Happy Holidays

Everyone have a Merry Xmas. If you don't, the giant 60's-era fiberglass Santa will ominously take note. And then he will come for you.

Thanks to the newest member of the Blogfoot link family Arglebargle! for the Santa pic. Go yonder and check out his stock of neat old-timey holiday images, followed by his exhaustive examination of all the cutaway illustrations throughout the years that have detailed the inner workings of the famed Baxter Building, headquarters of the illustrious Fantastic Four.

This makes my head hurt

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England must be at least semi-cool

Because they have a public statue somewhere over there of Andy Capp, a drunken, violence-prone comic strip character. He's even got a beer (I believe they would call it a "pint") in his mitt as he stares defiantly at passerby. He's loitering, basically. If the purpose of public art is to inspire discourse, then the message I get from this is "Piss off."

Man, all we got here in Minneapolis is Mary Tyler Moore. I suppose there's a lot of statues of "Peanuts" characters in St. Paul too, but let's face it: they aren't holding beers. But thanks to my soldering gun, they soon will be.

Godzilla's senior picture

The photographer didn't have the woodsy "lean on the rustic fence and look natural" backdrop Godzilla wanted, and he took the picture before he was ready, but all things considered, the pics didn't turn out half-bad (kudos to Roob Photography in Milwaukee on the nice work).

Godzilla is currently debating over whether to go with a Zeppelin or Floyd lyric for his yearbook quote.

The jaunty anteater

Here's a picture of an anteater out for a stroll. He looks happy, just amblin' along with a nice brisk stride and enjoying the day, maybe hoping to see an anthill but if not, hey, that's OK, life is good. Seems like he should have one of those word balloons with musical notes in it above his head.

Sadly, the "Wrath of Khan" novelization is not yet available in downloadable form

What kind of people are early adopters of the divisive but certainly interesting Kindle, Amazon.com's new wireless reading device? Geeks, apparently (click to embiggen photo and read text).


I think showing "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" on-screen would have made much more sense.