Tag Archives: 2011

11/30/2019 · 11:30 am

PTSDecade

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it.

This decade fucking kinda sucked.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Site Stuff, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2007, 2009, 2010, 2010s, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Bad Shape, Bands I Useta Like, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, comedy, death, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, GoFundMe, humor, jail, laughter, Mike the Pod, Patreon

10/01/2018 · 2:04 pm

The hieroglyph depicted in the “punch panel” of this strip represents a circular struggle many of us are grappling with right now. We want to knock it off with the political shit, but we also want a valid excuse for indulging in our baser urges.

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Tagged as 11.11.11, 2010, 2010s, 2011, 2015, 2018, alternative music, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, Barack Obama, comic, Donald Trump, Isis, John McCain, metal, music, Sepultura, Skyrim, strips, video games, Xbox 360

09/08/2018 · 9:08 pm

I Am Better Than Maddox

Folks, I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but-

https://youtu.be/ffG4MhiTClA

In case you haven’t been steeped in Internet culture for most of your life, let me explain. Cast your mind back to the year 2004 B.F. (Before Facebook). A leap year.

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Tagged as 1990s, 2000s, 2004, 2006, 2010s, 2011, Atlanta, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, Chuck Norris, comix, Dick Masterson, Facebook, Internet, John's Arm: Armageddon, Maddox, Million Dollar Extreme, New York Times, old internet, political correctness, Sam Hyde, satire, sellouts, SJWs, social media, strips, underground, whores

08/22/2018 · 8:10 pm

Beastie Boys

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Tagged as 1980s, 1986, 1989, 1990s, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000s, 2011, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Beastie Boys, Cheap Trick, comic, DJ Hurricane, DJ Shadow, Dweezil Zappa, Eric Bobo, Fatboy Slim, Fight Club, Frank Zappa, Groove Holmes, hardcore, hip hop, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith, Little Ceasar's, Mike Diamond, music, Prefuse 73, strips, The Ben Stiller Show, The Dust Brothers, turntables

03/31/2018 · 3:14 pm

The Itis of March

This’ll be a quick one. Didn’t mean to be away for so long. These things happen. But let me make one thing clear:

I hate March.

Fuck “Smarch”, too.

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Tagged as 2011, 2015, 2018, depression, despair, March, The Simpsons

07/05/2017 · 12:38 pm

No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom

Comedy stinks right now because you forced it to stink. You vilified every experience in life that makes a great comedian. You made the safe, sponsored version of laughter the norm. You’re so afraid to really laugh in front of other people, that you turned comedy from an anti-establishment weapon into a cottony security blanket.

Comedy stinks right now because of you. Because you’re afraid of your true feelings.

You probably don’t even know who this is.

Let’s take, as an example, one of these pusillanimous women that the media holds up as Queens of Comedy. You know the ones, I don’t have to name them. They’re all over glossy magazine covers at the checkout aisles, making “zany” faces to remind you they’re funny.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1975, 2008, 2010s, 2011, Amy Winehouse, comedy, depression, George Carlin, jail, laughter, political correctness, Richard Pryor, Saturday Night Live, sellouts, stand-up comedy, Tony Hendra, women

05/14/2017 · 10:39 am

Rocketry Club

From BIUL II.

Kidding and perversity aside, we used to have “rocketry club” at school. Well, I didn’t; it was all done away with by the time I reached seventh grade. Kids could care less about the excitement of space and walking on the moon now.

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Robot Toy Fetish, Saturday Movie Matinee

Tagged as 1960s, 1970s, 1983, 1986, 2002, 2007, 2011, Attack of the Clones, Bands I Useta Like, Buzz Aldrin, comix, Davey & Goliath, depression, despair, Florida, rocketry, Russia, Sandra Bullock, school, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, The Right Stuff, The Shining, Transformers

06/14/2016 · 5:04 pm

Animation Analysis: The Transformers: The Movie

For the past ten years, one Rhode Island company has made me so deliriously happy, I’ve considered corporate personhood, so I could ask for its hand in marriage.

Hasbro.

They even threw in a rubsign. Hasbro is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

2006 was the year this little toy company had a subline of their Transformers toys called “Classics”; new figures of favorite characters from the 1984 cartoon. And a funny thing happened- these robots from an old show sold very, very well. Characters like “Bumblebee”, “Megatron” and “Optimus Prime” were familiar to a enviously broad range of people. They had staying power equal to Superman or Batman. The world was on the cusp of finding this out. Continue reading →

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Tagged as "Weird" Al Yankovic, 1980s, 1985, 1986, 1990s, 1996, 2000s, 2007, 2011, 2014, Beast Wars, Boogie Nights, DEVO, Don Johnson, Eric Idle, Frank Welker, G.I. Joe, John Moschitta, Judd Nelson, Lionel Stander, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, Monty Python, movies, Nelson Shin, New Jack City, New Jersey, Optimus Prime, Orson Welles, Pawtucket, Peter Chung, Peter Cullen, Rhode Island, Ron Friedman, Shia LeBeouf, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Tailothepup, The Simpsons, The Transformers: The Movie, Transformers, Vince DiCola

03/03/2016 · 1:15 pm

What Bay Got Right

(This article originally appeared in a less edited form on Mike The Pod, 7/11/11. Please note that since then, there has been a fourth Transformers, which grossed over a billion dollars, and there’s a fifth on the way in 2017. There is a schedule of yearly releases stretching a decade into the future, the same as Marvel, and Disney’s Star Wars.)

SPOILERS covers all three movies in the Michael Bay Transformers trilogy (until it becomes a quadrilogy, or quintology, which I wouldn’t complain about).

If this article becomes too insular for you, dear reader, may I heartily recommend you to tfwiki.com. Mostly because I’ll be goddamned if I’m going to link every whatsit on this page. If you’re a repeat visitor that doesn’t like it when I go off about robots, this is going to make you hate my guts. Continue reading →