Word: short
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Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation is not for the faint-hearted audience. No, this yearly festival of short cartoon pieces--which helped make Beavis and Butthead and South Park, among others, famous--is not to be confused with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Craig "Spike" Decker, co-creator and producer of "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" along with the late Mike Gribble, said he was aiming for an audience of "drug-addicts, students, partiers, ravers, punk rockers, hippies, and Siamese twins - two for the price of one." No, this is not an understatement...
Spike and Mike began experimenting with short animation in the '50s and '60s when they hosted small concerts and midnight rock and roll events that opened with animated shorts such as Betty Boop and Superman. Soon they realized that people were more interested in the cartoons than in the actual music, though this could be a comment on the quality of the music rather than that of the cartoons. In 1977 Spike and Mike premiered their first-ever animation festival, and since 1990 they have been running the Sick and Twisted Festival in the fall, along with the Classic Animation...
...poor Billy on the head and then hanging him from the sky and next dropping him to a gloomy fate below. Soon the sky is filled with a swarm of evil balloons carrying little children. This might not quite appeal to your sense of humor, but the films are short enough, ranging from the one-minute Forrest Dump and Foreskin Gump to the longest piece, the six-minute Swing Sluts, that you don't need a particularly long attention span. This is a great show to see after a full day of exercising your Harvard intellectual abilities. Give...
...easy to support a governor who can balance the budget and increase government services, all while cutting taxes. But such slights of hand may become more difficult if the economy does not continue its expansion, and voters may then give short shrift to Ventura's unique approach to politics...
...Crimson came up just short, falling in a decisive game to eventual league champion Cornell, 3-1, near year's end. That game came on the heels of a roller-coaster season that saw Harvard struggle offensively at times but play splendidly at others...