I made you a blog… but I eated it.
Here’s who — compliments of the
Detroit Radio Advertising Group. All the websites listed too. The only
nitpick I could come up with is that 97.1 changed their logo last week
and it hasn’t been updated, and apparently the webmaster decided to
recreate Oldies 104.3 WOMC’s logo in MS Paint with Comic Sans. If I were
at 104.3 I’d be writing an angry letter with an attached GIF.
The WDDG studio does some beautiful flash work, but even when
“The
Badd Ass Project” premiered in 1999, the half-second two-color flash
animations and all the text literally run through the Jive Filter was
about as funky as Don Knotts’ ascot on Three’s Company. It’s called “The
Badd As Shit Project” now; well, they’re half right.
For the real funky kung-flash, it’s hard to beat the dialogue snatches,
fluid animation, and random Asian glyphs of Skop’s
later adapted into a Jet Li
vehicle that, while not quite as robust as the original, does have
some sweet German dialogue clips.
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Victor’s is the Legend of Zelda teaser ad [all the way at the bottom] — mine is the Colgate Pump commercial [fourth row, right], which, to this day I can only fathom, was supposed to be Colgate’s blatant appeal to the lucrative nine-year-old Sputnik fan demographic.
I can hardly wait for The X-Entertainment 00’s UGO Web Banner Archive, when I can relive “Renting DVD’s Over The Web Is Fun!”, that one spam-killing mailbox site, and the aloof-looking HotBabe67’s “seems cool here. wanna chat? ;-)” I’m not crazy about giving out personal information, but I would be glad to set a “married cookie” that tells the servers to send me ads for anything but dating services. Like, say, The Colgate Pump.
I know I could just block the ads, but I hate to download four different clips from that site and not give them anything for it. [The other three clips I downloaded were the Encyclopedia Britannica ad with Stan and Don Freberg; the Stride Rite “Zipz” ad; and the WWF Action Figures from LJN ad.]
Takes up a lot of desktop space, but still not as much space as if you
had actually hired someone just
to be your clock. Is the hand erasing
the number before it draws the next one, or just flipping the page over?
Remember when Worldcom was merging with
Imagine my delight at running across the official
apparently set up in conjunction with a very limited [like, one
theater one night] theatrical rerelease and a
DVD release of Fear of a Black Hat.
Rusty Cundieff wrote, directed, and stars. You might have seen one of his
bigger budget films, like “Sprung,” or, if you are/were a Michael Moore
fan, you might recall Rusty as the perpetrator of TV Nation’s New York
Cabdriver experiment, where scores of hacks zoomed right past Yaphet
Kotto, then starring in NBC’s “Homicide,” to pick up a white guy down the
street, only to be stopped by Cundieff and apprised of their passenger’s
convicted-felon status: “oh, and by the way, the guy on the other corner is
an Academy Award winner.”
“Fear of a Black Hat” is a Spinal Tap-esque mockumentary that manages
to skewer pretty much every facet of the early 90s rap scene, from NWA to
C+C Music Factory to Ice-T’s hardcover autobiography. I was one of the
six or seven people on this planet to see this film on the big screen the
first time, along with mah homeez Victor “Sylenz of Tha” Lams and Carson
“Tha Terra” Rizor. [I kid about the nicknames… I think.] If you were
following hip-hop back about ten years ago this film will probably give
you warm fuzzies as it makes you laugh your shizzle off.
So Mr. Lams has taken the opportunity to reintroduce us to one of the
supporting characters of Robot Love, “Vampire Baby,”
Flash stylee.
I’ve always wanted to know why he appears to be wearing a spacesuit under
his cape. Do Vampire children initially have trouble breathing in our
caustic, oxygen-rich atmosphere? I suppose the producers of “Interview
with the Vampire” took some license with Kirsten Dunst’s character,
then. Let me tell you, I saw “Spider-Man” again on oneathem fractal HBO
channels on Memorial Day, and Kirsten Dunst — she turned out all right,
if you know what I mean and I think you do.
I’ve heard Busta Rhymes rap over Knight Rider’s theme and Cannabuth’s flow
over the theme from friggin’ Night Court, but somehow nobody has looped
Game yet [that I know of].
