For “It’s Been Swell” I wanted a simple white dress with black trim - going for the live-action cartooniness of it all. But I couldn’t find this dress aaaaanywhere. I even sketched it out.

This is why I’m a performer and not a cartoonist.
writer, performer, Chicagoan, "a menace on the road" according to my drivers test examiner. >www.alisarosenthal.com<
Seems like every 6 months or so - maybe once a year - there is a debate about rape jokes. Here’s how it goes:
A dude tells jokes about rape or deals with hecklers in way that includes rape. A woman hears these jokes or is the heckler. She publicly states that she is upset or didn’t like the joke…
YES.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. - Roger Ebert
For “It’s Been Swell” I wanted a simple white dress with black trim - going for the live-action cartooniness of it all. But I couldn’t find this dress aaaaanywhere. I even sketched it out.

This is why I’m a performer and not a cartoonist.
Buster Keaton watches one of his most infamous and memorable gags during his appearance on This is Your Life in 1957.
“How do you feel today seeing it, Buster? Would you do it again?”
[shakes head] “No.”
(Source: railwayshoes)
It’s Been Swell, Plucky Rosenthal!, my brand new one-woman variety show, is just five days away! Today I’m getting my Betty Boop-oop-a-doop on.
My one-woman variety show IT’S BEEN SWELL, PLUCKY ROSENTHAL! is just under one week away! So every day this week I’m going to post a different song on the ukulele from the 1920s or ’30s. To-day’s is…