”The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus”: Spider-Man fails to prevent Dr. Octopus from stealing Dr. Smarter’s nullifier. Afer some investigation, Spider-Man tracks down Dr. Octopus, but the evil villain has a devious trap waiting for the webslinger. ”Magic Malice”: The Green Goblin escapes Spider-Man as he steals Blackwell’s magic secrets. With his new array of [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx”
While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for decades had a policy that allows RVers of all types to stay in their parking lot [...]
Martin Weller will be happy to know I am officially seeking therapy after watching the bava clipshow he put together over on The Ed Techie. What can I say? I mean this video is not only a Jim Groom film fest—which makes it inherently awesome—but also points to why this whole things is a relationship [...]
Say what you will hippies, but I owned their LP (was their more than one?), and upon re-watching this video I’m amazed at how prescient it is. I mean it prefigures the whole logic of that other Australian phenomenon The Wiggles a decade earlier.
Can you tell I’m on vacation? I’m just having fun here.
Over at the Play-List blog, Brad Efford linked to this crazy re-mix/auto-tuning of the news. Hysterical.
I had previously written about the end of film in regards to the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, but after reading John Kenneth Muir’s brilliant “The Five Most Ludicrous Musical Numbers in Movie History” I now know I was wrong. This happened long before with Staying Alive (1983).
And Muir quotes David Denby’s review [...]
Here’s the tale of the tape:
That little snapshot with numbers, percentages, and figures can’t begin to suggest how both liberating and tormenting this space has been for me. Not sure I have 1,000 more in me, but there is no question that this archive of the last three and a half years of my ongoing [...]
“There’s only one small catch, it never happened—it’s all a lie, a fantastic $30 billion hoax.”
I spent the day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: The Kenneth E Behring Center (the last bit of the name after the colon is new and is ostensibly the name of their biggest donor, reinforcing that the public domain is certainly not beyond some ostentatious advertising—how can this be tolerated?) for the [...]
Re-posted from Play-list blog because I like what’s going on here.
Soul II Soul “Back to Life”
http://kissatlanta.com/music/102507/Back…
The a cappella intro is breathtaking, and the beat addictive and hypnotic. But more than that, another masterpiece by them (“Keep on Moving”) is brilliantly framed as part of a larger transatlantic exchange of black culture in Paul Gilroy’s The [...]
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