I Would Search the World to Find This Girl...Again

Just beautiful by Nocturnal Devil - She so reminds me of my beloved Coral who I miss everyday of my life. She would tell you she feels the same way about missing me now that she has her miracle baby. No one believed in her like I did and no one in my life can claim to have made me a better human being like she can. Love you Coral and Happy Birthday.

Just Funny

Deviant-Nocturn

Cat Dunks Basketball

It doesn't get any better than this.

Cool Steampunk Pulp

These are just beautiful covers for what I am not sure are real pulp stories. I love the retro/art deco/steampunk hybrid feel of them. Why oh why can't I live in this world?

Postcards From Yo Momma

Backstory: my mom and I joke about me sending her to a nursing home in Barstow when she has “senior moments.”

"Last night I bit my tongue really hard and this morning sneezed and peed in my pj’s. When you come home you might want to look into Barstow for me."

When my mother has those moments we find lemons all over the house.

http://www.postcardsfromyomomma.com/

Ya...Need Milk?

Got Milk? Meow!

Nobody does smoldering like Hayden.

The ARK

This was created by Polish director Grzegorz Jonkaztys and its a cool tale that demands repeat viewing. Haunting and beautiful. And who of us doesn't feel like the main character every now and then? Today seems to be the day for moody videos for me. Its the snow. I can do with a little bit of spring about now.

Lisa Hannigan - Lille

Maybe I have been up too long but I think this video is very cool. The song combined with the awesomeness of the pop up book just got to me. I am a sentimental baby in my old age.

Miniatur Wunderland

I have always had a fascination for model railways and none are better than the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg Germany. Check out this corporate video describing this truly remarkable set-up. I have model trains but this is the kind of dedication that takes a lifetime to set up and maintain.

Moon Madness

This is perhaps the strangest/silliest horror tale DC ever put out and I have seen some bizarre stories in those great monster comics of the Silver Age. But I guess when you have to churn out the work to keep titles such as House of Secrets, Witching Hour, Weird War and House of Mystery in publication that sometimes some real crap is gonna sneak through. Its always nice when you get hit by a piece of the moon while chasing butterflies (a one in a million piece of bad luck) that you keep your tattered Hulk pants because if there is something I hate its roaming the countryside with my moon head and my moon wiener flappin in the wind. I love the way the natives deduce that he is the Moon God just because his head is shaped like the Moon. Brilliant Captain Obvious! The entire tale can be found here -http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/03/number-495-moon-monster-bernard-baily.html

Octopus Camouflage

This video is for all of you who laugh at my rants against our enemy the OCTOPUS. Check out the superpowers on this predatory bitch and then enter the ocean at your peril. This freaks me out everytime I see it. We worry about creatures from OFF world coming here to mess with us but the scariest animals are right here in our own back yard.

Just Because I Love Batgirl

Norton






Pekar


Bubba Shelby

Just Gotta Have It

I don't know what it is but I gots me some MAD love for the Thunder Frog. And in a world where they are making statues and action figures of every character out there I could only hope to see the Thunder Frog one day so this is a revelation. Now they have to create a Marvel Legends figure of BOTH him and Thor.

New Mutants

I am sooooo all over this issue of New Mutants #1 coming out this May. The original graphic novel came out at a time when I was very much into comics especially the X-men. The New Mutants were the first new class of teen mutants since the originals and it was great to be there at the beginning. The graphic novel was the first graphic novel I ever bought and I still have the entire run of New Mutants. I feel like I have spent the past twenty five years following these characters as many went on to join other mutant teams like X-Force. Everything old is new again and I can't wait to see the circumstances that bring them all back together. I also hope they keep their retro costumes because I am all about the retro these days.

Keep Laughing Bitches

Enjoy it while it lasts. When this global warming thing goes sideways and we are plunged into another ice age you are gonna wonder why your feet are cold and how to warm up those frozen chicken nuggets. We can handle the jokes though. We are the funniest people on the planet and if you aren't careful we will tease you until you cry. What are you gonna do when your supply of maple syrup dries up? Have you seen someone having syrup withdrawl? Its not a pretty sight.

