Happy Birthday, Wilhelm Grimm

On this day in 1786. (He kinda gets short shrift in Wikipedia, compared to his brother Jacob or the two of them together. Let alone the actual Fairy Tales.)

Today's assignment is to come up with a title and a brief description of your own Grimm-style fairy tale. Use one of their title formats ("[Adjective] [noun]", "The [adjective] [noun{s}]", "The [number] [noun{s}]", "The [noun{s}] and the [noun{s}]", etc.) and keep the description to 250 words or less. Or just write a drabble. ;) Mine is:

The Glassblower and the Goblin

An artisan who blows glass sculpture accidentally offends a vagrant goblin, who curses him with the hiccups. As this make it impossible for him to ply his trade, the glassblower sets off after the goblin and tries to apologize and get the curse removed. Along the way the glassblower meets a pretty and clever maid, who attempts numerous hiccup cures she learned from her mother. The goblin, who has been up to this point mightily amused by the whole affair, gets angry and threatens the maid, telling her to mind her own business. The glassblower is so fearful for the maid's safety that he confronts the goblin, whose curses no longer work on him. That one good scare got rid of the hiccups. The glassblower chases off the goblin, and he and the maid get married.

And Then There's Crap Like This

You may remember awhile back, when I linked to a promo poster for a live-action Underdog movie.

rmjwell warns us that there is now a teaser trailer.

Mother of God.

Y'know, I don't expect upper-ups in either the movie or comic businesses to have the slightest clue anymore, really I don't -- witness the bullshit they pulled with Superman Returns, with V For Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Elektra, with Infinite Crisis and Civil War and Avengers: Disassembled and Ultimate Whatever and All-Star Batman and Robin and on and on and on. I don't expect them to understand that their lame-ass fanfic "reimagining" of characters just may not be the way to appeal to the fans of those characters, who might possibly expect to see those characters resemble themselves at least a little.

But I really hate that they do all that shit, and then make it look stupid. So stupid that you're embarassed to admit you're a fan of the original.