Glyph Jockey Baseball Card: Sid Vicious

Here's another in the series of Rock 'n' Punk baseball cards from the incredible GlyphJockey. This time, it's hard-hitting rookie John Ritchie a/k/a Sid Vicious:

Glyph Jockey Hockey Card: Neil Young

Here's another one from GlyphJockey.com, featuring Neil Young:

Glyph Jockey Rock 'n' Roll Baseball Cards: Iggy Pop

Here are two more Rock 'n' Roll Baseball Cards from GlyphJockey.com, featuring the one and only Igster:

Glyph Jockey Rock 'n' Roll Baseball Cards, Vol. 1

Since Spring Training started this week, I'm going to feature some of the incredible punk/rock baseball cards from the geniuses at GlyphJockey.com on a weekly basis throughout the season.

First up, it's the Kinks' battling brothers, Dave and Ray Davies:

Yet More Reviews at Viewpoints.com

Books:

Hard Case Crime Series by Various Authors

Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops by James Robert Parish


Computers and Software:

Adobe Audition 3.0

Hewlett Packard HP Pavillion DV6000 Laptop


Electronics:

Blackberry - RIM Curve 8320 Cell Phone

Food & Drink:

Brown Cow All Natural Cream Top Yogurt

Cedar's Hommus


Local Places:

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum - Austin, TX

The Common Interest - Austin, TX

Historic Fort Tumbleweed - Rockdale, TX

The Jacksonville Jaguars - Jacksonville, FL

LBJ Library and Museum - Austin, TX

O'Steen's Restaurant - St. Augustine, FL

Seven Bridges Grille & Brewery - Jacksonville, FL

South Austin Museum of Popular Culture - Austin, TX

Tiff's Treats - Austin, TX

War Memorial Auditoirum - Fort Lauderdale, FL


Movies & TV:

The Black Dahlia

Bye Bye Birdie

Extras: The Complete Series

Hawaii Five-O: The Complete First Season

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

The Invisible Man: The Legacy Collection

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

The Mummy's Hand

Night of the Living Dead

Phantom from Space

The Phantom Planet

Street Kings

Top Ten Horror Movies of the '60s

Top Ten Johnny Depp Movies

Top Ten Marlon Brando Movies

Top Ten Movie Musicals of the '60s

Travel:

St. Augustine, FL

Idiot Culture

Carl Bernstein recently went on the record to complain about the "triumph of idiot culture," saying that much of today's news has deteriorated into gossip, sensationalism, and manufactured controversy. Good journalism, Bernstein said, "should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."

I usually try to avoid writing about the vacuous pop culture of today, choosing instead to focus on the slightly less vacuous pop culture of the '60s and '70s. But even though I don't spend a lot of my time thinking about the misadventures of Lindsay, Brit-Brit, and others of their ilk, I must say I was amused by Alison Jackson's naughty PhotoShop fun seen above and here.

The WGA Strike

The writers' strike is going to mean a lot of really bad television in the weeks to come. More shite reality shows and other unscripted trash to keep the Lowest Common Denominator anesthetized. No Daily Show or Colbert Report. It's ugly and it's going to get uglier.

Brian K. Vaughn, one of the writer-producers of Lost, explained the whys and wherefores thusly:

"Because writers believe we deserve a fair share of the revenue generated by the stuff we helped to create, crazy as that sounds. But basically, writers are looking to negotiate modest residuals and protections for use of our TV shows and movies on the internet, where most of us will likely be getting the majority of our entertainment from in the not-too-distant future. We're are also asking for a share of about 8 cents -- that's eight stinkin' pennies -- for every DVD of our work sold, as opposed to the criminally insane 4 cents we receive today..."

"I got to hear firsthand how hard the Writers Guild worked to negotiate a fair deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, but after more than three months of talks, the AMPTP still hasn't come close to even meeting the WGA halfway on its most important proposals. It sucks."

Yeah it does, but I've got a lot of reading to catch up on, anyway.

Lost in Negative Space

Here's another cool blog, "Lost in Negative Space" by Dutch movie maniac Peet Gelderblom. He's put together a collection of particularly outrageous exploitation movie posters, like this one for Bigfoot ("breeds with anything...") and if you know me, you know I loves me some exploitation movie posters.

Let them entertain us, the makers of strong images
Let us toss them copper pennies
But let us not forget
They make the images
We give them flesh
— Neil Gaiman