The Lego Aquatic
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Beat has a soft spot for THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, okay?
Continue ReadingOn the road
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’ll be on the road for a few days for some semi-R&R. That means we’ll be blogging, and reading email but only for a few hours a day instead of all day all the time. Hopefully all hell won’t break loose again.
Continue ReadingThis one is pretty good
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe didn’t want to link to April Fools Day gags, but Gmail’s is pretty damned funny.
Continue ReadingYou need this
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Actually we used Duane Reade’s “Multi Eraser” knock-off, but either way, when your light switches are clean, you are clean. PS: Thursday is pretty anticlimactic without Lost. Sniff.
Continue ReadingYou Can Never Get Enough N.C. Wyeth, Part XII
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet You just can’t. Check previous entries for even more breath-taking Wyeth goodness. Ah, far Selidor!
Continue ReadingWe made it again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet How is it possible? The heroine emerges from the underworld every time, no matter what the odds. Hail, Persephone. Note: Persephone not actually shown above. Results may vary.
Continue ReadingHumor 101: Frau Blücher (wree-hee-hee)
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In an interview with the San Jose Merucry News, Gene Wilder has solved one of the great mysteries of comedy: the origin of Frau Blücher and the horse whinny from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. That’s FRONK-en-steen. “I chose the name because I wanted an authentic German name,” Wilder, who played the part of Dr. [...]
Continue ReadingThe evolving Onion
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHave you ever wondered what the relationship of the “Area Man” Onion is to the “A.V. Club” Onion? Us too, and here’s the answer: Pocket history of The A.V. Club: The Onion was founded in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a paper targeted at Madison residents and UW-Madison students in [...]
Continue ReadingTeam Hollywood finds Team Comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOnce in a while we get one of those wonky press releases about people announcing their very important comic book which they hope to turn into a very important movie, but this one is really pretty funny. Basically it’s a PR Wire story about a marketing company called “Team Hollywood” getting [...]
Continue ReadingA Testosterone Filled Weekend
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you’ve been spending a little much time surfing the net and reading comics (be they capes or non-capes) and feeling a little too nerdy, this is the weekend to change up the routine. There’s MMA and Super Bowl to get your juices flowing. First up the third UFC event in recent [...]
Continue ReadingMore from the archives: CRAPPIE WORLD
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Found this magazine while cleaning up. It pains me deeply to say that the crappiemagazine.com website no longer exists. This magazine was in its 13th year but it exists no more. Another victim of the Internet, no doubt. The one thing that this cover does prove is that all magazine headlines [...]
Continue ReadingMore on the DaHeidi Code
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOkay I can’t resist posting another one of my old comics cycle sheets; this one two sided and from 1984. This is interesting for several reasons. For one, by now I was now writing about comics, so I was a “pro” of sorts. For another, as opposed to the Marvel hegemony of [...]
Continue ReadingThat is all
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet NP: Ultra from the album “Nihil” by K.M.F.D.M. By the way, Brute, aka Aidan Hughes, has a blog believe it or not. On his blog, he posted this old LIFE magazine cover. Do you see how it all fits together now? Today’s renovations uncovered an electrical outlet in the bedroom we didn’t know we [...]
Continue ReadingToday's list
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet5. The Spitting Man from MOME #10. The story has been done before but it is done so well here. 4. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares — there is something about seeing this guy berate pretentious pub owners, lackluster chefs and incompetent 17-year-old soup cooks that is sooooo satisfying. And when there’s redemption, the [...]
Continue ReadingOn the set of SKIDOO
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet I suppose this contemporaneous — 1968– set visit report by Roger Ebert must be gospel among SKIDOO afficianados, but it still retains the power to shock: Carol Channing was supposed to lift Frankie Avalon up in the air, shake him vigorously, and snarl: “Where’s my husband?” Well, Carol is a fairly [...]
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