Need proof that alcoholic parents can totally fuck up a kid? Nick and Nora Charles' son grew up to be this guy.

Finished reading the Great Darkness HC I got for Christmas. I still adore that story arc, but holy hell Paul Levitz's dialogue makes later career Steve Ditko's feel like the Elmore Leonard's by comparison.

"What if...the Sgt. Pepper's movie and The Apple had a baby, and it starred Aerosmith?" - the question that led to mandatory drug testing for all Midway employees

Well, that's weird. It must be an MTV rebroadcast because it has some of the bits cut from the broadcast one (e.g. Julie Brown's comedy bits) but not the other stuff I was hoping to see.

caught fifteen seconds of Lisa Stansfield while scanning through the VH1 transfwers and now I have "Baked myself some biscuits, but I can't find my gravy" looping in my skull

Oh, hey, what appears to be a decent quality unedited copy of the 1989 VMA's with the Cure's performance and the Diceman bombing out. Both were trimmed from the Fox rebroadcast I've had to settle for up until now.

Love that a core component of now-ubiquitous consumer technologies will essentially be unavailable for at least a year because the manufacture and supply chains have been redirected toward a technology which exists as a fantasy in speculator's heads.

And now, the M to R and S to T blocks of VH1's December 1992 History of Music Video marathon have emerged, complete with plenty of Batman Returns commercials and tie-ins.

When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say...

After trimming and splicing, that 1993 VH1 Z to A block came to seven hours, complete with original commercials. I has me hoping that same source also taped the "Whatever Happened to...?" 80s video weekend VH1 ran in 1994. I have a copy but it's a bit disjointed.

found glitchwave is the best glitchwave especially when the Diablo font is involved

Today's unexpected score: "Cherish" through "A" in VH1's July 1993 History of Music Videos: Z to A. The only other bit of it I had was a six hour block covering "When" to "That."

I love that the max rank passive for the party girl hitchhiker in Keep Driving puts your character in a permanently tired state. very realistic

what I can only describe as "the Tubi version of the famous Apple commercial"

September 2025 vs January 2026

I guessing the licensing might be a nightmare, but I wish there was a full soundtrack for Keep Driving on Bandcamp or the like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFBJ...

I think that shithead's new tactic of gathering and trying to bully titans of industries into taking a hit to their gravy trains to benefit him is a great policy... ...for generating large surreptitious donations to more pliant centrist Dem candidates and pols.

Henri's signature trait his holding his head absolutely still while slighting moving his eyes, which is particularly unnerving in a tuxedo cat with eye color maturing into a pale green shade.

scored a July 1993 episode of 120 Minutes with guests Urge Overkill, which made me ponder how Chicago had possibly the second biggest scene of the era (after the Pacific Northwest) yet all of its flagship acts besides Liz Phair were kinda...I dunno...douchey?

in which a deodorant commercial provided a decent survey of the early 1990s zeitgeist

Remembering the last time fascists tried to conquer a big river city in the winter…

watching the VH1 Classic Albums episode on Bat Out of Hell, and it is intensely weird to see Max Weinberg speaking as his real self and not as the character he played as part of Conan's retinue

The only Style Council song I like (because it sounds like a remaindered Jam track), and something I've been listing to regularly for the past year. youtu.be/YjEtIYBRhHU?...

Decided to give the PS1 version of the 2D fighting game Heaven's Gate a shot even though I wasn't impressed by the arcade version. And it's....better, I guess. Duckstation's upscaling definitely helps even though the game is still a bit plodding compared to the Tobal, Tekken, or the first DoA.

someone please make a custom rhythm game where these aliens have a dance off with the Planet of the Vampires astronauts with an all 60s Japanese-Italio freakbeat instrumental soundtrack

“The overuse of gaslighting has pushed the public to a dangerous breaking point for us. What we ought to do is…” “Even more gaslighting?” “It’s like you’re reading my mind!”

The whole Greenland thing reminds me of something I tried to explain to Lil Bro during his mild tweener edgelord phase. That while it is important to commit to a bit, it’s even more important to know when to hop out of as if it was a car heading towards a cliff in a 70s action show.

Hah, I have been Big Brother since August 1976.

Secret Origins like “fuck it, we’re doing all seven!”

What Lil Bro texted & what I texted back (It’s a Puritan thing, you wouldn’t understand.)

It is truly fucked that "prices for SSDs and RAM are dropping so fast, It would be stupid not to max out my stock mid-range gaming laptop to 8TB storage and 64GB RAM" has become the stuff of fantasy over the past 18 months, all because of a speculation grift involving tech that doesn't work.

My peers' heroes, when I was a kid: Luke Skywalker, Superman, Sgt. Rock, James Bond My hero, when I was a kid: Colonel Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill, (apocryphally) telling his men to hold their fire until they see the whites of the Redcoats eyes and to target their officers first.

I was wondering it the directional controls presets for Air Trix (think: a Sega post-Dreamcast arcade riff on THPS) were broken, but I watched a video of real hardware footage and, no, the game just has really bizarre mechanics for lateral movement.

Metaphorico, the God of Analogies, is just going through the motions at this point.

Taking into account Dem centrist foot-dragging, probably best way for a genuinely decent Dem president to eliminate ICE would be a series of executive orders forcing gents to wear neon leotards as uniforms, forbidding them to wear guns, and mandating they they have to run five miles around a track.

just thinking about how there was a Ridge Racer game with licensed real-world cars and a story mode inspired by SHOWGIRLS

found some October 1993 episodes of Conan buried in a Leno tape transfer and it some serious "Pariah looks at the giant hand forming the universe" stuff

Gangs! From the same folks who tried to convince people that Satanic cults straight out of some grade-z 70s horror flick were liurking around every corner

lol at performatively “healthy” chains like Sweetgreen cheering Bobby Brainworm’s new dietary guidelines in hopes it will turn their business around. as if Americans ever paid attention to that shit

"Remember when I said I would save 'Shiny Happy People' for last? I LIED!" "Congress!"

*Paul Weller voice* That's entertainment

Virtual On Force arcade is working beautifully with the preconfigured controls I found, which is nice because it means I clear the 7.5 gig iso from my SSD and have a superior experience for just 75 megs.

I'll be a pharaoh soon Rule from some golden tomb Things will be different then The sun will rise from here Then I'll be ten feet tall