Damn, I was hoping there’d be another episode of Switcher.  I thought the second episode had such a cool cliffhanger.  Also: JD Ryznar describing when he first realized he wanted a bulletin board has been making me giggle all morning.  That’s what’s stuck in my head most from last night.  

(Source: davidseger, via channel101tumblr)

Twitter reactions to a 16 year old atheist girl who was the named plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit to have a prayer removed from the walls of her school, based upon the legal principal of DUHHHHH, for which she’s had the name and address of her family circulated online, received death threats, had a Democrat state representative call her an “evil little thing,” and had 3 florists refuse to deliver her flowers(!). 

Emperor of the North (1973):  This got recommended to me a couple years back, something like that, but it had just sat in my instant queue— I don’t know how long it’s been there but I finally noticed it; couldn’t sleep, so.  6 years after the Dirty Dozen, and a year before the Longest Yard, Robert Aldrich and Lee Marvin teamed up for a hobo epic.  Lee Marvin plays A No. 1 (I guess John Carpenter was  a fan), basically the best of the Great Depression hobos (the Great Depression, when “hobos ruled the land”), facing off against a crazy-eyed Ernest Borgnine, playing a sadistic railroad man who takes deranged pleasure in brutally murdering the hobos who dare to ride his train.  Keith Carradine plays a younger, new jack hobo.

It’s an old hobo fighting an old corporate-sponsored murderer, both trying to stave off feeling threatened by the next generation through the magic of railroad violence. 

Lee Marvin’s first scene in the movie might be pretty much the best character introduction you could want out of a Lee Marvin movie— Lee Marvin has a really swell first scene. That scene’s not on youtube though, somehow, but the weirdly jaunty theme song is. I like that in the 70’s, there weren’t just movies about hobo violence, but they also had happy, toe-tapping soundtracks.  Trailer.

jakefogelnest:

howwasyourweek:

GREAT NEWS!

By popular demand (from Steve Agee & Jake Fogelnest), David Cross found some old issues of The Daily Chop’t on his computer. Here’s a screenshot of Issue 7.

HOORAY! Back when Julie was David’s assistant, he and Jon Benjamin would type up their salad orders into an elaborate newsletter! Hear about it on this week’s hilarious episode of Julie’s podcast!

(via julieklausner)

“In issue 141 of the Fantastic Four, published in November, 1973, Reed Richards had to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Annihilus has turn into the Human Atom Bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren’t like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even knowing it. That was the meaning of the Fantastic Four: that a family is like your own personal anti-matter. Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that’s the paradox - the closer you’re drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go.”

— From The Ice Storm.

mutantmagic:

Required Reading

Wally Wood, 1979.

Page by Paul Kirchner from his surreal Western comic Dope Rider, which previously ran in High Times magazine apparently (I only read High Times for the articles), now all online at a blog set up by Mr. Kirchner back in June. (Got by me, when it went around back when).  Many more pages at that blog— I particularly liked a stretch of Lee Van Cleef having a showdown with the Dope Rider for selling him some bad cocaine. I would guess that Kirchner is known to comic people more for Murder by Remote Control (1986).  French people are publishing a new collection of his bus comics from Heavy Metal, apparently. Fun-fact: according to the Dope Rider blog, Neal Adams used Kirchner as the model for the mass murderer in Thrill Kill (which I remember liking).