Blame Canada November 27, 2008
Posted by Dan in Real Life.14 comments
Contrary to popular belief I have not fallen off the face of the Earth nor have I been abducted by aliens (which I guess would be the same thing as falling off the face of the Earth). No, I’ve instead pulled a Josh and had to disappear for a bit. Bills and lack of employment have led to lack of internet on my part. I do access the internet from the library occasionally but I am mostly doing job searches. Rest assured I do keep up with everyone’s blogs and comment when I can but it won’t be as often as I usually do.
I hope to be back on-line soon but honestly I don’t have a time frame as of right now. I hope all of you in the U.S. have (had) an awesome turkey day and I’ll hopefully be back with more snark and sarcasm soon.
Boom! Boom! Aka-laka-laka! Boom! November 11, 2008
Posted by Dan in Denver, Movies, People, Real Life, Tourism.Tags: dinosaurs, history
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For those of you not familiar with the song “Walk the Dinosaur” by Was (not Was), please familiarize yourself with it now to help put you in the mood for today’s post.
So today I decided I was sick of being sick and ventured forth to the Museum of Nature and Science with my niece. It was a school field trip for her and there was a special dinosaur exhibit in town that I was interested in seeing so it was a win win situation.
The trip also included an IMAX movie which is pictured above, “DInosuars Alive!” Sounds exciting doesn’t it? We’ll get to that in a bit, titles can be misleading.
That little beauty up there is a Utahraptor, or at least that’s what the sign says it is. Personally I’ve never heard of a Utahraptor but I don’t know why the museum would lie to me so I’ll say it’s true. I don’t know if the museum is going dino-crazy because of the new exhibit or if this was done during a recent remodel but before I entered the museum I felt like I was being watched and I was right.
That’s the head of a big honking dinosaur, the rest of him is down three more levels but I didn’t get pictures of him because…because I…..well because I didn’t!
I did get a picture of Bruce though! Who’s Bruce? Well I don’t know if that’s his official name but that’s what I like to call him. This is Bruce.
He’s the official museum greeter, or at least he is every time I go there anyway. He always seems happy to see me and keeps asking me about having me over for dinner (or maybe it was having me for dinner) but I haven’t been able to make it yet.
They have this nifty little doodad there too, they say it’s the same type of thing that they used to explore Mars but honestly who can focus on Mars when you’ve got things like this hanging over your head?
That thing is called a plesiosaur, they have two of them hanging from the ceiling and I gotta tell you they’re pretty freaking big! They’re kind of elitist though, they think they’re better than Bruce because they’re hanging from the ceiling and the museum feed them free lunch. Shows what they know though, the fish he’s about to eat? They’re fake!
I know you can’t really tell it from this picture but this fossil was huge! According to the guy who was standing by the cart and ignoring me this is part of the leg bone of a brachiosaurus. What’s a brachiosaurus you ask?
That’s a brachiosaur. Impressive no?
They also had this on display. You don’t know what that is? Bruce would be so disappointed in you, it’s a T-Rex tooth! You can kinda get an idea about how big it is from the picture above, that’s what the kid is holding in his hand.
They also had this raptor claw, not sure if it’s from our friend the Utahraptor or not because Sparky the wonder slug was still pretending I wasn’t there and flirting with the “MILF”.
I think these are claws too but I wouldn’t swear to it.
I wish I could have taken pictures of the special exhibit because they had some really cool stuff there but the numerous “no flash photography” signs as well as the armed security guards pretty well deterred me from saying to hell with it and snapping away. If it comes to your town and your into dinos though I’d recommend checking it out.
Since they wouldn’t let me take pictures of the visiting dinosaurs I figured I’d just go and take pictures of our own local dinosaurs, they didn’t mind posing for me and didn’t threaten to shoot me/kick me out.
You know I like dinosaurs but I’m not gonna lie and pretend I know what these things are. There were tons of signs around that gave out all kinds of interesting facts but when I tried to take pictures of them they came out too dark to read. These two just cracked me up because I love how they staged them fighting over the scrap of bone.
The name of this guy is on the plaque, if you can make it out you have better eyesight than I do.
