In this Japanese TurboGrafix 16 game from 1989, after successfully jettisoning through a toilet, you get to blast golden piles of turd, frogs and, uh, piles of golden turd! After a quick search on eBay, I learned you can pick up a copy of Toilet Kids for around $70 (!). Providing of course that you still have your TG16 game console. If not, a new or newish TG16 will run you anywhere from $50-$80 bucks. Being able to blast golden turds in the comfort of your own home? Priceless…
The Jackson Five covered this old-school Funkadelic jam on their February1970 release, ABC. A pretty ballsy move considering that Funkadelic, the first vinyl collaboration from George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, was released only a few months prior, midway through 1969.
Like so many of you, I still have the wicked sads about Jackson’s passing. Also, like you, I’ve been reading and watching coverage almost non-stop. While most of the media prefers to spin either manufactured or car-crash-at-the-side-of-the-road sensationalism, the final thought in this article from the UK’s Daily Mail pretty much nails how I feel about this whole morbid circus:
Now that he’s gone, maybe it’s time to shelve the suspicions and appreciate the music.
The Book of the Dude. Help spread the good news from the Church of the Latter-Day Dude! I forgot what that news is right now but I’m sure I’ll remember later. For AFJ.
More wisdom and “just take it easy man” stoner logic from The Book of the Dude can be foundhere.
Lebowski Fest 2009will return to Seattle on July 20th and 21st. This year’s festival will include performances by Har Mar Superstar, a party atAcme Bowlingand, and a special appearance by Jeff Dowd. The actual dude that inspired The Dude.More details about Seattle’s Lebowski Fest 2009here.
Thanks to the newly Unionized Freddy Pants for the Holy bong-water linkage…
Professional yeller and TV pitchman, Billy Mays is dead at 50.
The man who sold the world, Billy Mays, was found dead in his Tampa home yesterday. Stranger still is the fact that on Saturday, Mays had a near miss when the plane he was on blew out it’s front tires during it’s landing. It’s reported that Mays hit his head during the incident. Now it appears that Mays had a pretty devastating case of Heart Disease. The effects of which he likely succumbed on Saturday when he passed away after complaining of “not feeling well”.
My Rock ‘n’ Roll 1/2 Marathon Medal. Thanks to Wonder Woman for running with me and on her personal 1/2 marathon record yesterday. You are my hero.
Yesterday, I ran my first 1/2 marathon in the inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in Seattle. I finished in just over three hours. Though many predicted otherwise (including myself at times), I didn’t die. My apologies to those of you that will have to wait a little longer to divvy up my record collection. Anyway, here are some of the highlights from my early morning jaunt from Tukwila to Seattle yesterday.
The Michael Jackson Shrine between miles 4 and 5. Complete with a boom box blaring MJ and the chick with the sweet Afro busting a move with MJ’s photo in her hands.
The field was comprised primarily of chicks. 70% to be precise. Proving once again that girls rule!
Stopping briefly to check out the Grynch around mile 10.
I got a medal (see above. Seriously, it’s really mine)! And it wasn’t for drinking someone under the table. That’s next weekend.
The KISS cheerleaders bringing me home at mile 13.
Sprinting to the finish line!
The Cheetos I got to eat after passing on the “thanks but no thanks” complimentary MGD in the recovery area. Mmmmm, forbidden Cheetos…
Thanks to everyone that called and wrote to wish me well on Saturday. I’ll be back to regular posts tomorrow. Stay tuned…
Michael Jacksonpassed away at 2:26PM today at a home he was renting in Bel Air today. Details are still emerging but preliminary reports indicate Jackson died of cardiac arrest after attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. He was 50 years old.
Be Your Own Pet, Love Your Shotgun. From 2008’s Get Awkward. Which was pretty fucking awesome.
“I want your shotgun but you never get to cock it”.
That is last verse to Love Your Shotgun by Be Your Own Pet. It’s not everyday you hear the words, “shotgun” and “cock” in a song. And that’s a fucking shame.
Tomato Soup Cupcake from The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company. The best thing you never thought you wanted to eat…
The Tomato Soup Cupcake is The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company’s signature cupcake. I was not only skeptical, but a bit grossed out at the idea of a tomato cupcake. Thankfully, I’m not really that cautious when it comes to putting things in my mouth.
If you have the means, and you’re in Seattle, I highly recommend you head to Belltown and indulge your pie cake hole. Yellow Leaf does over 40 different cupcakes, offering nine different flavors every day. And if they weren’t sweet enough already, proceeds from the sale of all Yellow Heart Cupcakes go to support local charities.
Valay Shende is a 29 year old sculptor based in Mumbai. If you look closely at Shende’sGun, you will notice that both barrels of the weapon point in opposite directions, making the killer a victim by his own hand. Divinity symbolism is found in much of Shende’s work. For instance, in this photo, you can get a closer look at the religious symbols that adorn the top of every metal discs that makes up Gun. In Buddah Right, Marx Wrong, a car covered with logos from large corporations like Shell, Apple and McDonlads, hurtles toward a life-size gilded Buddah.
The stained glass window above is actually a still taken from the final season one episode of Six Feet Under. Funnier still is the fact that the fictitious Fisher family in Six Feet Under worshiped at an Episcopal church.
It Might Get Loud. Staring Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge.
David Guggenheim(An Inconvenient Truth) directed It Might Get Loud. After making the rounds on the film festival circuit, Loud will finally open in New York and LA on August 14th and nationwide shortly after that.
Personally, I’m still sort of on the guitar hero fence about The Edge’s participation in this film. I guess Joe Perry was busy. Keef left his amp at home, and was somewhere warm, avoiding coconut trees and playing pirate with Johnny Depp. Mike McCready’s guitar calendar was totally booked with stuff like reviving his 80’s metal outfit Shadow, gigging with his UFO cover band Flight to Mars for charity, recording the new PJ record and becoming a Dad for the first time. Eddie Van Halen is busy suing Nike, and BB King just doesn’t stoptouring. Ever. Which leads me to Angus Young, who sadlyonly riffs for Walmart now. A fact that always makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I think about it.
With that said, the film still looks boss enough not to miss. More on Loudhere.
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