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As a past owner of dogs who'd eat anything that doesn't move, I found it quite impressive, but quite believable. So PLEASE try to avoid Upworthy-style titles unless you're being very very very ironic about it. They are, if not a plague, a pox upon the internet and one that will leave significant scarring.
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I accept Mai Tais for California, because it was a creation of Trader Vic, and growing up in L.A., my family's #1 choice for "fancy/festive/special/expensive" eating out was Trader Vic's location in Beverly Hills. Saw a lot of Mai Tais before I was old enough to drink one, and once I was, it was okay, but not macho enough for a Young Man.
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If nothing else, it's nice to see MARVEL's superheroes reigning supreme over DC's in the cultural landscape while Stan Lee is still alive... wish it could have also been true for Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and anyone else capable of keeping Stan the Man from taking ALL the credit, but it's still good.

And Thor's not the only MARVEL "fish out of water"... just wait for the upcoming Captain America movie; now THAT might challenge him for pop culture dominance...
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"Breakfast that sings for you?" I think that would include every cold cereal commercial that doesn't use a cartoon spokescharacter... Anyway, what I imagined when I first saw that was "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" or Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" or Snow's "Informer"... THAT'S definitely eggmusic...
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Something about the Epic Split that honestly isn't impressive for comic book superheroes... especially when you're from the same publisher where Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards has been shown 'EpicSplitting' gaps of over 500 feet...
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There's an obvious resemblance between the Haynes Beans label and that of Heinz Baked Beans, the number one brand in the UK and more iconic than Heinz Ketchup over there. For a long time, their slogan was "Heinz Meanz Beanz" and they even occasionally changed the spelling on the label to "Beanz". B&M? Bush's? Your average Brit never heard of 'em.
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I've been living or working close to a Trader Joe's since the '70s (when the original Joe owned it) and have loved the shopping experience - good quality house brand products, often-less-than-supermarket prices (still selling bananas for 19 cents EACH) and some unique products (Carolina Style bottled BBQ sauce? only place in Cal. I've seen it) , but one thing EVERY TJ's has seemed to suffer from was inadequate parking (I suspect the poor parking is intentional to keep the store from getting overcrowded). Also, the Trader Joe's radio commercials used to be infamous - live :60s to be read by the DJ containing long elaborate descriptions of highlighted products with bad puns and an occasional tongue-twister added just to torture the announcer. When I was in college radio, trying to get a professional gig, I always included one TJ's reading in my audition tape, just to show I could. (Their "Fearless Flyer" print advertising is still the same way - but without tongue-twisters)
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Under the ninja masks they're wearing in the pic, you can't really tell if they're smiling. I've known people who may be "smiling with their eyes" but are seriously grimacing with their mouths.
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For the record, I am old enough to have enjoyed the Original 1960's black-and-white Astroboy (considered the Granddad of All Anime and never remade nearly as well) and some of the other forgotten early imports to American TV, and reaching the age to turn rather "meh" for the Original Speed Racer. I mostly ignored Anime until Cartoon Network's Adult Swim started showcasing it, found Cowboy Bebop to be surprisingly not-totally-Japanese (but still not quite riveting) but was gobsmacked by FLCL, the 6-half-hour miniseries with aliens, spies, baseball, guitars, scooters, underage unrequited lust, robots growing out of lumps on the protagonist's head and a secret factory shaped like an iron (for ultimately obvious reasons). A beautifully animated headtrip executed with a totally straight face. Then, with my appreciation for the intentionally ridiculous, I gravitated toward things like Tokyo Pig, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Samurai Pizza Cats (the antidote to too much Ninja Turtles) and the intentionally-parodying-everything Excel Saga (and more recently the very-dirty-but-not-hentai Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt). I'm also looking forward to next year's Space Dandy in which the creator of Cowboy Bebop is apparently getting silly. Anyway, I suspect I should add Girls und Panzer to my list (although I wonder if the objections to the serious movie The Wind Rises for being tone-deaf to World War II may apply even more here).
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There are so many "Shark Movie" possibilities left, from "Shark Wars" to "Shark Trek" (and the sequel, "Shark Trek Into Sharkness". "Sharkformers", "X-Sharks", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Sharks", "Sharktanic" (you didn't think it was really an iceberg that sunk the ship, did you?), "The Hungry Shark Games", "The Sharkit" - (Part 1, "An Unexpected Frenzy" and Part 2, "The Desolation of Squid"), "Sharking Bad", "The Sharking Dead", "Agents of S.H.A.R.K.", for comedy relief "Anchorshark", "Two and a Half Sharks" and "Sharks and Recreation", and for the kids, "My Little Sharky: Frenzy Is Magic".
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