{"id":1180,"date":"2020-02-27T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2020-02-27T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:05:40","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-cinemashow-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: \u201cCinemashow!\u201d (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, that time I decided to review the Montreal Casino&#8217;s tribute to the art of film, which coincidentally became my two-hundredth comic strip for The Montreal Mirror. \u201cWhat better way to celebrate my two-hundredth Motion Picture Purgatory,\u201d I opine in my longwinded missive, \u201cthan by seeing the whole history of film encapsulated into a song &amp; dance routine adjusted for feel-good familiarity, reaffirming my belief that there&#8217;s about as much chance at getting the general public to genuinely give a rat&#8217;s ass about &#8216;the cinema,&#8217; let alone this strip, than there is of me winning big at the slots!\u201d The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2002 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cIf you think you can control the outcome, you&#8217;re putting yourself at risk! -Loto-Qu\u00e9bec brochure.\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow-637x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow-637x1024.jpg 637w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow-768x1235.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow-955x1536.jpg 955w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rick_trembles_cinemashow.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two from FAB Press still available. For original art &amp; book purchasing info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, that time I decided to review the Montreal Casino&#8217;s tribute to the art of film, which coincidentally became my two-hundredth comic strip for The Montreal Mirror. \u201cWhat better way to celebrate my two-hundredth Motion Picture Purgatory,\u201d I opine in my longwinded missive, \u201cthan by seeing the whole history of film encapsulated into a song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}