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• Commented on A girl at the 1978 comic-con
  I started going in '80, and it's been a regular thing since then. I don't have a lot of dough to spend, so I choose carefully, but you could spend some obscene amounts of money nowadays, or even back then....
• Commented on Weta's new cheaper, delightful, detailed plastic rayguns
  Are there autographed Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers versions available? Commando Cody borrowed mine, and then lost it on the Moon while hunting Radar Men, or in the stratosphere while fighting Zombies, or so he says....
• Commented on Raymond Loewy, a Life slideshow
  The old Car-Toons magazine had a great comic once that had a car company bring in a brilliant industrial aerodynamicist designer, a Loewy-type genius, to design their next product, the World's Fastest, Most Beautiful car ever. It turned out to...
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  Grosse Point Blank....
• Commented on Pigeons From Hell: Robert E Howard's classic horror story adapted for comics by Joe R Lansdale
  Anyone interested in this story should see the 1961 "Thriller" TV adaptation, with a Boris Karloff introduction, and Brandon De Wilde as the survivor - it's a great adaptation, and some of the best horror ever on broadcast TV....
• Commented on Most potential recruits for US military too fat, dumb, or drugged out
  "Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?" Somebody always had to go over the top....
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  Hammer's creepy film "The Damned", filmed in 1961 and directed by Joseph Losey, a Red Scare victim, has an interesting, if flawed, take on irradiated children....
• Commented on Guy in Egypt orders "artificial hymen kit" over the internet, blogs about it
  Hmmm. "Then the wedding night sheets were hung over the balconies in the morning, to let the rest of the world know how virginal the bride was, altho rumours of sheep's blood and substitutions have been heard." A visitor to...
• Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
  Some of these are some of the best paintings about war there are - the style isn't always photo-realistic, or designed for magazines, but it's powerful and haunting all the same. If you'll notice, the love of birch trees and...
• Commented on Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past
  I read all the Howard paperbacks and hardbacks I could find from the sixties on, and dug up a lot of obscure stuff, too. Now it's all over the place. I liked a Turlogh O'Brien story, "The Dark Man", a...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  "Secret of the Incas" used to be on TV all the time in the late 60's and early 70's, and I watched it many times as a kid. I was amazed when I saw the Indiana Jones character on screen,...
• Commented on Trailer for Scott Westerfeld's YA steampunk novel LEVIATHAN
  Reminds me of Czech director Karel Zeman's "The Fabulous World of Jules Verne" and "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen", both stop motion animation masterpieces from the late 1950's-early-1960's, and very steampunkish....
• Commented on Rice Krispies classic operatic commercial
  Madame Butterfly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVM567BTXw&feature=related I forgot to mention the Rolling Stones rice Krispies commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBmhEMFdl0&feature=related...
• Commented on Rice Krispies classic operatic commercial
  They also did versions of Madame Butterfly and Carmen - the Toreador Song. Wonderful stuff!...
• Commented on A bunch of old school strip cartoonists draw on the bathing suits of comely young models
  Shriiimp?...
• Commented on Architects Journal on "comic book cities"
  This list owes a lot to Winsor McCay's Slumberland - the best of all the architectural spaces in comics - especially Befuddle Hall....
• Commented on Incredible Thai Etan Trucks
  I remember seeing something on TV about similar "blacksmithing" shops in Africa. They start with a DB truck motor and chassis, and make the rest of the truck from scratch, including forging their own nuts and bolts, with hex heads...
• Commented on People Like Angry Car Faces. I Don't.
  Mazda used to have special design study seminars for their stylists, I heard, concentrating on making balanced and appealing rear ends on all their vehicles. I think they're an afterthought for most car manufacturers. A freaky thing about car styling:...
• Commented on People Like Angry Car Faces. I Don't.
  I've owned a lot cars, and many of them were classic Minis, and now the new MINI - they are the terriers of the car world, and even tho they have a a fierce face, the have a bit of...
• Commented on Old Ad for Fake Guns
  These were for collectors who wanted the look, not the real thing, for a variety of reasons, cost being one of them, laws another. You could buy a replica German MP40 submachine gun from them, and not have to worry...
• Commented on Video: Michael Jackson's moonwalking inspirations
  Larry Collins of the rockabilly Collins Kids had some nice footwork that was similar to moonwalking - wonder if that was any influence....
• Commented on Photos of fireworks stand
  I was in a fireworks store in Nevada once, at a gas station (!!!) - one third of the store sold fireworks, one third of the store sold cigarettes and matches by the case, and one third of the store...
• Commented on So Long, Farewell, Adieu
  Usually, fish and visitors stink after three days, but you were an excellent guest - no stanklies at all! As Bob & Ray sez, "Write when you find work!"...
• Commented on World War I re-enacted by dogs
  "Come on, you mutts! Ya wanna live forever, in dog years?"...
• Favorited BBtv: Clara Belle performs "Summer Face" on Ukulele on Boing Boing
• Commented on 15 Vintage Household ads in which women are not entirely condescended to
  I love those photo-realist adds from the Cooper Studios style - it defined an era in magazines....
• Commented on Janet Klein plays "Tonight You Belong To Me" on ukulele
  This song ain't the same unless Patience and Prudence are singin' it....
• Commented on HULC Exoskeleton
  Regardless of what it does now and in the future, and I expect armored suits sure enough, gotta love how LM now has coined the perfect acronym, harking back to the comic book character in an obvious fashion to appeal...
• Commented on Leaked transcript of Raiders of the Lost Ark story-meeting
  I find it interesting that they came up with a cartoony version of Charlton Heston's Harry Steele, from "Secret of the Incas", for Indy. The look especially, but the professional tomb-raider lifestyle, and even the light trick inside the tomb,...
• Commented on Mark Ryden in Tokyo
  I like Ryden's work, and after seeing "The Creatrix" at the recent Juxtapoz retrospective, I was even more impressed. I'd seen some of his smaller works over the years, but that was impressive and grand. I wonder how this change...