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| Monday Jul 17, 2000 | Welcome back, Jeanketeers! Like me, I'm sure lots of you faithful readers out there have been bitten by the eBay bug. You can just get so gosh darn much STUFF there, it's enough to drive you cuckoo! My favorite things to trade there are Holly Hobbie goodies -- come on, you all remember that ever-cheerful little colonial-era girl with the massive blue bonnet covering her entire head and face, right? Well, turns out that Holly Hobbie is actually the name of the artist (her real name, not a pen name!) who drew this delightful little character known only as "Blue Girl", and she's fully catalogued, cross-referenced, and indexed at Holly Hobbie Central. Run by Lisa Marshel, a real-life Jean Teasdale and self-proclaimed "huge collector of STUFF". We love you, Lisa!
to Culture by che |
| This guy owns a lot of
ancient, probably useless
computer equipment. His pages kept telling me, "You're using
Windows, contact
Red Hat
for an upgrade." I dunno, it's hard to take serious someone who admits writing a
for Dummies book. Hey, think he might
want a used
Cray?
to Computing by moose |
| Iron Chef Slash Fiction: the meeting
of the wacky soap opera/cooking/game show from Japan,
Iron Chef, with
slash fan-fiction, homo-erotic fiction based on (usually) media-invented creations.
to Television by moose |
| Sunday Jul 16, 2000 | This guy has too much
time on his hands. He has catagorized
ALL of the 12 Days of Christmas parodies there ever were,
including one a
friend and I wrote. I especially like the
Twin Peaks and
Spaceghost variants. to Music by laurel |
| The Kama Sutra of Pooh. There goes another sweet childhood memory corrupted by perverts on the Internet. to Sex by pjammer |
| My favorite radio station, WFMU is the long time host of the Incorrect Music Hour, a show dedicated to archiving obscure, underfinanced, and shut-in artists. As host Irwin Chusid would descibe it "A true 'Incorrect' artist must be sincere and lack self-awareness. A severe irony deficiency helps. Any humorous overtones to their work must be unintentional." Other exciting developments include a companion book and CD, which focuses on some of the the show's better finds. If you don't happen to live in the NY-NJ area, you can still listen on the web.
to Music by borges |
| Friday Jul 14, 2000 | One of the most beautifully drawn animated movies in years,
The Thief And
The Cobbler, was a labor of love by
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit animator
Richard
Williams.
Way over schedule, the film was yanked away by Warner Brothers
(actually, by their
bond
company) and
butchered
to make it "more mainstream."
The worst offense -- worse than the cut footage or the utterly forgettable
songs -- is the jarring, painfully unfunny voiceover added to the
(silent) character of the thief by
aging ham,
Jonathan Winters.
There may be hope, though. Recently, Williams said that there are plans for a release of his original (albeit incomplete) version on DVD. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| In the Lovecraftian territory between
Survival Research Laboratories and the Sony
Aibo
lives
Spike the Robotic Dog.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| I recently watched the Shaft marathon on TNT. Can ya dig it? If not, check out Pimp Fiction which might be the authorative web source for information on pimping, a scientific study on pimping, or this handy jive translator. Also, find out why conspiracy theorists claim James Cameron rejected Richard Roundtree for the lead in Titanic.
to Movies by rich |
| Lots of people in the United States have never
heard of Mervyn
Peake. He was an illustrator of
various
literary classics, but perhaps more importantly, he
authored a trilogy
of novels about the fantastic Castle Gormenghast and its
denizens, particularly
Titus,
the 77th Earl of Groan,
and the tormented, brooding villain
Steerpike.
I found out about this when I saw a preview
on BBC America
of their presentation of the BBC 4-part miniseries
presentation of the first two novels. It replays this weekend on BBC America,
so order your digital cable now, Yankees!
to Literature by sck |
| Thursday Jul 13, 2000 | Y2K has come & gone with nary a meltdown, blackout, or other cataclysm. What're the conspiracy theorists going to do with their bomb shelters and MRE's now? How about hiding out from the New World Order's black helicopters infiltrating America under the supposedly innocuous guise of the U.S. Census Bureau? Does anyone really believe the same organization that is responsible for Monica Lewinsky, Amtrak & the US Postal Service can really orchestrate global domination? to Conspiracy by rich |
| If you can't get enough of
real
(and not-so-real)
things which come in five colours,
and you love classic video games,
then maybe it's time to pine for the iTari.
