I used to live on this stuff.....

Sincerest Form of Parody: the lost ecosystem of MAD-inspired gross-out comics

By Cory Doctorow at 6:00 am Monday, Apr 2

Today marks the publication of Fantagraphics' magnificent archaeological comicsology, The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics. This volume collects the rare, nearly unheard-of parody comics that sprang up in the early 1950s to jump on the bandwagon that MAD magazine set in motion. Many of the same artists who made MAD such a success (Jack Davis, Will Elder, Norman Maurer, Carl Hubbell, William Overgard, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Al Hartley, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, Hy Fleischman, Jay Disbrow, Howard Nostrand, and Bob Powell) were represented in long-lost tiles like FLIP, WHACK, NUTS, CRAZY, WILD, RIOT, EH, UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST. Many of these are racier, grosser, and meaner than even MAD dared. There's also an engrossing appendix of annotations from editor John Benson, a MAD expert who wrote the additional text for the first run of MAD reprints.
I grew up on Cracked and Crazy, but these were late, late, latecomers to the MAD knockoff party, and never went as far as these lost titles.
The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics

oooow.....

The Knife, A Giant Bloody Cardboard Knife Art Project by Maria Luján

German-based artist Maria Luján created The Knife, a street art project that creates the illusion of being stabbed with a giant bloody cardboard knife.

Animating funny/scary effects into historic black-and-white photos

Kevin Weir's Flux Machine project creates surprising, Python-esque animations out of public domain photos of the olde worlde. The effects are horror-comedy at its finest

The Whole Universe In One Photo

The Whole Universe In One Photo

why so cereal?

Joker cereal

Sean Hartter has designed this notional Joker-brand cereal box. He notes that his FB friends quipped, "Why So Cereal", "You wanna see a Trix?" and "Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you eat more delicious cereal"! Spend some times poking around on Hartter's site. He's very good at this sort of thing.

hahahahahaha....

@mileskahn

mileskahn

Sitcom idea: Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck share an apartment in NY getting fired from everything.

snarky...

Take The Stairs

wtf is up w/t arizona?

The Daily Show Mocks Tucson Mexican-American Studies Ban (VIDEO)

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The Daily Show's Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal (also known as their Señor Latino Correspondent) went down to Tucson on Monday to investigate the city's recently instated Mexican-American studies ban.
Madrigal spoke with local proponents of the law which has outlawed the Mexican-American study program in K-12 public schools. School board member Michael Hicks gave justifications for the ban which were... err, underwhelming.
School board member Michael Hicks says he's never sat in on a Mexican-American studies class, but based on "hearsay" he presumes that they teach a violent anti-"gringo" message.
"I chose not to go to any of their classes. Why even go? Why even go? I base my thoughts off of hearsay of others," Hicks said to Madrigal.

live long and prosper...

President Obama & Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura Pose Together Giving the Vulcan Salute

Documentary about 1970s northern California Star Trek conventions

Apropos yesterday's post about 1970s science fiction convention costumes, Strephon Taylor sez, "I just saw your post on the 1970's science fiction costumes. I made a documentary on the early northern California Star Trek conventions called "Back to Space-Con", it has a ton of costume footage, I think you will dig it. We have some of the earliest full sound film on the subject. We got contacted by the producers of Trek Nation for our convention footage! "

WTF???? But I dig it....

Video: David Lynch’s ‘Crazy Clown Time’ Is 7 Minutes of NSFW Insanity

David Lynch’s new video for his song “Crazy Clown Time” hits you squarely between the eyes with seven minutes of madness. It’s like the director set out to create a perfect visual representation of “WTF” and actually succeeded.

Finally....

Dutch flying car revealed.....

miss old nippon.....

100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience

tasty,,,

Dinner Etiquette, Photos of Tableware as People in Formal Attire

Spiders made from TSA-confiscated scissors

Sculptor Christopher Locke makes the most amazing spiders out of scissors -- but not just any scissors. Scissors that the TSA confiscated and auctioned off

rock on brother

Drunkard's serenade: "Bohemian Rhapsody" from the back of a police car

Here is a man who has apparently been arrested for intoxication in an unknown jurisdiction, disputing the charge from the back of a police cruiser by belting out a genuinely soulful rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." Skip to 3:40 for "Scaramouche! Scaramouche

need this too.....

