I was going to suggest Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971) where the monster is mainly just a brute, but even there he winds up saving the main woman who is about to be turned into a vampire. This sets up the big battle between the two title characters
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I was going to suggest Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971) where the monster is mainly just a brute, but even there he winds up saving the main woman who is about to be turned into a vampire. This sets up the big battle between the two title characters
I know Trump says it was mail-in ballots that made him move Space Command, but don't you think Trump is still mad that Colorado tried to take his name off the primary ballot?
Remember: The principal is your pal. (Sorry. It's one of those spelling lessons that I can never escape from.)
Why do I feel a lot of discussion on Admiralty/Maritime courts are headed our way?
They still do Video Music Awards? Do they still do video music?
"Huntsville’s nickname, Rocket City, is thanks largely to Wernher von Braun and his team of fellow German-born rocketeers who settled here in the 1950s" from an AP article by Marcia Dunn in 2018
I'm beginning to think Trump is stuck in an 80s action movie* where he can do anything so long as the target is bad guys. People will occasionally yell at him, but he's the hero so it doesn't matter * He's obviously stuck in the 80s, but it maybe a fictional 80s instead of the real 80s
The term was coined in 1956 when he was about 10…
Atom Ant was really tough and strong.
Make Ekos Great Again - John Gill
Four hours to go?
I suppose the alternative was Derpy
Everyone and everything is annoying me today. So I must go online to announce it!
Who also turns up again in The Man with the Golden Gun. They must have really loved that character
And they insisted on making Thunderball twice
Spock: Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern. Capt. Kirk: Random sentences strung together. McCoy: He looks drugged, Jim. Almost at a cataleptic state.
Do we get a Patterns of Force* scenario where they keep Trump alive with miracle drugs and just have the party faithful out front and an AI posting for him on Truth? * Star Trek episode with Nazis
Yeah, but when the Martians arrive and want to take our oxygen, you'll be happy we have an AI.
Coca-Cola, which is such a pillar in the south that instead of ordering a soda or pop some people order a Coke when they want a soft drink, regularly changes the designs of its cans and packaging and yet no one seems to get upset about our heritage being erased.
Labor Day falling on the 1st of September confuses me. Like I feel Labor Day should be the first Monday in September so long as it’s not the 1st. Let September get going before it takes a break
This seems important:
In-house Ordnance Survey artist Ellis Martin (see a few posts below) often featured his wife Mabel on his map covers, almost always in the pose that can be seen on this map catalogue from 1923 and on the cover of a map of the country round London @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
British Airways are getting very snooty about what we're reading.
New Watchmen series to annoy Alan Moore - Rorschach's Daughter
Not sure I would have believed it, for several reasons, if you had told me that Brighton's first win of the season would come against Manchester City.
Or a partnership of Big Kitty + Big Bacon.
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
The last Sunday without NFL football for five months. Time to do all those chores you won’t get to until 2026
The worst part of the order of succession is it's danger all the way down. Vance, Johnson, Grassley, Rubio, Bessent, Hegseth, Bondi, Burgum, Rollins, Lutnick, Chavez-DeRemer, Kennedy (!), etc. etc. down to Noem at 18th.
Twins games on a small transistor radio that’s always tuned to WCCO. AM, of course
I'm beginning to think Leeds United v. Newcastle United is more interesting than OSU v. Texas
The Scottish Cup has the best team names: Burntisland Shipyard, Tweedmouth Rangers, Wigtown & Bladnoch, and St Cuthbert Wanderers
ICE arrests a WHITE man as an illegal immigrant
Sting as the brave soldier in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, whom the mayor has executed because he demoralizes the other soldiers Or Sting as Ace Face in Quadrophenia - the king of the mods who turns out to be a bellboy
Also if I were an ailing Trump, I'd send JD Vance on an around the world junket. Vance is an angel of death.
I want to see Melania do an Edith Wilson. "Donald is busy, so I'll be running things. No tariffs on Slovenia, OK?"
