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The Ghostbusters’ Symbol Made out of Lego 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Looking at this Lego art, I think that this might be something I could actually make. I will need to dig through some boxes and find my Lego first and then see if I have enough red and white. I … Cont...
Dropping a Hammer and Feather on the Moon 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
How about this as a setting for science demonstration? With the lunar module and a mountain as a backdrop, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott recreates Galileo’s famous gravity experiment in a low-gravit...
The Night is about to get Longer: Nightbreed The Cabal Cut is Coming! 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Hey Creeps! In my last post I mentioned the April 1990 issue of Fangoria magazine that featured a piece about the unproduced adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, but of course that wa...
Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I know there has been mention of the Pringles’ Jingle Game on here, but I wanted to share a couple of commercials for the Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips, as they were called when they first came out...
Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Dead Fox 26 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
I have sometimes wondered about the twisted existence depicted in the Casper cartoons, at the fact that Casper always makes at least one friend in every episode, yet is friendless again in the next. I...
Snarfing Since ’87 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It really is amazing what you can make on a tablet computer. Hayden Yale put this idea for a t-shirt featuring Snarf together on an iPad. I do think it would make a great t-shirt, but I think it would...
Tron FLYNN LIVES Printed Circuit Board 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
I am starting to lose hope that we would see more TRON films, but people like kcirtdnim are keeping hope alive with items like this Flynn Lives printed circuit board. It is currently sold out, but the...
Demolition Man Action Figures?? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I went to a flea market this weekend and while wading through a pile of fast food premiums I came across a Simon Phoenix Demolition Man Action Figure. He was in rough shape, so I didn’t pick him up, e...
Mattel Hot Look Sunglasses 26 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
Few things were as cool and essential in the 80s as sunglasses, and few sunglasses were as cool and essential as the Hot Look line of sunglasses by Mattel. Hot Looks sunglasses had “radical” lenses an...
Behind The Scenes: The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) 25 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Peter Lorre is one of my favorite character actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. I’ve enjoyed his work in bit roles like Casablanca up to his larger parts in the Roger Corman horror/comedy fare su...
