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the avant guardian logo competition

February 25, 2010
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the avant guardian logo competition

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! Ahh healthy competition. The healthiest kind. We at the avant guardian support both health and competition. Which is why we like all fighting styles. We like Tiger Fist and Flying Crane. We like the guy with the  moobs from Fight Club. We like beast wars (where you pick two animals and decide which would win based on nothing more than what you saw on Discovery Channel once). We like intellectual sparring, broad sword sparring, and sexual sparring. We like the chase, the hunt, the pursuit, AND the run down. So it begins. The Proposition: A logo contest. We need a logo. Helvetica just isn’t cutting it anymore. Please all of you designers, illustrators, artists, sketchers, and creative types make us a logo. Due date 2 weeks from Monday. March 1st, 2010. No rules, besides it being a logo for this site. All entries will be published. That’s right, people, you gettin’ press. Send your entries to tracey@theavantguardian.org. The Prize: 1) Eternal admiration of your peers. 2) Your logo everyday at the top of the site and future merchandise. 3) A bottle of Dan Akroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka. Good god you know you want to try it.

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what’s on my list? \/\/ a d.i.y. film festival

December 9, 2009
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what’s on my list? \/\/ a d.i.y. film festival

Growing up amidst the maize fields of the great Midwest, I volunteered at a restored movie theater on weekends: single screen, ‘30s era art deco interior, concession stand inside the theater.  The Normal Theater in Normal, Illinois.  My old man took me to see Vertigo when I was ten.  A few months later I worked my first movie: Gone with the Wind.  I worked there for the next thirteen years, until I moved down to Baton Rouge.  That theater is one of the things I miss most about my hometown, especially this time of year, when they have their annual showings of Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, and of course, White Christmas.  The packed-to-the-ceiling crowds never fail to sing “White Christmas” at the end of Bing’s Technicolor explosion.  If that doesn’t get you juiced up for mistletoe and eggnog, may a CGI Jim Carrey pull a stocking over your head and kick you down a flight of icy stairs. But the Normal Theater is much more than cozy holiday traditions.  Here’s a sampling of movies I missed in October and November alone: Waltz with Bashir, Moon, Bright Star, The Tingler, The Shining, Young Frankenstein, A Hard

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