"Garth" art by Martin Asbury, rare Dudley D. Watkins original, to be offered at auction next week
Warwick-based Griffin's Auctioneers and Valuers has included a number of original British comic artworks in its upcoming Antiques, Interiors & Collectables auction next week
Dylan Thomas Reads A Personal Anthology, TC 1294, Caedmon, 1968 [Craig Moerer Records By Mail]. Cover Art: A pencil sketch of Dylan Thomas by Soss Melik done in 1952 while Thomas was staying at Chelsea Hotel in New York. Cover Design by Oraston Brooks-EL
learning about how governments across the world have dealt with epidemics across history is so weird because i’ll be reading about how Ronald handled the AIDs crisis and go hm. thumbs down.
Thank you, Passle! CMO Series Podcast Top Picks of 2023
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J.D.'S REVENGE (1976) Reviews of blaxploitation classic
J.D.’s Revenge is a 1976 American blaxploitation horror film produced and directed by Arthur Marks from a screenplay written by Jaison Starkes for American International Pictures (AIP).
The movie stars Glynn Turman, Lou Gossett and Joan Pringle.
Plot:
Isaac Hendrix (Turman) is a young college student studying law and a taxi cab driver in New Orleans. While out on a night of fun with his friends…
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO DIRK GENTLY: ALL THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE REFERENCES I'VE NOTICED IN DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY (a.k.a. everything is connected)
(spoilers)
this took a good couple of hours and I tried to do this in order; buckle up!!
SEASON 1:
the posters on the windows as todd is walking by the convenience store place has a silhouette of a falling whale, what I assume is a reference to the infinite improbability drive whale, and an ad that says "zaphod," a reference to zaphod beeblebrox (s1e01 'horizons')
(also todd's stance here is so funny to me)
the rowdy 3, consisting of four (and later five) members, could be a reference to how the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is called a trilogy that happens to consist of 5 books ("there are four of them!" "I'm wildly aware")
one of the screens in the death maze has the number 42 on it (s1e04 'watkin')
SEASON 2:
there are 42 blackwing subjects
farah's awesome jacket with "D Adams" on it and the number 42 (multiple episodes)
the boretons' dog is named agrajag, which is the entity that arthur dent accidentally kills in every incarnation. unfortunately he dies here too (multiple episodes)
in the tree car, farah remarks that "the odometer's only on 42 miles" (s2e02 'fans of wet circles')
the book francis cardenas has by him as he's having the nightmare that says "PANIC!" on the cover (in what can only be large, unfriendly letters), with the subtitle "attack devil dolphins." (s2e07 'that is not miami')
the executioner guy in wendimoor calling dirk a "hoopy frood" as he helps him unload the scissor blade things (s2e08 'little guy, black hair')
the blackwing phone number on the business card, "555-424-2424" with a wild amount of 42s (s2e09 'trouble is bad')
dirk telling himself "don't panic" before jumping into the portal (s2e09 'trouble is bad')
Did you name two of the Tusklys after the Wilkins and Wontkins Muppets or was that a coincidence? [or, secret option three, did I mishear one of the names which is also entirely possible ^^]
WELL funny story: the answer is yes I did but also no-
Wilkins is 100% named after the Wilkins coffee puppet. There was a scrapped joke/idea that Kelpin’ would serve “kelp coffee” which is why he was named Wilkins, after the Jim Henson commercials :D
Watkins is named Watkins because when I did my first little hiatus in early s3, I was supposed to write a note from Wilkins, but I misspelled it, and accidentally said “Watkins”— and instead of admitting I made a mistake, I just,,, played into the bit and made an entirely separate employee named Watkins ajfshkgd
And since I now had Wilkins and Watkins who were brothers-in-law I thought it would be funny to just give them ALL w-names as I kept making new piglins haha