Colonel Sanders is a Furry, more Bojack Horseman for 2016. NEWSDUMP (8/3/15)
by Patch O'Furr
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Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.
Injured furry fan who faced 90% odds against him is recovering.
Here’s a good fan item to start… Alex is a Furry fan who was severely injured in an explosion in Taiwan last month. He had 90% chance of dying from the injuries. The latest update says he’s doing very well in recovery. It’s still a heck of a scary situation so he can use any help you can give.
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Pop Culture and Further Fun.
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Click for Mr. Peanutbutter’s fabulous ass, just because.
Bojack Horseman renewed for 2016 – anyone want to interview the creator?
Just renewed for a third season… and read a great interview with the creator about the recent second season. A while back, I got an invite from the creator to do an interview! Would anyone who’s caught up with the series like to take charge of it for a guest post? (Raphael Bob-Waksberg says:)
…early on we decided that all the animals are animal-people. No one has pets. There’s no little birds flying from tree to tree — it’s a world full of Goofys, not Plutos, to use a Disney analogy. In season one I was really hesitant to depict meat-eating in any way. But then someone pitched a joke with a cow waitress serving steak and being really offended.
Swat Kats ask crowd funders to aid renewal.
(Tip from David P:) “The team that made the original Swat Kats just launched a kickstarter to bring them back.”
Colonel Sanders dressed as a Furry at Comic Con.
(Tip from Fred Patten:) “Dear Patch; Note the Col. Sanders statue at Comic-Con dressed as a furry. This indicates that furries have become as pop-culture respectable as vampires, werewolves, Martians, and anime characters.”
Master animator Michel Gagne reports Saga of Rex, Iron Giant news.
Michel has been a Furry con guest of honor, interviewed for this blog. He just finalized his screenplay for the Saga of Rex, his own animated movie in production about the spacy adventures of an anthropomorphic fox. For The Iron Giant movie, Michel handled effects direction, and new scenes for a theatrical re-release.
New Dr. Suess Book discovered: “What Pet Should I Get?”
The book is about “a brother and sister who set out to a local pet store in search of a furry friend to call their own.”
“I Collect Strange Things”: Painting made of Cheetohs, with signed letter by Chester Cheetah.
In 2014 I won a painting made out of Cheetos from Cheetos. Sadly it was destroyed when my house caught fire. After telling Cheetos what happened they made me a new one and sent it to me for Christmas” [with an insane letter from Chester.]
http://imgur.com/a/jNU51
This isn’t the first time that Col. Sanders, or the KFC franchise’s statues of Col. Sanders, have gotten dressed up. But it usually happens in Japan.
For those who need background, Colonel Harland Sanders (1890-1980), a genuine Kentucky Colonel, became a restaurateur in the 1930s and grew to create the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain in 1952. He ran it personally, promoted himself as its spokesman and quality control overseer, and vowed that he would never sell it out. The explosive growth of franchises to more than any one man could oversee, plus his declining health, advancing old age, and his son’s public refusal to take it over after his death, led him to break his promise. The KFC chain became publicly owned in 1964. Col. Sanders was supposed to continue as the chain’s spokesman, but his dissatisfaction with corporate changes to his “secret recipe” – he publicly complained that the gravy had become “wallpaper paste” and “God-damned slop” – led to a colorful “retirement” for the rest of his life.
KFC expanded into Japan in 1970 and quickly grew into KFC restaurants throughout Japan. They were unexceptional until someone in management decided that every KFC should have a life-sized plaster or plastic statue of the Colonel in front.
To say that Japanese humorists had a field day would be to vastly understate the case. Here are two online articles: “Colonel Sanders Dressed Up Like Never Before” and “Curse of the Colonel”.
http://kotaku.com/colonel-sanders-dressed-up-like-never-before-1181975462
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel
In 1983 a popular Japanese animated science-fiction/horror theatrical feature, “Harmagedon” or “Genma Taisen”, had a key scene where Vega, a frightening-looking (but good) alien general advances out of a dark alley towards the protagonist. This was parodied in the 1987 s-f animated comedy “Project A-ko”, where two teenage girls watch a frightening s-f/horror movie in which a statue of Col. Sanders lurches out of the alley towards them. (The scene is MUCH better in the Japanese original without the horrible English dub.)
Humorists had a field day in this instance too given the very recognizable pose of the furry Colonel. Coincidence or not? 😉
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2011/11/pedobear-185×300.gif
Please do not interview Bojack’s director. Not everything that has something to do with animals is supposed to be “furry”.
You will ignore what I just wrote and interview him anyway because I’m not your dad.
Dude, he asked for one personally! They want furries to notice them. https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/586702524087832577
Also Art Director/Co-creator Lisa Hanawalt is hilarious and fur-friendly. Her book is amazing.
Alright then.
This will end horribly…