All Things To All People
I discovered Tim Johnson on Facebook as a fellow MAD collector… but as it turns out, his collection puts mine to shame. After paging through his photo albums of all the cool stuff he has and coveting some of the stuff I’d…
For most of its history, MAD magazine has been at the forefront of gleefully juvenile printed humor. Its pop culture spoofs are legendary, its cartoonists among the finest humorists of their generation. But along the way, MAD created some of the most…
Al Jaffee is one of the most talented cartoonists in the world; not only is he a great artist, but he’s incredibly clever. After all, he’s the guy who not only invented the Fold-In, but has done over 400 of the things….
At the end of World War II mankind stared breathlessly into oblivion. Scientists had split the atom, and the Atomic Age had begun. In a matter of months warfare had transformed from year-long conflicts between infantry, to weapons that could vaporize a…
Terre Thaemlitz is pretty cool, and he’s got his own label, Comatonse , and has had it for a long time. For the 10th anniversary, he compiled Below Code. The original release was a CD in a DVD case filled with postcards…
Sort of along the lines of The Grey Album, apparently the Beatles/Beach Boys rivalry isn’t dead. Here’s Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds, a remix/cut-up of the original Pet Sounds album by a bunch of different artists.
Image via Wikipedia I’d been wanting to watch God’s Angry Man for a while, now; after all, it’s a documentary on a televangelist [SFW, despite being rotten.com] made by Werner Herzog. So, you know, it’d stand to reason that I’d be all…
Yeah, I was going to say: It’s easy to dismiss that series as just ‘idiots on TV watching idiots on TV‘ but if you really stop to appreciate what Mike Judge is laying down there, we’d see that what’s so appealing about…
Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by reviewing ALL the Sparks records…
Image via Wikipedia If you’re a fan of the Found Footage Festival (or the Found Footage Show on the AV Club), you may have already seen this video . Especially since they posted it a while ago, and I’d been meaning to post…