{"id":12311,"date":"2010-03-17T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:26:58","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-pigmy-will-in-along-came-whiska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-pigmy-will-in-along-came-whiska\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Pigmy Will in &#8220;Along Came Whiska&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qT4o9UtWgas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12319\" title=\"PW-whiska\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PW-whiska.jpg\" alt=\"PW-whiska\" width=\"550\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PW-whiska.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PW-whiska-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Pigmy Will and Feathers &#8211; created, written, art directed and &#8220;acted&#8221; by me and Prudence Fenton, animation and special effects director for Pee-Wee&#8217;s Playhouse and all around the animated visual genius &#8211; have added a new friend to their neighborhood. Whiska, &nbsp;a pineapple who sees the world through polar opposite eyes than Pigmy or Feathers and who tricycles into town in this introductory episode (if I can be so generous and label something an episode that consists of a few seconds of poorly drawn and animated nonsense).<\/p>\n<p>Pigmy Will is a prince of Kitsch and exemplifies what I love most about the genre, an eternally positive and happy outlook on life, choosing to forge ahead on one&#8217;s own individual path despite what anyone else may think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Other Pigmy Will faves:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CRS7D6mSoHs&amp;annotation_id=annotation_623741&amp;feature=iv\">Pie Day<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=LFKQ3iCcS3Q&amp;feature=related\">&#8220;The Counter<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=psJQPtbY1h4&amp;feature=response_watch\">&#8220;The Boat Ride<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DCu2tqpCyXA&amp;feature=video_response\">&#8220;SOS#1<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RY3j_xyIENg&amp;annotation_id=annotation_617264&amp;feature=iv\">Pigmy Will Holdings<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kQidNNrW5TQ&amp;feature=channel\">La Bamba<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigmy Will and Feathers &#8211; created, written, art directed and &#8220;acted&#8221; by me and Prudence Fenton, animation and special effects director for Pee-Wee&#8217;s Playhouse and all around the animated visual genius &#8211; have added a new friend to their neighborhood. Whiska, &nbsp;a pineapple who sees the world through polar opposite eyes than Pigmy or Feathers &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-pigmy-will-in-along-came-whiska\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,87,193,529,281,15],"tags":[61,3232,3245,3254,1087],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-pigmy-will","category-transportation","category-video","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-pigmy-will","tag-whiska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}