Hotel creates Batman room

Mel Gibson asked to stage Christ's crucifixion

Mickey Mouse Meets The Air Pirates Funnies--a 1972 underground comic book that Disney sued into oblivion--is online! NOT SAFE FOR: work, kids, trademark, or The Man! Read it while you can!
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Air Pirates Covers! [Via Drawn!]

Brief Background!

Update: Here's Issue #2! [Via The Comics Reporter]

Let's all participate in the @$#%! American Family Association's comical new poll, Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design?

Clearly, the AFA hopes you'll vote for "Exposed to different ideas!" They understand it's the job of government to replenish America's supply of superstitious retards!

[Link: Goody]

Dial Hard

ROBBY REED spent the late 1960s spinning an alien space-dial that changed him into a series of messed-up F-list super-heroes:


That's right: the dial represented a bong or syringe, and the heroes he "became" were hallucinations or drug-induced "fits!" Oh, those 60s! Anyway, almost 40 years later, Robby--or someone claiming to be Robby--has turned himself into a significantly more common creature than Whozis, Whatsis or Howzis:


Yes, Robby Reed is a blogger! This would be disappointing news if he weren't producing such a great looking, high impact, fast acting blog! Six intense days a week, week in and week out, Robby addresses urgent topics like:

• Giant super-heroes!
  
• Absurd super-heroes!
  
• Sick comic book covers!
  
• More sick comic book covers!
  
• Sick comic book covers showing fat super-heroes!
  
• Adam (Batman) West!

AND he still finds time to design logos:


Thanks, Robby! You're my heroes! Now quit bogarting that dial!

Raffy & Rove

You don't have to care about baseball to get into this story, as long as you despise that #@%$! Bush!

A close compatriot of President Bush squats in a scandal so malodorous it led news shows from coast to coast. It's a scandal that some say is too hot for Bush to comment on. But there was the President, speaking without a stammer or stutter on this issue of pressing national concern.

There was only one curious twist. The scandalized bosom buddy was not the bosomy Karl Rove, but Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro...

Rafael Palmeiro and the Politics of Distraction
Common Dreams

Good analysis by Dave Zirin! The major points (and I'm paraphrasing):

• Bush weirdly front-burnered the steroid issue in his 2003 State Of The Union address in order to distract us from the build-up to his war!
  
  
• That came back to bite him this week when his friend & campaign donor Rafael Palmeiro became the first star ballplayer to be caught in the ensuing crackdown (leading Bush to express complete support for Raffy, as he has for Rove)!
  
  
• Steroid snitch/Palmiero accuser Jose Canseco--newly credible after Raffy's bust--says that when Bush owned the Texas Rangers he knew his players were juiced!

Zirin concludes:

We should press Palmeiro on what his friend in the owner's box, the former cheerleader from Yale, did and did not allow. We should take these Politics of Distraction, which Bush hoisted into our lives and drop the whole stinking, steaming, anabolic load on his front door.

* * *Update: Zirin writes Edge of Sports, a weekly column about sports and politics! You can read archived installments & subscribe for free here!

You might think just because you freestyle rap with your MP3s, the PepsiCo family of products has no relevance in your life. That could not be farther from the truth.

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Bush: Rove Has 'My Compete Confidence'



Bush Wants Intelligent Design Taught In Public Schools

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Lying to Congress is a very serious offense! Think about it: would Congress ever lie to us?

Cheese

Sharp-eyed SUPERFRANKENSTEIN operative Philip G. Smith hips us to an unforgettable site. Let's let My Celebrity Photographs introduce itself:

This site includes many pictures that were personally taken by Ron Newcomer during the past 25 years.

It's big and packed full of pix of Newcomer with Love Boat stars, Dukes of Hazzard stars, soap stars, and more stars!

And don't miss his (I'm pretty sure) one-of-a-kind page of Pittsburgh celebrities!

Dirty Harry

The Times Of India fears There Is Porn In Potter VI! Examples:

'There was no need to stick the wand in that hard,' he (Dumbledore) said gruffly, clambering to his feet. 'It hurt.' (p 64)

...a hole opened in the middle of all the tentaclelike branches; Hermione plunged her arm bravely into this hole, which closed like a trap around her elbow; Harry and Ron tugged and wrenched at the vines, forcing the hole to open again... (p 281)

Lupin burst out laughing. 'Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem'... (p 335)

'I dunno,' said Harry. 'Maybe it's better when you do it yourself, I didn't enjoy it much when Dumbledore took me along for the ride.' (p 355)

'You see?' Dumbledore said quietly, holding his wand a little higher. Harry saw a fissure in the cliff into which dark water was swirling. 'You will not object to getting a little wet?' 'No,' said Harry. 'Then take off your Invisibility Cloak... and let us take the plunge.' (p 556)

To support its claim that "children's literature might not be kidstuff after all," the article awesomely revives ancient gossip:

According to Fredric Wertham's 1954 book The Seduction Of The Innocent... Batman and Robin are gay.