Last time I was in New York we walked from Seinfeld down through the Jefferson's, Sex In The City, I Love Lucy, Diff'rent Strokes and the Odd Couple, ending up at 30 Rock. We then took the subway to the Cosby Show and walked back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Night Court and Spin City.
From this Dan Meth's sitcom map I'm sure I will not be seeing All In The Family, Dear John or King of Queens, which are three shows that don't grace my TV either. What a coincidence.
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense...
Nite Owl: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?
The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it. Now c'mon... let's really put these jokers through some changes.
Of course I don't think Stewart is as amoral as The Comedian. If he really was a Watchmen, I figure he'd more likely be Ozymandias, willing to do what must be done to save us all.
Way, way back in the 1990s, my friend Dave Craig created a comic that lampooned 80's TV, Star Wars and Star Trek, game shows and the pop culture detritus we all grew up. Ten years later the Geek Prince, Seth Green is making a fortune off the same stuff.
But now Horovitz is back (well, relaunched) and you can relive those glory days, before we knew there was money to be had. Subscribe for a twice-weekly dose of parody.
Good ol' Chris Brown, he just can't help himself, right? Who knew MAD magazine had gotten so edgy? Or that they were online. Well, not really, but I hope to see more of this.
It's funny, Peanuts hasn't had a new strip in nine years, but its cultural cache is as current as ever. Witness Charlie Brown as drawn by Frank Miller, as The Comedian from Watchmen and as Spider-Man.
Have you ever seen Christian Bale and Kermit in the same picture. No. Why? Because they are the same person/puppet! It really is uncanny. Get dozens more at Kermit Bale.
You know times are tough when even supervillains like Lex Luthor need a government handout. Who's next, Wayne Enterprises and Stark Industries? I wonder how Scrooge McDuck, Richie Rich and Mr. Burns are faring?
The interweb is an odd place. Yesterday I posted a video of Miss Piggy singing a very NSFW song. The day before that is was a video of a Beatles song mashed up with LCD Soundsystem's Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.
So what all of a sudden starts showing up on all my favourite sites? A mashup of Snow White singing Harder Better Faster Stronger by none other than Daft Punk. Weird.
I get an illicit thrill anytime I find my childhood touchstones acting in an adult fashion. There's something so wrong yet so right when a Muppet is acting sexually or cursing like Joe Pesci. And this Miss Piggy and Peaches mashup by waambat is so very wonderfully wrong.
Check out a dozen of the Best Kids Show/Rap Mashups over at Unreality, where I found the above atrocity.
On an sort of related note, my 2 1/2 year old was walking around the house the other day, happily calling something "silly crap," and I'm so pleased he picked up his first swear word from my wife and not me!
If Frank Miller drew Peanuts, happiness would be a cold, lifeless puppy. Some fine Sin City styling by ninjaink — be sure to check out the full two panels.
A mashup by FAROFF featuring The Beatles' Get Back, LCD Soundsystem's Daft Punk Is Playing At My House and The Kinks' You Really Got Me. A fine mix of the songs and the videos.
One of the attendant joys of the release of the Watchemen movie has been all the pop culture parodies that have come with it. I thought I'd seen the best with the Futurama trailer and the Saturday morning cartoon, but I have come across a brilliant reworking of the graphic novel, using newspaper comic characters.
Web comic Player vs. Player has recreated the characters, portraying Popeye as Rorschach, Jon Arbuckle/Garfield as Nite Owl II, Charlie Brown as The Comedian, Dagwood as Dr. Manhattan,Dilbert as Ozymandias and Cathy as Silk Spectre II.
My friends at Dose.ca are giving away 15 free iTunes tracks of new artists to watch. FREE! And by free, I mean legal downloads.
Featuring music by: A.C. Newman Black Kids Deerhoof The Duke Spirit K'naan Late of the Pier Los Campesinos! Passion Pit Plants and Animals Sons and Daughters The Walkmen White Lies Will Currie & the Country French You Say Party! We Say Die! Zaki Ibrahim
In the opening credits of the Watchmen, accompanied by Bob Dylan's song The Times, They Are A 'Changin', the credit sequence shows a brief history of masked heroes.
