"All the world's a stage

And all the stoats and aardvarks merely pixels."

When Animals Thespians Strike Back.

Infuriated by what they see as an unwarranted assault on both their dignity and financial security, Vertebrates Local 1702 recently announced a bold counteroffensive against what their spokesmarmot, Dean Chibbers, described as “the increasing Pixar-ization of the animal kingdom”.

Using only locally available props, a microscopic budget and strictly adhering to indy “dogma movement” rules for guerilla cinema vertie, several species local fauna performers have come together to attempt to mount live-action, Animals Only remakes of popular movies and teevee programs.

Until recently their efforts had been small and experimental, but yesterday they attempted their most technically complicated and difficult piece yet:

The staging of final and climactic scene of the 1995 breakthrough suspense classic, "Se7en”

Regrettably there was some...unpleasantness.

This from the AP...

Eagle lugging a deer head causes outage

Mon Jan 29, 5:38 PM ET

About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.

"You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill."

The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.

The power was out for less than 45 minutes Sunday.

Oh and just case you forgot what the last bit of "Se7en" was like,


Bill Shatner helpfully reenacts it here…