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mkupperman: Cursed merchandise.

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:26:17 -0400

mkupperman:

Cursed merchandise.

vivianredwood: Pug Appreciation Post

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:12:23 -0400

vivianredwood:

Pug Appreciation Post

jimllpaintit: Dear Jim, Please paint me Jimi Hendrix explaining...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:54:22 -0500

jimllpaintit:

Dear Jim,

Please paint me Jimi Hendrix explaining to an owl on his shoulder what a stick of chalk is, near a forest.

Thanks,

onemariannestephen

As sketchy as it appears to post a video that is selling my old...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:08:51 -0500

As sketchy as it appears to post a video that is selling my old Saturn, trust me. It turned out pretty good IMHO.

Our hero, Eli, must cross the Blacksnow Mountains, but there are...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:14:56 -0400

Our hero, Eli, must cross the Blacksnow Mountains, but there are hordes of man-eating big toes… and they haven’t eaten in days. (Taken with Instagram)

One time I was at a rock show and a server at the bar was...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:10:00 -0400

One time I was at a rock show and a server at the bar was wearing a vest with Jim Morrison’s picture on it (no shirt). Its design looked very similar to the image above. This guy walked past my friend and me and I, thinking I was a clever guy, started singing “RIDERS ON THE STORM” a little too loudly. For laffs!

This waiter, unfortunately, heard my hilarious aside. If you thought he would be amused you would be WRONG! He was enraged, immediately in my face and shouting “DO YOU WANT TO LEAVE, MOTHERFUCKER?” I can’t remember if there was also a threat of physical violence, but probably.

Anyway, names for Doors tribute bands have been a source of great amusement for me lately. I’ll be sitting around staring out my back door window, and SLAM! A Doors tribute band name will come to me. Here are some of my personal favorites. Feel free to contribute your own.

THE KNOBS: A tribute to the Doors

DOOR: A tribute to the Doors

DOORS JAMBS: A tribute to the Doors

COATTAIL RIDERS ON THE STORM: A tribute to the Doors

THE BARNDOORS: A hillbilly tribute to the Doors

THE PET DOORS: A tribute to the Doors (performed by singing dogs)

THE CORPSE: A tribute to the Doors with a Zombie Jim Morrison impersonator

THE CORPS: A US Marines’ tribute to the Doors

DOORS NT 4.0: A tribute to the Doors for IT conferences

MORDOORS: A tribute to the Doors and Tolkien-fantasy.

THE CIVIL DOORS: a tribute to The Doors, as reimagined by historical Civil War actors.

THE DOORS FOR WINDOWS: a Doors tribute on three multimedia CD-ROMs

THE JOB CREA-DOORS: a Republican Doors tribute

THE SWINGING DOORS: a tribute to the Doors that advertises in the adult entertainment classifieds

THE DOORKS: a nerdy tribute to the Doors

A TRIBUTE TO THE DOORS: A tribute to the Doors

Yeah I’m uploading this again. Last year I didn’t...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:10:38 -0400

Yeah I’m uploading this again. Last year I didn’t get it posted in time for the 4th, so it’s more topical this year.

I have a few of these in the hopper, but I really hate coloring these things in Photoshop. It’s slow, agonizing, boring stuff. Maybe I’ll post B&W versions from now on.

Super awesome. tyler-giesa: T-Shirt Idea. A tribute to George...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:24 -0400

Super awesome.

tyler-giesa:

T-Shirt Idea. A tribute to George Herriman.

robottiger: Paul F. Tompkins dictated this letter his latest...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:47:48 -0400

robottiger:

Paul F. Tompkins dictated this letter his latest “Pod F Tompkast,” and I assumed it was my duty to record his ramblings. I’m not sure if there are any newspapers that still carry the comic strip “Henry” (or if there are any newspapers still in physical existence), but if you feel the same outrage as the imaginary character that voiced this letter, feel free to mail it to the editor (or editrix).

when I can tell from the beginning of the presentation the client isn't digging the work

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:24:00 -0400

thisadvertisinglife:

#thisadvertisinglife

This has literally happened to me in each of the ways that this could literally happen to you.

HERE IS YOUR NEW RINGTONE. Or mine at least. My friend Justin...

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:17:00 -0400

HERE IS YOUR NEW RINGTONE.

Or mine at least. My friend Justin sent me a text this morning:

“Rastan ringtone-just an idea.”

So let it be written, so let it be done.

