Welcome! Traditional new bastard hazing requires you to list your top 10 favorite power pop tunes. (We eliminated the PGA enemas after that unfortunate trip to the ER back in 2010.)
Aughties Pop
Dumb band name, goofy video. But I find the descending hook addictive. I have no idea if these guys had any other good ones.
Still The Greatest Obituary Ever
Written by his (then) 18-year-old daughter.
Maybe you guys saw this a few years ago when it made the rounds on social media. My favorite joke in the whole thing is the one in the first sentence – I missed it the first time around.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ms. Makerbot and I finally saw Mission: Impossible – Fallout yesterday afternoon. I seem to recall enjoying the last MI movie (Rogue Nation?) a few years back, but couldn’t tell you much about it now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, probably more of a testament to the movie as escapist summer fun than a dig.
Anyway, my overall impression is that this one’s better than that one. Fallout has a just-complex-enough twisty plot, evil bad guys hellbent on world destruction, lots of great set pieces, and a silly-but-fun McGuffin. Say what you want about Tom Cruise’s personal life, the guy just wants to make great movies. And perform all his own stunts, if possible. He reportedly trained an entire year for one of them, and production was halted a few months after he broke his ankle performing another.
Have the Mission: Impossible movies always just been American James Bond with M and Q along for the ride?
Al Jaffee At 95
Inventor of the Fold-In, creator of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Still sharp as a tack.
This Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions is a classic.
What You Should Know About Sex Stimulants
And don’t forget the gallery of queer nudes.
Sometimes I Feel Like I Work Here
I want to get promoted to the abuse department…
Marvel Done Run Out Of Characters
A comix-loving bastard and a college football-loving bastard had offspring!
The above is last year’s model, but ESPN and Marvel keep making these.
Elvis ’74
Earliest known video footage of Elvis Costello , er…., Declan MacManus’ taken at E1 Festival, 1974, playing in “Flip City.”
From Open Culture.
Oh! Almost Forgot
Please welcome our newest bastard, TreeDangler.