Friday Ephemera
“Sport and the territorial anus.” || On making Dr No. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Snacking snails. || Effective but inadvisable. || Young love. || Look at me, I’m fascinating. || Add length to URLs. || Or I guess we could go the long way round. || Tweaked Hitler. || The Wall Street Journal. || When you’ve a hankering for stairs. || The feminist dance. || Tree house. || Karma. || Rymdkapsel is a game. || Population growth, by region, over 12,000 years. || GauGAN is an app that will upgrade your doodles. || The Thompson Twins Adventure, 1984. (h/t, Things) || Saved with a pint of tea and several lemonade enemas. || Meatless Japan. || Paranormal scenes. || And finally, the 10-hour sax solo you’ve always wanted.
Thanks, David, we love you! 😍
Tweaked Hitler
Oh, My . . . never mind the video clip, have a look at the comments . . .
Tree house.
Meh. I think I’d prefer a house with ten thousand orchids.
The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of
Damn those white people and their …
[shuffles cards]
… Earth destroying diets.
Hi Darleen,
They’re lucky we are no longer what they think we are. My ancestors destroyed entire civilizations before breakfast, and had a good time doing it.
It’s not just his voice, but how she looks at her dad.
Hi Pogo,
They’re lucky
yep …
Cool awesome site…
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You know someone had to do it. Taking one for the team, I is.
Does anybody here like “weird [horror] fiction,” e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch?
🦑. Few things are more fun than tentacled horrors.
(The Wokelings hate it, so you know it’s gotta be fun!)
The happy singing family was adorable. May they climb every mountain as they go thru life.
The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of
Hal, that sounds a bit like a Canadian equivalent of the US Howard the Duck, the character invented by Steve Gerber (who also wrote the original ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ comics, I believe). Howard’s a kind of deadbeat duck who mooches around Cleveland, smokes cigarettes, and gets into these comic-fantastical adventures. He has a human girlfriend (sort of – redhead Beverley Switzler). And at some point in the comic series Gerber – whether under pressure to stick to deadline, or due to a nervous breakdown, or whatever drugs he was on at the time – goes weird. Really weird. Instead of delivering a typical comic storyline – Howard confronts discovers funny/weird villain, deals with problem, Cleveland returns to normality – he sends Howard on a road trip and delivers a long, rambling self-referential stream of consciousness about the comic book writing process. Subsequent adventures of Howard often have set ups like ‘Howard fights himself in his own hallucinations’ and are set in locations like dreamscapes or insane asylums. Great series. I’ve got almost all of the original series (though I don’t think Marvel ever published the last ones, maybe their relationship with Gerber broke down at this point, and the series lost narrative impetus?) There was a more recent one released by Gerber around 2000 which reads okay.
(I learned about this comic from a delightfully nerdy bus-driver I sometimes met when catching a bus back from Newcastle to my parents house in Raymond Terrace. “See, every comic has a hero,” he said, “and he’s drawn in a realistic way – but he’s a duck!”)
Few things are more fun than tentacled horrors.
Been commented on occasion, but . . .
And a number of years back a coworker sent off an email.
Coworker to entire company:
Has anyone seen my F. Paul Wilson book? I seem to have misplaced it. If anyone sees it, could you return it to me, or let me know where to find it? Thank you!
Me to Coworker, 2nd Coworker CCed:
Coworker is sitting at her computer. Her head is missing, blood is spattered all about the walls of her cubicle, and dripping _up_ towards the ceiling. 2nd Coworker is pacing back and forth outside the door of the cubicle. He is dressed in the robes of the high priest of a sect that hasn’t been heard of for at least three thousand years, he is chanting scriptures telling of the return of The Ancient Ones, and his eyes have been gouged out.
Coworker to Me, 2nd Coworker CCed:
No, that’s not my book. But you’ve got F. Paul Wilson absolutely spot on.
. . .Howard the Duck, . .
. . . . Howard was in the Guardians movies? Oy.
The Wall Street Journal.
Hard pass.
The feminist dance.
*Someone’s* having a crisis.
Morning, all.
Hard pass.
It’s not for everyone, no.
