06/22/2017 · 10:15 am
As an “underground” artist, I go broke often. Sometimes I have to sacrifice comfort or nourishment to pay my rent.
Sometimes, I’m broke because I’m a total assclown who takes public transportation across town to see a $22 popcorn movie, alone. (I didn’t have enough for actual popcorn.)
Even while facing the consequences, I have no regrets.
I don’t know what the hell Al Gore had to do with the history of Transformers, and I don’t want to know. I had to sit through the trailer for his second bullshit global-warming scare film, and he can go fuck himself with an iceberg.
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Tagged as 1980s, 1986, 1988, 1990s, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2017, 3-D, Cartoon Network, corporate crap, Dark of the Moon, Godzilla, Hasbro, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, movies, Optimus Prime, Revenge of the Fallen, Robert Loggia, Steve Buscemi, The Simpsons, The Transformers: The Movie, Tom Hanks, Transformers, Zero Mostel
06/14/2016 · 5:04 pm
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
01/23/2016 · 2:32 pm
Savannah, Georgia, late 1990.
A young man of eighteen staples fliers around his college campus, advertising his upcoming periodical. And his Cult.
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Tagged as 1990, Boogie Nights, Georgia, Mark Wahlberg, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, New Jersey, New Kids On The Block, Optimus Prime, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, Savannah, SCAD, Star Wars
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