Archive for October, 2008
Mod, Mod Monsters
October 31st, 2008Happy Halloween — as good a time as any to give props to the cult Rankin-Bass stop motion feature Mad Monster Party, doncha think? For all its spooky mystique, however, this movie is actually kind of dull (Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller give their all in the voice department). Perhaps the best part of the […]
Bama Bama Bo Bama
October 30th, 2008Obama’s infomercial might have been too slick and manipulative, but it reminds me that very few politicians can be called “inspiring.” I can’t believe we might actually have a calm, rational, statesmanlike president. We’ve already sent in our early ballots and made the right choice.
As far as campaign ads go, I much prefer this:
Putting the ‘M’ Back in MTV
October 28th, 2008What do you think of MTV Music, the brand spankin’ new Hulu-style database of music videos from the channel’s glory years? I think I’m going to spend much too much time rooting around that site. One can search hundreds of videos by artist, title, or director (thanks to Ironic Sans for that tip!). Just tonight […]
Let’s Hear It for Generic Scientist Guy
October 27th, 2008About the nifty sculpture below: we drive by this all the time. It’s located in downtown Phoenix’s Encanto Park, surrounded by a grove of Italian cypresses that threaten to grow over the poor guy. It always fascinated me, but I’ve never actually gone out to look at it up close until now. Although it was […]
Weekly Mishmash: October 19-25
October 26th, 2008Before getting to the weekly mishmashery, I need to spotlight a couple of links that I meant to post about earlier this week — but never did (this seems to be a recurring pattern here at Scrubbles.net). First is a neato collection of vintage Peanuts animation commented on by Cartoon Brew’s Jerry Beck. The post […]
Young, Gifted & Baroque
October 23rd, 2008It’s finally done! The scrubbles.net Autumn mix, Young Gifted & Baroque, grew out of my fascination with Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade music. As even Disney neophytes know, the parade’s twinkly theme was appropriated from “Baroque Hoedown” — a song composed by French electronica pioneers Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley for their 1967 LP Kaleidoscopic […]
Midcentury Metropolis
October 21st, 2008Having fun rummaging about Walt Lockley’s site all afternoon. This is the Phoenix equivalent of James Lileks’ Minneapolis site: quirky commentary on quirky local architecture. Of course, since Phoenix is a relatively young city, there’s a huge emphasis on Midcentury Modern (or at least our own weird, deserty approximation of it) — a style not […]
Weekly Mishmash: October 12-18
October 19th, 2008Anne of Green Gables (1934). A wholesomely entertaining Cliff Notes version of L.M. Montgomery’s classic books. I see it as a very ’30s RKO literary adaptation, and a less satisfying companion to George Cukor’s Little Women from the previous year. Anne Shirley (she named herself after this role) plays the character a tad too obnoxiously, […]
So Wop On Your Feet
October 18th, 2008“Can’t Stop Moving” by Sonny J might be my new fave song/video — love the dancers, the wonky animation, and the overall infectious, Free to Be… You and Me vibe of the thing. For further research, view the Mirwais remix or the original 2007 viral video in which the tune is paired up with imagery […]
Soda Review: Rat Bastard Root Beer
October 16th, 2008Rat Bastard root beer is produced by an L.A. company who owns the dead url of skeleteens.com. Scared yet? I haven’t even gotten to how they put the slogan “Don’t be a dick. Drink it.” on the cap. Truth be told, sipping on this is a mighty odd experience — at first the soda comes […]
Flavor of the (Previous) Month
October 15th, 2008In the absence of anything else decent, here is what results when the scrubbles.net front page is processed at wordle.net:
Weekly Mishmash: October 5-11
October 12th, 2008The Dark Knight (2008). For my birthday weekend, I wanted to see a movie the old fashioned way, sitting in the theater. Despite being months old, this was the movie I chose. For a summer blockbuster, it was pretty good. I liked the concept of a “realistic” superhero movie where the principals are essentially normal […]
Bunnies, Comic #18
October 10th, 2008New Two Bunnies And A Duck today. I’m pleased with how nicely drawn and colored this one came out.
Soda Review: Lucky 66 Orange
October 9th, 2008Our next soda is Lucky 66 Orange, made by a Wilmington, Illinois company that distributes nostalgically bottled sodas for sale in diners and gift shops all along historic Route 66 (hmm, I shoulda looked for these in Williams last week). The odd thing with fruit-flavored sodas is that they don’t necessarily have to taste like […]
40 Years, 40 Albums
October 8th, 2008I just turned 40 today — and I love it! Really, no joke. I’m grateful to be in good health and nice shape these days; feeling physically much better than I did ten or fifteen years ago.
To celebrate, I’m posting a meme cribbed off Max from last July — name your personal favorite albums of […]
