WELL

In the Naked Gun movies Leslie Nielson portrays Lt Frank Drebin. The movies are a broader, more slapstick comedy take of the smarter, funnier 1983 television series Police Squad!, a satire of 60's - 70's cop TV shows. It was so deadpan that the audience was confused, and the show was cancelled after only 6 episodes. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, is quoted as saying "If Police Squad! had been made twenty years later, it would have been a smash. It was before its time. In 1982 your average viewer was unable to cope with its pace, its quick-fire jokes. But these days they'd have no problems keeping up, I think we've proved that." If you look around online, I'm sure you could find the original episodes.

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OUT BACK

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People Make the World Go Round

...by the Stylistics

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #641

Cover by Paolo Rivera

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SPRING COLORS

Nice, right? Kind of giving fall a run for it's money right there.

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WAYNE DYCK

My parents sent me this newspaper clipping. My elementary school vice-principal is cycling across Canada to raise money for children's cancer treatment.

He played semi-pro basketball, if memory serves. His wife was a teacher at the school as well. I remember them being funny, gregarious, good-looking and athletic - he and his wife were universally well-liked by students and staff. Even at 11 or 12 years old we had the sense he was stand-up guy.

There's a website for the ride here, and a Facebook group here.

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Хоббит

...by М. Беломлинского.
Oops, forgot - you don't speak Russian.
Here's a page featuring Mikhail Belomlinskiy's illustrations for the Hobbit.

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ROCK & ROLL IS A VISCOUS GAME

A local radio station is having a competition to design a CD cover for a compilation of Calgary acts. Here's my entry. The font is Mad Science created by the super talented Daniel Gauthier.
Click for 1000x1000 px goodness.

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BIG LOG

... by Robert Plant, 1983.

"My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride as the cities fly by
And the tail-lights dissolve in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight"

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WAITING FOR THE LAST TRAIN

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TELL 'EM

...by Sleigh Bells

Woah!

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REFLECTION

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SECRET SUMMER PROJEE

more next week...

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COOLEST SHOW EVER.

I just started watching Gerry Anderson's 1970 TV show UFO. It's set in the far flung future of 1980, and has lots of cool clothes, cars, haircuts and a more ethnically diverse cast than a most shows on TV at the time. Add spaceships, cheesecake and a groovy John Barry score, and I'm so down.

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JACK KIRBY EXHIBITION

Legendary artist Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was the Thomas Edison of comics. This week a retrospective of his work was exhibited in Lucerne, Switzerland. They do it right in Europe. Just think; a place with festivals dedicated to Frank Zappa's orchestral music and Jack Kirby's art hangs in museums. Shangri-La.

I'd heard about the exhibit, but didn't expect to find this: a video tour of the show. So, so cool. I've been working on a little Kirby thing of my own. I should have a post ready in a week or so...

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YES PLEASE

Timberland Men's Colrain Reissue 8-Inch Boot.

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THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

...trailer for Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film.

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TOVE JANSSON

...was a Finnish author and illustrator. Here's a blog post about her, and here's a page with scans from her illustrations of other author's works, including the Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland.

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ONE FOR COMMON SENSE

Cartoonist par excellence Jeff Smith had to fight off some kook who wanted to ban his books from an elementary school. It's an all-too-rare example of this sort of thing turning out like it should. Jeff tells the story on his blog along with links to news sources covering the story.

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