I mean, I'd buy a flag just so I could refuse to fly it at half-mast
Do The Hong Kong Cavaliers count? If you go way back to the 70s, the monsters were the band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmel...
Rumi will wave her finger if it’s less
I was going to say more like Uzbekistan, but what has Uzbekistan ever done to me?
Not even Raiders?
Now I’m thinking of The Man (1972) where a series of events lead to James Earl Jones becoming the first Black president. (Based on a novel by Irving Wallace.) Not sure why..,
How much time has Vance spent on vacation over the last 200 days?
It’s a shame that VP automatically gets the spot because I’d love to see Death of Stalin redone with the current cabinet and hangers on. (Real life would suck, but a movie or play after the fact…)
Saw one of those articles about an invasive website that has a bunch of your personal data and I went to check it out, but all the data was like twenty years old or just wrong. So should I still ask them to delete it?
Anna May Wong by Man Ray, c1930.
Fun fact: The song originated on the soundtrack for the Italian film Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell)
Do families really travel for vacation on Labor Day? Our school started the day after so we were all depressed the summer was over and tense about what our new classes would be like
The thing about moving is you start wondering where things you don’t really need ended up. Did it make the move? Did it get thrown away? Did I throw it away years ago?
“Big strong men with tears in their eyes thanking me for stopping the popcorn menace”
Kitty White is pure of heart and is worthy
Ain't no rule says a whale can't play basketball!
Remember Peter Ustinov in Logan's Run? I'm just saying that he seemed over 30 and still alive and he was surrounded by cats. Give it some thought...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
When you're pretty close to how much your monthly credit card bill is going to be and yet you're still, "Is this right? Let me just check that."
House is enveloped by fog. May be going straight into October this year
Q: Are we We Not Men? A: We are DEVO turns 47. Say what you will about SNL, but seeing DEVO doing Satisfaction live on the show was a mind melting experience that we were not prepared for
I love the story about how they leased an island on the border between Minnesota and Canada and then started a campaign to make Moosylvania a state with a trip across the country getting signatures on a petition. They arrived in Washington DC to see JFK just at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Isn't Russia more like 28 times the size of Ukraine by land area?
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title? Does Uncle Tom Clancy's Cabin work, or would I have to keep the original "Tom" making two of them?
I'll just toss in a quick, "Grimsby Town!"
Yeah, one of those days where I was ignoring online news and I come back to something terrible
I would make fun of the National Guard being used to collect trash and put down mulch in DC, but it’s not their fault and they may as well be useful while they’re stuck there
Two she-bears! Elisha didn't do things by halves
Wonder Wheel 1971 Opening a casino in Coney Island is a miserable idea
OK, we keep hearing from the administration about how wind turbines are either driving whales crazy or killing them outright. (And not the SONAR used by submarines?) It seems that's something that could be studied and not just hand waved. Maybe give it to one of the departments they've defunded.
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
They keep putting off the latest SpaceX launch so I can't do the RUD joke. Or post the Real Genius screen shot.
Say you're JD Vance and you've become president after the unforeseen death of your predecessor. Do you carry on his current plans like LBJ after JFK? Or do you see the writing on the wall and go for something a bit more tempered? Like killing tariffs and rethinking the big beautiful bill.
So a lot of mail services around the world now won't deliver parcels to the US because of confusion over tariffs. (Thanks, Donald.) Is this getting any coverage in the media because I see scattered news items but not a big "OMG! Mail armageddon!" sort of news headline.
Trump has a history of punching walls and ceilings. Perhaps that finally caught up with his hand. Who among hasn't found out that we can no longer do the things we did when we were younger?
(The weird thing is that I haven't really heard a lot about flag burning since the late 80s and early 90s. It may still go on, but it doesn't seem a thing. Having Trump come out against it will probably increase flag burning. Also defacing the flag with Trump slogans and images is equally bad.)