Speaking of Our Reputable Media, yesterday, The Economist, supposedly a serious and learned publication, labelled Ben Shapiro as “alt-right.” (And more, “a pop idol of the alt-right.”) After an avalanche of correction, largely from people who know better than to read The Economist, the headline has since been changed to “radical conservative.”
Baby steps.
Goth Crocs:
Via Damian.
the territorial anus.
What?….what??
the territorial anus
Growing up in Kimberley, South Africa, we had one of those, known as the Big Hole
The Big Hole
I see that quite a few of you have been testing the URL lengthener with this blog’s address. My incoming stats page now looks like a series of extended screams: “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…”
So that’s nice.
The Big Hole.
And those Yanks think they’re so good with their ‘Grand Canyon’….
A couple of Australian names are like that. Like, in the Northern Territory, the place name ‘Peculiar Knob’. (Imagine saying that at a party. ‘I come from a Peculiar Knob’….) Which once led to the following great conjunction of headlines on the front page of a newspaper:
Peculiar Knob Excites
International Women’s Day Celebrations!
The editor of said newspaper claimed on my blog it was all a big coincidence….
This is a lovely Knob. I enjoy it every weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkeys_Knob,_Queensland
Behave….
Speaking of
graphic novelcomic book heroes, at long last, an “extreme lack of representation” is corrected.@Pogonip
Does anybody here like “weird [horror] fiction,” e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch?
Oh my. Have you heard these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXMtRUSZxXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq_HtZC48lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6FkDC5Qaxg
These started me off about 30 years ago. Fantastic actor, and just the right voice for Lovecraft.
an “extreme lack of representation” is corrected.
We are living in Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”.
@jones:
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at long last, an “extreme lack of representation” is corrected.
“Thank you for being so wonderfully, authentically trans.” Says a bearded young lady named Jack.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
A baby hears a violin for the first time:
https://twitter.com/AudreysMMB/status/1111058253914480642
I can’t wait to get back to Yorkey’s Knob….
What? What?
For your inner child: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/05/swing-house-by-mark-dejong/
I think this may qualify as the sort of artistic nonsense worth comment – “Green Porno” with Isabella Rosselini acting out the mating habits of snails.
https://youtu.be/BckqviVaWl0
From Sundance TV
Does anybody here like “weird [horror] fiction,”
[looks over the edge of his Collected Zothique]
Go on.
For some time now I’ve been asking you heathens how I could describe this place to people who enquire politely but don’t really want to get involved in a long conversation.
It occurs to me that weird horror isn’t too far off the mark.
Go on.
[ Looks up from his hardcover reproduction of the 1903 edition of The King in Yellow ]
Yes, rather.
Well, not to brag, gentlemen, but I am the official dog-walker of the Hounds of Tindalos.😁🐶🐶
David, we’re more like weird humor, since most of our humor is provided by weirdos.
I mean the subjects of your posts, not the esteemed patrons of this classy joint.
How could New Real Peer Review miss the author of the anus article: Brian Pronger.
Sadly, Dr. Pronger passed away last year before his seminal work was rediscovered.
For additional clean fun, I bring you: Hamsters Spinning Out of Control.
Brian Pronger.
Just once, it would be nice to be surprised.
[ Quietly extinguishes raging dumpster fire of HTML. ]
“Add length to URLs”
Hey, that might actually turn out to be useful in the EU’s new dystopian intranet future.
“Tweaked Hitler.“
Or “Führer forgot to go before he left the Chancelry”.
“GauGAN is an app that will upgrade your doodles.”
(Okay, I’m a geek.) Ooh! Ooh! They’re using Linux!
And yeah, the AI thing’s cool too. But Ubuntu!
“A baby hears a violin for the first time”
Now do bagpipes.
lemonade enemas.
Band name.
[ Quietly extinguishes raging dumpster fire of HTML. ]
Sorry about that. I’m not sure why something I’ve been used to doing without thinking suddenly failed repeatedly.
Yes. Yes, it did. 🙂
“Now do bagpipes.”
Close-up of screaming, red-faced baby.
The very wonderful 수리노을 (Suri-Noel) channel presents
“Attaching a Balloon to Cats”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur3vPwELd_c
Attaching a Balloon to Cats
This blog is not responsible for any injuries sustained while attempting to attach balloons to cats.
Tweaked Hitler
Typical vegetarian behavior.