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Yeah, so -- if you were waiting for a return phone-call or text-message or email or something from me, I Aten't Dead. Between school and new and fun ways to wind up on nine deadlines at the theater company, plus the exciting surprise drop-in visit of my landlord who resides in CAMBODIA but happened to be in Chicago this week, I disappeared for a few days.

I'm not really back, but I had to post this (thanks to

kajicarter for the heads-up):

SKIDOO IS AIRING ON TCM ON JANUARY 4th.

Yes, those of you who have only heard me refer to this MAFIA AND HIPPIES MOVIE MUSICAL STARRING JACKIE GLEASON AND CAROL CHANNING in reverent (?) tones, or have had me regale you with the entire cast roster and plot (?), but have never been lucky (?) enough to see it, Skidoo will be on television for the first time in I don't know how long. The Preminger Estate wouldn't release the rights to air it because the film is SO AWFUL (it was the last film Otto Preminger ever directed). So whether the executor threw up his or her hands in resignation, or was eaten by velociraptors, I don't really care, because OMG it is going to be on television again.

You can read Skidoo's wikipedia entry or its imdb entry if you want to know what the hell I'm on about, though neither of those come close to scratching the surface of the complete... Skidoo-ishness of Skidoo (though a brief glance at the memorable quotes page on imdb *kinda sorta* might give you a brief precis of the overview of the outline of what the experience of Skidoo is like). Don't worry about being spoiled--it doesn't matter if you know how the movie (?) ends or not.

Skidoo marks the first screen appearance of Austin Pendleton, and the last screen appearance of Groucho Marx -- who dropped LSD to prepare for his role as God.

Gather your friends. Host a party. Prepare to be.... flummoxed. Gobsmacked. Utterly, totally boggled. Because this? This is what the acronym "WTF" was invented for.

(I need several Skidoo icons. Possibly one of Jackie Gleason tripping on acid, or one of Carol Channing doing a striptease for Frankie Avalon, or one of the naked football-team-garbage-can ballet....)

ARTS AND CRAFTS!

ETA more thanks to

kajicarter for this graphic (which she says she nicked from someone else):