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HAPPY LIFE DAY!
It's that day of the year again, my chums: March 25th. Or, Life Day, as it is known to the wookies.
It's a personal holiday of mine. A couple of significant events in my life have occurred on this day. It is a day to honor new and bold beginnings.
Some Life Day Trivia:
On March 25, Sauron was defeated and his ring was destroyed, thus bringing about the start of the Fourth Age. Afterwards, it became New Year's Day for the Gondorans. And also on this day Sam and Rosie Gamgee gave birth to their first child, Elanor, whose name means "Sun Star".
In the real world, John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mt. Rushmore, was born, as was Bela Bartok, David Lean, Howard Cosell, Gloria Steinem, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
This year the official animal of Life Day is the white tiger.
This is the White Tree of Gondor, official emblem of the nation of Gondor, and ergo, this year's selection of Life Day heraldry.
A long time ago, wookies on the planet Kashyyyk celebrated Life Day on March 25th. Because of the "Star Wars Holiday Special", everyone thinks Life Day is celebrated around Christmas time. This is patently false. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject.
On Life Day, the wookies light candles together in their homes and are spiritually transported to the starry heavens where they wear long red robes and walk solemnly to a sacred place. Somehow C3-PO and R2-D2 can travel there too, even though they're robots. Hey, Wookies don't judge. Anyway, Princess Leia gets high on something and sings the Life Day song (to the tune of a slow version of the Star Wars theme), and it goes a little something like this:
We celebrate a day of peace.
A day of harmony.
A day of joy we can all share together joyously.
A day that takes us through the darkness.
A day that leads us into might.
A day that makes us want to celebrate the light.
A day that brings the promise that one day, we'll be free to live, to laugh, to dream, to grow, to trust, to love, to be.
Then she says:
"This holiday is yours but, we all share with you the hope that this day brings us closer to freedom, and to harmony, and to peace. No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage. And more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life."
Happy Life Day, Everybody!
Question! Who was the celebrated author of "The Dynamics of An Asteroid", a book so advanced that "no man in the scientific press is able to criticize it"?
Why, it's everyone's favorite arch-nemesis, the world's very first supervillain, Professor James Moriarty!
Fun Facts about Moriarty:
What was he a professor of? Why, Mathematics!; he was known to compose treatises on the binomial theorem
He must have been quite the astronomer too, because he lectured about eclipses and wrote books about aforementioned asteroids
After leaving his University Chair but prior to becoming an evil mastermind, he was employed oddly enough as an army coach
Later Holmes would call him the Napoleon of Crime
As the ruler of the London underworld, he was exceedingly generous to his employees; his henchman Moran was paid 60,000 pounds a year (a huge amount in those days, still pretty good even now).
His full name was James Moriarty. Strangely enough, he had a brother named that too - wonder how that worked
The Professor was involved in only two of the Sherlock Holmes' sixty published cases; but what an impression he made
By golly, Sir Lawrence Olivier portrayed him in a movie
His weapon of choice was the "air-rifle", a unique weapon constructed for him by a blind German mechanic
However, it was of no use to him when he sparred with Holmes by the Falls in Switzerland; his enemy employed Baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, causing the poor Professor to plunge to his death on May 4, 1891
A bit of incidental trivia:
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the original stories. The phrase's origins have been traced to one of P.G. Wodehouse's comic novels.
Sherlock Holmes had a fat and lazy older brother named Mycroft.
Brennan emailed me out of the blue yesterday with an invitation to DEATHWORLD. I responded in kind. Check out our hilarity.
Pangolins are the best animals.
Fun facts about Pangolins:
They burrow for insects!
They're likened to a "living pinecone"!
They can curl into a ball, climb trees, spray a stink like a skunk, and lash about dangerously with their tails!
A pangolin got no teeth!
Their fossil record extends to the Eocene!
Their tongues are longer than the length of their head and body put together!
They have an enormous salivary gland in their chests which they use to lubricate their tongues with sticky, ant-catching saliva!
They have no jugal and the zygomatic arch is incomplete!
Somebody stop them, because they are entirely too cool!
Sure, you've heard of an aardvark, but have you heard of an aardwolf?
What is it with monkeys and robots these days?
Allow me to introduce LUCY. I think everyone will be seeing a lot of Lucy in the future (MARK MY PROPHETIC WORDS.)