1. Is Flag Burning still a thing? It's been a while. 2. A lot of boy scouts are going to get arrested. 3. I'm OK with enforcing the US flag code if it includes banning wearing the flag as clothing, not using it for advertising, and not hugging the flag as a certain president occasionally does.
Again consider the possibility that Trump may be going and he wants to take as many of us with him as possible. Like servants entombed with the pharaoh, we will be his constituents in the afterlife
How is it that people cling to a restaurant’s logo and the movies/TV shows that watched as kids, but they can’t remember what things were like five years ago?
Added a bookmark for Sir William Payne-Gallwey so I don't have to keep doing a web search for "Death by turnip"
The UK brings divisions to an art form. Racism and classism are nearly universal, but they’ll violently divide over musical styles and two or more football clubs in the same city or town
Why am I'm thinking of The Out of Towners 2: Away from Home for the Holidays and picturing Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis getting caught in Santacon and yule tide of drunken Santas
Since there may be a SpaceX launch tonight, remember RUD stands for Rapid Unscheduled (or Unplanned) Disassembly
L.A., D.C. Up next Chicago and NYC. Declare Martial Law? Naw, he wouldn't do that. C'mon, he was only kidding when he said_______ and_______. We'll all get to find out together. #epsteinfiles #smithsonian #climatechange #erasinghistory #extinctionrebellion #tariffs
Maybe the real scavenger hunt treasure wasn't a wad of cash, but the friends and fun along the way #ZcavengerHunt
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
My choices on television tonight appear to be NASCAR, bull riding, college football, and minor league baseball. I get the impression broadcast television is going to get more sports oriented as people find alternatives
Nothing worse than just using your iPad and suddenly hearing the audio for a commercial about stuck poop because one of several apps is now playing that ad
I’m not sure I understand people getting upset over Cracker Barrel changing their logo. Did people get equally upset when Mountain Dew ditched the hillbilly motif or when KFC stopped actively using the Kentucky in their name?
I don't live in New York (and have been there just once) but I would be interested if anyone is doing the Mamdani scavenger hunt. Would make a great thread even if there isn't a wad of cash waiting for you at the end.
I realize we live in a modern world, but seeing the President of the United States wearing a novelty baseball cap and not wearing a tie in the Oval Office fills me with a certain amount of melancholy
Maybe they were struggling with the pronunciation of "Klobuchar" and didn't think to try the easier alternative
Before Whac-A-Mole, which turns 50 this year, how did we describe things that behave like a game of Whac-A-Mole?
Also twitch (!) but obviously you get no choice in what they're streaming
The FBI raiding Bolton is one of those things that leaves you conflicted. Obviously, it's an abuse of power with the president using a government agency to attempt to punish one of his critics. On the other hand, Bolton is an awful person who voluntarily worked for the president. So I'll just shrug
Why do people writing about Texas insist on using "The Lone Star State" if they're not being paid by the word? It's like those who still insist on calling New Orleans "The Big Easy" because it was a movie in the 80s. Unless you're writing about nicknames, just use the place name.
"We're great! And you suck!" is a workable battle cry
I've always preferred "baksheesh" because it's fun to say.
Happier ending.
My problem with Cracker Barrel is that I originally heard it used as a brand of cheese. (At the time I think it was Kraft, but now Lactalis.) So a Cracker Barrel restaurant would just sell cheese-based dishes. The site for Cracker Barrel cheese says the two aren't connected, but I didn't know that.
I think AI is like virtual reality and 3D movies in that it will never die out, but go through different waves of popularity. It's a broad enough term that it can be brought back anytime a computer does something cool.
Dog displaced Hund so maybe. Hound/hund narrowed to a dog used for hunting around 12th century. About that time you had cur/curre but even then it seems derogatory
It would seem like the interwebs would be a good place to find instructions on how to open an old light fixture. Oddly, it isn't. However, if you'd like to buy a light fixture or parts for an older light fixture, then you're in luck.