Thursday, December 31, 2009
Things I'm Looking Forward to in 2010
Report: Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital
Report: Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital
According to RushLimbaugh.com, "Rush was admitted to a Honolulu hospital today and is resting comfortably after suffering chest pains. Rush appreciates your prayers and well wishes. He will keep you updated via RushLimbaugh.com and on Thursday's radio program."
I am certain the outpouring of love from his listeners will only be matched by the vicious bile of his enemies.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
--Winston Churchill
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Domo Arigato, Mein Fuhrer
What's scarier than Mecha-Shiva, Zombie Lincoln, and The Hellcow combined? Try our friend Robot Hitler here.This action figure (I forget where I ran across it) had to have been inspired by a movie I remember staying up until the wee hours of the a.m. to watch on the local UHF station: They Saved Hitler's Brain
Quote of the Day
"When the Devil cannot reach us through the spirit, He creates a beautiful woman to reach us through the flesh."
-- Hermann Sudermann
-- Hermann Sudermann
Archer
Dear Internet,I should have been told about this sooner. I had to learn of this ... on television!
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. The series features the voices of
H. Jon Benjamin as suave master spy "Sterling Archer," whose less-than-masculine code name is "Duchess"; Jessica Walter as his domineering mother and boss, "Malory"; Aisha Tyler as his ex-girlfriend, "Agent Lana Kane"; George Coe as his aging-but-loyal butler, "Woodhouse"; Chris Parnell as ISIS comptroller and Lana's new love interest, "Cyril Figgis"; and Judy Greer as Malory's lovesick secretary, "Cheryl."
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
"A Genre That Never Really Existed" ... But It Should Have
Jackson Publick on Jonny Quest:
See the full interview online
h/t Geek Monthly Online
For me it’s kind of a prism onto a world that existed before I was born really. My parents had their day pass from the 1964 World’s Fair in their little trinket box and my mother was into the Kennedy Assassination, so I’d learn about these things through my older brother and my parents. When you’re growing up in any decade, the previous decade’s shit is so lame and cruddy, because you’re surrounded by furniture your parents bought 15 years before and you’re thinking oh, that old crap—and then ten or 15 years later you’re thinking ‘I love that old crap!’ The way the seventies are awesome now but growing up in the eighties you hate the seventies and you hate brown cars, and now there’s something awesome about that. But I discovered Jonny Quest through my brother and at the time it was awesome because it looked like a comic book and I was really into comic books, and I wanted cartoons to look like that, a comic book come to life, so it struck a chord with me and stayed with me on that level. But as I grew older and became fascinated with the whole space race period of history it became a symbol of that and it was a genre that never really existed but was so convinced of itself it kind of willed itself into existence—it was this weird hybrid of adventure and sci fi and to some extent the kind of superhero world, so after I did the Tick I still had a lot of superhero crap in me and a lot of ancillary ideas and I realized this nonexistent genre was the perfect venue for all this crap I wanted to make jokes about. It was a wrapping up of all these things I was into—James Bond, Spider-Man, Kennedy era space race exuberance which is dead now, and that’s part of the theme of the show, the faded glory of a time when we looked forward to a goofier but more exciting future that never showed up.
See the full interview online
h/t Geek Monthly Online
The Future Was Here
Vintage 2.0 – Glossy Retro Takes Over Web DesignAn Inspired Mag reader said a few posts ago that the round corner buttons are dead. I think precisely the same mate, I know how you feel about the so-called web 2.0 buttons and shiny blingos! But what about this new futuretro style, that combines the web 2.0 (clean) look with a vintage touch?
We’ve made a roundup of 25 websites that mix the retro with the shiny. What do you guys think about this style?
This is from Inspired Mag Daily Graphic Design Inspiration. I love the retrofuture feel, and I eagerly hope to see it applied frequently. The best example I've seen so far is Bradley Schenk's Webomator blog. Check it out now, if you ignored my earlier post.