Del Toro on the possibility of an animated Hellboy: "Yes, we are meeting in two weeks with the Japanese company Gonzo. What we're proposing to do is 30-minute episodes, taking care of the short stories of Hellboy, even the short, short stories like 'Pancakes.' And adapt them completely, 100 percent in the Mike Mignola style. That's in the works."
The Amazing Screw-On Head
I like this guy's work.
They're called "Micro-Heroes" and I don't really see what they're for. But hey, whatever. Find your favorites.
I've never seen Ultraman, but all the crazy monsters he fights rule!
Look at all the various incarnations of his arch-nemesis Baltan! I am so about the Baltan.
You can even get the monsters in plush form. And a Christmas variation if that's your thing.
Can somebody tell me what the heck's going on here!
Grow
Boohbah
Brennan reminded me of the amazing Ladislas Starevich, who invented stop-motion animation in 1910.
NASA can hear the words you haven't spoken yet. At some point this technology will be combined with the monkey-controlled robots, and we're all going to die.
What makes Event 18 a religion and not a cult?
Let's look at the 5 elements that define a cult, and see how Event 18 compares...
1) "A cult uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members."
Event 18 uses no coercion whatsoever. And if you say otherwise, well, somebody (and I'm not saying who, HINT: rhymes with 'who'), but somebody's not getting any cookies.
2) "A cult forms an elitist totalitarian society."
Who's elitist? Who's totalitarian? I don't think Event 18 members even know who their leader is. So how could this so-called "invisible" leader have all the power? Oh wait, the Invisible Warrior God is kind of the leader, and He's invisible, but He doesn't even care about his supporters. He probably doesn't even know who they are and is just doing what He'd be doing anyway (namely, conquering alternate dimensions).
3) "A cult's founder/leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma."
Okay, let's say that Event 18's "leader/founder" is the Invisible Warrior God.
We can take this point-for-point:
Self-appointed? Nope. The members of Event 18 chose Him because of His handiness at taking over other dimensions and his potential for bringing us pillaged cool stuff.
Dogmatic? The IWG does not appear to hold any principles, beliefs, or ideas as absolute truths. Hell, He doesn't even "appear" at all.
Messianic? I suppose one could argue that during Event 18 when He arrives, He will bring about an era of wealth and prosperity, and that that's technically "messianic", but I mean, really, who would think that? Only those who crave a system of semantic factuality. And the truly pretentious.
Not Accountable? The IWG is held accountable by all. I don't know what that means but it sounds good. I guess what it could mean is that Event 18 is a date. It's set. He will have to arrive on Earth at that time with booty in tow. It's not like He can get around to doing it at some point later on, like around "Event 63" or something. We're Expecting Him. And He is going to be here. Otherwise, really, what's the point?
With Charisma? He doesn't seem to have any charisma. I mean, no one can see Him, so it's hard to lay on the charm. Plus, as far as I know, all He does is attack people and collect their goods and property - which doesn't usually earn Him any personality points.
4) "A cult believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds and recruit people."
We don't believe this at all. We are so not about soliciting. We are about SEIZING. It's not our way to try to persuade others to give us funds by any means necessary. It IS our way to go right ahead and TAKE STUFF from others (namely, the alternate dimensional peoples) by any means necessary (namely, through the efforts of our nameless warrior deity). There is a distinction and it is not a fine one.
5) "A cult's wealth does not benefit its members or society."
This one's a no-brainer. Event 18 is SO ABOUT getting its wealth to benefit its members. MAN! We are all about that! In fact, I can't figure out what else we're about. That's pretty much it.
So in conclusion, it should be abundantly clear that Event 18 is a religion, and the best one at that (2003).
Amen.
The book I'm looking forward to reading that's coming out in October is Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell. Neil Gaiman recently read it and had this to say:
"In my probably biased but not entirely uninformed opinion, [it] is the best English fantasy novel written in the last seventy years: over 800 pages, and when it ends you're just sad there aren't another 800."
Save the Heads!
This is pretty gripping stuff...
