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November 24, 2020
America’s Favorite Hobo’s Bridge
I took a wrong turn the other day and ended up on the Boxcar Willie Memorial Overpass. It wasn’t a particularly fancy overpass, which I guess is fitting. And there wasn’t much to see. Just cars passing under the overpass and a surprising lack of trains. And there wasn’t any fanfare leading up to it […]
November 23, 2020
Harry In Your Pocket
If you’re persistent enough, you can find movies on Amazon Prime that are older than my kids. I’ve been plumbing the depths of Amazon Prime and stumbled into a genre I’ve never really watched, forgettable James Coburn movies (so most James Coburn movies). I recently watched the 1973 pickpocket feature, Harry In Your Pocket. Which, […]
September 9, 2020
The Last Band of the Apocalypse’s Merch Table
Caught between state fair gigs when the bombs went off, a struggling cover band soon found itself the last band in the world. With this dramatic shift in market forces, they decided to cast off their pre-end moniker and rebrand themselves as Harmeggedon, the most metal band in the world. Now you can get exclusive […]
September 8, 2020
Star Wars: The Hallway
This is brilliant. At some point there was a brainstorm at Hasbro where they determined that there couldn’t possibly be a character, vehicle, setting or moment left from Star Wars that wasn’t already a toy. Then someone, probably a smarmy young upstart trying to make his (or her, women can be smarmy) mark said, “What […]
September 7, 2020
What I’m Reading: Make Room Make Room
I love a good dystopian tale. I also love reading things in Charlton Heston’s voice. So I am looking forward to finally reading the book that inspired Soylent Green. Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. In 1798 Thomas Malthus published his Essay on the Principle of Population. And then, 160 years later, it scared all […]
September 2, 2020
Danger Bear’s Time Machine: The Sticker
From the pages of Danger Bear’s Time Machine comes the bear himself, steaming through time. In the coloring book our hero as he takes an adventure through H.G. Well’s Time Machine and encounters the Morlocks, giant insects and future jerks. In this sticker, he’s blazing through the ages on the time machine itself. Get it. […]
September 1, 2020
The riddle of plastic is finally answered
“Conan, what is best?” “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!” Why was this never a kids’ toy? I no longer have the available shelf space nor the disposable income to play with toys the way I used to. And for that, I blame my […]
August 31, 2020
What I’m Reading: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I didn’t discover the Discworld books until just a couple of years ago. And since there’s 40 something of them, I’ve got a way to go. I jumped around for a bit at first and read some Death books and the City Watch novels. But I’ve […]
August 27, 2020
Danger Bear Industries
Our goal here is to make fun on an industrial scale. We named our company with that goal in mind. And, now, we can stick it to things. It’s definitely a step in the right direction. Grab a Danger Bear Industries Sticker and help us make fun.
July 24, 2020
The Mammoth Flautist
The modern-day flautist gets a bad rap, probably. The flute has a light sound. It’s small. True. it’s no more phallic than some of the other instruments, but having to make that kissy face the whole time doesn’t help. And in Peter and the Wolf, it stands in for the […]
