Or is that “Tranos” or “Thrump”? Well anyway, the idea for this hit me a month or so ago and I spent most of the morning committing iPad Pro and Apple Pencil toward making it happen. Obviously a homage to the classic cover of The Infinity Gauntlet #4 from 1991:
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If you were to timewarp to some day many decades hence (I hope, gulp!) and find me about to depart this moral realm for the Great Beyond, and of all the questions you could ask me the one thing you would want to know is “What were your favorite websites of all time?”…
Even then, one of the top three would be WWWF Grudge Match: that hilarious page from the earliest days of widespread accessible Internet featuring epic battles between Mister T and Mister Clean, a Rottweiler versus a Rottweiler’s weight in chihuahas, John McClane versus the Death Star, and that immortal bout between English Soccer Hooligans and the French Army. Grudge Match ran uninterrupted in a few iterations between 1995 and 2005, but its impact on Internet humor will ever live on.
Thing is… since 2005 there’s been so much crazy new stuff come about that’s just ...
It was on this night in 1978 that The Star Wars Holiday Special – arguably the WORST two-hours of television in history – aired on CBS.
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So in honor of this misauspicious occasion and thanks to some poor tortured soul on YouTube, here it is (absent some music for copyright purposes):
It’s all here: Chewbacca’s son Lumpy, Mark Hamill’s make-up overkill, Princess Leia’s singing, Boba Fett’s first-ever appearance (the special’s one redeeming feature), Harvey Korman, Bea Arthur (?!), lots of unused B footage from A New Hope, what can only be described as a porno machine… and about twenty-seven minutes of incomprehensible Wookiee grunting.
One viewing and you’ll see why George Lucas has said he would take a sledgehammer to every copy if he could. But what about you? Can you endure to the end?...
You know you’ve hit the big time when you land a gig with the Muppets. So it has now happened with violinist/dancer/artistic force of nature Lindsey Stirling.
Check out Stirling performing a rendition of “Pure Imagination” in this video mounted by Kermit and the gang (and oh yeah, vocals by this Josh Groban guy too):
Not for the
first time, not for the last, I am smacked with the realization that the
rest of my life is going to be dogged by my being the man who ran for
school board by blowing up a little red schoolhouse with the Death
Star…
Disclaimer: I have yet to see Disney’s Frozen, so I have no idea about how extensive Elsa’s criminal activities go. I’m assuming they are pretty pervasive, given how much I’ve heard it talked about by numerous children I’ve found myself around.
Just days after police in Harlan, Kentucky issued a warrant for her arrest, Queen Elsa was located this morning all the way in Hanahan: a small town near Charleston, South Carolina. Hanahan police spotted Elsa freezing a fountain in broad daylight. Police swooped in and arrested the Snow Queen before she could bring down the fury of a cold front threatening the area.
With more bitter cold heading to the Lowcountry this week, Hanahan
police officers tried to do their part to stop the encroaching weather
by arresting the Snow Queen.
...Police Chief Mike Cochran and Officer Flor Reyes made
It’s been some time since I posted any classic Sesame Street material. Need to get better about that.
Well anyway, here from 1971 or so it’s the very timeless “Ladybugs’ Picnic”!
And it’s also worth noting that this was animated by Bud Luckey, who is currently an animator at Pixar. Just think: this cartoon is from a guy who went on to work on stuff like Toy Story, WALL-E and a bunch of other Disney/Pixar movies.
This song was always memorable to me for some reason. At one point it was seriously stuck in my head. So now I’m showing it to you guys so that you can share my, errr… enjoyment 🙂...
Gadzooks it had been an awful long time since I’ve posted anything from Sesame Street! I need to get on the ball about that.
Well, it’s a new year and since this blog just turned a couple of milestones with being ten years old and hitting 5,000 posts, maybe it’s time to start some stuff fresh. So here’s a great clip to get us back on track. I think this is from the early Eighties, ‘cuz that’s the first I ever saw this. Witness poor Kermit the Frog try to keep a newscast on track despite a very wacky weatherman (or two):
I will go to my grave believing that the Nineties gave us the best television animated series that have ever been produced. Think about it: Tiny Toons, Gargoyles, X-Men… and of course Batman: The Animated Series, a show that forever raised the bar and redefined what cartoons were capable of.
But of all those shows and more, it’s The Tick that holds the most special place in my heart from that era.
Based on Ben Edlund’s underground comic book, The Tick premiered in 1994, ran for three seasons and stunned everyone with its unique style of superhero parody and screwball comedy. The Tick was the one show I made a point to always watch on Saturday mornings (even if I worked late the previous night and was low on sleep). It was such a big influence on me that when I finally got Internet access for ...
This might be the most awesome-sauce loaded thing you behold all weekend: some New York City librarians have made a parody video of “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys! And they totally pulled it off in the spirit of the original music video that Spike Jonze directed.
M&D 2013 Sabotage from Mike and Duane Show on Vimeo.
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