Most people familiar with the Pinocchio story likely know it through the 1940 Disney animated film, or one of the many animated or live action films that have followed. The original Carlo Collodi fantasy novel from the late 1800s is far darker and more surreal than most of the adaptations that have followed. — Read the rest
My friends in Reboot and Partners In Crime opened a fantastically cool Reboot Hanukkah Pop-Up Shop on Union Street in San Francisco (and online too)! The physical shop is only open this weekend and there are terrific events for the whole family including a lunch concert today by blues guitarist Luther Dickinson, a reading/signing tomorrow afternoon by the inimitable Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and Lisa Brown, Lego Menorah Making, and a Sunday evening screening of Tiffany Shlain and Julie Hermelin's new film 50/50! — Read the rest
Premiering January 13, 2017, Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" stars Neil Patrick Harris as the creepy Count Olaf.
The first teaser trailer for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events features Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket himself. All eight episodes of the highly anticipated upcoming series drop on Netflix on January 13. Enjoy the cruel whimsy and whimsical cruelty of what's to come.
Daniel Handler (who wrote the excellent "Series of Unfortunate Events" books under the name Lemony Snicket) and his wife, Lisa Brown, announced the $1 million gift to Planned Parenthood on the eve of a possible Congressional shutdown over funding to the agency.
What a fantastically creepy and enticing fan-made trailer for the TV series adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, coming to Netflix next year!
Lemony Snicket has contributed 13 sharp-eyed and well-worded observations to the Occupy Writers project — I think anyone standing in a glass tower watching the demonstrators down in Liberty Park would do well to read all 13.
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1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
II just finished reading The Grim Grotto, the eleventh volume in Lemony Snicket's
Series of Unfortunate Events series. I remember being intrigued by these when they first appeared; the kids' book buyer at the bookstore I used to work at was all aglow over their dry wit and dark whimsy; even so, it was some years before I finally got round to reading hte first eight or nine books in the series, and I was quite excited when book ten came out last year, as I thought it would end things. — Read the rest
The trailer for the first Lemony Snicket movie, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," (starring Jim Carrey) is online!
(via Aint-It-Cool News)
A new screenwriter (Robert Gordon: Galaxy Quest, MiB II) has been brought in on the film adaptation of the Lemony Snicket kids-books, which will star Jim Carrey (presumably as a the sinister Count Olaf).
Rumor has it that Jim Carrey will play Count Olaf in the film adaptation of the Lemony Snicket books that's being shot next summer.
The ninth book in the "Lemony Snicket/Series of Unforntunate Events" kids-lit series is out. It's called The Carnivorous Carnival, and the folks at my corner sf bookstore called me last night when they unboxed it, and even stayed open late so that I could pick it up. — Read the rest
Nickolodeon is making a big-budget feature-film adaptation of the pop-Gothic "Series of Unfortunate Events" kids' books. I love these books — they're wickedly funny, nasty and smart. Best of all, Lemony Snicket, the pseudonymous author, is writing the screenplay.
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This animatronic toddler was used in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events film. Watching it in action on its own, apart from the context of the film, is a thoroughly chilling experience. — Read the rest
Are there wasps in figs? I've heard this for years and always just assumed it to be true. I've never laid eyes on one, and have just sort of quietly hoped that the crunch inside the figs I've eaten were seeds and not wasps. — Read the rest
Aaron Moss tweeted a video, from Morrissey's Saturday night show at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, showing the moment one of the band members announces the show is over—only half an hour into the set: "Sorry, but due to unforeseen circumstances, the show is not gonna continue. — Read the rest
People who fashion prose for a living can be a little persnickety sometimes, often no more than in the actual method of creating their work. If a writer isn't sitting in front of their home computer or laptop, they've generally got a couple of options for getting writing work done when they get out of the house, none of them super attractive. — Read the rest
This year I missed the party, but as usual stellar photographer Star Foreman captured an amazing gallery of images!
Some Boing Boing readers may know Edward Gorey without knowing it. The author and illustrator of a 100 (or so) ironic-gothic, darkly droll little picture books with titles like The Beastly Baby, The Deranged Cousins, and The Loathsome Couple, Gorey was the inspiration for YA novels such as Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events books and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. — Read the rest
A couple of years ago, PBS NewsHour interviewed Flossie Lewis, a delightful and sharp 91-year-old teacher/writer who, in her words, still thinks she's 15 (Don't we all?). In the video, she spoke frankly about growing old. Over 7 million people saw her video, including many of her former students. — Read the rest
