Some called her a piece of junk, but she made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. She outran everything — from Imperial starships to big Corellian ships. She made point five past lightspeed. She might not look like much, but she had it where it counted. Yes, she was the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
In a cruel twist of fate, the quarrelsome and greedy Graeae Sisters, those daughters of Phorcys, dropped their one and only eye. Nobody, not even them, saw it coming.
Before the Ninja Juicer, there was Rovco’s Super Bass-o-matic ‘76™. In the classic SNL sketch, pitchman Dan Aykroyd did his best Pompeil to convince fish-eaters, that the days of troublesome scaling, cutting and gutting were, in fact, over.
“I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.”
– Katie Ledecky
On October 27th, the second season of the critically acclaimed Netflix series Stranger Things begins. It will be interesting to see how the psychokentic heroine Eleven returns after her dramatic exit in season one.
It could be argued that Yankee Aaron Judge has been one of the most dominating players in baseball this season. The 25-year-old right fielder uses every inch and ounce of his towering 6′ 7″ and 282 lb. physique to go deep. The proof: 52 regular season home runs and a Home Run Derby trophy to boot. Despite Judge’s disappointing postseason start (16 strikeouts in 24 at-bats), he now seems locked in. In fact, his 427 solo-home run in Game 4 of the ALCS is the second longest in the MLB this year.
I appreciate art in most any form and have a profound respect for artists who are masters of their medium. I’m inspired daily by young creatives who are discovering new methods of expression as they develop the skills needed to ideate and execute their designs. In a world that is overwhelmingly digital, I still feel it’s important to initiate ideas in analog. A lot of my tools today may exist in the cloud, but I still find my pens and sketchbook satisfyingly grounding.
For the love of money—and what it can buy—is the root of all sorts of evil. How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
The rail thin beauty was actually the star of E.C. Segar’s comic strip Thimble Theater ten years before Popeye was even a character. When the sailor finally did come along his popularity prompted Segar to rename his comic Popeye.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the comical heavyweight, Chris Farley. It was in the now classic SNL sketch where he plays ‘Barney’, a hopeful Chippendale auditioning in a dance-off against ‘Adrian’ (Patrick Swayze). After exchanging 90 seconds of wild exotic dancing (and physical slapstick), Judge Kevin Nealon dryly delivers the let-down,
“Barney, we all agreed your dancing was great and your presentation was very sexy. I guess. I guess in the end we all thought that Adrian’s body was just much, much better than yours. You see, it’s just that at Chippendales our dancers have traditionally had that lean, muscular, healthy physique. Like Adrian’s. Whereas yours is, well – fat and flabby.”
Farley knew he was fat and certainly those he worked with knew it, but his ability to combine naïveté and playful innocence with intense physical humor made him hard to ignore.