Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.

It was right around the release of Star Wars Episode I, and the new pastor thought if he brought modern pop culture references into his sermon, maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.

The sermon was a whole thing about “being a Jedi Knight for God” and it was insufferable. I’m not sure time has ever gone by slower. I was twelve and absolutely not won over, I wanted to crawl out of the pew and die.

I believe so!

#ea8917, I like a nice orange.

Andy, but they decided against it at the last minute. However, my dad’s brother and his pregnant wife really liked the name, and a few months later my cousin Andy was born.

Perv here. Gimme a plain cheese all day every day!

It’s a tough call. I do think there’s absolutely merit in having a broader “fantasy and scifi art” community, but to me part of the appeal of the Imaginary Network is the specific niches, like dragons or witches or spaceships or whatever. So I’d feel a little weird adding an “Imaginary Everything” to the Network.

I also definitely wouldn’t want this Fantasy/Scifi Art community to replace (accidentally or otherwise) the other Imaginary communities. They may not have daily new art, but Imaginary Starships, Witches, Merfolk have all been updated fairly recently, and I would feel very bad about making a new community that basically comes in and diverts attention away to the smaller, more specific Imaginary groups.

If the dragon doesn’t get her, the sun’s UV rays will. That’s gonna be a hell of a sunburn.

You’re right. How are we gonna ever beat Boktai without the sun?

Weren’t there some people worried about the end of the world with the most recent solar eclipse?

Cathy Berberian - Stripsody

An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.

Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride. I’m pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.

No joke, I think about “do all your shopping… at Wal-Mart!” more than I should.

Funnily enough I loved the Wet Paint song and looked forward to it BECAUSE they throw paint at the screen and I thought that was really neat. Just goes to show you how these little skits affect kids in wildly different ways

I-beam

If you don’t watch the video: it’s footage of an I-beam being created at a factory. As an adult, this is not scary. As a young child, this is terrifying. There is no narration, none of your Sesame Street friends are here with you. This is a large glowing letter I that the camera never breaks away from. It’s mashed and chunks appear to break off of it. The music is a ominous sounding piano with occasional trumpet bursts and anvil clanks. At the very end the camera freezes on the I-beam and we get two final crashing piano and anvil notes. The whole thing lasts less than a minute, and then we’re on to the next segment. There’s no context for what you just saw, no lead-in, and no one makes mention of it after.

It scared the hell out of me. If I saw this early in the morning, I’d be in an anxious state for the rest of the day.

Some digital artists use Switch JoyCons for shortcuts in Clip Studio and other painting programs.

Is there an echo in here?

According to my parents, it was I Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison. I was a toddler and apparently loved that song.

But the first one I distinctly remember was the B-52’s Love Shack.

Dick Van Dyke comes from an era where it would be real easy to do a lot of bad shit without anyone ever knowing, and I hope he never did.

Since the Internet Archive has already been suggested, you might also want to check out the Queer Zine Archive Project

My high school didn’t have them, but the vocational school where I took extra classes did, as did our family’s PC. I thought they were great. This was about 2001-2004ish, flash drives weren’t a thing yet, and burning a CD to hold a single word doc or powerpoint or something like that seemed really wasteful.

Sometimes I would put a couple mp3s on a zip drive and bring them to school to listen to while I was working on a project.