Metaphotos: That's what the Internet is for.

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/hundreds-of-tourist-photos

Flipping it in Backwards After a Bounce Pass!

"Flipper Is My Idol": SF Poets Attaboy & Burke from 2006

In 2006, a young pirate radio station called Radio X in San Francisco held a little fundraiser at the groovy Frank Chu hangout 12 Galaxies.  One of the performers was a funky 2-man poetry/spoken/rap wigga duo called Attaboy and Burke. Well, Radio X didn't last long, but Attaboy and Burke's Google trail extends a few years later into the 'aughts.

Here's a few numbers from A+B's performance that night.  Thanks for coming out and supporting local radio, dudes!

Some language slightly NSFW. 

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Amazon:

Burke's Law: Season 1 - Volume 1 (First 16 Episodes)

The Over-Caffeinated Helicopter : It's a Backflipper

Everybody who's seen Roy Scheider's 1983 conspiracy/helicopter epic "Blue Thunder" remembers one thing about helicopters (other than the Blue Thunder, of course): They can't do backflips.

The guys who fly a beverage-sponsored helicopter heard this, though, and said, "Bull!"

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things to buy at Amazon:

Blue Thunder

Red Bull Energy Drink, 8.4-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24)

Rare-ish "King Kong" Clip, With Person-Eating

King Kong Vore Clip, Kinda Rare


I don't remember seeing this clip in most versions of 1933's "King Kong", but I stumbled across it when I tumbled into the YouTube world of "Vore".  Vore clips are ones where a person gets eaten, as in, carnivore.  You can apparently flip through thousands of these in a row, if you're so inclined.

Of course, Fay Wray isn't eaten.  As I'm sure you remember, " 'Twas Beauty killed the beast", even in the Jack Black version.


Amazon:

Max Steiner: King Kong

The Cyclopean Centaur: What I Was Waiting For

For like the second or third time in ten years, I made the same video-viewing error. I wanted to see animator Ray Harryhausen's cyclopean centaur, so I watched "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" (featuring John Wayne's Son, Patrick Wayne as Sinbad, Tyrone Power's Daughter Taryn Power, and a very fresh-looking Jane Seymour), which is one of my least favorite Ray Harryhausen movies.  It's got an interminable boat chase from Persia to the Arctic (!), a giant walrus (ooooh, scary) and a poorly done sabertooth tiger at the climax.

But I trudged on, with minimal fast-forwarding, because I kept thinking that the last creature was going to be the cyclopean centaur.  But no, that's actually in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".  Duh.  

Pic from the very cool monster movie blog, MonsterBrains:  http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/

Monster Brains' Golden Voyage page:
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/06/ray-harryhausen-golden-voyage-of-sinbad.html

The Centaur and Griffin, YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQYvAn_q5c

Too bad the charming monsters always have to die in these movies  - Mighty Joe Young notwithstanding.  


Amazon:

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

You Don't Pay Me to Talk Pretty: Quotes from "Firefly" and "Serenity"

After he created the best, funniest, truest show about high school ever, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Joss Whedon then created one of the best sci-fi shows and one of the best westerns - *simultaneously*.

Here's a WikiQuotes collection of lotsa dialogue from the "Firefly" series and the movie spin-off, "Serenity".  After we get through "The Wire", I wanna watch my complete "Firefly" again.



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Firefly

                          art by the great Jason Palmer


Serenity (Collector's Edition)