Super Mario flash movie:
Part I
Part II
I did some research and it looks like the kung fu I'm studying was founded in the late 19th century by a man who had hair covering his whole body like a wookie. His parents thought he was a demon and abandoned him in the forest where he was found by monks who decided to raise him. Because he couldn't lead a normal life outside the temple, he devoted himself to mastering all the schools of martial arts, an unheard-of thing at the time. Everybody before that was just expected to learn one discipline - usually whatever suited their physical characteristics and temperament, but our hairy hero mastered every single one. He was a bad ass. He would fight bears in the forest for practice. When invaders destroyed the temple, he escaped into the mountains. Another monk was like, "Hey wait up, dude" and followed him. "Yo! You are really good at the kung fu. Teach me what you know." And he did, thus passing on all the kung fu knowledge that might have been lost. Then after some adventures, the student started his own school and his students continue the legacy today.
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes!
Here's a photo of our founder, Elder Grandmaster Su Kong Tai Djin, 1849-1928.
You might enjoy this award-winning flash animation.
Album covers made by Brennan for our now defunct band.
It's real, folks: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants
My friend Brennan made these for me:
Stay tuned to this site for news about the future launch of event18.org, a web site devoted (and I do mean devoted) to 2003 (hopefully 2004)'s Best Religion!
I spy with my little eye...
Eek!
Visit the Museum of Bad Art
Gyoza is japanese dumplings! I like me the gyoza.
Toys You Can't Remember
A Cavalcade of Images and Ideas from Yesteryear
Interview with a Search Engine
Click Here for Busty Brahms
Get your Cyborg Name here!
If you're evil like me, you're in good company!
Today's links are in honor of the pursuit of evil.
Try the Online Ouija board for consulting with the phantasmic forces of darkness.
Learn from your antecessors and contemporaries at the Supervillain Central Archives.
For all your villainous needs, visit VillainSupply.
I ordered a "Skull Island" from them and I wasn't disappointed!
Seek the unholy favor of His Supreme Tyrannical Lord High Master Chancellor of the Order of the Darker Arcane Nemesis Beast of Lucifraxus.
He's been a real inspiration for me.
Check out some pretty sad villains from comics of yore (an example of what not to be):
Razorback
Turner D. Century
Big Wheel
Ten-Eyed-Man
Rainbow Raider
Clock King
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance
I love the genre what is known as steampunk.
My goal is to eventually challenge and defeat the Japanese robots at kung fu.
Part of my training outside the dojo will involve elevating my mind into dangerously high levels of extreme hatred for all robotkind.
I have a ways to go. Right now the most I can muster is a slight uneasy feeling towards IG-88.
I'm having a real hard time with "Twiki", the robot boy from Buck Rogers. He's just so hard not to like!
Maybe it's because I know that deep down, underneath that evil metal suit, he's played by human actor Felix Silla.
Emily recently called me 'Monkeypants'.
And I let it go to my head. I began to call myself Mr. Monkeypants.
And I started telling everyone that I was Mr. Monkeypants.
Many asked me why I was called that. They'd ask me, "Does it mean that your pants are made of monkeys?"
They'd also ask me, "Is it because you stole some pants from a monkey?"
I resent both questions!
But I have changed my mind about being known as Mr. Monkeypants. I've moved on. In effect, I've grown as a person. I no longer wish to be known as Mr. Monkeypants, nor do I desire to indulge in discussions of why I was ever known by that name. However, as I write this, I realize that I do, in fact, wish to be known as Mr. Monkeypants and would love to tell you all about why I came to be known by that name.
You see, it all began a long time ago when I... Wait. I've changed my mind...
No More Mr. Monkeypants!!!
A lovely couple
Nellie McKay may just be a musical talent to look out for. I'm looking into it.
A Review
Noah Baumbach's writings for the New Yorker. Funny!
The Zagat History of My Last Relationship
My Oscar Speech
Van Gogh in AOL
Courtesy of Googlism, here's what the internet has to say about the Stokes family:
henry stokes is alan's grandfather
henry stokes is not himself taxed
colin stokes is quite young
colin stokes is a musical genius
colin stokes is an interesting person who works for the reynolds
colin stokes is brilliant as the villain edmund
brian stokes is a champion
brian stokes is the business development manager for glasslam ngi inc
brian stokes is a handsome
brian stokes is working on aim and the bro
brian stokes is 6
brian stokes is in charge of the function
brian stokes is an incredibly talented guy
james stokes is well respected in the business of helping to achieve major change successfully
james stokes is the trumpet professor
james stokes is a management consultant
james stokes is #9386
james stokes is in fact the legal representative of alex
james stokes is listed anywhere near this corner in macpherson
james stokes is the editor of the reed volume for somerset
james stokes is there
james stokes is eugene katz professor in letters at the university of wisconsin
Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about stephanie stokes yet. (Ed. note: Yeah, and keep it that way!)
