Just In Time For Grift-Mas!
All year long I've been doing my level best to ignore our country's Orange Embarrassment, but lord,y he doesn't make it easy.Case in point: This week trump teased a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT, which churned...
View ArticleFuture Tensed
From The Department Of Sometimes Things Don't Turn Out The Way We Thought They Would:In the TNG episode Hide & Q, the god-like Q decides to prove humanity is easily corrupted by power by giving...
View ArticleIt's An Xmas Tradition: My Annual Reposting Of My Gift Tag!
I've been posting this Xmas Gift Tag for many years now, for anyone out there who's in a tough financial place during the holiday season. Which is probably most of us. Here it is again.Tough times call...
View ArticleChristmas A Humbug? Repost
 I first posted this way back in 2009, so it's high time for a repost!I wonder if Charles Dickens, in his wildest dreams, ever imagined we'd still be reading his little Xmas story over 160 years after...
View ArticleXmas Cards Repost
I first posted these beautiful, terrific Xmas cards way back in the Before Time, in 2003. Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire. That year I decided to make my own Xmas cards, and made a different...
View ArticleMy Annual Xmas Card/Book Repost!
Years ago when I finished my 2013 Xmas Card/Book, I swore it would be the last one. And I've kept that oath— there won't be a card/book this year. It's not that I don't enjoy making them, you...
View ArticleHappy Festivus 2022!
Hey guys, Festivus is finally here!During this hectic time of the year, I hope you'll all pause for a moment and think about the true reason for the season. Festivus is a time for quiet contemplation...
View ArticleThe Orville Season 3, Episode 10: Future Unknown
It's the Season 3 final of The Orville!And what a season it's been, too! It definitely took its sweet time getting to us (over THREE YEARS), but it was definitely worth the wait. Everything clicked...
View ArticleThe Sincerest Form Of Flattery?
Recently I found out there's a Japanese movie called Terra Formars, about colonists who go to Mars and have to fight off giant mutated cockroaches. It came out in 2016.Those suits they're wearing look...
View ArticleThe Perfect Disguise!
Just a reminder that in the 1966 Batman theatrical movie, the Joker wore a mask to hide his true identity.Let me repeat that by shouting it through cupped hands: The villain with paper white skin,...
View ArticleJust In Time For Grift-Mas UPDATE!
A couple weeks ago I posted that former president donald trump was teasing a "MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT," which inexplicably turned out to be a set of NFT digital trading cards (!). Naturally the cards...
View ArticleR.I.P. Boss From The Eighth Circle of Hell
Back in the 1990s I worked as a graphic designer at a marketing agency, for a rather colorful Boss. A Boss who knew little or nothing about the design process, and whose every move and decision made...
View ArticleCelebrity Deaths 2022 Part Two
As it is every year, Death just can't seem to take a holiday— not even with the pandemic slowing down. Or is it surging again? I honestly can't keep track of it anymore.Once again Death proved that...
View ArticleGood Riddance To Bad Rubbish, 2022 Edition!
It's that time again, when we all say a welcome "Good Riddance" to the current corn-studded turd of a year.Here's just a sampling of the treats 2022 had in store for us:• Vladamir Putin ordered his...
View ArticleR.I.P. Funky
When Funky Winkerbean premiered back on March 27, 1972, it was a mildly amusing "joke a day" comic strip about a high school kid and his cast of wacky friends.After twenty years or so of that, Funky...
View ArticlePassive Voice Chili
Saw this marquee outside Cleavers, a local eatery here in my hometown.C'mon, Cleavers, have a little confidence! Don't slouch your shoulders like a milquetoast and mumble that you think youre chili's...
View ArticleCrashing The Fellowship
I've probably seen The Fellowship Of The Ring fifty times since it premiered way back in 2001.Recently I watched it, and during the iconic Gathering Of The Fellowship scene, I noticed this guy lurking...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: M3GAN
I'M BACK! Back at the movies! Well, sort of...As regular readers of Bob Canada's BlogWorld (all six of you) know by now, I used to be positively obsessed with movies. I went to see them in the theater...
View ArticleIt's A Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead World
The Walking Dead may be over, but that doesn't mean it's gone away. I still see news and posts about it every day online.Like this shot, for example. You know, this kind of reminds me of something, but...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Paradise City And 80 For Brady
There was a time when theater lobbies across the land were filled with exciting movie posters featuring top notch illustrations. Sadly, that time is long past. These days the cineplex walls are...
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