I had to take a picture of this guy, the stegosaurus is my favorite dinosaur ever and you just know he’s gonna kick this meat-a-saurus’s ass. Besides he’s got his kids standing by he’s gotta look tough!I thought I took pictures of the little stegos too but evidently I didn’t, if you look behind the stego and the other guy you can kind of make them out.
This guy? He’s just appalled at all the violence and is trying to break up the fight. Kinda hard to do that when you don’t have hands though so he just looks down on them and tells them to make sure they stay off his damn lawn.
Yeah I have no idea what these guys are either I just like the fact that there’s a lot of them and I like to pretend they’re racing. The one guys running so fast he ran out of frame.
I can see my house from here!!!
The only reason I took this picture is because it’s supposed to show what Colorado looked like as a rainforest but the only thing you can see is the monkey thing.
This thing here? It’s a..it’s a uh…did you see the monkey??
I actually know what this one is, it’s a mastodon skull. See? I paid a little bit of attention. You can tell from this picture though that he totally doesn’t floss.
So after what seemed like untold hours of dino fun it was time for “DINOSAURS ALIVE!!!” (insert ominous music and thunder sound effects here).
Now the thing about our museum is the person who painted the background murals had a sense of humor. In the animal exhibits there are seven gnomes hidden into the artwork. Well the person who painted the murals for the exhibits also painted the mural or the IMAX waiting room as well. Somewhere in the mural is a Pegasus, Yoda…..oh and this!
Yes folks the Millennium Falcon herself!
The movie itself…kinda boring. T
he preview showed CGI dinosaurs fighting each other and all kinds of other cool things. In a 45 minute movie that was about maybe 10 minutes worth. I do have to say though, the IMAX format is simply amazing! I’ve never been the type to splurge on the extra money on seeing new releases in IMAX but after seeing the detail and clarity of this one I might have to give it a shot one of these days. All in all it was a blast and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. If you haven’t gone to the museum in a while do yourself a favor and go, you’ll have a better tie than you think you will.
Till next time!
We’re off to see the Wizards! October 30, 2008
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So I was talking to Deej last night about cartoons from our childhood that we’d like to see again and that brought to mind one of my favorite movies that used to creep the hell outta me when I was a kid. It’s a little flick called Wizards.
Ever seen it? Not many people that I’ve talked to have but if you have it’s one of those movies you either love or hate. I know I just did a movie post yesterday but the post I intended for today isn’t ready yet and while this isn’t technically Halloween related it was scary (to me anyway) when I first saw it.
Rather than try to describe what Wizards is about I’ll let you watch the trailer instead.
Like Heavy Metal this was aimed at an adult audience instead of kids but kids still found ways of seeing it. I don’t remember how I saw it the first time but it’s been one of those movies that has stuck with me for a long, long time. I think what made Wizards such a different movie was it combined live action footage with animated but it was done in such a way that the live action looked animated as well. I don’t know if that sentence made any sense or not but if you watched the trailer you saw what I mean, if you didn’t watch the trailer then use your imagination!
The coolest part about Wizards (asides from Elinore’s perpetual nipple shot) was Peace. Peace is the guy up there on the poster, he was originally an assassin for Blackwolf but is zapped by Avatar and turned to the side of good. The other cool thing about Wizards? The character of Sean is voiced by Mark Hamill, pre-Star Wars, pre-Batman.
If your interested in watching Wizards, they actually have it on YouTube and I even saved you the trouble of looking for it!
Part 1
part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 , part 8
I know this post is pretty light on content and I apologize, I’ll try to make it up to you on tomorrow’s post. Until then I’ll leave you with another bit of animation that creeped the hell outta me when I was younger courtesy of Heavy Metal.
Monster Chiller Horror Theatre October 29, 2008
Posted by Dan in Halloween, Monsters, Movies, Rants, Real Life.Tags: Halloween, Movies, People, Scary, zombies
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So I recently did my yearly Zombie-thon movie marathon, it’s basically an excuse for me to get together with friends, drink too much alcohol and watch really bad zombie movies. I figured since I’m wrapping up tomorrows entry tonight I’d give you a review of two of this years cinematic “gems”. If your looking for entertainment for the big night for God’s sake stay the hell away from these stinkers!! But if your looking for background noise to have on while your handing out candy to the kiddies then these would be perfect, well one of them would be anyway.