If you ever played this gem in the arcade, the epic electronic barbarian anthem is forever lodged in your brain. If not, there’s probably nothing to see here, although the screen below is pretty great.

Poetry.

What it's like to live in a small city of roughly 100,000 people.

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:00 -0400

Find any two Fargo residents. Me and someone else. While we may not have ever met, there is a strong possibility we have called each other “fuckface” in traffic.

Obligatory photo of the Fargo sign via m.eckelbergï£¿ on Flickr

Now you know.

Har har I made my own successories parody. Apologies to all who...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:34:00 -0400

Har har I made my own successories parody. Apologies to all who had this idea before I did.

When somethin’ smells…in the neighborhood…...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:44:48 -0400

When somethin’ smells…in the neighborhood… (Taken with instagram)

Donny Most. Corruptor of youth.

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:29:41 -0400

Donny Most. Corruptor of youth.

Make him dance to music too.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:32:00 -0500

This week I read the book, Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads by Kirk Demarais. It’s a quick-reading look at the incredible advertising from back pages of comic books and Boys’ Life magazines, with photographs of the lackluster items you’d actually receive after 6 to 8 agonizing weeks. Seeing the hovercrafts, Kryptonite rocks, Sea Monkeys, and gag items from Johnson Smith Company scratched an itch I’ve had for more than 25 years.

I got the expected nostalgic buzz, but I didn’t expect to love the book from a professional ad writer’s perspective. The copywriting that sold this junk is pure magic.

It’s true that there is some deception in the classic comic book ads, but I don’t think anyone got too bent out of shape when they lost a few bucks in the mail. Kids are great at imagining potential. The ad writers (and the artists) did an admirable job of doing the same. How else can you explain a balloon, a trash bag and a length of string that became a 8-foot skeleton that floats, dances and obeys your every command… or how a crappy pair of plastic glasses with slightly offset optics turned into “a hilarious, laughingly funny illusion!”

For chrissakes, the submarine ad below has you diving, maneuvering—even firing nuclear missiles and torpedoes for a mere $6.98. Of course, it’s all part of the “hours of imaginative play” mentioned in the fine print. These things are so tightly crafted. They’re beautifully enticing and so frustratingly, technically true.

In the afterward, Jesse Thorn wrote about childhood as a wide range of possibilities that slowly shrink as you age. Kids are susceptible to the exaggeration in these comic book ads because they have great, big, elastic imaginations. They see possibilities. And they can have a great deal of fun with garbage.

The copywriters from the past filled kids’ minds to the bursting point with hot air and impossible expectations. They, in turn, rose, jumped and darted to the mailbox, sending their allowance in exchange for envelopes full of crap.

Long story short, Mail-Order Mysteries reminds me of why I like my job—even though my clients actually make stuff that works. While I don’t get to write about polyethelene dinosaurs or memberships to Count Dante’s Black Dragon Fighting Society, I do try to imagine more than what’s in front my face, see the possibilities and make it dance to music too.

Some of life’s greatest secrets revealed! (Taken with...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:03:28 -0500

Some of life’s greatest secrets revealed! (Taken with instagram)

sirmitchell: threewordphrase I love Three Word Phrase so much.

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:18:10 -0500

sirmitchell:

threewordphrase

I love Three Word Phrase so much.

LES DIRTY FRENCHMEN COMIC BONUS! One of the best parts about...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:36:00 -0500

LES DIRTY FRENCHMEN COMIC BONUS! One of the best parts about thumbing through old comic books, in my opinion, is looking at old advertising to children. I must have been reading Seanbaby or something at the time because I decided to do our own version of the 70s/80s era Hostess fruit pie comic-book ads. In fact, I think that was the main reason I did the comic book. I wanted to make a Les Dirty Frenchmen hostess fruit pie ad. And here it is, colorized!

I play around in a band. On our tenth anniversary, we decided to...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:28:00 -0500

I play around in a band. On our tenth anniversary, we decided to put out our own boxed set. Why not? No other band in town has its own boxed set and we had all this junk we never put out. So we burned some CDs, put them in a set of 25 small plastic trash cans, and added a bunch of extras like trading cards, a t-shirt, the comic book you see here, and actual rubble from the demolished bar we spent our first six or seven years playing at. Anyway, for your amusement, here is the hastily thrown together Les Dirty Frenchmen comic book that accompanied the boxed set (titled CD-R-bage) that we sold at our 2009 10th anniversary show.

P.S. One of my kids made that ink stain on the front cover. I was too lazy to fix their contribution and I kind of think it’s cool anyway.