Tag Archives: New Jersey

02/19/2023 · 2:19 pm

Leave Those Kids Alone

Here at Mike The Pod we have a motto. Mike The Pod is me. Here at me we have a motto.

“Avoid Children At All Costs.” ACAAC for short, which when spoken sounds like “a cock”, two words you should never, ever utter together within earshot of children.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 2003, acid, alcohol, America (country), black people, Caddyshack II, candy, Chaz Bono, children, Christopher Lloyd, corporate crap, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Donald Trump, drugs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, identity politics, marijuana, Million Dollar Extreme, movies, New Jersey, NYC, Pink Floyd, Police Academy, Red Dragon, school, sellouts, sexuality, Taxi, television, tobacco, Wacky Packages, Wendy Carlos

07/24/2022 · 7:24 am

Some people live their entire lives without ever realizing the restraints the real world puts upon them. They work a regular 9-to-5 job, watch regular TV shows, and read the comics in the Sunday paper, regularly. They make small talk with everyone they know, and keep any heavy thoughts they might have to themselves.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, comic, Dragon Ball Z, laughter, Mike The Pod Comix, New Jersey, political correctness, strips, The Simpsons

10/03/2021 · 10:03 am

The Many Saints of Newark

_{I know what you’re thinking; we’re all thinking it. They dressed young Tony Soprano up to vaguely reference Chris-Chan, and they did it intentionally. It fits the timeline; filming preceded the eldritch horrors that ultimately led to prison for Chris-Chan. I don’t even want to joke about what he did, and in case you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about: I am not crazy.}

My personal credentials for this review are as follows:

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Filed under Bad Influences, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, O'Shloktoberfest

Tagged as 1960s, 1967, 1970s, 1973, Goodfellas, HBO, movies, New Jersey, Newark, The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos

10/08/2019 · 8:01 am

October Project

“Consistency is victory.”

Who said that?

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Filed under Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1986, 1994, 2019, Bad Shape, Bands I Useta Like, comics, Dead Can Dance, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Internet, Mike The Pod Comix, New Jersey, October Project, Sony, The Transformers: The Movie, Transformers

02/22/2019 · 2:22 pm

Joan Jett

Our biggest problem as a culture is simple; we allow attitude to win every time.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1970s, 1976, 1980s, 1981, 2012, 2019, Bands I Useta Like, cassettes, Cherie Currie, comedy, comic, depression, Jackie Fox, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, New Jersey, political correctness, punk rock, Sandy West, smoking, social media, Star Trek, strips, The Jerk, The Runaways

02/13/2019 · 10:41 am

Peter Gabriel

This strip is kind of on the bitter side and I did not photo-reference the shot from the “Shock The Monkey” video in the first panel. I didn’t want to watch it again!! The monkeys featured in it are surely dead.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1980s, 1986, 1989, 1990s, 1999, AIDS, Bands I Useta Like, Daniel Lanois, despair, Genesis, Jerry Marotta, Martin Scorcese, Matthew Modine, Natural Born Killers, New Jersey, Nicolas Cage, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Paula Cole, Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland

01/07/2019 · 4:40 pm

The Hollies

Alright before you say anything, this ain’t one of my favorites. It actually represents a lot of painful things for me personally. So just know that going in.

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1960s, 1970s, 2010, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, comic, despair, Merseybeat, New Jersey, strips, The Hollies

10/04/2018 · 4:47 pm

Black Crowes

OMG LOOK! I’M DRINKING OUT OF A SOLO CUP AT A HIGH SCHOOL KEG PARTY AND VOMITING! OMFG! FIRST PANEL! DON’T TELL THE F.B.I.! THEY MIGHT START CRYING ABOUT IT!

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