You know the name pretty much says it all for this one. Zombies on a plane. Of the two I’m gonna review this one is definitely the superior one but honestly that’s not saying a whole lot, like I said I find intentionally bad movies and this one is bad!! It’s a good bad though, I mean it’s not gonna win any awards by any means but if your looking for good background noise/filler this is it!
Okay, here’s the plot, these two scientists bring a third scientists dead wife back to life. They store her in a cryogenic box and put her on a commuter plane to Paris. Why a commuter flight? It’s because these are bad scientists who brought back the wife using an illegal experimental drug! Why are they flying to Paris? I don’t know I missed that part. They did somehow convince the airline into letting an armed guard in a bio-suit onto the plane to guard said box though!
I’m not gonna give away too much more of the plot because A) I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who might want to see it and B) I had slammed like six beers and three margaritas on an empty stomach by this point so I don’t remember just a whole lot about it. The one thing about Flight of the Living Dead is it stars this guy.
Recognize him? I’m sure you do, he’s been in a crap load of movies, but I betcha don’t know his name do you? It’s okay if you don’t, I didn’t until I looked him up. His names Erick Avari, so now when some homicidal maniac is holding a gun to your head and points to his picture and asks you his name you can tell him and save your own life!!
The other movie we subjected ourselves to was this one.
What can I say about this one? Wait let me rephrase that, what can I say about this one that’s good? Let me thing about that for a second…..still thinking……I could say….no that was the other movie. Nope can’t say anything good about this one at all.
The plot of this one…you know what screw it, here’s what IMDB says about it. “Eighty Two years ago a viral outbreak turned three quarters of the world population into the walking dead. Now, Bounty Hunters are humanity’s only salvation.” Sounds pretty good right? That’s what I thought, turns out we were both wrong.
This was produced by Nott Entertainment, and to be honest that’s about the most truthful thing in this movie. It’s that bad! The make up is like something you could throw together at a Spirit store or at a Party City. The acting….I’ve seen better acting in a porno, or at least that’s what my friend said, I don’t watch porn. You believe me don’t you? There are just so many bad things about this movie it’s not funny, not even funny in a good way! So I guess what I’m saying is rent this puppy if you dare but if you do know it’s really, really bad!
It’s the Great Pumpkin (Patch) Charlie Brown!! (Part Two) October 28, 2008
Posted by Dan in Cartoons, Denver, Halloween, Holidays, Movies, People, Real Life, Tourism, friends.3 comments
I think I’m doing pretty good with this blog a day thru Halloween thing but the week isn’t over yet so we’ll see how things end up. With that being said it’s time for part two of my pumpkin patch adventure!! If you haven’t read part one (and if you haven’t why the hell not?) then click here to do so now.
Back? Okay, now that that’s out of the way let’s continue with part two shall we? I know I said we were gonna get on the hayride before it got too crowded but I forgot about something pretty cool that should have gone in part one but will go here instead.
See thos things? Those are pedal powered tractors. The idea is you get on one of these things, pedal like made and race other people around an oval track. Did I do any of those things? Oh hell no! Now in my defense I did try to sit and pedal one of these things and it didn’t work so well. They were clearly not intended for adults because the seat leaves much to be desired. Instead I settled back on a tire and watched the kid pedal like made around the track like a madwoman.
I know you can’t really make it out that well but if you look in the upper left hand side you can see the tractor we’d be climbing into for what we thought was just a hayride. Boy were we wrong!
Nothing like the smell of wet, moldy hay to start your morning!! Add to that the metric butt load of people crammed into the back of the wagon on a warm sunny Colorado day and the “fragrance” from the llamas and goats and you get an interesting aroma combination.
Despite what you think it’s tough to get a good shot of things when your packed like sadines in a stinky wet wagon so you’ll have to excuse the random hands in the above picture.
