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• Commented on Life: Detroit and WWII image gallery
  Perhaps now the country will stop thinking about Detroit as something it's OK to hate, and start thinking of it like New Orleans after Katrina; a town that has given much and has needs help. Except in Detroit's case the...
• Commented on Sparky the Robot visits a museum, on PRI's Studio360
  I'm so smart for mentioning the Uncanny Valley before any one else....
• Commented on Children's book-inspired paintings by Martin Harris
  Wonderful stuff!...
• Commented on Exclusive sneak peek at Ch. 19 from The Book of Genesis Illustrated, by R. Crumb
  #7 XOPHER, "actual artist?" That's elitist B.S.!...
• Commented on Video of paging through R. Crumb's illustrated Book of Genesis
  BORING! If this was done by anyone else it would be laughed off as yet another piece of crap comic book bible....
• Commented on Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor.
  She's getting way too much credit for this relative to Antheil's contributions....
• Commented on How to speed read
  1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4....
• Commented on R. Crumb's Short History (and future) of America
  @#3, no, the disaster New Orleans. How mean of you! But if it was Detroit, we should want to help out Detroit, being the nations only major industrial city and all. Or would we rather let the US economy, collapse...
• Commented on Jon Sarriugarte's fire pit kits
  Gas fire, wood fire; BAD, BAD!...
• Commented on Michelangelo's The Torment of St. Anthony
  I wish I had seen this when I was 11. I would have tried harder....
• Commented on Creepy Russian high-voltage towers
  Creepy? What are these located in Russia's Uncanny Valley?...
• Commented on America makes nothing except weapons -- UPDATED
  Wasn't Obama supposed to take our guns away by now?...
• Commented on NASA's new restored footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing
  Anyone made the joke yet that this happened on the 20th of "Jew lie"? No? OK. Never mind....
• Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
  I walk to work and have to worry about cyclists hitting me on the sidewalk. They come up from behind and whiz by, inches from me. One day I might decide to turn in my path just as one is...
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  This is why they lost the election....
• Commented on Video: Tron, Astro Boy & Cloudy w/Chance of Meatballs
  He looks basically the same as before to me....
• Commented on BB Video: The 1944 "soundie" that inspired Devo's "Whip It" (Oddball Film + Video)
  #21 anonymous FTW!...
• Commented on Creepy vintage print ads
  What? The word "creep" is mentioned on BB and nobody brings up the Uncanny Valley? You're slipping, BB!...
• Commented on Errol Morris on frauds and fakes
  http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/fool-all-of-the-peop.html And dear Jesus God! It's bad enough that in every BB story about robots someone thinks it's clever to mention the uncanny valley, now we have to read about it in art stories too?...
• Commented on Basil Wolverton's Bible: the putting the grotesque into the Old Testament
  I hear Boody Roger's bible was far weirder and had to be destroyed lest total anarchy result. ;)...
• Commented on Boody Rogers: vintage comic is first-brewed weirdtea, Mark was right!
  "out-weirded any cartoonist, living or dead" umm...not really. One could easily compare him to Fletcher Hanks, Basil Wolverton, Wil Elder, just to name a few of his contemporaries....
• Commented on BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film)
  Video says early '80s. Description says '70s. Which is it, people?...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Someone PLEASE think of the cartoon children that were abused in the making of this smut....
• Commented on Artists sell paintings of items to buy items the paintings depict
  That's not a Nixon watch! THIS is a Nixon watch! http://tinyurl.com/pgwmdc...
• Commented on Damien Hirst's giant replica of a kid's anatomy model
  A pleasant but not earth shattering piece of art. If someone wants to pay millions for it, that's their business, not mine. More power to them both....
• Commented on Sculpted caricatures of three of the Beatles by David O’Keefe
  That's mean! In reality Ringo looks the youngest even though he's the eldest....
• Commented on Art Made From Guitar Effects Pedals: "Cypher"
  It wouldn't sound like anything because it's a closed loop. You have to pick a spot in the loop to branch off, and that would sound different depending on which pedal you pick. This reminds me of the tree falling...
• Commented on Sketch a futuristic LG phone design, win money
  I designed a phone that you shove up your ass to use. I think I'll send a pic to them so they know what I'm really thinking....
• Commented on Panoramic photo of a ghosts street in Detroit
  Waiting for the folks to who lamented the inevitable gentrification of Detroit thanks to all those $100 homes to chime in....
• Commented on Fool All of the People, All of the Time
  anonymous @ #6, I just watched most of Incognito on youtube. A couple major plot points are taken from the van Meegeren's story, and they even refer to him in the trial scene. Apart from that, the van Meegeren story...