This month, the kind folks at my favorite comic artist collective, Partyka, are featuring me in the guest artist gallery. I'm honored. Thank you, Partyka!
Brian singing "Rainbow Connection"
INTERCEPTED! Colin show-cased in a poster on NY subway (?) wall
I'm excited about a new book coming out in October by an author named Susanna Clarke. It's her first novel. She's written short stories that I've read and really liked and got inspired by.
Interview with Susanna Clarke
So many good artists out there, you don't know whether your sigh is contented or wistful.
Chris Appelhans
Esao Andrews
Tomer Hanuka
Thomas Herpich
James Jean
Peter Brown
Go on and Morph yourself a face!
I have a new hero, Nellie Bly, 1864-1922.
Practically inventing the field of investigative journalism, her career started when she was hired at age 18 by a Pittsburgh newspaper after writing a spirited response to a sexist editorial. Driven to investigate society's ills, such as the slums and sweatshops, she would often go undercover to infiltrate them and expose their problems, which led to many reforms. She pretended to be insane and got herself admitted to a notorious insane asylum, became a purse snatcher to get an insider's look at New York's jails, and posed as a prostitute, producing an amazing story about an infamous pimp. In 1889, she attempted to ape "Around the World in 80 Days" and managed the trip in 72 days, using steamer, train, horse, burro and rickshaw. She was welcomed back with a big parade on Broadway, fireworks, and a brass band. All this before she was 30! At age 31, Bly retired from journalism and married business tycoon Robert Seaman. When he died, she ran his businesses for nearly ten years, instituting numerous reforms to benefit the workers. After retiring from business, she traveled in Europe and upon the outbreak of WWI, returned to reporting.
For more information:
Nellie Bly
Another Biography
Daredevil reporter
Complete text of her book, Around the World in 72 Days
Nellie Bly Trading Cards commemorating her circumnavigation!
At a recent party I attended this photo was taken, and in the subsequent online photo album it was captioned with the following: "Rocko Killa"
(Rocko being the nickname given to me by the photographer).
Looking forward to the next McSweeney's magazine. It's a comics issue, edited by Chris Ware, featuring the comics of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and many more. There are also essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, and Chip Kidd, to name a few.
I so wish I could go to this: Visible and Invisible Drawings, An Evening with Ira Glass and Chris Ware
Exquisite Corpse by Chris Ware (top) and Daniel Clowes (bottom)
I've updated my Bones story and it now has pictures. I think readers will enjoy it more now.
Sentence that abruptly came to me this morning:
I am waiting for the great shape to take word and coil my fibery being.
I just typed a random word, MONGOR, into google image search to see what showed up, and turns out it's a Thundercats (TM) bad guy.
YEAH! That's what I call making it happen!
Ah, the kids shows of yesteryear...
Here's a green Furnitures character named Howard Huge.
Is it just me or is this one known as Cousin Cupcake truly terrifying?
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
- Unknown
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction.
How did you think of Quidditch?
JK Rowling: Right. Well, if you want to create a game like Quidditch what you have to do is have an enormous argument with your then boyfriend, you walk out of house, you sit down in pub and you invent Quidditch. I don’t really know what the connection is between the row and Quidditch except that Quidditch is quite a violent game and maybe in my deepest, darkest soul I’d like to have seen him hit by a ‘bludger’.
"Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards."
- Grimod de La Reynière
"Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?"
-Job, speaking to God
"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese -- toasted, mostly."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A good check list of items to keep in mind when becoming an Evil Overlord
Before Bevel was born, his father, being of a nature much prone to thievery, decided to steal an egg from a strange old woman that lived down the street. Stole it right from under her nose, he did. She wasn't even taking a nap. No, she was looking right at him while he pinched it, quite a feat when you consider she was known for her wits and sharp gaze. Bevel's father had entered her house on the pretense that he was trying to sell her some cudgels. Being the town cudgler, it was what he was wont to do. But the old lady wasn't interested, claiming she really didn't have a use for cudgels this time of year. This was a fact of no surprise to Bevel's father, but on he went belaboring the point, arguing bluntly but eloquently that there were hundreds of household predicaments resolved with a good well-hewn cudgel by a strange old woman like herself. It was all a ruse, of course, just something to say so she'd keep her discriminating eyes on his face instead of his pilfering hands. And when he successfully plucked his picking he was out the door in less than a minute, and she had no inkling of the crime.
