Posts by Evil Richard
The constant sex-ing up of mainstream news
I mean come on, MSNBC. What is that story going to be about? I'm afraid to click on the link because then I might start receiving more porn spam than I already get.
Only thing that could make this worse is one of CNN's "Watch" links added next to it.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 21, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
The Computer...How it Works
Scans from a book originally published in 1971 explaining these mysterious thinking machines we call "Computers." Some nice Orwellian illustrations on some pages predicting how we would becoming drone-like slaves to these things.
Did the author ever predict we would be able to read his book on said computers though?
Posted by Evil Richard on July 21, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Scientologists Invade Glamour Magazine HQ
"Two emissaries" from the Church of Scientology recently stormed the HQ of Glamour magazine when it found out that the mag would be writing an expose about a woman who fled to the country in order to escape the church. Then when they found out Nicole Kidman, the non-worshipping ex-wife of their OT-VII Level Poster Boy, would be on the cover they got really pissed.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 21, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
The bad just got worse
I've posted bad album covers before. Here's some more utter shit:
Worst Album Covers Ever Returns.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 21, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
This week in McSweeney's
THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE REVIEWS NEW YORK CITY'S MOST FASHIONABLE AND TRENDY NEW RESTAURANTS.
Deciding that I mustn't be the last member of New York's illustrious glitterati to show off the exploits of a recent Milan shopping spree at Asia de Cuba, the Philippe Starck-designed Cuban-Asian fusion hot spot, I ventured into the certifiably buzzing mise en scène last week with high expectations and a Prada suit with a custom-sized neck hole and an extra interior pocket for my colostomy bag.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 20, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Daily Show Rove-Gate Re-enactment
The Daily Show, of course, has the best coverage you can find on Rove-Gate. Recently they did a great re-enactment of the phone conversations between Rove, Cooper, Novak and others.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 20, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Google the Moon
To celebrate the first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969, Google has created a somewhat limited Google map of the moon with placements for the various landings.
Zoom in all the way and you'll get a real closeup image of the moon's surface, which answers a lot of questions.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 20, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Wednesday is New Comics Day
This week's recommended comic is JSA:Classified #1 by Geoff Johns, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti.
Power Girl is generally known among the DC Comics heroes as "the one with the big tits", which is actually like describing a professional basketball player as "the black guy". But even by comic book standards, Power Girl is usually depicted with abnormally super human breasts bursting through her cleavage-revealing outfit. Though the character has been around since the late '60's, the only thing that can really be said for certain about her is that she's at least a double D.
Now, we're about to learn more. Starting off the new Justice Society of America anthology, Geoff Johns (writer of just about everything that happens in the DC Universe) is going to deliver the long awaited origin of Power Girl. Is she from Krypton? Is she from the future? Is there more to this character than her just being the chick you'd want to cheat on Supergirl with?
After the success of JLA:Classified, the Justice League anthology, DC is now carrying over that format to other areas of it's character library. Generally anthologies are filled with inconsequential stories by unknown creative teams but this book is starting out in a different place by tackling some long unanswered questions. And with Johns directing the story and Amanda Conner, best known for drawing the perversely funny The Pro, on art it looks like super hero anthologies are becoming must reads. Oh, did I mention the cover by Adam Hughes?
Check out your local comic shop today. If you don't know where your local comic shop is, find it here: http://www.the-master-list.com
Posted by Evil Richard on July 20, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
Bullshit Blossom
CNN correspondant Dana Bash let her true feelings be heard during coverage of the Karl Rove/CIA Leak story on Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Lou says, "...Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Danna Bash reports." Immediately after that you can clearly hear a female voice on mic whispering "that's bullshit". Then Dana Bash continues with her report.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 18, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
Things not to wear when you think you might get arrested
Funny mugshot photo of a drunk driver at Smoking Gun. (via CityRag)
Posted by Evil Richard on July 18, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Things to DVR this week
Thanks to DVR technology we now have no excuse for missing out on good TV (and watching bad TV doesn't make us feel as guilty because we can at least speed throught the commercials and boring parts so it doesn't take up as much of our day). Here's a couple of high quality, guilt-free shows on this week that are worth setting the TIVO for.
30 Days on FX (Wed 10pm), if you haven't caught it yet has been reality TV taken to an educational and less sensationalistic level. Hosted by Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock, each episode puts a person in a situation they are not used to for the period of 30 days. Spurlock started the series off himself by attempting to live on minimum wage for the month. Past episodes have involved situations (ie, a conservative Christian sharing an apartment with a homosexual) that, handled by say a Fox or MTV reality show would have resulted in your typical irrational flare up and ratings-grabbing meltdown. On this show however, the "contestants" are pretty open-minded and the object of the show is to educate not titillate.
This week's episode has a mom going binge drinking for a month to show the effect it has to her teenage daughter.
