Cows on parade in Boston...
Keep on keepin on~
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Remember this?
If my mess of mentally collected televisional pop hasn't failed me, I believe I saw (and heard) a sneaky-cool ad for PEE-WEE's PLAYHOUSE, coming back to the little screen this summer on Cartoon Network! I caught it during an Adult Swim block tonight, so I figure maybe it's coming back as an AS show, but don't quote me on that.
The button-pushing ad was a nice Saturday morning sentimental/"insider" treat. On screen, it's just the words "Remember this?" in white type on black, and the mellow tune that leads into the raucous Playhouse theme song plays behind it... Check out this video clip for a refresher. The CN cool kids have the ad and the audio cut out before the wild bits start up, just to be sly like that. Heh.
Hrmm... I think it was "Remember this?" Maybe it was "Do you remember this?" Frack. It was late, y'know...
Anyhow...
Mecka-lecka-hi! Mecka-heiny-ho!~
Keep on keepin on~
* Also, check out KORGOTH OF BARBARIA! That is some mighty rock-n-roll dismembering barbarian action =)
The button-pushing ad was a nice Saturday morning sentimental/"insider" treat. On screen, it's just the words "Remember this?" in white type on black, and the mellow tune that leads into the raucous Playhouse theme song plays behind it... Check out this video clip for a refresher. The CN cool kids have the ad and the audio cut out before the wild bits start up, just to be sly like that. Heh.
Hrmm... I think it was "Remember this?" Maybe it was "Do you remember this?" Frack. It was late, y'know...
Anyhow...
Mecka-lecka-hi! Mecka-heiny-ho!~
Keep on keepin on~
* Also, check out KORGOTH OF BARBARIA! That is some mighty rock-n-roll dismembering barbarian action =)
Sunday, June 04, 2006
BTIES: "...and then just web the bejeezus out of him!"
Relive the prologue to the Marvel Masterpiece known as "Rocky Grimm: Space Ranger" in the geek-week re-enactment of the Jim Shooter-Mike Zeck tour-de-force, Marvel Superheroes' SECRET WARS!
I really hope the Beyonder doesn't rise again, again... bleah.
I say that now, but I think I've got doubles of every issue except the first. And really, the "bleah" is for SECRET WARS II...
Now that I've written that out, I feel it actually deserves a doubleah.
12-issue limited series thanks to my sister for pointing me to geek-week's report on this! (Better quality than the youtube link, but you'll want to jump ahead about one-third of the entire video get to the good stuff.)
Keep on keepin on~
I really hope the Beyonder doesn't rise again, again... bleah.
I say that now, but I think I've got doubles of every issue except the first. And really, the "bleah" is for SECRET WARS II...
Now that I've written that out, I feel it actually deserves a doubleah.
12-issue limited series thanks to my sister for pointing me to geek-week's report on this! (Better quality than the youtube link, but you'll want to jump ahead about one-third of the entire video get to the good stuff.)
Keep on keepin on~
Saturday, June 03, 2006
convenient truthiness...
I saw INCONVENIENT TRUTH last night, the documentary that follows Al Gore on the latest leg of his decades-long journey to educate the world about the threat of global warming to humanity and its home.
(You can click the pic, here, or here for better written blurbs on the film. =)
I pushed the movie in an earlier blog . Please have a look at it if you haven't already. In that post I also pointed to some ads that aired as part of a pro-CO2(!?) campaign put together by the ummm... interestingly named... Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Did anyone actually catch one of these re-educational minutes on the telly? I am so frickin annoyed with the spin these "competitive enterprisers" (aka ExxonMobil and friends) are attempting to put on melting glaciers and increasing CO2 levels, citing very particular scientific research in an attempt to discount the observed changes in weather and climate caused by global warming.
On the other hand, it IS kind of backhandedly heartening that they feel they need to embark on this "CO2! U! S! A!" program.
After seeing the movie, I took another look at those CEI propaganda droppings, did a bit of googling, and learned that one of the cited researchers objects to the use and implication of his study as proof against climate change.
Please go see AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. If you're looking for someone to go see it with, well, check in with me and I'll definitely try and work it in again. =)
I was hoping for some more ((science + nature) x economics) in the documentary, but I think now that by going light on that, the movie keeps the education on the phenomenon in focus, and very approachable and accessible. Pay attention and you'll learn some pretty remarkable things...
Do you know that we've actually succeeded in slowing down the rate of ozone depletion and shrinking the Antarctic ozone hole? This thru international cooperation and regulation of the creation and use of products that release CFCs into the atmosphere.
This success was news to me. WTF? Why was that? Good news doesn't make the news, does it?
It once was true that we, humanity -the ants that scurry across the hide of this massive elephant of a planet Earth- couldn't do a thing to be noticed by or disturb the life of our home. We simply didn't have the power to affect the course of nature and the behavior of the world's climate. However, with the technologies at our fingertips today, in use every day by the largest and most rapidly increasing human population ever, that is no longer the case. We can impact the planet, and its most vulnerable and sensitive component, the atmosphere, in ways that were never before possible.
The scientific community acknowledges that science, data, and research all support this. However, an ad/disinformation campaign as sinister and calculated as that employed by the tobacco industry has the general public doubting. It's the skeptics' goal to get the public to attach the word "theory" to the words "global warming," even though the phenomenon is real, manifest now, and can be measured against data observed over millenia.