"In comedy, timing is everything. Which explains, at least in part, the overreaction to Greg Gutfeld's unfunny comments about the Canadian military last week on his late-late-late-night Fox show Red Eye.There was something more than a little pathetic about Peter MacKay demanding an apology from a talk show host. Then again, who can blame him? He was on his way back from a funeral for four boys who died in a war which - let's face it - we're fighting for the sake of our friendship with America. Gutfeld's jokes, while unique in their boneheaded clumsiness, weren't that atypical however: Canada has recently become common comic fodder on U.S. television. Gutfeld was being derivative as well as offensive.

It began with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, which has recently run a couple of Canadian items, some of them long. That never used to happen. 30 Rock had that great line about Toronto: "It's New York without the stuff." And on the show How I Met Your Mother, one of the central characters, Robin Scherbatsky, is a Canadian expat trying to make it in New York; Canada is a running joke of the show. Unfortunately, none of the Canadian comedy is that funny or accurate. The jokes mostly involve maple syrup, the cold and/or the pronunciation of the word "about," which 97% of us don't actually mispronounce. The Great White North casts a long, ludicrous shadow - Canada in the American comic imagination corresponds roughly (very roughly) with the region of the country that stretches from Northern Ontario to Alberta and does not include cities, or the Maritimes, or the West Coast. The only other gag Americans seem to get is how polite Canadians are. ("How do you get 10 Canadians out of a swimming pool?" "Say, ‘Hey guys, can you get out of the pool?' ") Even this joke, complimentary to us, isn't mildly true. Canadians are one of the rudest peoples on Earth. Outsiders simply don't understand that "sorry" means "go screw yourself."

What explains this resurgence of Canada jokes on U.S. television? There are two possibilities. We are the last group that can be made fun of without risk. Political correctness has made almost every other ethnicity off-limits. Americans can't even make fun of the French anymore. The "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," as The Simpsons once called them, have turned out to be right in nearly every disagreement with their American cousins. It's quite easy to make fun of Canadians because Americans can't really distinguish us from themselves. So it's innocent. They're more or less making fun of people who are like them.

The other possible explanation is a rising insecurity. I don't mean about our health care system, or our banks, or the other envious aspects of our comfy little society we might feel smug about. Americans feel insecure about their comedy when compared with Canada's. If you took the Canadians out of American comedy, it would be like taking African-Americans out of the NBA: still the same game but you wouldn't recognize it and you wouldn't want to watch it. I mean, just to take the most obvious cases, remove Lorne Michaels, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Seth Rogen from American screens and I'm not sure what you have left to laugh at over the past 30 years. I guess you have Seinfeld. And Chris Rock.

Competition from Canadian comics, who would all have to be way funnier than Greg Gutfeld (who isn't?), might explain some of his hostility. Our exhausted army, he said, makes now "the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country." That is pure fantasy. The Americans can't handle Vietnam or Iraq but he thinks they can handle us? America is just not that good at invading places, and Gutfeld can't deal with it. Not that we should waste time insulting Greg Gutfeld. The man runs a show on Fox at 3 a.m. - is there any worse insult you can make about a person? The show is named Red Eye not just because of its time slot in the middle of the night but as an anatomically evocative description of its host.

Doug Benson, one of the panellists involved in the show's anti-Canada segment, has experienced repercussions from his nasty comments. He had an appearance at the Comic Strip in West Edmonton Mall cancelled; I can't tell if that's a punishment or a reward. Benson, however, made one of the show's more trenchant remarks about Canada: "I thought that's where you go if you don't want to fight." There, he was actually getting somewhere, and it was almost funny. In the end though, the comment was more revealing of his own sad little excuse for a personality: He thought describing us as peace-loving was an insult."

Bond Villian Hideout - The Cactus Dome

Sure its not Dr. Evil's Volcano Lair but this would be a wicked look for any Bond villian. You gotta be stylin if you are hoping to take over the world. Its all about the bling and the crib bitches. And if Bond starts making trouble you can always blast into space.

