Otter Disaster #8: Spelling Lesson

Bitstrips: Iron Maiden's Eddie!

Just to see how it would turn out, I built Iron Maiden's Eddie in Bitstrips. I then decided to create a Bitstripped version of the Number of the Beast album cover. Then I did Piece of Mind, Killers and yesterday I did the cover for Iron Maiden's 1980 self titled release:









Those are the easy ones. With Bitstrips' somewhat limited props, and poses, I'm going to have to get super creative to do Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, 7th Son of a 7th Son and beyond. Stay tuned...

Hands on my Missle!

Missle Command is one of my all-time favorite video games, so this is the coolest thing I've seen today:



I wish I had one of these in my living room.

Otter Disaster #7: Real Bum Signs

100K on my K-I-A

My 2000 Kia Sportage turned over 100,000 miles on my way home from work today. It might not have been the best idea to take a camera phone photo at 60 mile per hour on Interstate 225, but that was when the moment occurred:



It's amazing how giddy you get when all those nines roll away to reveal that one followed by all those zeroes.

More on the Kia and some of my other cars HERE.

Good News: Spaced on DVD

14 episodes (the complete series) of the totally awesome British comedy Spaced, are finally going to be released on DVD.

Speculation is that this is being done in advance an (ill-advised, in my opinion) American remake ala The Office.

If you liked Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, then Spaced will be right up your alley.

I can't wait.

Otter Disaster #6: Doggone

Based on a true event. . .

Otter Disaster #5: NFL or LSH?

I changed my Blogger template to accomodate the full Bitstrip/Image as opposed to the embedded player. I just think comics should be seen in context with all the panels in their proper place...

Otter Disaster #4: Pop Culture Reference

Vampire Boogie: Angel Gets Down and Funky

Posted for Mrs. Disaster who really loves her some Angel:

Prepare to Laugh: a List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time

Nerve.com and IFC have compiled a list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time Lists like this are always subjective, there are Carol Burnett sketches I prefer over 'Went With the Wind'(#22)for instance, but all in all a good sampling of great sketches.

'$240 Worth of Pudding'(#47) was a source of much joy for me and friend Lee during our college years. I could often be heard saying, ". . .and I'm Barry, Sagittarius."

Hubba Hubba: Zap Zap!

Barbarella/BSG Hotness here.

Charlton Heston: Dead at 84

Charlton Heston died last night. I always liked him as an actor, and his role as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes is one of my favorite perfomances in one of my favorite movies.

Heston also appeared as 'Mike' Vargas in Orson Welles' 1958 noir classic, A Touch of Evil. Another great role in another one of my all-time favorite movies.

When I was very young (and Catholic) I remember watching The Ten Commandments with my family every Easter.

1980's The Mountain Men was one of the first 'R' rated movies I ever saw. My neighbors had a giant KU band satellite dish, and I saw the film on HBO. I don't remember much about the movie save for lots of course languange and a fight scene that (if I remember correctly) had Heston's character taking a bite out of the man with whom he was fighting. I remember loving it, but haven't seen it since.

Since announcing his affliction with Alzheimer's, he hadn't really worked much, but his impact was great, and he leaves a legacy of great films.

Bitstrips: Otter Disaster #2 and #3

Otter Disaster: The Comic Strip

Bitstrips, which I blogged about the other day, allows you to create a series of strips under a title. I created Otter Disaster which seems to be a semi-autobiographical strip about my misspent youth.
Here is episode #1:

Bitstrips: Comic Strips Made Easy

Via Boing Boing.

Bitstrips is a very cool web tool that allows you to create characters, pose them, and put them in your very own comic strip.
Here is my first strip, and a semi-autobiographical strip from my college years. Any resemblance to people living is entirely intentional:

Paul Destroys Peden

Ron Paul destroyed Texas Congressional District 14 challenger Chris Peden, by about two votes to one last night. Paul will be unchallenged by a Democrat in November, so Paul will have two more years to be a voice of liberty and reason in the House. With his seat secure, I'm not sure where Paul goes from here, but there are still rumors of a possible Third Party Run.

In other news McCain acquired the necessary delegates to clinch the GOP nomination, and Mike Huckabee started making plans for Election '12.

Hillary won both the Texas and Ohio primaries to keep the Democrat Party nomination up for grabs. Obama looks poised to win the Texas Caucases though, which account for a third of the available delegates in that state. With the proportional distribution of delegates and the remaining primaries, it is unlikely that either Clinton or Obama will clinch the nomination, and the Superdelegates (Strange visitors from another planet?) will be the deciding factor. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. It could come down to a fight in Denver at the Democratic National Convention.

A Spoiler: REBORN!

Major Spoilers has indeed returned from the great beyond.



In their costumes, I'm not sure which one is Stephen and which is Matthew, but I'm glad these fine gentlemen have found their way back to Stately Spoiler Manor.

HERE is the tale of the return. Even though I don't read anywhere near the volume of comics I used to, I still enjoy them, and Matt and Steve's enthusiasm is infectious. Plus, now I know when to look for Nexus #100!

Major Spoilers: Back from the Dead?

I haven't talked to friend Matthew in quite some time, but it looks like there is something happening with Major Spoilers real soon.

Stephen Schleicher's blog has no clues either. . .

Ron Paul: No 3rd Party Run, and With Good Reason

I was always sceptical of Ron Paul's denials of his intent to run as a third party or independent candidate, and felt he was planning for that contingency once any GOP candidate aquired the necessary delegates to get the nomination. It seemed like the natural progression, once there was absolutely zero chance for even a brokered convention.

He announced last night that he will not go third party or independent so that he can run for, and maintain his seat in the House of Representatives. This makes sense to me. He can have at least some influence in the House.

Paul has always said that his movement was about the message and not the man. Part of his intent is to change the face of the Republican Party to truly embrace the principles of limited goverment, and staying in an elected position within that party makes a lot of sense. His presidential run has built a pretty good network of active people who really believe in his message of liberty, limited government, sound money and all the rest. Hopefully those people will stay with the party, move into positions of party leadership, run for office themselves and give liberty a true voice again.