Beaver Pushes Kotex Down Under

Yup, someone finally went there!


Television audiences in Sydney have been amused/horrified/indifferent while watching scenes of a carefree woman palling around town with a furry animated beaver while running errands, including stops at the beauty parlor, beach, and ...


... no doubt, her neighborhood chemist to take care of business, you know, down there.

Beavers Back In Britain

"For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain," CNN reports.


"Four wild beaver families arrived at London's Heathrow airport Thursday night, the first step in an effort to reintroduce the mammals..." (See full article linked above.)


A wealth of information on beavers and the benevolent organization spearheading this ambitious project can be found here. Please consider making a donation to help support this most noble undertaking.

Beaver Blasphemy

When Perez Hilton broke the news on his website last week that none other than Steve Carell may star in a movie called "The Beaver," currently in development and allegedly slated for release in 2011, you can imagine my excitement!


Then I read the Hollywood Reporter source article linked in the post, including this suspiciously familiar description of the impending project:

Anonymous Content recently picked up "The Beaver," a script from first-time writer Kyle Killen about a man who walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

Um, surely this sounds more than a tiny bit familiar to any longtime (or even new) readers of this blog, right? My travel beaver (which, incidentally, mysteriously went missing down in New Orleans just a few days prior to this announcement) is, in fact, a finger puppet which I've been toting around -- to the amusement of some, the embarrassment of others -- to various locales around the country (and abroad) for several years now.

Here's a pic of the furry little fella in happier times:

After careful consideration, though, I've decided to refrain from making any accusations of plagiarism, infringement or other creative/intellectual impropriety. Instead, I'd like to lobby the producers and development team to utilize -- and perhaps even incorporate -- the vast content found here at Vagenda's Beaver Lodge to help make this film the Oscar-worthy blockbuster and inevitable worldwide phenomenon its subject semi-aquatic rodent star so richly deserves. (My influence may be vast, but thus far not entirely fruitful, ya know?)

Accordingly, please consider Asphyxia 8 and the entire beaver blog posse at your disposal.

UPDATE: New York mag has apparently seen a copy of the spec script, which it heralds, in part, as "one of the more elegantly fucked-up stories we've read in a long, long time." Further describing the screenplay as "dark and witty," the article reveals that at one point the lead character, Walter, claims he is under the care of a "prescription puppet," and "begins interacting with everyone exclusively through The Beaver, who is as chipper, positive, and loving as Walter has been depressed, miserable, and remote." Loves it!

UPDATE II: The Blacklist declares The Beaver 2008's Hottest Unproduced Screenplay. More on the surprising development here. Happy and all, but still scratching my head. I mean, WTF? Meanwhile, still no word from Anonymous Content.