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Monthly Archives: May 2019
One million steps!
As per the Pedometer app on my iPhone I have achieved my first million steps of just walking and moving around this year. Anything to close the rings on my Watch. Good thing I have 200 pairs of shoes so … Continue reading
RIP: Tim Conway
Another great cast member of The Carol Burnett Show has passed away but when I was a kid he was also a staple of the Disney movies I saw, Gus, The Shaggy DA and the Apple Dumpling Gang with Don Knotts. I had to … Continue reading
Humorous shirt spotted at Pinballz (May 2019)
I like how Sonny Bono is replaced by Bill Macy, Bea Arthur’s co-star from Maude, while the artist maintained the contrast in the singers’ heights (calling Sonny a singer is pretty generous on my part). I think Bea, normally pronounced “BEE” … Continue reading
Five hundred days cumulative…finally
Too bad this only took me around four years and two Apple Watches to pull this off. Let’s hope getting to 1000 days will happen faster. I’m also curious if any owners who achieved this at some point in 2018 … Continue reading
Shazam! (aka Captain Marvel): Worth Seeing
Finally another notch in the win column for DC. It accompanies Wonder Woman and not the dreadful Justice League, Batman v. Superman, Man of Steel or the by-the-numbers Aquaman. A less-serious adaptation of their Captain Marvel (known as Shazam by stupid people … Continue reading
Chupacabracon VI is over and was great fun!
The Austin area’s primary gaming convention coincides at a bad time but I always go with it first because we don’t have anything better nor closer (allegedly HavenCon is trying to turn that around). GenCon is in Indiacrapolis (pass), DragonCon … Continue reading
Billvis & Butt-Ted
Both duos are low IQ types but Bill & Ted were more endearing since they didn’t use frogs as baseballs or put firecrackers into innocent creatures…and they wouldn’t vote for Donal Trump. However, Beavis & Butt-Head are closer to reality … Continue reading
Force Awakens meets Duran Duran
My favorite Duran Duran album mashed up with the cool, newer character from the Star Wars saga. The minimal of colors and porcelain skin applied to Rey via the Nagel style works pretty well.
Moontower 2019
Austin’s Eighth Annual Moontower Comedy Festival (aka Moontower 2019) was pretty good this year. For me, it wasn’t as cool as last year when they had the after party at a place the comedians enjoyed hanging out at but I … Continue reading
Todd Rundgren, an “Unpredictable Evening with”
Here comes yet another concert I attended over six months ago and finally posted about, Todd Rundgren. Even in a city with a somewhat exaggerated reputation for loving popular music, his name elicits either “who?” from most under 40 and … Continue reading
First thousand miles for 2019
Before I head out to enjoy my three-day weekend of geeking (or is it needing) out at Chupacabracon VI, I achieved 1000 miles on the exercise bike at the gym! A much better result than last year, I think I … Continue reading
1999: Spongebob Squarepants debuts
D’oh! Wait, that’s not his catchphrase. *Ahem!* BARNACLES! TARTAR SAUCE! Much better. Yesterday was the premiere of what became Nickelodeon’s biggest, most successful cartoon character. One could say, he’s the cable network’s equivalent of their Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny. … Continue reading
RIP: Peter Mayhew
What makes Peter’s passing even sadder was that he was scheduled as a guest for Austin’s upcoming comic book convention; he had spent his final years living in Texas because he married an American lady. Unlike David Prowse (the other … Continue reading