"Beneath this concrete dome on Runit Island (part of Enewetak Atoll), built between 1977 and 1980 at a cost of about $239 million, lie 111,000 cubic yards (84,927 cubic meters) or radioactive soil and debris from Bikini and Rongelap atolls. The dome covers the 30-foot (9 meter) deep, 350-foot (107 meter) wide crated created by the May 5, 1958, Cactus test. Note the people atop the dome."

Comic Page of the Week

Not alot going on in this splash page (X-Men - Sword of the Braddocks #1) but I am drawn back to the beauty of the figure over and over again and that makes a great comic page computer generated or not.

Who Thinks This Will Be Good?

I never miss a Shiusen Leong or Pai Ying movie.

My Toys

A rare look inside the Batcave and some of the toys I have collected over the years. I totally need to take get the program that didn't come with my digital camera so I can show off more of my awesome collection. No matter how bad the day gets I can always go and sit in the rarefied air that is my space.

Pizza Vending Machine

When I was a kid they had one of these in the curling club on the military base in Lahr West Germany. We would pool our money and run to the rink to get one at least twice a week. It was the best pizza ever from what I remember as a kid and I would totally love to try this one. Reminded me of the great by the slice pizza you could get at any street level cafe anywhere in Italy. Thanks so much to Lisa Mynx for sharing this story with me and in general lookin out for a brother.

The Yggyssey

This looks like an awesome children's book and I love the way the main character bitches out the ghosts messing up her room - that is chutzpa and sums up my feelings about ghosts..."ooooooo you are see through and push books off my shelf." It wasn't until 13 Ghosts that they made them truly horrifying. But still they remind me of Charlie Brown's Halloween costume - the famous potatoe ghost. The Yggyssey is my new favorite bastardization of the word oddysey.

When I got home from school, my room was full of ghosts..._again!_ They were being invisible, but I could feel the cold spots in the air.
"Did I speak to you ectoplasms about this, or did I not?" I asked the empty room.

Silence. The ghosts were dummying up.

"Rudolph Valentino! I can smell your lousy cigar!"

There was a faint smell of cigar smoke, the trademark of the ghostly Valentino, so I knew he was among them. And my bedspread was rumpled. Probably they were sitting on my bed, playing cards.

"Look, you spectres--this is a young girl's bedroom, not a club! Why do you have to hang out here all the time? You have an eight-story hotel to haunt. There's a complete apartment reserved for your personal use. Why don't you stay there? It's the nicest one in the whole building."

HUGO's Mission Impossible

Toy Robot was asking this week what was the one toy that you never got as a kid but desperately wanted. For me it begins and ends with HUGO THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES which was the least creepy ventriloquist doll that came with all kinds of accessories that allowed you to create many creepier faces. The thing I loved the most about Halloween was that I could get all those fake noses and teeth and scars and stitches for next to nothing during the week after when the corner store was trying to get rid of that stuff. I was all about the disquises not realizing of course that I needed to blend in if I wanted to be a man of a thousand faces, not stand out. One of my favorite comics and short run TV shows was the HUMAN TARGET where actor Christopher Chance would impersonate people who were targetted for death and put himself into the line of fire. Nothing solves a murder for hire than trying to kill the wrong guy. He lived on this plane where high tech gear gave him flawless copies of his client and by studying them he was indistiquishable from them. Mission Impossible the TV series and the movies did that very well also. So for someone who aspired to be the great imposter Hugo was all that.

ARGHHHHH!

How pathetic am I today? Wings tagged me to write 6 random things about myself and not wanting to repeat myself I could barely come up with two and one of those was a repeat of a random thing I had written about myself before on my blog. How can that be? I am the most interesting person that I know. I should be eliminating things from my list not struggling to add to it. I actually thought about making something up or five somethings up and then I would have been more worried about how I could live with myself...or the liar that I have become. Is this like a chain letter? If I don't fullfill the task then will I get all kinds of bad luck or patches of back hair that you can't reach with the razor? And NO, that is not something random about me.

6 More Random Things About Me

Wings at Caffeinated Joe tagged me for this meme so I will reveal more secrets from the Well of my Bitterness.

