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I know that I was faithfully posting my 100 mile days and stopped at 1000 miles. well I made it to 2000 on November 17th as the sun went down. So there.
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I was on my way back from Eastern Ohio through Pennsylvania and just HAD to stop in at one or two of the many you-can-buy-fireworks-if-you're-not-from-here-so-you-can-burn-your-own-state-down fireworks stores and saw that the design standards had, erm, evolved somewhat capturing the zeitgeist with a 12"x12" cube of 36 shots or so of full color pyrotechnic chaos. Apologies for the shite pix - I'm waiting for my Droid......

When The Dog Bites, When The Bee Stings.....

.......it must be one of my favorite things: Squidbillies!

A 1/4 Cover My Favorite Martian Comic,

1/4 covers were from when unsold comics (or magazines) had to be returned and the ditributor didn't want to lug a bunch of pulp. The top 1/4 of the cover was submitted for the unsold credit. Needless to say they got sold and/or given away anyway.

Link to comic at pic, Nephews and Mrs. Browns!!

enjoy crazy singing and dancing parties

Want:

The Aiptek Mobile Cinema D10 (Not to be confused with the Pocket Cinema D10 - also want)
The child me would have killed to get this, plus it looks like a Kenner Give-a-Show and a Viewmaster had a kid...

Slide Wheel From TV Viewer

I got my hands on a little tiny TV viewer a several years ago and it shortly flew to flinders after being in the hands of my tiny child. The kind that looks similar to this:



I kept the slide wheel inside and today threw it in the scanner at 4800 ppi and got this, which when clicked, gives a "beefed up" version - still really tough to see.....



I lusted after these things when I was little. The plot goes like this:

A Picnic Story with a Frog a Mouse an Ant and a Lady - Bird

1. All Bound For Picnic
2. Frog Jumping Into Water Says Lets Cross This River
3. The Frog Sarcastically "Why Can't You All Follow"
4. The Others Made A Plan To Cross Because They Couldn't Swim
5. The Chick Brought A Leaf
6. The Mouse A Walnut Shell
7. The Ant A Straw
8. The Lady - Bird A Thread
9. In a Few Minutes A Boat Was Built
10. The Boat Was Launched
11. All On Board Safe Mr. Frog Wet And Angry

FEEL FREE TO SEND ME THE ONE FROM THAT OLD CIGAR BOX IN THE GARAGE!!

Unfamiliar Hallowe'en Comic Story

Mighty Bear - What the.....? never heard of him - dig the godawful registration issues.

Pic links to PDF.



Creepiest thing is the abdomen bumping on the cover.

Joke O' The Day!

Thanks to Mrs Lex10 for the serendipitous portmanteau!

Unadulterated Comic Panel Of The Year

From the unknown-to-me Dotty Dripple - the entirety of which shall be posted at a later date.

Rare Comic Ads

These ads are from the April 1950 issue of Blondie comics. These pre-date my existence in time, and are unfamiliar in content if not in form. All images link to giant versions for text perusal.

Let's commence with The Chevalier. Later becoming "The Shatner".



I wasn't even born yet, and I knew this was a ripoff....



Is this a camo lighter? In 1950??


That's right bitches, any car....



Published during the so-hot-they-need-a-full-page-color-ad era of tiny electric motor sales.



Because sane bargains aren't as thrilling......



A familiar form but unfamiliar content....



Lastly half-page entries (probably from Sundays) of the Flop Family, which mutated into Philander Flop (I realized in bed this morning and subsequently researched)......why do comics suck nowadays?

Before They Die

Junk ads from comics that are as of.......now recycled:

MANY LINK TO BIGGER VERSIONS (WHERE IT MAKES SENSE)

I have these.....naturally occurring.


This struck me as ambiently (ambiently? Is that a word?) beautiful/ It's entitled "Coat"


This one links to a NEW WALLPAPER if you click it! YAY!! NOW you're getting your money's worth!!!


Damn! I am so gonna be one of those dudes who throws luggage violently out of the plane's belly into an open cart in the driving rain!!


No Comment. Just too damn cool to comment on....


Why 7?


Calling all chicks...did I mention I have 7 TVs?


If I get this :

Then I can get this .....and play along !!


Ook! Monkey!


We are running out of helium thanks to this jerk:


Yes you've seen this elsewhere, it's just too exquisite to not do again....


Rock these patches:


...but NEVER on Steve Scout's uniform !!


Let's close out with this groovy skull light.

Obamicon me

Obamiconme: stupid yet deeply participatory and often creative fun, based on the Obama poster done by Shepard Fairey, the now celebrated outsider artist. Here's two of mine, the one I did the other day was me doing it on my own.

My First Moom Pitcher

Link at Pic !!!

