I just went through my blogroll and cleaned out a few Celeb blogs I stopped reading (bye, Thomas Dolby) and added a couple more. I blame Twitter for the waning list.
If I’ve removed yours you’ve either haven’t updated in 3 months or I have a shaky hand and deleted it by mistake.
And whoever signed me up for a Topsy feed… Sorry. I’ve classified you as trackback spam. Get a real RSS feed.
Oh and HOLY CRAP! Someone Gmail me now and you’ll be MR/MRS 10,000!
Okay. Whatever.
Cannibal Robot
George Lucas, after seeing the Star Wars horse fall to the ground, takes a fake lightsaber and whacks it repeatedly.
When I read that Seth Green and Matthew Senreich (Robot Chicken) were offering “creative involvement”, I thought for a second: “Oh it might be cool then.”
Then I thought, wait… no… he’s become part of the problem, not the solution. Since his (and Seth McFarlane’s Family Guy spoofs) were done in parody (granted with the blessing of Lucas, but as parodies none the less) his compliance in this franchise corpse fucking is unrepentant.
The CGI series is doing well. Stop trying to make soap out of it!
Fortressofsolitude, SharkBoy (check out the new site!) and I wandered around the stalls at WizardWorld comicon yesterday. Seriously, dudes, change the name. It sounds like a Harry Potter cash in.
Much smaller than the massive FanExpo in Aug, this comicon was more personal and less stressful. Although the stars were definitely Z-list (Numerous female wrestlers who would let you touch their g-strings, the guy who played The Gorn in the original Star Trek, Winston from Ghostbusters, etc.) the booths were well spaced and not so claustrophobic as the big Expo. Prices were through the spectrum ($30 for a toy… er… action figure?).
Still, the day was spent in good company and I did manage to get a Japanese Star Wars remix t-shirt AND meet up with Doug, who I interviewed a while back here.
Here are some pics! Please enjoy responsibly.
[nggallery id=17]Especially love the panties that overtakes the spyplane with a blast from it’s afterburners. Seriously.
I’m not one for Podcasts. They’re quaint, like blogs, and only a certain kind of person can pull them off – usually someone with a good microphone and the ability to edit out people talking over each other.
I tried to get into Hey Ash What You Playin’? showbecause their videos were uber-gamer geek funny but their podcasts were overwrought with analyzing the mechanics of creating comedy video game gags. I swear the two episodes I listened two was like discussing early Woody Allen movies with current day Woody Allen. Yarg. I’ll stick with the videos, thanks.
I have to start listening to WDWRadio.com for reasons I will not offer. Yet. I will say that I am reading “Walt Disney – An American Original” and even though it has more schmaltz than a barber shop quartet singing around a kid’s $0.05 lemonade stand on a hot southern afternoon, it does give a fair account of Uncle Walt. It just makes me want to go back to “The World”.
But my current fave is The Nerdist (site link / iTunes link), starring the host of Web Soup, Chris Hardwick. Unlike his show, the podcasts aren’t structured and the conversation flows naturally. Mostly the discussion revolves around stand up comedy industry talk (he managed to weave that in his episode with Mad Men’s John Hamm) but he does bring out the inner nerd in all his guests. I’m going back in the library and just finished the Drew Carrey episode where they shoot off some pretty funny Carson-style jokes. When I heard this next one I was trying not to laugh in the middle of a subway car:
A guy knocks on this door and a 12 year old kid answers. He’s wearing his mother’s panties and bra, has a martini in one hand and is smoking a big cigar in the other.
The man say, “Excuse me little boy, are your parents home?”
The kid says, “What the fuck do you think?”
I’m digging through my box of comics, downsizing, removing the non-valuable ones and I come across this – Issue #1 of Lethargic Lad:
Lethargic Lad Issue #1
It was created by a group of animators and one teacher within my class at Sheridan College. These were the “cool guys” that sat at the back of the studio who were tight and occasionally monopolized the facetime of the Layout teacher, Brian LaMay. Every so often they would produce a original ‘zines that were 5×7 in size and were filled with sight gags and artwork that would make our life drawing teacher faint, but you could tell the stories (sometimes broad, sometimes laser accurate parodies of current comic/movie/TV happenings) that they loved the medium. And that they didn’t have any girlfriends.
The day their full colour (cover) issue in proper comic book format came out, I was sitting at my desk in third year animation class. Greg Hyland entered the lofty classroom and slammed a pile of them down on his desk. Like something out of a Disney movie, the class crowded around and shucked out the $2 for a copy. As I got mine. Greg smiled and said “Check out page 5.”
LLad - Page 5
That’s me, and my roommate at the time, Ray Larabie (who is now in Japan hawking fonts, lucky bastard). We’re being accosted by Greg’s creation: Guy With A Gun, a ripoff parody of The Punisher. I was happy I got two lines over Ray’s one. Suck it!
I see that Greg has kept Lethargic Lad going all these years and is working as a storyboard artist. Good to see!
Incredible transformation!
See it while you can before someone at Universal goes apeshit on the innernet.
UPDATED: Bret Stewart (via Facebook) found a side-by-each video comparison. It’s truly a work of loveart.