In any event, I give you Spurlock Square:
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Square of Non-Commercial Obedience - Pyongyang, NY
Riffing on a comment by Radley Balko, commenter "Plate-O" had a good idea on the Morgan Spurlock thread - create a Photoshop of a Spurlockian Times Square. Since even Communist countries have plenty of billboards, I figured it had to be those nasty corporationses that Spurlock doesn't like, precious.
In any event, I give you Spurlock Square:
In any event, I give you Spurlock Square:
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
John Coctostan is Offended by This Development
From Deadline New York:
Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the Gregory McDonald novel series that starred Chevy Chase. Anonymous Content's Michael Sugar and Steve Golin will produce, along with David List, who reps the estate. The studio made an aggressive preemptive buy to reboot the series about an investigative reporter who solves mysteries. There are 11 books in the series. The studio is eying a new franchise with the property. Chase starred in the 1985 pic Fletch, followed by the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives.
Fletch, of course, is one of several movies that justifies Chevy Chase's continued existence. For college kids in the mid-to-late 80s, having about the entire movie memorized was a requirement for admission--GPA, SAT/ACT, Fletch Acuity.
I've read several of the McDonald novels and wouldn't necessarily have a problem with Warner Brothers making some of the other books into films, but why mess with a classic?
[Note: For those of you wondering why this post leads with a gorilla suit on a mannequin, well, it just so happens that in the fall semester of my senior year in college, we put my gorilla suit (now in the hands of my oldest son) on a mannequin and sat it in the corner of the bottom floor of our townhouse. His name? John Coctostan. I'm pretty sure that at least one girl at one of our never-ending parties made out with him. People would also regularly put a beer in his hand. Probably my best roommate during my academic years.]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A Promo for the New TLC
Originally The Learning Channel, rebranded as plain TLC for a while, now, finally, after consulting with a certain trollish overlord, re-rebranded as the Trolling Lunacy Channel.
Monkey Tuesday: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Ham's Launch
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Ham's successful test of the Mercury capsule. Ham, the first hominid to go into space (take that Yuri, you old fraud!), took a suborbital ride in the Mercury capsule, launched on a Redstone rocket (just like Alan Shepard).
Ham's performance was excellent, demonstrating that his ability to operate equipment in space was on par with his ability to do so on Earth, and was a bold first step towards manned spaceflight. While he experienced an in-flight emergency (a partial loss of cabin pressure), his spacesuit kept him safe, and the only harm he suffered from the experience was a bruised nose.
And, in case you were wondering, January 31, 1961 was, of course, a Tuesday.
Via BoingBoing. See a Life photo gallery of this most historic of Monkey Tuesdays.
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