Pork Links

Hey, still no time for a "real live boy" post, so I'll just point this link out. Postcard Polaroid. Candace posted it in a comment. I thought it was cool. I am putting it here.

Back to work. I have e-mails to shuffle around.

Before I (Finally) Go To Bed

I've had this panel stuck in my head for a week or so. So therefore, I must scan it and post it here before I go to bed despite the fact that it is ever so late. It's from volume 2 of the Scott Pilgrim saga, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, which I have mega-ultra-love for. It's Scott yelling out the window of a slowly-pulling-away bus at his "cool gay roommate" Wallace Wells:

It goes on from there with the bus driving away and Scott yelling ridiculous/hilarious retorts ("If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!!" is the rest of the one in the bottom left) as the bus and type get smaller and smaller. Funny!

Feeding the Blog Beast

No time for a proper post tonight (which is a shame, as I would have really liked to get around to posting about our trip to Big Fun yesterday... maybe I'll get to it tomorrow?), as I have been busy writing a talk for tomorrow as well as crafting this baby for my brother Bryan's band, the Novelty Act:

Bryan told me to make it "fun" and "psychedelic." I decided to show a straight-laced kid who has just had a severe mind-altering experience. What are those things shooting out of his head? Are they the neon lights of Vegas? Glowing bits of the cosmos? Brain cells taxed beyond their limit by chemicals best left uningested? There's only one way to find out: go see the show. If you're in town, that is. I nany case, here's their MySpace page, if that's your bag. That's my little brother! He is singing! On the internets! Yay!

Anyway, that's all I have time for.

I gotta hustle.

As in "Do the..."

Peace.

POW! #2 - Random Cleveland

I snapped this at the Ohio City Rapid station while waiting for the train. It's this red pole with an orange sticker that reads: "POTATO". Which I thought was pretty funny in its own random way.

"Hail Atlantis!"

So, my buddy and Mostly Funny co-host Ryan Adams is looking at an advertising school in the fabled city of Atlantis. I polled a few citizens to get their reactions to this news. You can read their responses here.

Needless to say, the undersea world is pretty psyched about this possibility. Can you blame them?

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to interview Roy Scheider or any of the rest of the crew from Seaquest DSV, mainly because it was a reference that approximately no one (except maybe Huston or Bryan) would have got.

I also tried to interview the Little Mermaid, but man, she is a hussy. She's like the Christina (or is it still X-tina? In any case, she's masty) Aguilera of the briny deep. Seriously, is anybody else kind of grossed out that they mention in the movie that she's all of 16 and then that prince dude is all over her?! WTH? And then [spoiler alert!] they get married at the end? And the dad's totally cool with that? Double WTH? Are mer-people the hillbillies of the deep or what? I guess I shouldn't expect much from a race that's basically the result of heavy drinking and fishing*, but come on, she's 16?!

This is another classic example of crack-smoking over at Disney. Did nobody stop for a minute and say, "Wait, should we change this line to say that she's 18? It won't change anything else, bit it makes it a little less creepy. Let's just change that. And... done."?

Anyway, so good luck, Castlerocker. Go rock the big "A". And watch out for the wasps down there, right Chubby Da Choona?

For those of you playing along at home, that was Obscure Pop Culture Reference That Nobody Got #3 (#1- the Donovan reference in the title, #2 - Seaquest DSV, and finally, #3 - a Seaguy reference)... which, according to the Official Blogging Rulebook™ means I am now officially disqualified for this post. I will be sitting in the penalty box until the count of "127-Mississippi." [sigh]

*Bring on the pro-mer-people hate mail! And while we're offending imaginary creatures, have I mentioned that I think that centaurs are filthy, filthy creatures? And don't even get me started on leprechauns...

He's A Rocket Man

Dude. I was checking Veer's "Ideas" section again and found this nugget. Some of it's amazing, some of it's merely cool, some is unimaginatively obvious and not at all cool. But still, who'd have expected so much amazing art produced in the name of He Who Has Gone Where No Man Has Gone Before - William "the Transformed Man" Shatner?

I did mention it was a link for a recent art show featuring artist's renditions of William Shatner, didn't I? I didn't? Well it is. And it's fairly impressive.

In keeping with Shatner's career over the last 20 years or so, it's all incredibly self-deprecating. I admire the man's ability to laugh at himself, because really, when your entire career is built on playing an oversexed astronaut (and it's amazing how quickly the image of Captain James T. Kirk pops int one's mind when you think of Shatner isn't it? It's like T.J. Hooker never existed. And that's a shame, really.), if you can't laugh at yourself, well... it's garden hoses and exhaust fumes, I guess. Or, you know, numbing the pain with alcohol.

So, well played Captain William T. Shatner, Canada's Favorite Son. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Shine on.

I Just Downloaded Icky Thump

And I must say this... Jack White and his sister Meg are freaking cool. They are rock and roll given corporeal form.

Admit it, they are.

Another YouTube Video Clip

A gorgeous video. A gorgeous song.

If this song doesn't grip your soul, you have none. You are a vampire or something. Some kind of being of pure evil who is incapable of feeling love. The eastern Europeans have made up myths to explain how something so black and full of hate could possibly exist. You would probably kill a unicorn if you saw one. Because you have no soul. And you are evil.

And I will weep for you.

Because I am a sissy.

"What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?"

"The impossible, man!" Yet another nugget of wisdom from the rocky lips of one Benjamin J. Grimm, Idol of Millions.

I Surf the Web Like It Was An Ocean, Dude

Okay, try and keep up here... I was checking Jog - the Blog as I always do upon arriving to work and he linked to this story which led me to this guy's site, which is awesome. See, poke around. Cool stuff, right?

Anyway, just thought I'd share, as it made me happy.