The egg looked like it belonged to an elephaurus. Or some sort of Saguitch. It was large, lime-green, and couldn't be placed anywhere on the ground without rolling, but his father liked the look of it and figured his wife would too, and so it was that he presented it to her as an anniversary present, for they had been married for three years by his count. He misjudged things a bit though, for not only was he actually married to her for nine, his wife was none too fond of the egg. She appreciated the gesture surely, kissed her husband fondly, and propped it in the corner where guests could sit on it if they were so inclined (and where it wouldn't roll around too much). Truth is no one ever even got a chance to test its merits as a chair. For the very next day the egg hatched and young Bevel was born.
Here is Kelly's Gallery of Portraits!
A very happy birthday to Colin! Yaaaay!
Now for some links...
Think of an object. Make the computer ask you 20 Questions about it. See if it gets it. Laugh when it don't.
For the truly bored, I don't actually advise playing with these online quizzes. They're pretty much entirely stupid and pointless. Enjoy.
An example of what you can find at the tribia blog Vitamin Q:
A dozen tongue-twisters (like 'She sells sea shells on the seashore') translated from their original languages:
1 Robespierre, the initiator of the Terror, considered it a horrible mistake to sprinkle verdigris on a rare brown green lizard (Italian)
2 The Useful Lady of the West was 44 years old at the time of her death (Mandarin)
3 Susan locked the chicks' cage (Tagalog)
4 Alli banged the beaver with a folder (Finnish)
5 An adult boxer is washing trousers (Norwegian)
6 Put the sour vegetables in the pocket of the policeman (Arabic)
7 The polecat rolled down and ruptured his larynx (Xhosa)*
8 Twenty dwarfs were demonstrating handstands, ten in the closet, ten on the sandy beach (German)
9 Rain, rain, the frog doesn't have any ears (Czech)
10 My aunt offered my uncle some pickle in a silver spoon (Punjabi)
11 Watermelon jam competition (Afrikaans)
12 The emperor was combing his wife (Polish)
* This (Iqaqa laziqikaqika kwaze kwaqhawaka uqhoqhoqha) is often said to be the hardest to say of all.
Very fond of this photograph. It's replacing last year's this.
Count me as a big fan of Maria Schneider, artist behind Pathetic Geek Stories and a writer for The Onion. She writes as three of the best Onion personalities : Jean Teasdale, Herbert Kornfield, and my personal all-time favorite, T. Herman Zweibel.
Madam Gingerbell is having a bad hair day apparently. Oh wait, that's a puppet. Nevermind.
Tine ta pay the pipes.
I like this photo of this lady. Her name, in case you wondered, was Beatrix Potter.
(If you look at it long enough, she will actually look back at you. Try it, you'll like it.)
I just want to give a shout-out to all my readers. Y'all are the biscuits!
I think this is hilarious. And I want to try it.
Can't think of anything to draw? Play 20 questions with your lucky penny:
First attempt
Second attempt
Everybody do the dance! I mean, come on!
Today's links all have to do with Star Wars, G.I. Joe, and Transformers. Somebody grow me up!
On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor
From the same place (McSweeney's), Journal of a New Cobra Recruit
I never did understand me any of those robuts. But now I can!
Baddies
Goodies
It's the Year of the Monkey, so let's honor our ancestors.
The complete text of the The Newgate Calendar
Full Title: The Newgate Calendar or Malefactors' Bloody Register containing General and Circumstantial Narrative of the lives and transactions, various exploits and Dying Speeches of the Most Notorious Criminals of both sexes who suffered Death Punishment in Gt. Britain and Ireland for High Treason, Petty Treason, Murder, Piracy, Felony, Thieving, Highway Robberies, Forgery, Rapes, Bigamy, Burglaries, Riots and various other horrid crimes and misdemeanours on a plan entirely new, wherin will be fully displayed the regular process from virtue to vice interspersed with striking reflexions on the conduct of those unhappy wretches who have fallen a sacrifice to the laws of their country
Here's some wick'd doodle.