From Egypt with Love
Is the the S.P.H.I.N.X. secret headquarters? Maybe it was a plan for covert peacekeepers developed by Anwar Sadat that eventually got him assassinated. I don't know because I can't read the writing, but whatever it is, it looks really cool.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Pic of The Litter
Today's Pic of The Litter is "Trees for Tomorrow" by Bradley W. Schenk. It is PSA from Schenk's imaginary world of Retropolis, a setting that is one-part Buck Rogers and one-part Franklin D. Roosevelt. Imagine the New Deal with Rocket Science. As a fan of FDR's CCC, I found this piece a must-buy, but I had to put it on the list of things to buy once finances improve. If you dig retrofuturism, mad science, rocket ships, and robots, check out Schenk's other works at his Deviantart page and his blog. This one is defintely going on the blog roll, folks.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Xmas List 2010
We went Christmas shopping in Columbus last night, and I saw this book.
Harper Collins calls the book:
And from what I saw while skimming through it last night, they are right. Ben Thompson's Badass tells the story of badasses like Chandragupta Maurya, Wolf the Quarrelsome, and Bass Reeves. Don't know who they are? Read the book.
In addition to being a collection of badasses, the book also has a sections of badass-related topics such as "The French Foreign Legion" and "The Ten Least Baddasses in History."
Harper Collins calls the book:
An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle
And from what I saw while skimming through it last night, they are right. Ben Thompson's Badass tells the story of badasses like Chandragupta Maurya, Wolf the Quarrelsome, and Bass Reeves. Don't know who they are? Read the book.
In addition to being a collection of badasses, the book also has a sections of badass-related topics such as "The French Foreign Legion" and "The Ten Least Baddasses in History."
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Xmas List 2010
Too bad my son has already sent of his letter to Santa for this year, otherwise, I ... er, I mean, he would so be getting these this year. For more pics, see Reis O'Brien's Geek Orthodox.
Christmas Coundown
If you are not following Francesco Francavilla's Pulp Sunday, you're missing something. Something awesome, that is. Francavilla is a comic book artist and illustrator who provides us, his loyal readers, with regular doses of his pulp comic greatness.Back in the nineties, we comic readers started paying a gadawful amount for what in hindsight was, for the most part, a bunch of crap. My garage has longboxes full of the stuff. So, it is really great to get to see Francavilla's work for free, thanks to him and good ole Blogspot.
I note all of this because my Christmas eye candy for the day is the Francavilla family Christmas Card for 2009, and I felt obliged to give credit where credit is due.
Now, go to http://pulpsunday.blogspot.com", move your cursor to the top left hand corner of your browser, and click "Follow."
Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel - "Baby, It's Cold Outside
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Cold Warriors
Tip o' the hat to I'm Learning to Share! for pointing this loyal reader in the direction of If I Only Had A ... where I found a link to download Hoyt Curtin - Incidental Music from. And if you dig that whole sixties spy-fi genre vibe, check out a series of forty-one photos of actual gadgets used by secret agents.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
When Design Meets Doomsday
When the shit hits the fan, that Remington 870 will come in handy, but it won't be able to solve all of your problems. Sure, it'll take out a zombie, but, if you're hungry, it'll just make a mess out of that delicious-looking mildly irradiated three-eyed koi teasing you from the pool outside the ruins of your local Chinese restaurant. And when the shells run out, you'll just look silly trying to blend in with a brick building while wearing those BDUs you nicked from the local Army-Navy store.The cool kids down at 5.5 Designers have designed a number of items for even cooler kids (a.k.a. design snobs) as part of a 'guide to free farming.' Their notion: "We're surrounded by food sources. Sure, they're disgusting, but hey--it's 2030." In addition to the really snazzy fishing rod, they have a cockroach trap, a rat trap, a snail vivarium, a bird trap, and a gleaning bag.
h/t Fast Company
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Post-Apocalyptic Clean-Up
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are a husband-and-wife team whose photographic work, “The Architect’s Brother” is concerned with the state and possible fate of the Earth. According to the official description, ParkeHarrison “conjures a destiny in which humankind’s overuse of the land has led to a spent and abandoned environment, inhabited by one indefatigable spirit.”
