Wes Phillips

Huckleberry hones those claws when he's happy. He hones 'em when he's frustrated. Essentially, he hones 'em a lot&mdash;which explains why <I>my</I> paws are so frequently bloody.

Bagheera is strict, but fair. I have been warned.

<A HREF="http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann</A> sent this url, asking, "is there a parallel with the audio business here?" Oh really, Mark&mdash;how could you think that?

It could be Frankie.

Brazil's Guilherme Marcondes shows the big studios how to make animation interesting. <I>Tyger</I> mixes puppetry, illustration, photography, and CGI together to create something that Neil Gaiman describes as "like something I dreamed as a boy." When you start channelling Gaiman's dreams, you're in serious territory.

Because it has just been too long since I posted anything about Harry Beck's iconic <A HREF="http://www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps/tube38.jpg">London Tube Map</A> and I gets all itchy when that happens.

"Imagine that your only contact with 'English' as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists&mdash;you <I>never</I> read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words."