ,

I’ve mentioned Coraline before in this blog — I’m sure of it. That’s the book that got me hooked on Neil Gaiman? Anyway — Coraline is going to be released as a movie in February and a website (actually 2 websites but they seem to be identical) dedicated to it has been online for a while. It keeps on getting better and better. It began with a tease — and a puzzle. Now it has a lot more content.

And a workshop so you can get your own button eyes…

I’m looking forward to the movie. Gaiman saw it recently and said it was lovely and “really creepy”.

Little Dog Gone Starring Brandon’s feet

Humor, , ,

In 1992, when my daughter turned 1 my sister-in-law, Jill, and my nephew, Brandon, came out for a visit with my mom. Brandon liked the jump-up swing thing that we put up in the doorway. He also had a pair of pajamas that had dogs on the feet. Dean filmed his feet while we listened to “Oh Where Oh Where has my Little Dog Gone?” on a wind-up Fisher Price toy record player. It ended up being pretty funny. He just happened to turn around at the end of the song. (I know the video says 1993, but I’m not so good with dates these days).