December 29, 2010
“I really pushed to give them all Inuit-style accents. I wanted it to be true-to-form, despite the fact that it was a talking-dog feature. So I spent some time with Inuits in Northern Canada and found that they slurred their words and spoke with a “pan-indigenous” dialect that could have been Comanche or Iroquois. It [...]
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July 30, 2010
We’ve all noticed it. Dad calling the power company a bunch of blubber-stealing sons of bitches. Dad making jokes about seal-skin moccassins as if he’d had a pair that leaked in a snowstorm. Dad telling Ernie, our Mexican-American dermatologist, that his people should stop making ice houses and start getting jobs. Dad yelling at me [...]
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