I won’t bother getting a photo of the front of my house; it’s just a bunch of light-up plastic pumpkins from Menards and a single jack o’lantern which I carved using the Homestar Runner stencil of Strong Mad’s face. Yeah, it would be cool to do the whole rigamarole like my neighbor who has cobweb …
Monthly Archive: October 2007
Oct 31
Kid’s Halloween Costumes from RetroCrush
A friend of mine just sent me the link to the RetroCrush Halloween Costumes Gallery. The highlights are of course the Superheroes (including a Green Lantern Mask gracing both the Aquaman and Mr. Fantastic costumes for some reason), and the Worst Costumes gallery is hilarious. “Oh, Daddy I want to go as Asteroids!“ Hey… they …
Oct 31
IT: The History of Pop
XM Radio is (as we speak) playing every top 40 hit ever on their various “decade” stations. They’ve been doing it for a couple of weeks already, but They’re currently in the fall of ’68 so the good music is just about to start. Interspersed between the music are newsclips and other pop culture tidbits. …
Oct 29
Do you want the silent treatment or a shouting match?
Today, over on his website radio host, former Congressional candidate, and former actor of awesomeness Jerry Doyle (he played Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, if you are are young or apathetic), has posted the following poll: TODAY’S POLL Which do you hate more when arguing with your significant other? The silent treatment or a screaming …
Oct 29
Add this to Mike’s Christmas list…
…a remote control K9 from ThinkGeek. Dr. Who’s trusted companion is accurately detailed and the blurb on the website calls him “lush”. I don’t quite know what they’re referring to there, as he looks more in the “stainless” area when it comes to adjectives. That’s my opinion. Unless they’re saying he’s “A lush”, as in, …
Oct 28
Bill Clinton was a comic geek?
This Hillary Clinton video has been the top-watched Google Video for a while, but I hadn’t seen it yet. In it, during an appreciation of Stan Lee (a big Clinton supporter), Bill Clinton announced that his first job was selling off two big boxes of comics that he owned. Yeah, I know, it could just …
Oct 25
A flatscreen from NORTH Korea
Heres a North Korean version of a pixalated performance. Notice the changing picture in the back. Those are actually performers synchronized to hold their correct cards at the correct moment. As you can imagine, even a slight mistake has dire consequenses not just for the performance, but to the performer making the mistake. This brings …
Oct 24
Amazing this isn’t on DVD yet
Dana Carvey’s short-lived variety show was some of the first prominent work for Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert. It launched The Ambiguously Gay Duo, who later moved to Saturday Night Live. And if not for the Dana Carvey Show, Phil Hartman would be alive today. How’s that? Well, it’s true. Phil Hartman was in talks …
Oct 24
Gives new meaning to Giant Flatscreen Made In Korea
Dancing Pixel People: Way to go, Samsung! The song list, courtesy of the video’s poster: 1st Song (00.11) – “Go west” by Lazybone(Korean band)Remake from “Village people” by Petshop boys – Go west) 2nd Song(01.01)”질풍가도 Zil Poong Ka Do (strong wind highway) by Yoo jeong seok from some animated movie openning. (thanks amslaiy)——————-Song and file …
Oct 24
Neal Adams’ “Expanding Earth” Theory Picking Up Steam
One of my internet haunts, TechEBlog, scours the internet for gadgets and interesting tech news. This morning they had a YouTube video produced by Neal Adams, showing a bit of his theory on how the Earth formed. Neal has been promoting his theory for some years now but no one seems to care because he …
Oct 24
A Couple of Geek Podcast ideas
I spend a lot of time alone in my office so I like listening to podcasts. My favorites usually star former castmembers of the long-gone TechTV show The ScreenSavers. But I also look to expand my horizons and try out all kinds of podcasts. I’ve listened to archived radio shows, stand-up comedians, even the odd …
Oct 24
Just in time for Haloween…
Here are some videos I found based on Lovecraft works: The first is an animated short from the 20s, apparently overseen by Lovecraft himself… This one is from an episode of Rod Serling’s ‘Night Gallery’ (for the full effect, adjust the bass levels on your speakers!) And, on the subject of ‘Night Gallery’, here’s something …
Oct 23
Mail Order Ninja
I realized that I’ve never promoted our friend (and Monitor Duty contributor) Josh Elder’s manga book, Mail Order Ninja! I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I haven’t told you guys when it was available and where you could buy it. So… It’s available. Issues one and two are out, as well as the winning …
Oct 23
Web page up for testing…
Well, I have a web page for my trip next month. There’s not much now, but I plan to work on it in the next few days. What I initially plan to do is include the hilights of my trip for friends and family into one accessible web page. What I’m looking for at this …
Oct 21
My Guest Column Over At CSBG
I did a guest column for Bill Reed’s “365 Reasons to Love Comics” over at Comics Should Be Good! Here’s a link: Thought Bubbles
Oct 20
Order Bender for Christmas!
“Hail, hail, Robonia…a land I didn’t make uuuuuup!” Sorry, I just had to sing. I’m testing out our new Amazon assets plugin and this was the first thing I wanted to look for. Look at it! It’s beautiful! It makes me want to cry. Futurama. It’s BACK! Everybody order this right now, because when I …
Oct 19
Green Arrow/Black Canary #1: The Re-Dialogued Version…
Matt Morrison [who used to write for Fanzing, by the way - ed] re-envisions the dialogue for GA/BC #1 in a very, very funny article at Comics Nexus: Part OnePart TwoPart Three
Oct 19
Let’s blow your mind
I’d like to assure you that this next one is NOT a scare video. It will not get you looking at it closely and then change to a shrieking zombie or anything like that. I hate being the victim of those and so I won’t ever pass those on. No, this is a fun test …
Oct 18
More live action video games
Minesweeper the movie? That’s dumb. What’s next? Live action Tetris? Maybe, Japanese Tetris? Of course, that’s not really Tetris. Tetris doesn’t end with the loser submerged in pee. Perhaps a live action Mario Brothers? And I mean a real Mario Brothers, not like that stupid movie.
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