Lucky us we were also in a convoy of other wagons equally packed with people but our wagon ended up lagging behind so it all worked out for the best. The corn you see in the pictures here? I’m not sure if all of it was Indian corn but when we ended up stopping we were told to grab a bag and pick as much Indian corn as we liked. I wish I would have taken pictures of the Indian corn I picked but I didn’t, needless to say the ears I picked were far superior to anyone elses. Don’t believe me? Look at this face, would I lie to you?
What we thought was a simple hay ride turned out to be a pick your own produce extravaganza! We started out with the Indian corn and the next stop on the trek was potatoes!
I know you can’t really make it out that well in this picture but if you squint you can see some little brown things in front of the big yellow thing, those would be the potatoes. Fortunately the had already dug them up for us because I don’t see wagonloads of kids and adults digging up their own potatoes.
The kiddo returns with the spoils of war
Next stop on the wagon train?
Onions! One of these days I’ll have one of those high quality, 50,000 mp cameras that lets you see the nose hairs on a fly. Until then you have to put up with these lower quality pictures, but trust me when I say those are indeed onions in the dirt.
No that’s not a field of weeds (or even Dreams), those are carrots, dill and parsely. I don’t know if you’ve ever had the chance to pull your own carrots but the ones we pulled out that day were monsters!
This was pretty much standard size for that day.
After what seemed like hours we finally got to the pumpkin patch proper, all the big ones were picked and on sale at the market but there were still quite a few decent sized ones to pick from.
The pumpkin patch was the last stop on our wagon ride and we pulled back into the main area to unload, between the kiddo, her mom and I we ended up with a pretty respectable stash of produce.
I don’t know if all pumpkin patches are as awesome as this one was but if you’ve never gone to one I’d highly recommend going to check one out. If you don’t have kids, borrow one to take with you, it’s more fun to watch them run around like mad than anything else, I know I had a blast watching the kiddo.
I know I mentioned celebrities in the last post and that may be stretching things a bit but I do have to give them kudos for trying.
Yes folks it’s Herbie the Love Bug! If your not familiar with Herbie or if you’ve just seen the Lindsay Lohan version do yourself a favor and check out the older movies, they’re well worth it.
Okay so maybe Herbie was before your time, how about something a little more recent?
It’s Mater from Cars! Okay not really but pretty close. They had quite a few of these Cars mock ups out front and the guy who did them actually did a pretty decent job of recreating them. Take a look and see what you think.
Not too shaby huh? If your in CO next year around this time take a trip out to Miller Farms, you won’t be disappointed.
What’s in the box? What’s in the BOX?!?!? October 27, 2008
Posted by Dan in Candy, Holidays, People, Real Life, friends.5 comments
So my good friend across the pond Guise was kind enough to send me a care package for Halloween. I cannot tell you how awesome it was to get not only goodies from overseas but to get them from someone as cool as Guise. If you aren’t reading his blog you really should, he’s good people.
So now that I’ve got you interested in the contents of said box let’s delve into them shall we?
This is an over head shot of all the goodies I got, devils and vampires and monsters oh my!
I can’t tell you how awesome these little stuffed monsters are, I have the devil sitting here by my desk as we speak. He’s the main reason I haven’t been blogging more, you should see the things he’s tempted me with to keep me busy!! All it cost me was my soul and I wasn’t really using it anyway so I got a good deal right? Right? Drac’s floating around here somewhere, which explains why my neck is sore every morning when I wake up. Sneaky little bastard.
He was also kind enough to send some Monster Munch, which while oddly flavored was awfully damn tasty!!
If you’ve never had Monster Munch (and I’m assumng most of you haven’t) they taste similar to Funyuns but not exactly. If you’ve never had Funyuns then I can’t help you imagine the flavor. Of the three I’d have to say the Roast Beef were my favorite, then the Flamin’ Hot and finally the Pickled Onion.
I also received a box of Kinder Surprise eggs, these things are pretty cool but the “prizes” I gotta tell you are kinda creepy. I do have pictures of them but I don’t have them uploaded right now, as soon as I do I’ll take this paragraph out and show you the “Kinder Surprise” inside of them. This particulat box was Kung Fu Panda inspired and I gotta admit the toy I got from that was actually pretty cool. Again, when I get the pictures uploaded I’ll put them up here. Or I might listen to the Devil and keep you guessing, depends on what he offers me.
