I might have to rectify that soon, they’re great fun to do. It’s been a while since I’ve made any GIFs. ![]() My partner’s loony ex-step father intimated some time earlier that I “was probably a Lizard Overlord” (thus the song that opens Sirius) so I’ve used my Lizard Overlord image as the mascot. This is a still image from the footage I used in one of the Mecha Robot Future WOW! teaser videos, repurposed here in slightly more natural colours as a Looney Tunes style Graveyard Drift promo and matching GIF. This one is a much more basic model than what my great grandmother had, but it’s still an impressive thing. I have a fascination still with these first magnificent televisions. I still hope to visit the Opera dei Puppi and puppet museum in Palermo one of these days). ![]() She’d meant, of course, to find cartoons for me to watch (to her generation, growing up as small children in Sicily, it would have been “the puppets”. I somehow believed there would be… better, more interesting shows on this TV. Of course, it was just TV, which was kind of disappointing, but still attractively fascinating. ![]() She used to say to me sometimes, “Do you wanna go and watch the puppets? I’ll put the puppets for you” and she’d take me to this miracle of a television console. It was an impressive thing, and being a child, I assumed it was some kind of Sicilian thing. It had solid carved wooden doors with what seemed to me elaborate latches and keys, and possibly also a drinks cabinet built in. When I was very little, my great grandmother had a television set in her house that was like a miniature puppet theatre.
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