Could this be Marvel’s best new character of 1979?

It’s wild that having been around for a web that worked and there were more than three websites is very clearly turning into being around for VHS rental.

Just when I'd concluded The Soup had been dropped out of the original taper's rotation in batch of 2007 tape transfers, a full episode appeared in the usual location. Which is cool. I'd love to have a full set of episodes from the mid-2004 to mid-2007 "lost" period, I'll take a couple eps per month

Hitting the last couple of episodes of BBC's I Love the 70s and I'll probably follow on with I Love the 80s, but the Seventies are a hard act to follow. I was old enough to be aware of most of the decade but young enough see it through child's mythical lens, aided by it being so over the top.

a century of horrors such as this presented as "fun" and "whimsical" the perfect case study in adults assuming they know what kids enjoy played out over multiple generations, each one more experientially distant from some flyover town getting hyped over the arrival of a traveling circus

Something I did not anticipate about the micropond: It would become Ibiza for Birds, which means more active maintenance and water changes than I'd originally banked upon.

Ian Curtis and Matthew Modine on the plus side, Cousin Oliver and John Denver on the minus side.

That irritating but kinda fascinating phase when some hyped up nothingburger has clearly jumped the shark but the delay between concept and launch leads to a bunch of firms rolling out their bandwagon-jumping disasters-in-waiting right before the fall.

Revisiting Sleeping Dogs, and thinking about how so many cool and interesting "single-A" games sadly underperformed during the PS3/360 era. And now we don't even get that tier of gaming anymore, unless it's a rerelease of those very same games.

The Kid was asking me what it takes to write stories and make comics and I don't think Maura was happy with my "a lot of work" and "just get to it" advice. Not that it was wrong, but that it wasn't very inspiring coming from me.

when bubbleglam met 50s Revival met the stuff of nightmare

from a late 1940s article about the Japanese staging a play about Abraham Lincoln to help the public get a better handle on the whole democratic government thing

Dr. Who trying to pass this dude off as an American intelligence agent when it is painfully obvious he's the drummer for Bombadil Pickle, Stoke-on-Trent's biggest folk-prog band.

Tapped out of Daemon X Machina (again) a few hours in because the progression gating takes MP as a given and that's a big N-O from me. I'd rather play ZoE: The Second Runner or Armored Core 3 via PCSX2.

There has been the following inner dialogue looping in my skull for almost a decade now: "I should replay the Baldur's Gate games or DoW Dark Crusade." "Yes, because you really need to be staring at tiny icons and dragging a mouse around for long stretches at your age."

Yes, but the availability of retro content (which this guy is talking about) is less of an issue than aged hands and eyes trying to cope with hardware — particularly handhelds — designed for kids.

Before they decided to make a serious go at late night talk shows with Letterman, CBS filled that block of time with a shifting hodgepodge of programming. Here are the Wednesday and Friday lineup from the early 70s to mid-80s.

Guessing Fetterman is so rabidly against Platner because he either fears being replaced by a newer model shitty bro Dem senator in the media and lobbyists’ eyes or that Platner might not be a complete turd and thus make Fetterman’s own turdness look even turdier.

really? I never would've guessed

yes, which is why ABBA, Boney M, and the Commodores had three of the best-selling UK singles in 1978 Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" was the top-selling 1979 single, with Cliff Richard as #3 or Queen, The Stones, Kinks, and Moody Blues all having some very good years in the late 70s/early 80s

"Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the AI startup" move over, "greater fool" theory they've discovered the "greatest fool" theory

I saw on the shitter blasting out a deuce Squatting grimly, intently forcing out that poo Your constipation didn't stop it coming through

Some A+ hosting choices derailed by kicking things off with one of the worst serial pedos in history.

I was a huge fan of Close Encounters at the time despite the fact that I would always fall asleep after the first half hour of the movie at the drive-in. But I did have most of these trading cards *and* a cool shirt!

BREAKING NEWS: Just added to the Freedom 250 concert bill! (credit to Maura for this one)

It’s fascinating how Moore took the thing that stuck in Giordano’s craw about Charlton’s Action Heroes — having a flagship superhuman character in a world of otherwise street-level vigilantes & costumed agents — and turned it into a deconstruction of superhero tropes in general.

Miss Velvet.

A girl and her humanoid war machine.

I read that as "Mr. Do apple pie" at first glance, and thought "BUT HE DROPS EACH APPLE HIMSELF!"

"Secret donors pumped millions into groups behind gutting of Black voting rights" "Secret," I assume because they were all wearing pointed hoods.

Videogame Protagonist: So tell me what you know about Evil Guy. Streamer: So, uh, he uh wants to know about evil guy. *flopsweaty chuckle*

the current Freedom 250 lineup is 🔥🔥🔥

Happy birthday, @wolter.bsky.social!

These 2005-2007 episodes of The Soup have reminded me of that era of reality programming which was "follow the fallen celebrity around with a camera crew while they downward spiral from drugs and mental illness. Oh, and several will be dead inside ten years from the same shit we're exploiting!"

tfw her particular kink is kinda spooky but you’ve already paid the deposit for the costume

Dr. Rudy Wells is the only Skeletor I will accept.

Anyway, the shitty problematic “populist” heel issue stems from the institutional Dems trying to enforce bland centrism by sandbagging solid progressive candidates. So when some opportunistic clown pulls off and end run via grifter populist cosplay, they’ve got shit for options.

RE: Maine. Here is my grandfather’s cousin recounting a visit to the home our ancestors built upon setting in Maine *after* founding the town HPL based Innsmouth upon. Stephen King was writing what he knew.

Not trying to sound glib but folks without deep Maine ties can’t seem to grasp how willfully fucked up the place is. I had an ancestor deadpan request to have his arm amputated by a sawmill because it got trapped in the works and he got bored waiting for them to extricate it. And they did.

Souls-likes are just extremely protracted and dour bemani games.

Love to see the early stages of a potential 21st Century Holodomor unfold — not because of a horrifically pragmatic tyrant cold calculus, but because the media thought it would be funny to pander to the delusions of a sleazy Munchausen who fancied himself a business genius.

The Monster of Piedras Casablancas

“A reality TV sex pest with dementia appointed a middle-aged South African flopsweat edgelord and his teen incel minions to manage the budget, which is why a pound a hamburger now costs seventy five bucks!”

Scenes from "After the Dream Comes True" a 1982 CBS News Report on the Overland Park (now "Oak Park") Mall in metro Kansas City.

"Hit the accelerator, turn left, then turn left again, then turn left again, and don't hit anything. Peace out."

lol a March 2007 Today Show segment on "Huh, a lot of folks are defaulting on those 'sub-prime' mortgage thingees. This might be bad though our resident financial expert says 'nah, shit will work out.'"

I think of this a lot watching old episodes of The Soup. Mainly that a lot of the targets were just pathetic souls getting exploited as they spiraled with zero supports. And many others were embryonic avatars of human evil who didn't deserve snark as much as they did a shovel to the face,