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Frank Frazetta was a paperback book cover model

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:55:23 +0000

Peter Weller Soundboard

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:12:31 +0000

Peter Weller Soundboard featuring sound clips from such Peter Weller classics as Robocop, First Born, and Of Unknown Origin. Made by my good friend Paul Turowski.

Ultimate Warrior Promo Compilation [video]

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:39:39 +0000

YouTube Link

Bonus: Ultimate Warrior Anti-Smoking PSA

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar (1939 – 2010)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:59:01 +0000

You will be missed.

From the A.V. Club

Underground comics icon and American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar was found dead early this morning, discovered by his wife Joyce in the Cleveland Heights home they shared. He was 70 years old. There’s no word yet on cause of death, although the police report notes that foul play and trauma did not play a part. Pekar, of course, documented his battle with lymphoma in 1994’s Our Cancer Year but has been disease-free since. Autopsy results are pending.

Clip from American Splendor

Some of my favorite quotes of his:

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

“I`m a guy that likes to sit in one place.”

“It makes you feel good to know that there’s other people afflicted like you.”

“I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I’d feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something’s bound to turn up.”

Links:

Cult comic writer Pekar dead at 70 in Ohio (AP)

American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar [Paperback]

American Splendor (2003) [DVD]

Steve Wiebe reclaims Donkey Kong Jr. world record

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:06:35 +0000

via joystiq.com

Steve Wiebe’s done it again. After claiming the Donkey Kong Jr. record back in April, he was usurped from the throne by Oklahoma-based gamer Mark Kiehl the following fall. But, as of yesterday, Twin Galaxies reports Wiebe’s back on top with an epic score of 1,190,400 points.

Posted via web from Ichi’s Links

A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:38:35 +0000

For John Dillinger
In hope he is still alive
Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986

Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts

thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers —

thanks for laboratory AIDS —

thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

thanks for a nation of finks — yes, thanks for all the memories… all right, let’s see your arms… you always were a headache and you always were a bore —

thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

How long will Jean-Claude be a joke?

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:24:41 +0000

…Til Death! That’s the title of Van Damme’s newest entry into the world of cinema. I don’t know about you but I’m excited.

Til Death @ imdb

Boris Artzybasheff

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:10:51 +0000

Schizophrenia
From Artzybasheff’s “As I See”

American Art Archives: Boris Artzybasheff – bio and gallery

Artzybasheff’s Neurotica – depiction of extreme states of mind

Artzybasheff’s Machinalia – anthropomorphic machinery

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