Posts Tagged ‘library’
3 items.
Jul11
GUEST STRIP – BEEFY
July 11th, 2005 |- Comics »
- Comics »
- Guest Strip
(8 votes, average: 4.13 out of 10)
You guys are probably wondering where your regular dose of TH goodness is at today? Well, in case you’ve been ignoring the blogs for the last few weeks, today is the day that I kick off a week of guest strips. The reason? Cami and I are going to be moving into a new house on Wednesday, so my attention is currently somewhat… fractured.
But you guys are lucky, because I have a wonderful assortment of guest strips to get you through the week. In fact, I’m running a guest strip EVERY DAY this week. So, really – everyone wins.
Today’s guest strip comes from a good friend. Someone I got to know quite well from hanging out in the THorum. His name is Beefy and he’s super cool.
I feel bad because this is a guest comic Beefy made for me AGES ago and I kept promising to put it up. For whatever reason, things didn’t work out the last couple of times I ran guest strips. Mostly I think it had to do with math. Meaning, if I had run his strip, I would have one day of a new week with a guest strip and the remaining two days with new content from yours truly. And since I’m really anal about that kind of thing, I never ran the comic. Stupid math!
Anyway, I’m making up for it today and running his comic FIRST!
Everyone needs to swing by his site Beefyness.com. He’s got a bunch of cool stuff for you to check out. A great blog, a forum and a bunch of really funny comics. But most notably, Beefy writes songs – rap songs – and each of them are excellent. You can download the whole of his Whitsican EP right now – but of course you can always help support him by sending donations.
Don’t you think it’s worth your time and money to check out the efforts of an extremely nice fellow who put togethera songs about the THorum? I do!
Thanks, Beefy!
[ No Comments ]
10,000 B.C. came out this weekend and was number one at the box office. I’m not so much surprised by that except for the fact that it raked in over $35 million over extremely poor reviews and word of mouth. I don’t get it. All I had to do was read a review the mentioned “mastodons building pyramids” and I knew it wasn’t for me. Director Roland Emmerich has made a film rife with historical inaccuracies, but for whatever reasons, audiences don’t seem to care?
My good friend Joe Dunn said he knew within the first 20 minutes that the film was not for him or “the discerning adult ready to pick apart historical, social, economical and whatever-ical problems at every turn.” Says Joe, “This movie is for kids. Big visuals and classic themes like destiny, loss, sacrifice and family in a genre setting meant to make an impression on the most impressionable people of all- 8 to 12-year-olds.”
I can appreciate that, but I wouldn’t let a kid within 20 feet of this movie without explaining to them the difference between fantasy and reality. If Henry were old enough to watch this film, I’d make sure he knew that there was no evidence that mastodon’s helped build the pyramids because… y’know – THEY WERE EXTINCT!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that 10,000 B.C. presents itself as a kind of alternate Earth where the timelines went a different way, providing a more rich tapestry for fantasy storytelling, blah, blah, blah. Basiaclly, Emmerich has made a big, sweeping epic with lots of things that look cool and no substance. Certainly there are lots of films like that cluttering up the multiplex. But this one seems to have obtained some kind of perverse indifference about spitting on your mind.
Look – the problem is there are going to be some fools out there that will assume this is educational. Considering how much our attention is being fought for by movies and television, it’s hard enough to drill a truthful concept into a kid’s head let alone a ficticious one. Which version do you think is going to enthrall them more?
It’s very possible that I’m taking all of this too seriously. Anyone that dumb probably wouldn’t go to a movie period if they thought there was something educational about it. These people would probably duck out of seeing College Road Trip for the very same reasons.
Still, life is too short to waste on dumb media. If you need a movie to entertain the kids, wait until Wall-E comes out later in the year. At least you won’t feel like a bad parent for showing a little discretion.
All of this and more we’ll be talking about on The Triple Feature podcast tonight at 9:00 PM CST over at TalkShoe.com. I sincerely hope you join us so you can send in your questions and possibly call in to talk to us. We’ll be talking about 10,000 B.C. and The Bank Job.
BE THERE!
[ No Comments ]
Some of you aren’t going to like this comic because it doesn’t reference anything specifically movie-related. Some of you will be annoyed that you have to read Monday’s comic to even understand the reason why Tom is in a library in the first place.
I say, “I don’t care. This one is for me.” Sometimes it’s just fun to do something random and paint Tom as more stupid than usual. “Too stupid to live,” I believe is the phrase.
Hey, if the writers of The Office can have Michael drive into a lake because a GPS in a rental car told him to, I can get away with having Tom insist literature come with an A.V. option.
Face facts, there aren’t that many interesting movies hitting the multiplex in the next few weeks. March looks like an unusual dry spell. We talked about this curious fact during Monday night’s broadcast of The Triple Feature podcast. Yet, we were still able to fill an hour full of rich, buttery movie discussion. You should download it and give it a listen if you haven’t already. It was a good show. We didn’t have a lot to talk about in terms of new movie releases, but we had fun talking about some of the latest DVD releases and the new Speed Racer international trailers. Fun times!
Not much else to report from Casa de Brazelton except today is my last day at my 9 to 5 job. I performed as a web designer for an insurance agency for the last 5 and a half years. I found another opportunity doing web work for a larger insurance company and I start that job on the 24th.
What does this mean to you? Maybe not as much as it does to me. Admittedly, I’ve been stressed the last week. But I’m taking some time off before starting the new gig and that means a site redesign I’ve been kicking around since last October might finally see the light of day before the end of the month. Theater Hopper will become my 9 to 5 for the next week. So in addition to dedicating myself to the redesign (which includes integration with WordPress, I might add), I’ll also be working on a few DVD reviews to post here to the front page. So keep your eyes peeled for those!
In the meantime, I’m wrapping up my job duties today, celebrating with my soon-to-be-former co-workers tonight, swinging by the comic book shop to pick up a few books on the way home and getting ready to see Henry Rollins perform a spoken word show here in Des Moines tomorrow night. Did I mention the first wave of Iron Man toys that tie in to the movie hit shelves today?
The next few days are going to be sweet.
See you here Friday!
[ No Comments ]