Another interesting educational show this week is episode 2 of Guns, Germs and Steel (Mon 11pm) on PBS. Based on the excellent book by Jared Diamond, the author explores how civilizations evolved the way they did and why Europeans became more technologically advanced than, say Native Americans. This week shows how a couple of hundred Spanish Conquistadors could easily defeat an army of 80,000 Incans.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 18, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
On a lighter note, let's make fun of Batman
Posted by Evil Richard on July 13, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
Food Chain
Just in time for lunch, a post about eating. I was listening to This American Life this morning on my iPod and heard a great story about Catherine Chalmers, a photographer in SoHo who photographs insects and animals in her apartment. She uses a macro lens to observe their daily lives which mostly consists of eating and mating. Among the subjects of her photographs are: Praying Mantises mating and finishing with the female devouring the male; Mantises eating caterpillars full of leaves and tomatoes; frogs eating mantises; snakes eating mice; and spiders mating for hours and hours.
Chalmers has a book called Food Chain that displays her photographs.
Here are some sites that showcase her work:
Corcoran, Artscenecal, CocaSeattle.
Click below to see some of her photos.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Wal-Mart, CD Cover Artists
In other stoner news, Wal-Mart doesn't like the old Maui Wowie and is selling an altered version of Willie Nelson's new album, replacing the marijuana leaf with a palm tree.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Wednesday is New Comics Day
This week's recommended comic is Ultimate Fantastic Four.
I have not seen the new Fantastic Four movie and I am by no means recommending that anyone go see it but if you have seen it and somehow came out of it with an interest in seeing these characters done right, Ultimate Fantastic Four will satisfy that need.
Marvel Comics' Ultimate line is a streamlined version of their regular universe that tells new, modern stories with classic characters free of 40 years of continuity and all the hard to rectify trappings that come with it. The line has been very successful because it's top of the line creators approach the books as if they were making the Hollywood version of the comics - cinematic, grounded in some sense of reality, and meant to appeal to new readers. If only Hollywood actually made them this good.
Ultimate FF is available in multiple forms now including a giant hardcover and three volumes of trade paperbacks, as well as of course the comic itself which is now on it's 21st issue and has a new creative team of superstar writer Mark Millar and artist Greg Land starting this month. So far the best the book has been is the 2nd and 3rd volumes written by Warren Ellis. Ellis is famous for his science fiction comics like Planetary (which actually contains an evil pastiche of the FF called The Four - highly recommended for another take on these characters) making him a brilliant choice for this comic. He brings an interesting techno-sci-fi angle to the book, telling stories about nano-tech and negative universes, but he also has a good handle on the characters and their dialogue.
The FF, having been created in the 60s and having very much embodied that era all this time, needed a good update especially in terms of their silly origin story. Ultimate FF does a much better job of bringing the team into the 21st century than the movie has done, I'm sure.
Check out your local comic shop today. If you don't know where your local comic shop is, find it here: http://www.the-master-list.com
Posted by Evil Richard on July 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Return of the House of Cosbys
I was going to post something about this a couple of weeks ago but apparently Bill Cosbys lawyers had forced them to take it down. Whether that was true or not I don't know but now it's back.
House of Cosbys is a bizarre 4 episode animation about a guy who finds a Bill Cosby hair and works for 10 years to develop a cloning machine to create his own Cosby. As anyone would in his siuation, he goes overboard with the Cosby cloning. Each Cosby he creates has it's own personality and specialty.
Unfortunately, just as each clone moves further and further away from the original Cosby model, each episode of this cartoon gets further and further away from it's wacky little concept and less and less funny as a result.
Definitely watch the first episode though.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Fox News: Home of Compassionate Conservatism
Fox News anchor, Brit Hume on the London bombing:
I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy."
Fox News host, Brian Kilmeade and co-host Stuart Varney on the effect on the G8 summit:
Kilmeade:
I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together
Varney:
It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again.
via MediaMatters here and here
Posted by Evil Richard on July 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Harrison Ford will deliver your Amazon crap
From now until the 16th, if you order something from Amazon.com (like Raiders of the Lost Ark on DVD) you could get a celebrity (like Harrison Ford) to deliver it to your door. For real.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
More American Journalistic Stupidity
This is why I love Gawker.com:
Caption in the Times: “Witnesses reported seeing dozens of people stumbling out of subway stations, coughing and black with soot.”Yes, NYT, “black with soot.” Or, as they call it in London, “Pakistani.”
It’s one of those elevator-vs.-lift things.
Posted by Evil Richard on July 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
YbNbY Book Club: The World Is Flat
Thomas Friedman is one of the few pundits out there these days who I feel doesn't simply approach his subjects from the right or the left. Though a NY Times Op Ed writer and considered generally liberal in most cases he actually supported the Iraq war in the beginning and as he explains in this book, doesn't think outsourcing is necessarily a bad thing. Of course one of the ideas he brings up is that in this changing world, it's not even clear anymore where the right and the left should stand on issues like this one.
More after the jump...
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Posted by Evil Richard on July 06, 2005 | Comments (4) | Send to a friend