Have you heard these guys? Check out the song “Frankie’s Gun” and tell me if it isn’t the awesomest. I’ve been listening to it almost constantly for several weeks now. It makes me think of Eric Powell’s The Goon, and I don’t think that’s just because of the name “Frankie.” Although maybe it is.
April 2008 Archive
Happy Frakkin’ Birthday, Chris!
I was a big fan of Battlestar Galactica when I was a kid. Loved the show, wanted to be Starbuck: chomping on cigars, mackin’ on the ladies, raking in the cubits playing cards, and shooting down Cylon Raiders in my Viper.
Then Sci Fi did the whole re-imagining thing and I had mixed feelings about it. I wanted it to give me the same kind of childlike joy that the original series did, and after George Lucas had so thoroughly and repeatedly disappointed me on that count, I was fairly certain that the network that had given us dubious programming like “Stan Lee’s Lightspeed” and “Mansquito” would fail miserably. So, I didn’t even give it a chance. My friend Chris told me a few times to watch it, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
Anyhow, a couple weeks ago my wife read a quote from Joss Whedon saying that Battlestar Galactica was the best science fiction show on TV. Given the fact that Joss Whedon is my master now, I knew I had to watch. So here I am, just as the fourth and final season is starting, completely lost but wanting to know just what Joss thinks is so awesome.
So Chris comes to the rescue, loaning me the season one DVDs, and once again I’m late to the party but happy to be here, spending hours glued to the TV catching up on the first 3 seasons. Today’s Chris’s birthday, so just thought I’d give him this shout-out to say, “Thanks for the DVD loan–I wish I had listened to you in the first place.” Happy birthday, man.
Advertising
So I signed up for Project Wonderful the other day, made up a few ads, and started putting them up at various websites. Let me welcome any new readers that decided to check out Grandpa–hope you dig, and thanks for stopping by.
Last night I set up ad space here and at Grandpa Sex Machine’s Drunk Duck page and had a few ad bids when I woke up this morning. Thanks to those advertisers. Readers–any support that you can give to the folks that choose to advertise here would be appreciated. Thanks!
Bohemian Drive
One of my students told me about an awesome comic over at bohemiandrive.com called Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life. Description? Here’s what the site says about it:
A philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery.
It’s all that and more. You should go there now and read through the entire archive. Great stuff.