Sentry gun controller

Thanks to Bob's open-source Sentry Gun controller, now anyong can build a gun that "autonomously tracks, aims, and shoots at targets using a webcam."

need it.....

Open source "tricorders": handheld sensor packages for everyone

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For the past five years, Peter Jansen, a Canadian scientist whose PhD is in neural computation and cognitive modelling, has been developing a series of open source hardware "tricorders" -- handheld sensor packages running GNU/Linux that can be used by everyday people to make and record observations about the world around them. There are several versions of the tricorder, some with sensors attached (atmospheric, electromagnetic, spatial), others that are "blank," with places to mount your own sensors. The latest version, the Mark IV, is still in development, and is intended to be mass-produced at low cost.

The Tricorder project emphasizes accessibility. The devices we build are meant to be as inexpensive as possible, so folks might have access to them without having to worry about the cost, or their difficulty of use. My hope is that someday every household — and every child who wants one — might have access to a small device that can easily be kept close in a pocket or bag, and quickly pulled out when curiosity strikes. By turning a walk home through the park into a nature walk, and Dad's spring time home repairs into a lesson about heat flow, it's my hope that everyday experiences will become opportunities to learn and develop an intuitive understanding and deep fluency with the science of our everyday world.
It is my deep belief that knowledge brings about positive change. It's possible that the same instrument that can show a child how much chlorophyll is in a leaf could also show how them much pollution is in the air around us, or given off by one's car. As an educator and a researcher, I feel that if people could easily discover things about their worlds that were also important social topics, that they would then make positive social choices, like reducing their emissions, or petitioning for cleaner industry in their communities. By having access to general tools, people can learn about leaves, or air, or clouds, or houses — or light, or magnetism, or temperature — or anything the Tricorder can help them see.
Most of all, the Tricorder is designed to discover things that we don't already know. I'm excited about what you can discover with it. And that's what it's about. Little discoveries, everywhere.

got to love the thai.........

Archipelago Cinema, A Floating Auditorium in a Thai Lagoon

The Surreal Gravity-Defying Photographs of Philippe Ramette

Crisis of casualness

Irrational contemplation

Rush Limbaugh’s Fourth Wife Threatens To Walk Away Over “Slut” Controversy

Many women on the left and right have gone on the offensive against ultra-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh over his Sandra Fluke “slut ” comment and one of those women is alleged to be his fourth wife

cool...

Whatever happened to Russia's Moon lander?

The United State won the race to put a man on the Moon. But we weren't the first to land anything on the Moon. That prize went to the Soviet Union, which successfully put Luna 2 on the surface of the Moon in 1959.

I knew it.......

Pure evil causes birth defects

 
Unassailable evidence presented by the Institute for Dangerous Research's Department of Mad Biology

ha ha ha ha......

Draw Bridge

By Scott Beale on March 27, 2012

good gravy.....

The Conservative Teen

Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski selects the 9 best headlines from The Conservative Teen, a magazine for youngsters that will foster conservative values and counter liberal bias.
When I moved to the U.S., one of the first things I ever heard on the radio here was someone talking at length about how he hates bisexual people because they spread disease. He said it over and over again, emphasizing the word "hate" to ensure the listener understood him. Startled by it, I tuned in long enough to find out exactly whose show it was, thinking it must be a monologue or some other fiction. In honor of my introduction to American conservatism, here's the headline from his contribution to The Conservative Teen.

been a awhile.......

"In Heaven" from David Lynch's Eraserhead

Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.

And now, an uplifting message from the Lady In The Radiator

classic......

All the window-cameos from the old Batman TV series

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In this compilation video, Loomyaire compiles all fourteen of the "window cameos" from the Adam West Batman TV series, in which real-life personages and characters from other TV shows popped out of windows while Batman and the Boy Wonder were scaling a building-face and traded Laugh-In style quips with the heroes. Included in the video are appearances by (in order) Jerry Lewis, Dick Clark, Green Hornet (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee), Sammy Davis Jr., Jose Jimenez (Bill Dana), Howard Duff as Detective Sam Stone on "Felony Squad," Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), Lurch (Ted Cassidy), Don Ho, Andy Devine as Santa Claus, Art Linkletter, Edward G. Robinson, Suzy Knickerbocker and Carpet King

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................