You ever tried a Milka bar? No? You should talk to my little red friend here because these things are freaking awesome!!! I envy the Brits because the chocolate they have over there is a lot smoother and richer than what we have here. After talking to Guise about it, I guess Milka are pretty cheap over there, kinda like a Snickers here but the difference is I’d trade my pinky toe for a box of Milka, you can keep the Snickers.
What’s this? Trick OR Treat?? Which do I open first? The treat of course!! You never know what those crafty Brits consider a trick!!
Oh Mama!! A Galaxy bar?!?! Guise I think I love you!! You remember what I said about Milka? That goes double for Galaxy bars. These things are just….you know I can’t even think of the words to describe them. What’s better than one Galaxy bar?
TWO Galaxy bars!!! Yeah baby!! Not only did I score a regular Galaxy bar, I also scored a dark chocolate Galaxy bar!! This baby was hidden in the Trick wrapper, but if this is Guise’s idea of a trick then he can feel free to trick me anyday! I’m saving this bad boy for a special occasion, the rest of the stuff sadly has already gone on to a far better place. Maybe not for it but I certainly enjoyed the hell out of it!!
So I guess what I’m saying is it’s good to have friends, especially friends who send you awesome care packages from other countries. In case your wondering yes I am going to repay the favor to my friend in the UK and no I’m not gonna tell you what I’m sending him. If he feels like sharing when he gets it thats up to him. So thanks Guise, your package was very much appreciated and enjoyed. You are awesome!!
It’s the Great Pumpkin (Patch) Charlie Brown!! (Part One) October 26, 2008
Posted by Dan in Halloween, Holidays, People, Real Life, Tourism, Uncategorized.Tags: corn maze, Halloween, pumpkins, Real Life
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I’ve been a bad blogger. I’ve been back for a week and am just now getting a new post up. I’d give you an excuse but honestly there isn’t one so what I’ll do instead is tell you about my trip to the most awesome pumpkin patch I’ve ever been to! Granted it’s the only pumpkin patch I’ve ever been to but that’s besides the point!! I have to admit when my niece first asked me to go I agreed to it but wasn’t really looking forward to it. Images of stumbling over broken gourds and stepping in rotting pumpkin guts just didn’t sound like fun to me. I’m so happy I was wrong, this place was nothing like what I’d imagined. This place had it all, a corn maze, tractor rides, home made root beer and even celebrities but we’ll get to them in a bit.
So we pulled up and the place was packed, evidently today was “every school in Colorado come to Miller Farms” day because there were kids everywhere!!! You couldn’t throw a pumpkin without hitting a kid, trust me I tried it! The first thing that really caught my eye though were all the tractors and things out in front trying to lure you in.
Yes they even had planes!
Now I’m no expert by any means but are planes standard issue for pumpkin patches? The only reason I ask is because this place had not one but two of them! I don’t have a picture of the second plane but trust me it was there!
So after registering and checking in and all the official b.s. that goes with school trips we got into the actual pumpkin patch itself and what farm would pass up the chance to sell their own wares? Not this place!
I gotta admit I do dig the pink tractor. Go cancer awareness!!
Like I said it’s an awesome farm and I’m a little emberassed that I’ve not stopped into it before now, I’ve been driving by it on an almost weekly basis for about three years now. Even without the stuff for sale they took the time to make the farm/market area visually appealing.
There’s all kinds of little things like that around to catch the eye, I’m just a sucker for water wheels so that’s why it made it into the post and some of the other things didn’t. I know it’s not technically a water wheel but it’s my blog and my pictures so there! ;P
Enough about all the crap they had for sale though, your not here and can’t buy it so let’s just head into the “attraction” part of the farm shall we?
I really have to hand it to this place, they went out of their way to make this place kid friendly, from the shoe above to the giant bug below they had a ton of things for kids to climb and play on.
Sorry for the sun glare
They also had a really cool fire truck that kids were drawn to like magnets!
That's the kid responsible for me taking all the pictures.
