Best. Post. Ever.

Many props to Giantmonster for this post. God, I'm dying over here.

Y'know...I DO feel better now!

I've spent tonight catching up on my Google Reader feeds, and the always entertaining GiantMonster has steered me right yet again. Point your browser of choice at The Fail Blog and feel better about your life.

Oh! And on a completely random note, I downloaded the album "The Great Unwanted" by Lucky Soul from eMusic this weekend, and it's my current can't-stop-listening-to-it album of the week! You can listen to the whole album on their website...check it out!

Captain Kirk Goes to Camelot...

I don't think this needs any explanation...

XKCD.com

I've been really enjoying this web comic I found called "XKCD". It's just crudely drawn stick figures with some of the most clever gags I've ever read.

Today's was a great example.

Wikipedian Protester

The strip also does something you don't see a lot of in any form of comics...it gets very romantic. Not necessarily hearts and roses, but romantic in the sense of expressing huge emotions. Take this for example:

It's such a simple, sweet sentiment. Not something I'm used to finding in a web comic (let alone the Internet as a whole!)

Many of the jokes revolve around the web, or science of some kind. I think I would love to sit down and have a beer with the guy that does this site. I just love the way his mind works.

Enjoy!

15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs

I shouldn't be posting. I really shouldn't. It's late, and I've got TONS to do this weekend.

Instead, I made the mistake of checking Drawn!, and found this gem...15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs.

It was obviously created by someone a bit younger than me, who has fond memories of cartoons like "Mighty Max" and "Pro Stars" (what the heck?) But after having listened to every entry on the list, I'm now humming the "Animaniacs" theme to myself, and desperately wanting to watch an episode of "Batman the Animated Series". (And where is my "Pinky and the Brain" entry!?..."They're Pinky and the Brain! Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other insane. They're labrotory mice. Their genes have been spliced! They're Pinky, Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Braaaaaaaaain!" - Pure Genius!)

Animation Mother-Lode!

It seems like more and more great animation is hitting the net. What would these guys have done if the net wasn't here? Has there always been this much great stuff out there, just waiting for some film festival to pick it up!?

Let's Start the Show with Don Hertzfeldt! - Dan Hertzfeldt creates some of the funniest cartoons on the planet.

Off The Wall Episode 1: "Lady Troubles" - Wallby tries to pick up chicks. How creative and fun! I totally want an entire series featuring Wallby!

Christy Karacas - Space War and Bar Fight - Animated surreal violence. Christy Karacas is the MAN!

OS-tan

So, I consider myself quite versed in the culture of the web. I've immersed myself pretty deeply in the web culture, and really enjoy watching the web community figuring out what kind of power they now hold. Every once in a while, though, you stumble onto some little corner of the web that makes you just shake your head and laugh. OS-tan is one of those corners.

OS-Tan are manga personifications of the Windows Operating systems. No, seriously. They apparently got started on a Japanese message board called the Futaba Channel. From what I've seen so far, it started around the time Windows ME came out, which was a disaster. Some users started referring to it as a ditzy girl, and a drawing of a green haired cute girl who was generally unstable and prone to frequent crashes. From there, it was expanded so that each operating system had their own mascot. Almost all are cute anime girls, except, oddly enough, Windows 98, which seem to be paper bags come to life. (Though, cute chicks are often seen to hide in the paper bags with hair clips in the form of "98" or "SE")

I can't thank the Wired Magazine site enough for pointing out this odd, uh, counter culture (?) to me in their article on the 15 lamest Technology Mascots ever. I reminds me that for every brilliant web-app or fantastic business venture to pop up, there is some corner of the web where nerdy guys can get together and discuss breast size in relation to memory usage of an operating system.

God Bless the Internet.

Captain America is Dead...

I was surprised at the amount of attention this kicked up. So what? Cap is dead. He'll be back, people! It's a comic book!?! Does the name Doomsday mean nothing to you!? (er...probably not, I guess.) He killed Superman. Yeah, Superman died. Don't worry. He's back. Which is my point.

Seriously, though, it seems like EVERYONE is talking about this. But leave it to Stephen Colbert to put it all in perspective.

When comics meet politics. That's good stuff, there.

My Dog, the Critic

So, yesterday, I did a picture of the Hulk that turned out to be ok. I liked it. I thought to myself, "Huh. I should try and color that and see how it turns out."