The scene that stood out for me was the party for Sally Jupiter’s retirement from The Minutemen, which is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. I love that this homage/parody has once again risen in current pop culture.
Seated left to right: Mothman, Silhouette, nurse, The Comedian (in the seat of Judas), a pregnant Silk Spectre I/Sally Jupiter as the Christ figure, her husband Laurence Schexnader, Nite Owl I, Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice.
From oddee's collection of 20 Awesome 3D Pavement Illusions, where artists draw amazing images using a technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of depth when viewed from the correct angle.
I'd love one of these illusions on my front sidewalk to stop people trying to sell me 500 feet of plastic wrap or students asking if they can paint my house.
Some people have been waiting to see the Watchmen on film for more than 20 years, me, I've been waiting to see it for about two months. I think I have the better end of the deal.
I watched the Watchmen yesterday and saw a brilliantly faithful adaption of the graphic novel, with some scenes matching panels down to the smallest detail. Sure, some things were left on the cutting room floor, as would happen in any adaptation of dense source material. The pirate tale of the Black Freighter is coming out on a separate DVD, which will also include elements of Hollis Mason's tell-all book Under the Hood. The non-heros have also been excised, but at little loss.
So was it unfilmable? Hardly. Sure, back in 1987 there is no way they could have made this film, neither technically nor stylistically. It would have been like Tim Burton's Batman is to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight. Sure, it's violent, but nothing you haven't seen in Kill Bill, Sin City or Oz for that matter. And, as to the rumours that you don't see Dr. Manhattan's lower Manhattan, it's there and you can understand why he's a superhero. Oh yes, the ending also makes a hell of a lot more sense.
But hey, I'm no film cricket, so I'll the summation to my friend James Rocchi. I'll just leave you with this Saturday morning cartoon adaptation that Alan Moore should be thankful has never come to fruition.
Zombie Paris Hilton I love that Tinkerbell is having a good chew. She's probably waited years for that.
Zombie Britney Spears Looks like the zombie Spears really likes the brains. Lots and lots of brains.
Zombie Angelina Jolie Actually, zombie Jolie doesn't look that much different than her magazine covers a couple of years ago.
Zombie Michael Jackson Jacko looked much better as a zombie in the Thriller video. This just looks like a typical day in court.
Zombie Tom Cruise Some would speculate that the Cruise has been a zombie for years.
Zombie Chris Brown Is this a zombie version of Chris Brown, or just what he looks like after a night out with Rihanna? What, too soon?
Zombie Aaliyah Nothing snarky here, just a creepy, creepy drawing.
Zombie Roger Moore Having seen some recent photos of the former James Bond, he's got about .007 seconds left in the sun before he actually looks like this.
Zombie Jayne Mansfield "I feel like Miss Jayne Mansfield in this car!"
Zombie Buddy Holly The day the music crawled out of the grave looking for you.
Or failure. It also smells like failure. That would be "Red Shirt," the new Star Trek cologne from Genki. Yup, a scent based on the low-level ensigns that invariably died every time the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise beamed down to a planet.
The tagline, reports Trek Movie, is "Because Tomorrow May Never Come," which leads me to think this might be a joke. It is described as a cologne for those with a "devotion to living each day as it could be your last" and smells like green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with notes of leather and grey musk. Of course the kind of person who would have no such devotion, nor would they be likely actually wear cologne. I know, I've been to a to a Star Trek convention. (It was for work, honest.)
You can also boldly go with "Tiberius" or replicate a Vulcan mating ritual with "Ponn Farr." Like anyone wearing this stuff is going to be having sex.
Last time I was in New York we walked from Seinfeld down through the Jefferson's, Sex In The City, I Love Lucy, Diff'rent Strokes and the Odd Couple, ending up at 30 Rock. We then took the subway to the Cosby Show and walked back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Night Court and Spin City.