How is it that we are so easily manipulated?
You'll recognize how that question pertains to many different sectors of life and knowledge and belief in today's world, eh?
*sigh*
I'm rambling.
Grab some friends and GO SEE THE MOVIE!
Keep on keepin on~
June 14. Check out some observations on polar bears demonstrating a "brutal downside of global warming." I'm still waiting for a festive upside that doesn't resemble Lex Luthor's play for new beachfront property in the first SUPERMAN movie. Random synapse trigger - I seem to recall someone -maybe Kevin Smith?- talking about a SUPERMAN script bouncing around Hollywood for years, and some producer's input being to have Supes go up against killer polar bears... Wack.
(You can click the pic, here, or here for better written blurbs on the film. =)
I pushed the movie in an earlier blog . Please have a look at it if you haven't already. In that post I also pointed to some ads that aired as part of a pro-CO2(!?) campaign put together by the ummm... interestingly named... Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Did anyone actually catch one of these re-educational minutes on the telly? I am so frickin annoyed with the spin these "competitive enterprisers" (aka ExxonMobil and friends) are attempting to put on melting glaciers and increasing CO2 levels, citing very particular scientific research in an attempt to discount the observed changes in weather and climate caused by global warming.
On the other hand, it IS kind of backhandedly heartening that they feel they need to embark on this "CO2! U! S! A!" program.
After seeing the movie, I took another look at those CEI propaganda droppings, did a bit of googling, and learned that one of the cited researchers objects to the use and implication of his study as proof against climate change.
Please go see AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. If you're looking for someone to go see it with, well, check in with me and I'll definitely try and work it in again. =)
I was hoping for some more ((science + nature) x economics) in the documentary, but I think now that by going light on that, the movie keeps the education on the phenomenon in focus, and very approachable and accessible. Pay attention and you'll learn some pretty remarkable things...
Do you know that we've actually succeeded in slowing down the rate of ozone depletion and shrinking the Antarctic ozone hole? This thru international cooperation and regulation of the creation and use of products that release CFCs into the atmosphere.
This success was news to me. WTF? Why was that? Good news doesn't make the news, does it?
It once was true that we, humanity -the ants that scurry across the hide of this massive elephant of a planet Earth- couldn't do a thing to be noticed by or disturb the life of our home. We simply didn't have the power to affect the course of nature and the behavior of the world's climate. However, with the technologies at our fingertips today, in use every day by the largest and most rapidly increasing human population ever, that is no longer the case. We can impact the planet, and its most vulnerable and sensitive component, the atmosphere, in ways that were never before possible.
The scientific community acknowledges that science, data, and research all support this. However, an ad/disinformation campaign as sinister and calculated as that employed by the tobacco industry has the general public doubting. It's the skeptics' goal to get the public to attach the word "theory" to the words "global warming," even though the phenomenon is real, manifest now, and can be measured against data observed over millenia.
How is it that we are so easily manipulated?
You'll recognize how that question pertains to many different sectors of life and knowledge and belief in today's world, eh?
*sigh*
I'm rambling.
Grab some friends and GO SEE THE MOVIE!
Keep on keepin on~
June 14. Check out some observations on polar bears demonstrating a "brutal downside of global warming." I'm still waiting for a festive upside that doesn't resemble Lex Luthor's play for new beachfront property in the first SUPERMAN movie. Random synapse trigger - I seem to recall someone -maybe Kevin Smith?- talking about a SUPERMAN script bouncing around Hollywood for years, and some producer's input being to have Supes go up against killer polar bears... Wack.
meanwhile...
Some digital photographic highlights (yarr) of my so-called life over the past dozen or so days...
Paris Jen took me to get some dee-licious Lawton's deep fried(!) foot-long hot dogs...
So frickin tasty, w some excellent fries on the side! Go get some - Lawton's Famous Frankfurts in Lawrence, MA...
Followed by a visit to a sad -but not quite KFC-sad- dollar store... Does this "whale boat" look like "wet-n-fun" to you...?
Learn your A-B-Cs magnetically! A... A... A...?
I said sad... Did I mention creepy?
The day I broke down and hauled my A/C unit out of storage and put it in the window...
(Note the Lego shims propping the accordian side-seals =)
A volleyball Memorial day at the beach...
And Closing day...
Mmmmm... liquid sugar... rarrrrrrr...
Keep on keepin on~
Paris Jen took me to get some dee-licious Lawton's deep fried(!) foot-long hot dogs...
So frickin tasty, w some excellent fries on the side! Go get some - Lawton's Famous Frankfurts in Lawrence, MA...
Followed by a visit to a sad -but not quite KFC-sad- dollar store... Does this "whale boat" look like "wet-n-fun" to you...?
Learn your A-B-Cs magnetically! A... A... A...?
I said sad... Did I mention creepy?
The day I broke down and hauled my A/C unit out of storage and put it in the window...
(Note the Lego shims propping the accordian side-seals =)
A volleyball Memorial day at the beach...
And Closing day...
Mmmmm... liquid sugar... rarrrrrrr...
Keep on keepin on~
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