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Miscellany
Check out the Rusty Venture soundboard. It's a collection of some of the good "Doctor"'s best lines. A must-see (or is that must-hear) of any true fan of Los Hermanos Ventura. Conspicuously absent is my favorite:
"I'm only 43. Still a young man. Maybe a little frayed around the edges, but who wouldn't be between my work and raising two boys. Crap, who am I kidding, my looks are going down the toilet faster than an unwanted pregnancy on prom night. I was Rusty Venture, boy friggin' wonder. Now look at me."
Oh well, you can't have everything.
PD PDF
But, one of the things you can have is a paper model riot policeman. That's right. L.A.'s own cutting edge artist/motion graphics designer/animator Castle Forte has created a nifty little riot policeman that will look great on my desk. This is definitely the coolest paper toy since my Tuco (Eli Wallach) paper doll.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Comics
Found at Robot 6's Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs at CBR, Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures is a collection of stories from an old 1950s comic that never existed. Like other comics from back in the day, Doris Danger Seeks ... Where Monsters Creep and Stomp has not only "stories, but also letters pages, covers, pin-ups, and a couple of historical essays."
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Survival Vehicles
Readers of Jalopnik were asked the questions, "What is your ultimate survival vehicle?" The answers ranged from the Landmaster-looking Dobbertin Surface Orbiter to the most-likely-to-have-been-built-by-B.A.-Baracus Sportsmobile. My pick: the down-to-earth, back-to-the-basics Volvo C303. To see the top picks, check out Jalopnik.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Monsterpocalypse Now
There's no need to fear. DHS is here. And they are protecting us from kaiju. " What's kaiju?" you may ask. They are giant monsters popularized by Japanese film-makers like Toho Studios, who gave the world the most famous kaiju: Godzilla. Sure, Gamera can go tear-assing around Japan, but he'd better keep his flame-shooting butt out of the U.S. of A. Too bad these guys weren't around in 1978 when Godzooky single-handedly ruined The Godzilla Power Hour.
According to Reason magazine, the Department of Homeland Security seized the first printing of a strategy guide for Privateer Press's giant-monster collectible miniature game Monsterpocalypse. The result was that the interdiction postponed the game's release for an entire week.
For the full story, see Reason's "Miniature Monsters Attack America."
Next thing you know, the ATF will be interdicting shipments of The Shotgun Diaries.
What's Everyone So Afraid of?
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Fate's Warning
Must make myself watch Smallville. Must make myself watch Smallville. Must make myself watch Smallville.
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Last Man Standing
What if a conservative talk show host like Rush Limbaugh were the last man on earth, and everyone else had been transformed into liberal nudist zombies? Find out in Hive Mind, the story of Doug Trench, right-wing radio talk show host, "stevedore of freedom," and the last man on earth. Aside from the zombies who are controlled by the Hive Mind collective.
h/t Kathy Shaidle @ examiner.com
h/t Kathy Shaidle @ examiner.com
Polyester, Afros, and The Tenth Judge of Hell
With pencils by Dusty Abell, ink by Drew Geraci, and color by Dean White, this is one of my favorite comic covers of all time. Too bad, the comic never came into being. Geraci explains:
From: Hellboy (Unpublished) For a few years, Dusty Abell and I were a team and did about 300 pages together. Dusty approached Mike Mignola with this concept which started in a chinese monastary in the 30's (based on some book he read) and wrapped up in the 70's, a period Dusty and I would constantly wax nostalgic over. Colored by Dean White, who did a terrific job. From my hazy recollection, Mike was actually interested, but it got put on the back burner, until other new opportunities came in which demanded his time ( like a movie, perhaps?) A shame this project never saw the light of day, isn't it?
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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