Spooky Jetsons Vision of the Future

Whilw watching Jetsons last night on Boomerang video on demand, I was astounded to hear Mr. Spacely invoke "Google finance" in his enticement to a group he was interested in doing an M&A with. This episode was from 1985, and Google was 11 years away. Syntactically, it's not like he was using the number, more like he was throwing around Wired-magazine-style business speak. Spooky! Be ready it happens quickly:




Later in that same episode. we saw this, which had (I hope you'll notice as you watch) that unmistakable Je ne sais quoi, or lagniappe or visual umami that only John K. can provide.
We were sure it was him, but it seemed too early ('85). See what you think:



Sure enough, he appears to have worked as a Layout Supervisor, but for all intents and purposes, it looks like he directed it. I'd love to know what he exactly did to influence this end product while Layout Supervisor (maybe they have that much influence, I don't know) so as to put his indelible mark on this work.

This Is Not Me

When I got married, I ran off with my wife - she was with another guy. But I was not this guy, despite the fact that I enjoyed this video at the time. I love this- the dancers, the falsetto, the spaceman- it signals one of the many death knells of rock, fueled by my jazz and southern rock and new age listening jerkoff peers, who couldn't wait to grow up and embrace the cash fueled dreary.

F**k 'em all.

Good Heavens! How Serendipitous!

While searching through the Guardian for more delightfully stabby violence and other weirdness, I discovered that the Royal Mail has released these Carry On as well as Hammer Films postage stamps. Story and slideshow here and at pic.

WDIWLN?: Carry On Camping

What Did I Watch Last Night?

It's hot, yeah? We were knackered and wanted to watch something, but there was nowt on telly. I have certain TV viewing cues ( such as watching Enchanted Cottage, Angel Face or The Uninvited on a gray, cold, day - I know - not completely connected , but they're cues, not discipline) and the insularity of the AC against the mercury made me want to watch Carry on Camping. High Stupidity- Tanya Gold puts it well in her Guardian commentary:
"The Carry On films are not funny. They are parables about failure. The typical Carry On hero is an everyman who lives a life of misery, unrequited lust and boredom."

In looking it up, I was astounded to find that Sid James,

(who pretty much looked just like this at the time)
the male lead in the film (if there in fact can be one in this ensemble cast comedy) was actually on the eve of commencing an affair (or "tappin' that") with Barbara Windsor, the effervescent coquette usually found in a state of denouement as illustrated in the YouTube clip below:



Barbara was married to a gangster, Ronnie Knight, at the time, a real badass- who after a while had had enough and buried an axe in Sid's floor.
Way to send a message, Ronnie!


Ronnie and Babs

The question is: What was her motivation? Did her undercarriage crave hidden smoky aged baccala? Was she losing her sight, as well as sense of touch? Was Ronnie refusing to bury his axe in her floor, if you catch my drift?

Or are the British just sometimes insane, (let's face it - we Americans are) like the time Ian Fleming claimed Sid was his #1 choice to play James Bond:
"The screen test, included as an extra on the forthcoming DVD box-set of Bless This House, shows James brandishing a Walther PPK as he confronts the film's villain at the movie's climax. Apparently due to budgetary constraints, the other characters in the scene are played by James's regular Carry On co-stars. Barbara Windsor is Honey Ryder, a role that would eventually be taken by Ursula Andress. Kenneth Williams cameos as M, while Charles Hawtrey brings a silky menace to the character of Dr No."

Not kidding- Sid James as James Bond - full article here

So, uh, since I don't know where to go with this, go watch Carry On Camping, and revel in it's idiocy while reminding yourself it was the highest grossing film in the UK that year.

I will leave you with the Smiths album cover that infuriated Morrisey and Marr, but features Charles Hawtrey, who played Mr Muggins:


ooh! OOH! but now I don't want to stop, because I have a theory that J.K. Rowling saw this film as a youth, and got the name "Harry Potter" and the word "Muggle" from a scene in it where Mr. Muggins insinuates himself into the Potters tent and the introductions Go something like:
"I'm Harriet Potter and this is my husband Peter"
"Pleased to meet you I'm Mr. Muggins"
combining that with the fact that Hawtrey ( a raging drunk in real life, by the way) is Harry Potter-esque in his appearance.
Burned into her unconscious as a Dickensian situational semantic tool, no? If it happened.

So now I'll close with: J.K. baby! Get in touch and confirm/deny! Yeah!

Mister Ed's Number Two

.....issue that is! Get ready for uninspired art, flat story, and a breast reduction (apparently) for Carol! But hey it's a TV comic!

Superduck - Pissin' Everybody Off !

Super Duck looked like he was drawn by Carl Barks, but was really drawn by Al Fagaly, and he's like Donalds' twin. This had to irritate the crap out of Disney. Also they had to change his uniform from red & blue to Green & red, because he looked too much like Superman for DC comic's taste.

In this one he really isn't too super - more like Donald without quite as much of the anger management issues (he still gets pissed off, just less). Another thing is that it's one 1 or 1/2 page joke after another, as opposed to an extended narrative. My fave type.

Like all good old comics it has its idiosyncratic:

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And a girlfreind named Uwanna (although I think she doesn't wanna)



Enjoy, kiddies!