I guess at night they do a haunted house/slash corn maze thing but seeing as we were there at 10:00 in the morning the haunted house was a little less intimidating.
It didn't look this glary when I was taking the picture honest!! (and yes glary is a real word, I just made it up)
They claimed they had a petting zoo but it turns out wht they consider a petting zoo was just a bunch of goats and a really pissed off llama.
Evil little bastard!
He's trying to figure out how to kill me without getting caught.
Now I like animals, I really do! Cats, dogs, rats, horses, goats, guinea pigs you name it! Everything except camels, I fucking HATE camels!!! If someone offered me a lifetime supply of camel burgers I’d take them up on it in a heartbeat even if it tasted like crap!
Why do I hate camels so much? Long story short, when I was a wee lad I went to the Chicago zoo to their petting zoo to see the animals. One of the animals they had out for kids was a camel but this particular camel was addicted to cigarettes. People would feed them to him and he was addicted to the nicotene is what I’m guessing. Anyway, I was ablivious to this, I mean I saw people giving him smokes but when your five you don’t think anything of it! I reached up to pet him and the bastard bit me!! I didn’t do a damn thing to him to deserve it, he just opened his freaky big mouth, grabbed me by the arm and chomped! My Dad was quck to act and got my arm free and proceeded to deck the camel in the nose but to this day I cannot stand camels, if they all fell over dead tomorrow I’d dance a jig and put it up on YouTube.
So now that we have that out of the way, let’s get back to this llama. I don’t know if he was pissed because I didn’t have any food to offer him or if a goat had kicked him in the nuts but he was in a foul mood. The goats? No problems! They came up and were extremely friendly (if not a wee bit…ok a whole lot of smelly). The llama however didn’t have a thing to do with anyone! My niece was able to pet it briefly before it realized what that it was letting a lowly human pet it and pulled back. I figured I’d give it a shot and extended my hand so it couod check me out, which it did and gave it a brief scratch behind the ears. Maybe that’s llama code for kiss my ass or something but this thing reared back and gave me this look like it wanted to bit my face off and I backed off before it decided it wanted to spit at me.
We decided at this point it was time to do the hay ride before the ride got to be too long, little did we know what was in store for us on that fateful trip. I know what happens but you’ll have to wait for the next post to read about it. I’ll do my best to have it up on Monday, Tuesday at the latest. I’ve got several Halloween related posts in mind including a scary zombie story that’s only 2 weeks late (sorry Guise). I guarantee the next post will be celebrity filled and action packed. Ok only one of those is actually true, you’ll have to come back to find out which.
Well crap! October 13, 2008
Posted by Dan in Uncategorized.Tags: Down Time
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Since it seems Josh and Doho have jinxed us all with computer problems it looks like I’m next in line. Yes kiddies my computer is currently DOA so I won’t be around for a bit or if I am it’ll be sporadically. I’m pretty sure it’s an easy fix, so I shouldn’t be out long.
The good news is I have a post or two in mind for when I do get back so I’ll replace this with actual content when I’m up and running again.
Things that really DO go bump in the night! October 7, 2008
Posted by Dan in People.Tags: Halloween, history, Monsters, Scary, serial killers
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I feel bad that we’re already a week into October and I have yet to do anything Halloween related! I’ve read other peoples blogs and see things like this, this,this and even this so I decided I’d better get off my duff and throw some crap up. Uh I mean do some research and post a witty and insightful new entry for my adoring fans (all two of you)!
Since it’s the time to kick back on the couch with a frosty beverage and watch horror movies I thought I’d give you some insight into the people who actually inspired some of our favorite movies…well one of them anyway. No there’s no Mike Meyers, Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger but there was actually an inspiration for everyones favorite chainsaw wielding, cannibalistic redneck Leatherface. Don’t believe me? Then you’ve never heard of Ed Gein. Ed was not only the inspiration for Leatherface, he also inspired Norman Bates (Psycho) and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs). How’s that for scary? One guy, three villains! I posted the link to Wiki in his name but if your like me and are easily distracted by Wiki then allow me to give you a little background on Mr. Gein.