Eating The Placenta: January Jones Does It, But Not All Moms On Board

Last week, actress January Jones admitted to People Magazine that she ate her own placenta as part of a healthy post-natal regimen. While she got the requisite amount of slack for this –- ABC's headline reads "Mad Mom?.." -- , author Nancy Redd wrote more seriously for NYTimes.com about about the experience she had ingesting afterbirth -- one that was mostly negative.

the horror.....the horror......

Alicia Silverstone Pre-Chews Food For Her Son, Bear Blu, Spits It In His Mouth

 
Is Alicia Silverstone getting her parenting tips from birds?

The actress' 10-month-old son, Bear Blu, is already eating solids -- as long as they've been pre-chewed. In the latest video posted on Silverstone's website, the 35-year-old feeds her baby by chewing up his food and feeding it to him mouth-to-mouth.

"I just had a delicious breakfast of miso soup, collards and radish steamed and drizzled with flax oil, cast iron mochi with nori wrapped outside, and some grated daikon. Yum!" she wrote on The Kind Life, the website for her vegan cookbook, "The Kind Diet."

The "Clueless" star explained, "I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup ... from my mouth to his. It's his favorite ... and mine. He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I'm eating. This video was taken about a month or 2 ago when he was a bit wobbly. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food!"

"Pre-chewing" is actually a thing, but it's very uncommon in the US and other Western nations and not recommended by health care professionals, as it can pass infection and disease from parent to child.

new robocop[

150 million opening weekend.....

oooh boy.......

brings back alot of memories (that I can remember)

brings back alot of memories

The Blaze, Site Founded By Glenn Beck, Insinuates That Slain Teen Trayvon Martin Was Troublemaker

 insinuating that Trayvon Martin may have been a dangerous criminal.

Martin, who was black, was walking back to his father's house after a trip to the convenience store in Sanford, Fla. on February 26. George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch member who was identified by his father as Hispanic, called 911 and told the dispatchers that the teen "looked suspicious."
Despite being told by the dispatchers not to engage the teen, Zimmerman left his car and approached Martin. Neighbors called into 911 to report a scuffle, some cries for help, and gunshots. When police arrived, Zimmerman admitted to shooting Martin, who was unarmed, but claimed that he acted in self-defense. Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged, and the incident has attracted national attention.

“I can’t for the life of me understand how they can justify not making an arrest!” Sharpton said on a recent episode of his MSNBC show, "Politics Nation."

But Mytheos Holt, an associate editor at the Blaze, chided Sharpton "for being too willing to exploit racial controversy" and for dismissing claim of self-defense Zimmerman. Holt went further and criticized Trayvon Martin by insinuating that the slain teen was a troublemaker.

We’re also learning more about Trayvon Martin. According to reporters he had been suspended from school. The International Business Times says Martin’s suspension was due to last for 10 days. But what exactly was he suspended for in the first place? Sources sympathetic to Martin say he was suspended for “excessive tardiness.” However, a quick review of both the local policies for Martin’s school, the Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, and of the Miami-Dade school district’s district-wide policies, raise some doubts

first law of fight club,,,never sell at retail only wholesale

Author Chuck Palahniuk has donated a piece of movie memorabilia to charity, his faux Ikea Yin Yang table. It was custom-made and used in the movie Fight Club and is currently being auctioned off to benefit Pixie Project, a Portland-based animal adoption organization. The table (called “Furni Fruktbar”) was given to him by film’s director David Fincher. If the winning bidder of the table lives in the Portland, Oregon area, Chuck will come and help set it up. Also, be sure to look for the subliminal kittens in the auction’s video.

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go gop.......

[Video Link] MoveOn's new ad spot features women repeating brain-curdlingly misogynistic comments made by prominent members of the Republican party.