Skybald released their innovative fan-shot music video today for their new single, “Kamikaze Pilots,” and it’s goddam awesome. The band’s members (including Philippe-Atherton Blenkiron, who my indie lit friends will recognize) actually recorded their parts of the song individually, out of respect for social distancing — and then likewise invited their fans to submit clips of themselves individually rocking out to it.
The result is damned cool — check it out!
Please note — although the terrible pun in the headline is mine, the meme is not. (Like every meme I share here, I found it on Facebook, and I am unaware of its original author.)
HM Communications.
Yep. As the meme below (from Geek Club) suggests, 70’s and 80’s kids were led to believe that quicksand would be a far greater threat than it actually was. The warnings I accepted as the direst were those from the swashbuckling jungle explorers that I admired.
See Issue #7 of “The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones” below, for example. (It happened to Indy at least twice in this comic series.) And Frank Buck found himself in a similar predicament in “Bring ‘Em Back Alive,” which I’ve mentioned previously here at the blog.)
I even asked my Dad pretty earnestly once about how I should escape quicksand if I ever fell into it. (I fully planned on becoming an explorer when I grew up.) Believe it or not, the smart son-of-a-gun actually had a decent answer for me. I can only remember it vaguely, but I’m pretty sure you were supposed to tread water and try to float on the silty surface of it. You were NOT supposed to step down into the bog-like mud beneath your feet — it was the suction there that would do you in.
Resourceful man, my father.
StudioCanal, Next Entertainment World. South Korea.
You guys hear the one about the Christian who conscientiously wore a mask every time he left his house?
He did not Covid his neighbor, he did not Covid his neighbor’s house, he did not Covid his neighbor’s wife, he did not Covid his neighbor’s manservants …
Variant Cover B. Titan Publishing.
If you care about America — about the basic everyday freedoms that distinguish us from a totalitarian state, then I am begging you to read Michelle Goldberg’s opinion piece in today’s New York Times.
If you support Donald Trump, then I am begging you here to stop doing so.
“Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun,” Michelle Goldberg
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 