So, this morning, I scanned the pencils into the computer and just was goofing around, trying to decide if I would want some light reflecting off him, or maybe make it a darker peice...just goofing off. My wife calls me from the room to ask me something from the shower, and while we're talking in the bathroom, I hear Ruby, our dog, going crazy in my office. So, when I peek around the corner to see what the hubbub is, I find her staring at my screen, barking at my picture of the Hulk as if it's the most horrible thing she's ever seen!

Everyone's a critic...I don't think the Hulk looks that bad, do you?

As a matter of fact, I plan on inking it and doing the colors right later on! Yeah! That'll show you, Ruby!!!

Troglodyte!

Rock. The fuck. On.



Jimmy Castor rocks the house with Bertha Butt and the Butt Sisters.

"Right on! Hot pants!"

'Zyzzyxx' earns lowest all-time box office

Discovered while I was trolling around on the "Bendis Board"

In Hollywood's rebound year at the Box Office, some films certainly fell a little short. But even the year's biggest bombs surpassed the curiously titled "Zyzzyxx Road," whose domestic cume reached just $30. That's no typo. It's the lowest tally for any pic since modern record-keeping began in the 1980s.
The vigilante thriller starring Tom Sizemore, Katherine Heigl and Leo Grillo bore the ominous tagline "Dead Ahead." Like many on the dishonor roll of 60-plus titles cuming less than $1,000 over the past two decades, its stint in a single theater had more to do with contracts or four-wall rentals than mass audience desertion. Unheralded, it opened to $20 in February in Dallas, tacking on an additional 10-spot (repeat biz?) before slinking off to the video shelf.

Lest anyone assume the B.O. basement is reserved for unrated indie fare bound for pay-per-view, it's worth noting a PG-13 Warner Bros. release ranks as the fifth-lowest grosser. "Trojan War," a teen comedy starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedel (with bonus turns by Lee Majors and Anthony Michael Hall), collected $309 in its entire 1997 run. The director? George Huang, best known for "Swimming With Sharks."

Peanuts Meets Marvel!

Good Grief! I LOVE these!

PEANUTS MEETS MARVEL!

A small sampling of what you will see:







(It's sad that I can tell you where almost all these images come from, isn't it? I mean, not just the characters...the issue numbers. Yeah, I thought it was. *sigh*)

Bart's Famous Quotes...

So, I ran across this list about a week ago as I was clearing out the "spare bedroom". (Also known as the "Junk Room", to give you some idea of what it contains.)

Anyway, this list was compiled by my brother, Ryan, as he attended Ball State University. He had a roommate his freshman year, named Bart, that talked in his sleep. So, being the sensitive and kind-hearted person that Ryan is, he decided to start a list of the sayings so that he could pull it out at parties and laugh at him. Attached are the highlights of that list.

Bart's Famous Quotes:

• The sunflower goes to the left!
• Well I guess, DANG!
• It's fun. I drove a couple of times.
• Man, these guys can run...or this guy.
• I'm legit
• Come on man, I'm trying to hold my knee in as much as possible.
• You could shut the door!
• Why don't we just fucking leave!? It's just us, isn't it?
• Take this. Take this. Mom. Take this, mom. Mom. MOM!
• Oh shoot! I should have filled up these stupid star-jar thingy majigers.
• Whoops!
• What are we supposed to do? What questions are we to ask?
• You scum!
• Yeah, all right...all right...Wow!!! Uh-oh.
• I don't know, the last time I played jazz with Rocky Julioo was when the kid was in the seventh grade.
• It's too serious, too thick, too many.
• Cause, it was open Saturday, ya' fool!
  
• Are you having a hard time breathing?
• Did you catch it, Ryan?
• Easy dude, easy dude, easy dude, easy dude, there's no one coming.
• The essays that we need are two big boards to put each word on.
• Did my things come in dad? They did? Sweet!
• I screwed this one in on the wrong side.
• Wait a minute, wait a minute. We don't want to go this way. Why am I going this way? Ooops!
• Ohh, the Rodney King one. This one.
• Especially Allison.
• This goes inward, that goes outward.
• Knock a hundred dollars off there.
• What time is it? Ya know man? Huh? Brent? Hey, Brent?
• Is there glue that goes all the way around this building?
• Jerry scared us.
• Faith!
• It's longer than shit. It's not for me. It's for Dave, I think.
• Dude, he's got me right now, man. I'm serious.
• Mom, I don't know what the song is called.
• Fiberglass broke. Fiberglass broke...the hull. Weak-ass boat.
• Well, I just want to know what the hell it is.

Ah...memories...

Happy Thanksgiving!

My buddy Adam did a beautiful ode to the Thanksgiving Art Projects we all remember so fondly from our youth over at his site Funky Smell

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!