Mortified is a long running art project devoted to “comic excavation of the extraordinary things we created as kids.” This most frequently takes the form of recitations of overwrought childhood diary. In this episode of their web video series The Mortified Shoebox Show, though, something different: a cast is brought in to do a dramatic reading of the script Jason Smith wrote and tried to film at age 15, about a teenager who races his Isuzu pickup in the Indy 500. The lead character, Hobart Drizzle, is played by Elijah Wood.
Tag: funny
Digging around in my parents’ library I discovered a book that my mother denies ever having bought. (My father denies having bought it as well, but does so much more stoically.)
The books was published in 1979 and features a great deal of black and white photography by Douglas Kent Hall. Including, near the front of the book, the following:
Arnold Schwarzenegger – bodybuilder, actor, politician, and occasional real-life Robert Crumb comic book.