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Sunday, May 01, 2016

An obeisance made, sort of....

Dear ones, since last we met I have endured a 3-week quasi-flu; 3 bed-days, and the rest of the time getting over it. EXTREME lassitude. After a few days of couch-riddenness, I could get up, accomplish one task (say, loading the dishwasher), and then, back to the couch. 3 weeks on the dot, I was Suddenly Better.

You know the fun bit? The Dread Dormomoo had it too!

But we're feeling MUCH better, now!

Nonetheless, many apologies for apparently forgetting my dear friends and fiends!

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"The Car" on Svengoolie.
This makes "Maximum Overdrive" look like "Citizen Kane".

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So I guess the only thing is to change our business name to Varky McVarkface.
Can I get a witness?

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I feel an acute need for the interrobang.

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Dear custom screenprinters.
Massively lowballing your prices may get you jobs.
It won't get you paid adequately for your efforts.

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Getting over that flu-thing put us well behind in dealing with the hive. We went out after dusk, and proceeded to medicate the li'l darlin's. We bless them prior to working with them, and maintain calm, and much smoke!! We need to split the hive, and acquire a new queen. They were vigilant, and of course a couple buzzed us to assert their territory, but no stings were had.
If we were to acquire no honey, their work and presence would be sufficient.

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Whilst doing sublimation t-shirt prints last night, I enjoyed Walt Disney's paean to Operation Paperclip, "Man in Space". Many of "our" German scientists and experts appearing on camera to talk about space sciences. VERY good documentary entertainment, but I was unaware that there was no World War Two. The sanitised history almost makes V-2 rocket production seem like the result of a nationalised German rocket club.

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I just saw an advert for a movie. "Keanu, Gangsta Kitten".
Do I need to start praying for the asteroid now?

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My new design:



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Dear mercy. I am so incredibly annoyed. Having to self-censor shirt designs for what isn't there because of people who insist on seeing things that aren't there.Potentially.
NEVER apologise to the SJWs. Never back down. It only gives them ammo to use against you, whether you did anything or not. ESPECIALLY if not.

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In other news, it has troubled me that I have never liked "The Incredible Hulk" TV series. I finally sussed out why.
It's not the Hulk.
The Hulk is MASSIVE. Lou Ferrigno is muscular and green. The Hulk can tear tanks apart. The TV Hulk can flip over a light bulldozer. He;s what the anime crowd would call "TV-size".
The Hulk fights against gamma-powered super-geniuses, and against alien hordes. TV Hulk overcomes mob bosses and anti-farm union baddies.
TV Hulk is Jim Rockford.

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Dear science fiction writers writing "language from antiquity" scenes. Please get your tenses and all right when writing "King James-ey" dialogue. It would be "Thou hast the power.", not "Thee has the power." It...annoys.
Mr. Sturgeon, I'm looking at you.

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Being the most reasonable man on Facebook really takes its toll.








1 comment:

Michael W said...

"Nonetheless, many apologies for apparently forgetting my dear friends and fiends!"

What? We don't get called your "unfathomable finks"? Just so we can reply "YO HO MISTER AARDVARK!"?

Seriously, though (or at least almost), having been rendered hors de combat by recent illness, I can well imagine you and the Dreaded One not being in any mood to communicate. Mondo sympathies.

"Whilst doing sublimation t-shirt prints last night, I enjoyed Walt Disney's paean to Operation Paperclip, "Man in Space"."

As a classic space buff I love those films. Got the entire collection (minus "Man in Flight", which the jerks at Disney put in another collection).

Reminds me of an old Tom Lehrer line: "Ve just send them up, ve do not bring them down. Dot's not my department, says Werner von Braun".

(Also reminds me of a great Patrick McGoohan line from "Ice Station Zebra": "The Russians put our camera made by 'our' German scientists and your film made by 'your' German scientists into their satellite made by 'their' German scientists.")

Speaking of trailers, have you seen the one for the new "Ben-Hur"? It takes Lew Wallace's classic "A Tale of the Christ" and turns it into a Roman Empire entry in the "Fast and Furious" franchise.

"In other news, it has troubled me that I have never liked "The Incredible Hulk" TV series. I finally sussed out why. It's not the Hulk."

I had the same problem with "The Adventures of Superman". Here we have someone who can bend steel in his hands . . . change the course of mighty rivers . . . and he's essentially rescuing cats out of trees and nabbing jaywalkers.

(Have you seen "Daredevil" and "Jessica Jones" on Netflix yet?)

"Dear science fiction writers writing "language from antiquity" scenes. Please get your tenses and all right when writing "King James-ey" dialogue. It would be "Thou hast the power.", not "Thee has the power." It...annoys. Mr. Sturgeon, I'm looking at you."

(Whew! Dodged a bullet that time.)