One odd artifact of that time was Dell Comics' attempt at cashing in on both the 60s superhero craze and the 60's monster craze, by releasing ultimately very short-lived comic series about superhero versions of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman. Of course, they didn't really get to the "cashing in" part.
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It's a shame there isn't much in general original local TV programming anymore - local TV stations, UHF stations, public access could all be sources of ultra-low budget and interesting and quirky shows, and sometimes just crazy stuff - though it does warm the heart a bit knowing there's still a few people overseeing…
Senor Cardgage does remind me of this one person I encountered a while back - he was a thirty-something fellow who lived and hung out in the same places in the neighborhood that I did, a regular of sorts at a local coffee-shop/bookstore, and so on. He gave people the creeps, acted in a fashion similar to an alien who…
A song that was already in my seasonal rotation seems appropriate to link here: from a 1998 compilation album "Halloween Hootennany", a cover of CCR's Sinister Purpose instrumentals by Southern Culture on the Skids, vocals by Zacherle (who had also spoken on the album's opening track)
His most noted novel that I've actually read was "Galaxy 666" which some consider one of the worst sci-fi novels ever written, by the Seven Green Moons.
Without Vine, teenagers will have to scream into their pillows again instead of screeching into a camera and uploading it.
He's truly at Ed Wood-sian levels of writing, though the true Ed Wood of literature would be Lionel Fanthorpe, aka Pel Torro and other pen names, who gained a reputation in certain circles, based on his output cranking out books for a cheap-o UK publisher in the 1960s, at one point he wrote 89 books in a three year…
The twist is that it turns out he only thinks he has 23 personalities, when it's everybody else who suffers from it.
Then at the last moment, Jack Bauer shows up to threaten a 1-year old with waterboarding unless he gets the information he needs - note he isn't trying to get the information from someone else but the actual child.
I appreciate that the helicopter just sort of burst into flames for a bit instead of going up in an enormous fireball,
I actually saw it in the theater, the moment in the opening scenes in Paris where the policeman shouts "VANNNNNNN HELLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSING, YOU MURRRRRRDERERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" drew derisive laughter and noises of disbelief from the audience I saw it with.
I like Miranda's songs, especially with Hamilton, which gives me that feeling of being stuck in a high school auditorium while some motivational speakers break into a "rap" to let the student body know that smoking is totally not cool and if you decide to light up then you're a fool.
"What the cat-fucking shit is fucking going on here?"
"Oh fucking son of whore-bitch-fuck! Those motherfucking bitch-ass clown assholes are going to motherfucking kill us all!"
"Oh shit, fuck, no!"
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Volk also wrote a sequel story to Ghostwatch, from his POV as co-creator, where the BBC attempts a followup to Ghostwatch ten years after.
The surprise in John Wick 3: the villains are almost all played by Muppets.
Blade Runner 2049 synopsis, an exclusive leak here at the AV Club
The short chapter where he deals with his time on Weekend Update and his OJ jokes and Don Ohlmeyer is a great example that gives people a flavor of how great it is but doesn't hint at how deep at goes or how tangled it gets
I call mine the "life draining consumer of bon-bons who sits on the couch all day living off of my slave wages". It's less punchy but gets the point across, i think.
One of these bits he did about Star Search, he made fun of the "juinor dance troupe" competitions, like really at the time wasn't Star Search the only place you saw these?