This artist splices two photographs of the same person at different ages and fuses them at the tear.
Found out there's going to be a 3D animated film by Moebius, one of my favorites. Besides some cool comic books, he helped design Tron and The Fifth Element, among others.
New poster made by Drew Struzan, painter of many many famous ones
One of the best jobs I had was being an illustrator for TILT, a web tutorial for using the library. I recently stumbled upon JOLT which is brought to you by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), where I planned to attend graduate school next year. JOLT is really just TILT, only re-formatted, and it even credits me with making it. However, nowhere in JOLT is a single illustration of mine. No, SCAD's JOLT is the Henry-less TILT. I find this fact strangely meaningful.
National Guardsman changed his name to a toy. Hardly a "toy". Try GREATEST LEADER THE GALAXY HAS EVER KNOWN. Try it on for breakfast!
Test your typing skills with this game. I got 115 on the first try.
Poor Henry is obviously bored. Movies he's looking forward to seeing. Sigh
This little ditty goes out to the Kremer siblings (you know who you are) : "Da Lip Da Lup Wa Webelo"
This cute cartoon so makes me want to visit Kenya.
This is a strange cartoon with interesting character designs that looks like its Japanese but I think its made by French people: Catfish Hotel.
A lot of people don't know what really happened when Stalin confronted Hitler. This comic reveals all!
I don't think it spoils anything by saying they have magic powers.
I tried clicking on some of the photos of these crazy 60s and 70s ceramic figures, and it was just too terrifying for me, so consider it a dare... of the double-dog variety.
Transformers Decepto-Pack!
Recent interview with the great Tom Lehrer...
"In 1999, Martin Gilbert, the biographer of Winston Churchill and famous chronicler of the 20th century, named Lehrer as one of the 10 great figures of the previous 100 years. "Lehrer was able to express and to expose, in humorous verse and lilting music, some of the most powerful dangers of the second half of the century ... Many of the causes of which Lehrer sang became, three decades later, part of the main creative impulse of mankind," he said."
I've collected portraits of my favorites in various categories, but I won't tell you what the categories are; you'll just have to figure that out for yourself.
Animation Time!
One of my favorites, Tom Lehrer, has a song of his, The Elements, animated by someone in Flash. Provokes big Henry smiles.
These strange creatures sing a song that moves my heart. I really lika the moon, too.
Hilary Swank, best known for her role in Boys Don't Cry, will be portraying activist Alice Stokes Paul, my relative, in the HBO film Iron Jawed Angels. It premieres on February 15th.
Exciting News! A baby dragon was found inside a jar tucked away in a garage!
For a bigger view, click here
Human Clock - Wait for the minute to be up to see the next photograph
Muppet Origami, anyone?
Darkness Falls Across The Land
The Midnight Hour Is Close At Hand
Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
To Terrorize Y'all's Neighbourhood
And Whosoever Shall Be Found
Without The Soul For Getting Down
Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell
And Rot Inside A Corpse's Shell
The Foulest Stench Is In The Air
The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
And Grizzly Ghouls From Every Tomb
Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
Your Body Starts To Shiver
For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
The Evil Of The Triller
'Cause this is Triller... Triller Night!!!
Thank you, Sean!
More stick figure animation
Brian sagely observes: "All the violence in the world can't open a door."
Good article about P.G. Wodehouse
Courtesy of Emily... Best Fashion site Ever
Old School Games
Courtesy of Dan... A Game of Yeti Penguin Aggression
My good friend is running for State Representative of A District !
He's in the preliminary stages of getting his name on the ballot this November as
an independent candidate. Don't vote for his opposition, who, as my friend reports : "...was ranked among the
top ten worst legislators by Texas Monthly."
I'm wishing my friend the best of luck!
Here's an article that mentions the race he's in.
Amusing Things found on Internet:
Hamlet - The Text Adventure
1930 catalog of gags and pranks for the discriminating Mason
Law & Order Coloring book
Hey Ya, Charlie Brown(9 Meg Movie)
Robot belly-dancer!
Another funny song: Sinister Ducks mp3
I've archived the first three of these. You can find them here:
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