Michael Hopcroft

"How was the concert, Bob?
"What?"
"I said, how was the concert, Bob?"
"Sorry, can't hear you. I was at the concert!"
 
I was actually in that position once, the day after a concert by a Celtic-Rock band called tempest at a local club. I had almost precisely that exchange at the start of the housefilk the next day.

A bit of blues to brighten your day.
 

The probe to Europa carries a sword to that if there's liquid water it could give it to the tart there, who will then give it to the next King.
 
NT: Ways to become King of the Britons that are somewhat less legitimate than having a watery tart hand you a sword.

Scott Joplin would not have been able to get away with it -- he took enough heat just for being a black musician -- but I think he would approve. He knew music and had classical aspirations. He even wrote an opera.

I wonder if Beethoven would have liked this interpretation. I certainly do.
 

Post your wedding video on YouTube, sped up by ten times with "Yakkity Sax" playing in the background.
 
NT: Subtle signs you shouldn't have signed that pre-nuptial agreement after all.

Q: OK, I give up. What does the Fox really say?
 
A: Thank God you're here to save us, Captain Has No Concept of the Vowel!

Q: And you want to cover every square inch of the Earth's surface with Ghost Peppers why, exactly?
 
A: Off we go, into the mild green yonder.

This is Halloween
 
For the Batman Animated villains
 

The Humungus asked you to catch the Feral Kid's razor-sharp boomerang. It did not go well....
 
NT: Subtle signs that the world after the Apocalypse is not what you would have expected it to be.

The Humungus asked you to catch the Feral Kid's razor-sharp boomerang. It did not go well....
 
NT: Subtle signs that the world after the Apocalypse is not what you would have expected it to be.

"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.