And then you can enjoy other fine products
by these people.
to Humor by sck |
| Robot Frank's Life is an ordinary personal
webpage created by a robot. You can read his
Robot Diary or you can look at
pictures of him and his robot friend,
Robot Ron.
to Humor by jiberish |
| So, most everyone was expecting the release of Scott Mccloud's new Reinventing Comics, the sort-of-sequel to his wildly cool Understanding Comics. But, who expected him to immediately dive back into the series that made him famous in the first place -- Zot! New online episodes continuing the Zot! saga are now
appearing weekly at www.comicbookresources.com. to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday Jul 12, 2000 | The Japanese have cornered the market on dressing up as their favourite costumed cartoon characters (if you don't believe me, compare these American costumes to their Japanese counterparts). Of course, they go even further, with the Living Doll concept, where you become another person, from head to toe, with varying degrees of success. Might be worth it to look this cute. to Culture by stimpy |
| "404 not found" You deserve a kinder note Like this web haiku to Computing by stimpy |
| The Online Guide to Accident Preparedness is
dedicated to helping people know what to do in the event of a car accident. They even
have a printable form for you
to fill out and keep in your car "just in case." to Transportation by jiberish |
| Tuesday Jul 11, 2000 | The Mushroom Kingdom is the
best source for Mario Brothers information on the internet and it answers the age old
question
"Why was Super Mario Bros. 2 so weird?" And if you want
some hard core nostalgia, listen to
The Mushroom Kingdom Radio: "All Mario, All The Time." to Games by jiberish |
| Eric Conveys an Emotion. Any emotion.
Happiness,
sadness,
"Seconds prior to
a fatal epileptic seizure" and even
intrigue. to Humor by jiberish |
| The Alessi design shop in Italy is justly well-known for its fabulous history of design successes by well-known artists. How then to explain Mr. Suicide? to Art by fringehead |
| Joss Whedon may be pretty cool and all that, but his work on X-Men consisted of a thrown-out rewrite, and on Titan A.E. a slightly-less thrown-out rewrite. He's hardly "responsible" for either film or script... to Television by nyarl |
| The Brothers Schlemiel may or
may not be the first serialized email novel, but it's certainly the
first one about the town of Chelm.
While you're there, read some of Mark Binder's other fiction,
such as The
Mr. Potato Head Murders or his cyber-novella, "How You Destroyed
The Entire World (Almost)". Heck, while you're at it, publish some of his
stuff.
to Books by dha |
| By helping the FBI
stop
espionage you can get up to
$500,000. I'm happy to see my tax dollars are being put to good use. to Law by laurel |
| How frequently is a television series so much better than the movie that created the franchise? In the case of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, they were both created by Joss Whedon who's also responsible for Titan AE, and X-Men. Most people think the difference is in the casting. Who would have thought that Sarah Michelle Geller &
David Boreanaz would succeed where Kristi Swanson & Luke Perry have failed?
to Television by rich |
| Monday Jul 10, 2000 | Should men wear lipstick? Uh, no. At least, not that shade of purple. to Culture by eclipse |
| I'm glad the acapella band Da Vinci's Notebook
is around to tell me what is cool
and not cool.
to Music by laurel |
| The search for the German sausage proves to be elusive; there is a clear case of misleading names here - and why Mr. Wurst does accounting and not something, ahem, more obvious, I'll probably never know. to Food by wheezer |
| On my vacation, I visited The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. It was neat to see all the different sea turtles and to hear of their successes. to Science by keith |
| Saturday Jul 8, 2000 | Just how fresh is this guy, anyway? to Humor by succa |
| Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Sliver, Jade, Flashdance... For years Joe Eszterhas has proven the naysayers wrong - you can be the least imaginative screenwriter in Hollywood and also the highest-paid, provided you use the secret formula that all women (all women worth mentioning, anyway) are hot, young, frequently evil and even more frequently naked. (Favorite moment from Basic Instinct, for which Eszterhas was paid $3 million: Sharon Stone's character writes a novel under a pen name to hide her identity, then thoughtfully includes her photo on the back cover.) Burn Hollywood Burn proves Eszterhas can write humor every bit as well as thrillers; the I was an hour in before I realized it was intended to be a comedy. (Also, not enough screen time for the hot young evil naked chick!) to Movies by cricket |
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