Man, I wish I could justify this. There are some amazing issues in here. 🧵

🧵 Cool stuff I saw at the antique mall today: The MOTU masks are from Brazil, apparently. I have to say, they were kind of tempting at $25. The Pet Monster poster was an in-store display.

Savers, I'm very disappointed in you. Every other magazine on the rack was $1.99 - $2.99. Clearly someone did an eBay search...

If you can make it through all of these clips without skipping any out of embarrassment for the people in them, you are a stronger person than I am...

🧵Last night, I pulled out the iPad to work on some waxpack drawings for the first time in a week, and I was reminded of my last artistic hyperfixation, cassette tapes. Here are some of my favorites from about a year ago:

Leading to this amazing interaction, one of my favorite moments in the entire series

I did some research on the New York Zoological society bounty for a 30' anaconda and found this NY Times article from September 2007. The bounty was up to $50,000 in 1997 (👀), but was removed in 2002. The bounty for finding a giant alligator in the sewer still stands, though.

It sure wouldn't be any worse

"Mom, can we watch Office Space?" "No, honey, we have AI Office Space at home." The longer you look, the worse it gets. Make it stop...

Bring em back and I might watch wrestling again...

The source of one of my favorite backpack pins.

After a lengthy hiatus, my hip-hop history podcast, Bring the Noise, has finally returned. Check out the story of MC, producer, & first rap superstar, Kurtis Blow. Search for "Space Monkey X" on your favorite podcast app or listen w/the link below: www.spacemonkeyx.net/podcast/epis...

Holy shit, this is awesome

Doing my part to spread the St. Louis love for Red Hot Riplets...

🎶 My Fangface brings all the boys to the yard and they're like, is that Scooby-Doo or something? And I'm like, no, but he was created by the same people, Joe Ruby & Ken Spears, who had recently broken off from Hanna-Barbera & needed a hit, so they retooled the formula - wait, where are you going?🎶

Check out this huge MOTU listing on FB Marketplace! 🧵

Boss: "So, Transformers can't be toy guns anymore, but we don't want to stop producing one of the most iconic toy gun Transformers. Any ideas?" Carl, the lazy toy designer: "Just turn it over and say it's a spaceship" Boss: "Dammit, Carl, you're a genius..."

Hey, nostalgia nerds! I started a new account - @wildlifetreasury.bsky.social - where I'm posting scans from my childhood collection of Illustrated Wildlife Treasury cards, those mail order animal fact cards that were stored in that big, green box. Follow for daily animal facts from the 80s!

Apple Pie Toast Crunch with homemade caramel sauce swirled into the marshmallow makes for an excellent rainy day treat

Gotta go, my ride's here!

After a month of waiting on my son to put down the VR headset long enough to finish this Blokees Megatron, we finally put him together last night. This thing is just awesome!

I couldn't tell you how many times I drew Snake-Eyes from this cover as a kid. It's one of the all-time greats.

Text message exchange between me and my oldest kid from moments ago:

Last week in waxpacks: I finally got around to doing both Dick Tracy designs, the Hannah-Barbara one was just too fun to pass up, I'm not a huge KISS guy, but that packaging is insanely cool.

Drop some BUNNIES! Thanks for the hometown shoutout, @martymckeeofficial.bsky.social! I'll drop some official vintage Bunnies merch that you'll all be jealous of, as well as the modern logo they use today.

I wore out the Betamax tape of Animalypics that my aunt recorded off of HBO for me. I had no idea there was ever any tie-in merchandise. Wild!

This image is more terrifying than a 1,000 Michael Myers

Post a banger not in English Stylistically, this song is all over the place and I love it for it. youtu.be/xw-YbOIZmII?...

It doesn't seem very safe for her to be grabbing the barrel of that gun while he's actively firi- oh, wait.

It's hard to explain how mind-blowing this was at the time. In most games this would have been a cut scene, but here, you were able to look/move around the room, and yet, you also had zero control over anything that was happening. It just hadn't been done like this before. It was incredibly exciting

🧵 Cool stuff I saw at the antique mall today... That ET...thing is cursed and I love it. The sealed Sierra games were cool. And that Shirt Tales carafe and juice glass were a little too expensive for me.

Post a rabbit. How about two? This is Ina and Cappuccino.

Last night, I delivered my third meal for Lasagna Love in three weeks. Things are tough out there right now, folks. If you have the resources, it's a good time to find a charity that you can donate time or money to. We're all in this together. lasagnalove.org

And I just found out my son got the pterobagtyl last night

Hell yeah!

Same energy

I can't believe this ad is real. It looks like something that should be in MAD Magazine. And I can't believe they're limiting it to 1,200 blocks! I *need* 1,201! Also, with all my luck, the mail-in rebate will have to be sent in for each one of the 1,200 blocks.

🧵 Just got home from Iron Lung. Unfortunately, @andyk250.bsky.social, I can't give you an opinion on my blind viewing. Either the mix of the film or of the sound system in our theater was awful. If it was just 2 people talking, I was fine & could follow along.

Oooh! 50% off now!

Working out is so weird. Walked into the gym feeling low-energy. First exercise - crank out a personal best on bench press without even breaking a sweat. WTF?

Last week in waxpacks, I added a few more to the pile. I decided to deviate a little by redrawing a cool 1989 Nintendo sticker featuring Mike Tyson's Punch Out! I might do a few more of those since they still have all the same features of the waxpack artwork.

Homemade fish and not-homemade chips for a belated birthday celebration for my father-in-law. Can't wait for the leftovers...

Happy Birthday, @vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social and @nlogan77.bsky.social!

If you follow me, you'll dig this video: youtube.com/shorts/3zYES... They're restoring a Jack Davis life-size Frankenstein poster! Also, you should check out their account for more awesome, geeky restorations.

This is who runs this account

Boss: Hey, did you get the cover art done for that 4K release of Riddick? Employee: Yep, got Vin Diesel choking his chicken just like you asked for! Boss: Wait, what? Oh, phew!

🧵 Yesterday was an awesome mail day! I got in one of the Burger King ALF flexi-disc records that I'm missing. And the eBay auction included this original promotional photo for the show from 1986! Between the flexi-discs, the BK puppets, a lunchbox, and this, apparently I collect ALF stuff now 🤷

@shezcrafti.com If you don't mind being called "Mallory", I found an amazing, bootleg, satin Turtles jacket for you: ebay.us/m/yReCy5

First Changeables acquired! I don't care about any of the non-food ones (other than the Boo Bucket), so I was happy I got the fries (my son got the playplace). And, of course, I'm keeping the box.