Local Loco

You have presidents, senators, governors, mayors, councilmen and so on down the line; People with great ambition to have the most powerful, pretigious jobs , and you have those who are content to serve at local levels for their whole careers. Does this go the same for EVILDOERS? Instead of wanting to rule the world, is there some Twisted Genius who has set his sites much, much lower....?

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Pics from last week:

Speculative Idiocy

I call this one Pummel-Bot vs Werepoodle-Boy: preposterous technology meets supernatural ridiculousness

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A kitty in a window seen on the way to the Metra

Some more pics from Sunday

Corporate Overlords put you in a banana suit? -- CHECK
Image placed on the interenet for eternity? -- CHECK

Hair Horrors

Greaserstein: Or the Pompadore Prometheus was to be the first of Chronogram Studio's series of horror films targeted at the hair obsessed teen audience in the 1950s. Others films in development were The Mummy's Perm, Phantom of the Barber Shop and the Stone Page Boy (a retelling of the Golem). Before any of the films actually went into full production, a combination of the Yo-Yo and Hula-Hoop crazes and Elvis going into the army caused the collapse of the hair oriented movie market.

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More pics from Sunday 4/26/09

Philosophical Mysteries Solved

Answering the age old question: Why are we here?

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Pics from Sunday 4/26/09

The Forgotten Unforgettable

How soon we forget dept.

Remember the sitcom Meet the Potts? Few people do! Yet it ran on network TV for several seasons and had a spin-off! The show centered around the lives of a family of disembodied heads living in cookware. The main characters were Olive & Calphalon "Cal" Potts.

It really was quite popular back in the late sixties, with the catch-phrases "Put a Lid On It!" and "NOW I'm Steamed!" entering the popular vernacular, and the episode where the Potts switched from gas range to electric was the highest rated program on network TV when it aired. Cal's whimsical reprobate cousin Farber "No Stick" Fry was spun-off into his own prison comedy Stir Fried (this only lasted half a season).

The series seems to have "jumped the shark" when Robbie Rist came on board as "cousin Oliver". By the final season the plots involved "funny" alien visitors and "cool" anthropomorphic broccoli (come ON -- broccoli??), moving away from the heart warming family oriented humor that originally drew in viewers.

Sometimes the show is confused with The Potters, which was about a family of arms growing out of plant pots.

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Some pics from Saturday 4/25/09

Not a great picture -- but the concept of "discount beauty" just cracks me up...

Grotesque is Good

Well --- What are you lookin' at??

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Was walking downtown, and I heard some guy talking on his cellphone (when doesn't that happen??). He was saying this:
"...and she's like 'You're staring at me...' "
Then his voice goes to a higher pitch:
" I'm not starin' at you!!"

I don't know -- it just found it kind of amusing.
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More pics from this week

Just a doodle...

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Random pics from this week

Egghead Humor, Looking Up

Lowbrow. Middlebrow. Highbrow.

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Looking up on Wednesday, 4/22/09