Rumproast’s Founder and Ur-Blogger Emeritus introduced us to the original, live-action Black Dynamite film. We may never know if he approves of the new, animated Adult Swim incarnation, but I think we can all agree that every Liberal heart leaps at a cartoon that unites White CIA agents with kung-fu-fighting Ghetto Heroes to kick rogue PBS puppet ass, the way the Founders intended.
And I thought outsourcing Batman was a bad idea. Yikes.
“On second thought, I’ll bet if we both just ignore him, the damn cat’ll come down from the tree all by himself. Sorry to bother you, Mr. Pissed-Off Man of Tomorrow.”
Accused mass-murderer Anders Breivik — who when arrested claimed to be working alone — told an Oslo court a different story, stating that he collaborated with two other “cells” of radicals who share his goal of saving Europe from Islam.
This could be true, or a ruse…or Breivik may simply have flashed on the value of ratting out some casual Crusader acquaintances as a chip in a plea deal. Regardless, Norwegian authorities have vowed to make a thorough investigation, and are presently rounding up all current and former members of Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds.
Yes, this is really just an excuse for a totally stupid “Separated-at-Birth” gag, so feel free to treat it as an Open Thread.
Sense-Roid is the Ultimate Progressive Candidate, because it does exactly what you would do, if you were doing it to yourself. Plus, it can’t talk back or run away, which means it will always be your Special Friend.
[H/T Mrs. Polly for the above clip, which will be a terrific first campaign spot once we lose the Japanese guy and add a ‘70s wah-wah guitar track.]
No one can figure out exactly what they want, but their platform seems to envision a future where Starfleet Command is run by the Chamber of Commerce, rather than the United Federation of Planets:
For American values to spread throughout the solar system, the United States government must strongly support and utilize free-market principles in how it promotes the settlement of space. Government agencies including FAA/AST, DOD (including DARPA), and NASA must become a partner of commercial entities and facilitator of market emergence and growth. These government agencies must also develop sound economic policies for commissioning new missions, project management, and technology development. Robust free-market competition has been objectively shown to be the most cost-effective means of producing and procuring goods and services.
NASA shall partner with the Department of Energy (DOE) and immediately resume production of plutonium (238Pu) to be utilized in outer solar system exploration.
A soon-to-be-published study by researchers at the University of Adelaide presents data suggesting that people who blaspheme the sacred flesh-temple God gave them with images of Australian bushranger/rock star Ned Kelly are nearly three times as likely to end up suicides as the general population, and almost eight times more predisposed to being scrammed by another human being. Peer-reviewers at Rumproast’s StrangeLabs note that while the Adelaide study provides a useful benchmark, it sidestepped an opportunity to compare the relative Image Fatality Indices (IFI) of Ned Kelly tattoos versus tattoos inspired by robot-obsessed American guitarist Buckethead (pictured right, above), despite the fact that both men are legendary cultural icons who wear pails on their heads.
So who is more likely to be hacked to death with a samurai sword by a deranged adult in a baby diaper — the anonymous cadaver-in-training at left, or the woman with the sheet music for Buckethead’s “I Love My Parents” indelibly inscribed on her upper back? In the absence of a suficiently robust predictive model, only time will tell…although I know who my money’s on.
In brightest day, with biggest bucks, looks like this movie really sucks.
Oaite is officially the new Rearden Metal. Sounds like they should have gone with the original Green Lantern Rori Dag (below), a doo-woop score and the backup singers from Little Shop of Horrors.
Over the weekend, Sarah-fapping hand-lotion typists apparently spoofed the Twitter feed of Crivella West, the Pittsburgh-based document analysis firm that posted Palin’s email archive — transmitting several totally ultra-subversive bwa-ha-hahs such as “Emails: Gov. Palin a Hard-Working Public Servant.”
Crivella told msnbc.com that he wouldn’t exactly call it a sophisticated hack. “It appears that in this case ‘hacking’ means sending out spam tweets pretending to be us. I think real hackers might be offended.”
With its rivers, overlooks, funiculars, architecturally-distinctive ethnic neighborhoods and miniature-megalopolis skyline, Pittsburgh gets routinely tapped to serve as the cinematic stunt-double for other, more expensive locations. So it’s not totally surprising — but still kind of geeky-cool — that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be filming some sequences here. We won’t be subbing for Gotham, but it’s satisfying enough just to be considered sufficiently strange to fit into Nolan’s idiosyncratic visual universe:
Pittsburgh is an old, oft-misrepresented, and deeply weird city. With its streets that twist about and dead-end without warning, the city’s organizing principle is nonsense. You don’t vacation in Pittsburgh unless you have family or friends there, and even then you need every breadcrumb trail at your disposal to navigate in the post-industrial cacophony of ethnicities and aesthetics.
Casting directors are looking for individuals to play prisoners/thugs, guards, police officers, business men and women and sports fans.
That pretty much limits me to “prisoner/thug” — which is right up my alley, sure. But it’s a popular look in this town, and there’s gonna be a hell of a lot of competition.
MoveOn.org is making noises like it wants to be relevant again. I’m not sure it’ll amount to anything, but this was pretty cool in a They Livesort of way.
What with all the everything this past couple weeks, it’s tough trying to keep this a family blog. But when the headline at the National Geo screams “ENORMOUS EJECTION OF PARTICLES INTO SPACE SHOCKS SCIENTISTS,” well, what can you possibly expect me to do about it, except post it out of the purest scientific interest?
Imagine the embarrassment our star is currently undergoing, being the center of a universe of ejection jokes. Old Sol’s problems started with “a mushroom of cooled plasma,” and those naughty National Geo writers even throw a couple of stories into the sidebar about spiders evolving extra legs and Madagascar’s newest pink snake.
There’s a computer game called Portal 2. It features a character named Cave Johnson, a billionaire technology entrepreneur who says a lot of crazy things, like this. A designer named Kate Moore has made a poster of one of these sayings, which she sells at her Blimpcat store on Etsy. I thought seeing the poster might make some of you laugh, even though it’s been kind of a crappy day.
