Mal ,'The Train Job'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Avoid DC at all costs - it's just as bad, possibly worse. As one writer described the air quality in the summer, "it's like trying to breathe clam broth."
Oy. VEY. Todd, have you been outside? I just took Bartleby out and nearly got thrown to the ground by the weight of the air.
I'm feeling like trundling down the block for a snack but I'm afraid I might need a rescue squad before I get back. Sheesh.
It's only 85-90 or so here, but we've got 72% humidity, so it's like being shoved into a crappy sauna every time you go outside.
Combining the Bitches' YouTube frenzy with the Rollins discussion, I present one my my favorite early '90s videos: 3rd Base - "Pop Goes The Weasel". Check out who plays Vanilla Ice.
Henry Rollins once bit my sister.
Worst. Comic. Evah?
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!
I've just finished "I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!" Paul Karasik's anthology of comics by Fletcher Hanks.
Fletcher Hanks is a mysterious and obscure figure in comics history, the creator of WWII-era strips like "Stardust the Super Wizard" and "Fantomah: Mystery Woman of the Jungle." These strips were beyond terrible, filled with a kind of idiotic energy. Each panel tops the previous panel for freakish goofiness, each strip surpasses the previous strip for mind-croggling ham-fistedness.
Hanks's characters have seemingly unlimited powers (and extremely quirky anatomy), and yet they always seem to turn up after some racial bad guy (these heroes fight Kurds, "slant eyes" and shylock-looking Jews, among others) kills thousands of people. Then they tear them apart limb from limb in bloody revenge.
The link has the description of the plot of one of the comics - it's mind-bogglingly bad. Also, four panels to look at....
("mind-bogglingly" - is that a word? that one can say out loud?)
An aardvaark bit MY brother.
When I watched that 'Pop Goes the Weasel" video, I momentarily thought, 'Why are there all those ferrets in the video? Were ferrets even popular as pets then?" And then I realized they were weasels!
An aardvaark bit MY brother.
Punk rock aardvaark?!
I love that video. I also especially love it when anti-crossover songs become huge hits.
Worst. Comic. Evah?
Okay, seriously? That was bad. Worse than bad. I'd rather be forced to only read Archie & Jughead all my life than read another panel of that.
An aardvaark bit MY brother.
Considering the descriptions of your brother, I actually believe that.