The Couturier Kid Joins Mad Scientists

My library's Miss Catherine, whom I call the Couturier Kid, has recently been published in the prestigious Mad Scientist Journal (Summer, 2019 issue).  Published by DefCon One, the journal is available in online and print formats (details are available on the Mad Scientist Journal website).  The print book is available to purchase or to checkout from my library's Evergreen Indiana catalog.

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What do aspiring and discerning mad scientists read about in this journal?  Our book trailer elaborates.

MPL Book Trailer #537

Mad Scientist Journal (Summer 2019)

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The Couturier Kid is something of a mad scientist herself.  I've got some photos of her somewhere in a mad scientist costume and a steampunk costume from past Halloweens  at the library (2017 and 2016, respectively).  Minions, make with the file searching.

Astute readers of this blog know that costumes are the Couturier Kid's thing, as she designs movie costumes for the big screen.

I highly recommend you checkout Mad Scientist Journal.  If you want to rule the world, it's your best tool (short of being a feline, of course).

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Who doesn't like the Mad Scientists from Mystery Science Theater 3000?  Here are Doctor Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank talking to Joel and the 'Bots about "deep hurting" as part of their experimental regimen.  (There have been other Mads as well in the series.)  If you're unfamiliar with the show (and movie riffing generally), all questions are answered here.  My library has MST3K videos to checkout, as well as its spinoffs, Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

A Bob Trifecta

What's better than Bob at the library's circulation desk?  Try tripling, and you've got a Bob trifecta.

Three Bobs Better, by Amanda Farnsworth

Some of the library's staff dressed-up for Halloween yesterday, and so we had not one, not two, but three Bobs assisting patrons.  Click the photos (below) to bigify.

Will the real Bob please stand up?

Smarties can fix anything!

Certified Bob Tough

The Three Bobs consult their note cards

There are a few inside jokes here.  Bob Prime jots questions on note cards when he needs to consult colleagues or patrons.  He also distributes Smarties candies to our younger patrons visiting the circulation desk.  So Bobs two and three do the same.  It's like that thing where like electrical charges will converge upon the least resistant conductive pathways.  (Actually, I just made that up.  Or is it an actual thing?  Or not?  How would I know?  I'm no electrical engineer.)

A tasty treat, for sure

Since we now have three Bobs, there are some natural comparisons that come to mind.

Clip from the Three Stooges short film, Men in Black (1934)

By the way, this classic Three Stooges short was nominated for an Academy Award.  It was a parody of the movie Men in White (1934), starring Clark Gable.

Clip from the movie ¡Three Amigos! (1986)

The Sinking of the Reuben James, by the Chad Mitchell Trio



M.T.A., by the Kingston Trio

Pretty good company there, Three Bobs.  May you need a catchier name, though.  How about:

• The Trio Bob G.
• Three Bobs Better
• Circulation Trifecta
• Thrice Gillilands
• Joyce's Worst Nightmare

The library's Miss Joyce can explain that last one.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Hold the phone!  Three-Bob (Miss Kathleen) has just called to tell moi that Two-Bob (Miss Catherine) already created their group name:  The Bob Squad.  Hmmmmmm....  Sounds somewhat famililar.

Opening & closing credits to the TV series, The Mod Squad (1968-73)

Copyright infringement?  Only if the Bobs are also Mods.

P.P.S.  Although the Chad Mitchell Trio's cover of The Sinking of the Reuben James is excellent, we still really like Woody Guthrie's original version.

The Couturier Kid Hits the Big Time

My library's Miss Catherine, whom I'm now calling the Couturier Kid, has hit the big time.  She served as a costumer in the movie Submerge: Echo 51 (2017), written and directed by Demetrius Witherspoon.  She made the front page of our local newspaper, as you can see here.  There's more to see below, if you click the photo (to bigify).

The Couturier Kid works on costuming during

shooting of the movie Submerge: Echo 51

There's a movie trailer that will give you a sneak peek.  You can also watch Red Carpet Interviews recorded at the premiere (June 26, 2017).

Submerge: Echo 51 TV Spot (2016)

Want to watch the movie?  Thanks to my library, you can checkout a copy, if you have an Evergreen Indiana library card.  The film has gotten high ratings (4.8 out of 5 stars) from reviewers.  Learn more about the movie and the creative folks behind it by visiting the DV Entertainment Pictures website and Facebook page.

That's a pretty fine gig, I'll venture.  It must have been plenty exciting to have worked in a motion picture production.  Maybe she will drop my name if any of her future cinema projects need to hire a cat to play a role (lead, I'm thinking).  Central casting, you know where to reach moi.

If any of Miss Catherine's upcoming movies need a music soundtrack, I know a composer who has a master's certificate in movie and television music soundtrack scoring from Berklee College of Music.  He composes original music for my library's YouTube videos.  He's on Facebook, Reverbnation, and Soundcloud.  Some of his compositions have been performed publicly in the United States and Europe, and some have been recorded by various European musicians.  If you need music for your film or TV show, he's your dude.

Congratulations (or, as Summer would say, Concatulations) to the Couturier Kid for her success.  I see a great new career blossoming for her, and I'm never wrong.  (Mistakes are for minions.)  Once she's a famous Hollywood designer, I hope she remembers all the "little people" (and their felines) back at the library.  They can play extras, you know.  I see them standing around talking all the time (joke!).

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat