Michael Hopcroft

"It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

Ambush Bug dresses up as himself. Since he has been officially expelled from the DC Universe, it's a perfect disguise.

By burning down every Kosher Deli and Halal Grocer they can find.
 
We never said pigs were smart....

My new anime discussion group has two components -- movies and series. It's sort of like a book club -- the group (6 to 8 people depending on who can make the meeting) is assigned a movie to watch and a series to at least start.
 
The second meeting our series is K-On! (the exclamation point is part of the title). It's about a high school's "Light Music Club", four freshman girls who have revived a once-defunct school club and, on the basis of it, are starting a rock band. Sadly, their lead guitarist has never even picked one up before....
 
It's funnier than you would think. It's in the school comedy subgenre where the humor comes from the quirks of the characters as opposed to them being placed in outrageous situations. One of the defining elements of that subgenre is the lack of romance plots -- these girls are too busy with adjusting to high school and trying to start their band to even look at boys. Instead the girls do things like recruit, figure out how to devote time to actual music, and take weekend jobs to help their distractable new recruit buy her first guitar.
 
(The first meeting, when the assignment was made, we were put in the position of selecting our "waifu"s or "husbando"s in the process of introducing ourselves. It's a fairly standard anime-fan thing these days, but at my age it was pretty embarrassing. I ended up selecting Minamo "Nyamo" Kurosawa from Azumanga Daioh, partly because it would have felt really creepy not to choose an adult.)

NBA Scoreboards -- Portland is beating Brooklyn CXIV to CXII and Damien Lillard leads all scorers with XXXIII points.

This year's Children in Need single. God Only Knows by the Beach Boys with the sort of cast that you just don't get nowadays.

Q: I thought you'd find some humor in keeping my coffee table nice and shiny, so what gives?
 
A: Dlaczegokura przekroczyła ulicę? Aby dostać się na drugą stronę!

Nobody's seen David Duchovney in several months.
 
NT: Subtle signs your e-cigarettes aren't as safe as you were told they were by the ads.

Q: Why is Joe such a blasted heathen?
 
A: "I Dig A Pygmy" by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats!

It made a world of difference (and not in a good way) when George Lucas started really believing his publicity. Before Star Wars he was making crisp, tight films with little bloat or wasted footage. Then for a while he stepped aside, allowing experienced journeyman Irvin Kershner to direct and providing a team of screenwriters essentially a story outline. The result was one of the greatest space adventures of all time, The Empire Strikes Back.
 
It's a shame that he contracted megalomania, began to micromanage, and decided to stick every possible bit of effects, makeups and other things into his films. There are a lot of characters in Return of the Jedi and the prequels who wear the suits (or later were made via CGI) who had no real reason they had to be aliens. IIRC Jabba the Hutt was originally intended to be human.

It's the same day you're giving up smoking, heroin, and sniffing glue.

The cheerful, uplifiting Tom Lehrer classic "We Will All Go Together When We Go"!

The media discovers that each season is scripted to the smallest detail (including scandals) in a manner that puts WWE to shame.
 
NT: Subtle signs nobody cares what happens to your dog.

"The chocolate I'm going to give you is made with all-natural ingredients. What do you mean by that? Hemlock is natural!"

Water.
 
NT: Inventions where you Just Add Water!

Play an entire game of D&D 4e for six hours with no breaks. Put it on YouTube as proof.
 
NT: Subtle signs that maybe you shouldn't have posted that YouTube video after all.

The Hulk/Mr. Incredible pay-per-view makes millions but ends in a draw. After the fight, Bruce calms down and Bob buys him a couple of beers.

Most of the Zebra extras who worked on The Lion King, because their agents forgot to remind them about certain basic facts about life in Africa.

Even late in his life, Roy Orbison was amazing (especially that voice....)
 

Two words: Mel Brooks.
 
Two more words: Rick Moranis.
 
(Now if you'll excuse me, I'm getting some coffee. I always have coffee when I'm watching radar.)

"Let Me At Those Klingons!"
 
NT: Congratulations! You've just exterminated the entire Ewok species to the last infant! What's your next trick, O Man of Blood?

Every time you drive past a schoolyard, the more entrepreneurially-minded of the fourth graders start squeezing it and mixing the juice with water and sugar.

Every time you drive past a schoolyard, the more entrepreneurially-minded of the fourth graders start squeezing it and mixing the juice with water and sugar.

Gran Torino: The Early Years