I know I’ve been posting a lot of videos in my blogs lately but honestly with Ed Gein there’s so much history it’d take me forever to type it all and this blog would be like 5 billion words long so I’m just gonna post this instead. That’s part one there, part’s 2 and 3 are here.
I’m not gonna do a lot of the more well know monsters because I’m sure you all know about Dahmer, Bundy and Gacy, no I’m gonna bring your attention to lesser known monsters like Albert Fish.
Mr. Fish was the inspiration for everyones other favorite cannibal, Hannibal Lecter. Don’t believe me? Watch this video and tell me you don’t see the resemblance.
Since we’ve started down the cannibal road let’s add one more to the list Andrei Chikatilo
His Biography is pretty lengthy so again I’ll post the other links. Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,& 8.
There are a lot of other “monsters” out there that I didn’t cover, if your feeling brave or adventurous you can always hit up YouTube, Wiki, or even Google for some truly scary reading/watching.
On with the show! (Part one) September 25, 2008
Posted by Dan in Cartoons, Gaming, Nostlagia, Toys, comics.13 comments
Before I get started with today’s post I’d just like to say thank you to a friend of mine who left me an awesome message on another website that I thought I’d share.
“Dan, how’s it goin? Oh, how I’ve sooooooo missed your blogs! I have not been on here too much due to various reasons and my son being a SPORE FREAK!!!! I just checked out your blogs on wordpress.
Man, you’ve gotta post those on myspace!!!! I am ROFL!!!!! So, is Mickey fucking Mouse really gonna be on the ballot? Your WM trip, whatta hoot!!! I SERIOUSLY think you need to be the next Michael Moore and start filming this stuff! Start out on youtube! People dig this stuff! You are so incredibly talented in writing, why not take it a step farther and film? Anywho, I just wanted to let you know I miss your adventures, and to WRITE ON!!! (and possibly FILM!) Take Care!!!!!”
Now don’t get me wrong I look forward to and love all the comments my regular readers leave me but something like this coming from a friend I went to high school with means a lot to me and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank that person (they know who they are)! 
Ok, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way on to the meat of today’s post! I hinted back in this post that I might get around to doing a post on Saturday morning cartoons. Well since I have no other ideas rattling around in my head that time is now!
I’m not gonna cover the more well known ones because everyone knows/remember them, no I’m gonna talk about the ones that most people have forgotten (or want to forget). Like the music of the 80’s it didn’t take much to make a cartoon back in the day. If it was popular or could sell a toy it was fair game. Case in point.
Does anyone (aside from me) remember watching this? I wish I could say this was a good cartoon but it really wasn’t. The basic premise was three kids discover a magic Rubik’s cube named, amazingly enough, Rubik and they go around helping people and trying to keep Rubik out of the hands of his evil previous owner. The catch to this magic cube shaped genie? If you scrambled his colors Rubik was scrubed (get it? screwed + cubed = scrubed!) I mean screwed!
Video games weren’t exempt either
I gotta admit I used to watch and like this one, and come on one of the main characters is named Dan so of course it’s gonna be good! 
And you have to admit the theme song was kind of catchy.
Not all car themed shows were good though there were some stinkers out there! Don’t believe me? Ok, you can’t say I didn’t warn you!
I honestly wonder what the hell they were thinking when they came up with this one. If I remember right Knight Rider was out at the time so I’m sure they were trying to cash in on the popularity of that but seriously? Make a kid that turns into his car when he gets hot? Ladies don’t date this guy!!
Speaking of TV shows inspiring cartoons……
And who could forget this gem!
You can’t, believe me I’ve tried. But hey as long as we’re in Milwaukee, let’s visit Laverne & Shirley! You think I’m kidding don’t you? Sadly, no I’m not.
I guess I could have spared you the pain of watching those last two by just showing you this one. Even Mork & Mindy had a cartoon! They clumped all three of them together in one show.
Ah how am I kidding, I knew about this one and still posted those other two, I just wanted to make you suffer!
You know there are a lot of other bad cartoons out there, too many for one entry so as usual I’m gonna make you wait for part two. That and I think you’ve suffered enough for one post.
Until then, be afraid, be very afraid!
