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This is not an ordinary Vincent Macropod cartoon! No. And it must not be treated as such! Instead, it has instructions. Follow them precisely, or all we know to be good and pure is lost!

1 ) Close your eyes. Keep them closed until told otherwise.

2 ) Click on the link to the cartoon above, or here.

3 ) Print out the page.

4 ) Take the printout firmly in both hands.

5 ) Fold it crosswise and away from you.

6 ) Fold it up-and-downwise, toward you.

7 ) Display the heartwarming post-Christmas greeting prominently on your mantelpiece.

8 ) Open your eyes.

Please! Please! Just do as I say! Oh please!

First off:
Happy birthday everyone!

As you may or may not have known, your humble reviewer is the Baron of Birthday. After years of forgetting the ages and dates of birth of close friends and family members, I decided about three years back that I would usurp the Barony, and thus all ages and dates of birth may be reassigned at my personal whim. If I waited around for an election to work out in my favor, who knows how long this might have taken. Instead, I just cut the bullshit, and did what had to be done. Now, I rule.

In a similar spirit, The Stunt People, a group of genre fanatics in California, are not waiting for Hollywood, Hong Kong, or Bombay to start investing in their work. They like action movies. They want to make action movies. They make action movies. And they rule. See how easy it is?

Budgets? Bah! Time off the day job during production? For the weak! Insurance? Nothing could possibly go wrong!

The Stunt People have done a load of short films in the five to ten minute range. Today, I’ll be looking at their longer works, Undercut, and Contour.

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Hi all. Uneventful week, basically. Finished all my Xmas shopping on Monday. Um…yep. Hey, I just realized, Xmas will be over by next week’s cartoon. Therefore, please: I urge you to have a happy December holiday observance of your choosing.

Please also enjoy the delightfully wintertime-themed cartoon. Briefly annotated below!

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Your humble reviewer may have mentioned once or twice that things were not going well for China at the end of the Ching Dynasty. I want to revisit that theme for just a moment. Recall that, as Western powers divvied up China, the Shantung Peninsula was under Russian Control. When Russia was defeated by Japan, Shantung was placed under Japanese control. We’ll be seeing a bit of symbolism as the film gets going. The Ching government was powerless to control the destiny of its own territory.

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I used to swear by Deepdiscount.com. Bought stuff from them all the time. Then, they decided to stop letting me; all of a sudden, every attempt I made to make a purchase from them was met with some sort of processing error. Customer service told me to resubmit the orders; didn’t work. So I gave up on ‘em. Since then, whenever it would come up that I’d had problems with Deepdiscount, our pal Dan would mention that he never ever had. It was a reasonable thing for him to mention. I used to do the same thing when people would speak of poor service at Amazon. (Of course, that was before Amazon put me on their “To give shaft” list.)

So spurred on by Dan’s persistent good experiences, I made a new Deepdiscount account and placed an order a while ago. You see where this is going.

This time, it’s a whole new variety of screws being put to me. This time, I placed my order, everything was fine, until I began to wonder why it hadn’t shipped yet. Looked at my account, discovered that my items were apparently now on “Backorder.” They hadn’t bothered to mention this, of course, either in their confirmation of the order or on the front page. You can see why they wouldn’t trouble themselves. I mean, who needs things delivered in a timely fashion around this time of year? NOBODY, THAT’S WHO.

So, I’m really very glad it’s a site that works so well for others. I myself am never going back under any fucking circumstances. And all this is to say nothing of my recent difficulties with Bestprices.com and Toyrocket. Suffice it to say, you win, online vendors; my gall, my temerity, my unmitigated cheek in trying to give you money in exchange for the items you offer for sale will not be repeated.

But enough about that. How about a cartoon? It’s dedicated to Mr. Nikolas Rubenstein. Annotations below the break!

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