The Pond
Before the CIA there was The Pond, and it seems like something Warren Ellis made up: “The head of the Pond was Col. John V. Grombach, a radio producer, businessman and ex-Olympic boxer who kept a small black poodle under his desk.”
Chewbacca’s Fierce Mount
Chewbacca rides a squirrel into battle against the Nazis. It’s a painting. Really.
Comically Vintage
“Meanwhile… a hideous group of subversive paleocomicologists plotted plotted schemes in the dark!!” Those schemes come to fruition in panels scanned at Comically Vintage!!!
One Genre Icon Interviews Another
Ian Fleming interviews Raymond Chandler. Yes, Ian “James Bond” Fleming and Raymond “Philip Marlow” Chandler.
Sammo at NYAFF
Can’t be in NYC to see Sammo Hung at the New York Asian Film Festival? Here’s footage of Grady Hendrix introducing Sammo Hung and Simon Yam before a screening of Ip Man 2.
Saturday Morning Happy Hour
Racial epithets. Topless women. Speeches interrupted by blowjobs. Steve Guttenberg. Doesn’t seem like fodder for a Saturday morning cartoon show. But in the late 80s the film Police Academy, which subjected viewers to such adult situations, spawned an animated series of the same name. Running for two seasons, […]
The Cultural Gutter 