The Rules
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog.
3) Write six random things about yourself.
4) Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5) Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1) There are no Two Minute Mysteries that I cannot or have not solved.
2) I won't eat any dairy product that I myself haven't opened.
3) I only wear silver jewlery but that has more to do with protection from werewolves than anything fashionable.
4) I don't drink COKE because COKE is an evile corporation that is in league with those forces off planet that are waiting for their moment to totally mess with us. When their lazers are projected at earth all COKE drinkers will become their mindless zombie slaves and it will be only the brave Pepsi drinkers army that will save us all as we travel the wastelands in our modified jeeps to fight the evil ala Resident Evile. (Save your ammunition - head shots only)
5) I remember your GOM JABAR and now you will remember mine! I can kill with a word. "And his word will carry death eternal for those who stand against the rightious."
6) I raised a cat who lived to be 24 years old which is amoungst the oldest kitty ever to be raised in Canada

I tagged Lisa_mynx at http://lisa-mynx.blogspot.com/
I tagged Lubbert Das at http://lubbert-das.blogspot.com/
I tagged Ben at http://varkentine.blogspot.com/
I tagged Micheal May at http://michaelmay.blogspot.com/
I tagged ? at http://www.popgive.com/

Will She Still Date Me?

Cool Ad From the Past

You can never start your baby on Pepsi soon enough. After all it boosts his personality and start him on thoses 'essential' sugars. Don't forget smokes also. Baby's first lighter anyone?

Welcome to Hell - We Have Cookies

Say It Isn't So Jumbo

Even In Japan They Plot and Plan

Major Matt Mason

One of the coolest toy lines to come out in the 1960s was the Major Matt Mason line of space toys. It gave you machines that with batteries could perform all kinds of lunal functions and came with awesomes buildings and other accessories. Now Tom Hanks is looking at creating and staring in a movie based on this property, his own favorite childhood toy. Hopefully these toys will be re-issued in their original form much in the same way that Ideal re-issued my all time favorite Evil Knievel toys recently.




"The toy line originated in 1966; Mason led an astronaut team that worked on the moon and lived in a space station. The toy was a hit in the buildup to the first manned moon mission. Mattel retired the line in the 1970s.When Mattel execs Tim Kilpin and Barry Waldo came to Playtone for a meeting, they brought an arsenal of the Matt Mason figures. Hanks came armed with his own.Waldo will serve as exec producer with Kilpin.Yost's script credits include "Speed." He and Hanks explored moon matter when Hanks was an executive producer of the HBO mini "From the Earth to the Moon," with Yost serving as supervising producer and writer of two episodes. Yost has also been a writer or producer for Hanks and Goetzman on the Playtone-produced HBO minis "Band of Brothers," "John Adams" and "The Pacific."Mattel is teamed with Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver on "He-Man and Masters of the Universe," which will be directed by "Kung Fu Panda" co-director John Stevenson, and "Hot Wheels," which moved from Sony.Universal adds the film project to several toy-based movie projects the studio has percolating with Hasbro, with a "Stretch Armstrong" film being written by Steve Oedekerk, "Monopoly" with Ridley Scott, "Candyland" with "Tropic Thunder" scribe Etan Cohen and director Kevin Lima, and the Platinum Dunes-produced "Ouija."

Flea Circus Ads

I am sure that if I was back in my time machine to a time before radio or television that I would have been all over these posters advertisisng a flea circus. The hype never lives up to the actual event but they sure knew how to sell back then.

Time Machine

After seeing my 1908 Barcelona film I need to repower my time machine and return to a time when afternoon lunches lasted 5 fives hours with wine and the freshest breads, olives and the best meats and cheeses every meal. Speaking of which here are some great posters and models from my second favorite movie as a child after the Golden Voyage of Sinbad (which I have written about before on this blog). Of couse that movie is the George Pal version of THE TIME MACHINE from the book by H.G. Wells. Starring Rod Tayor and with the coolest most speampunk time machine ever (created by genius Harry Harryhaussen)it was all a ten year old boy ever needed or wanted for Christmas. If only to go back whenever I felt like I needed to walk in the snow with Tara Crandal and pick us some great Mego Star Trek and Superhero figures.