Comic book collector sells his stash to fund a BBQ restaurant in Portland, OR. Here’s a task to Portlanders reading this… go to this guy’s restaurant and let us know if smells like plastic sleeves and gamer.

This SNL skit may be Natalie Portman’s best captured performance yet.

Wearing this costume takes balls.

And I was tempted to categorize this under crumb catchers.

I had little hope by it’s title, The Ten Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. After all, most articles about the subject are by sci-fi literature fans, and they follow a formula. There’s usually a perfunctory nod to a sci-fi classic like Foundation or The Left Hand Of Darkness. There are often some token “hard sci-fi” entries like something from Niven or Haldeman just to show that he’s street (or the alpha-dork equivalent). Then the rest is filled with self-pleasing dweeb wankery. This tends to take the form of worshipping the latest Terry Pratchett excretion or Piers Anthony dingleberry. Yeah, cuz 400 pages of unfunny nerd puns translated to the screen mean critical or commercial success. The article linked above avoids these pitfalls. Just the right amount of geekery. It reads well and actually considers the challenges involved in making effective films. His entry for Snow Crash skirts the fringe of mainstream, but I feel that Snow Crash was written in a gritty cinematic style, so it could be translated to the screen, but I agree with his argument against it making money.

Guardian Unlimited has an interesting article on the last century of music plotted on a London Underground map. It’s got everything from The Clash to MF Doom.

Here’s the map.

Here’s a Gallery of Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine. Mid-century marketing at its best. This kid will eat pork and beans straight from a can. After that you can expect him hide under your bed waiting for you to stand up so he can cut your Achille’s tendons, Pet Cemetary style.

Check out how the drip falling from the spoon is portrayed as a glistening jewel to be savored (larger and clearer image). On another one, there’s a great slogan, “Meat… You’re right in liking it.”

Overheard in New York… the name says it all. Example:

Cabbie: Are you going this way? I’m not turning around!
Chick: What the..? I’m not hitchhiking, I’m fucking paying you, and if I tell you to turn around you damn well better turn around!

He drives away.

Chick: Yeah, fuck you too, cunty Mr. Crack Whore.
Hipster guy: Lady, you need therapy.
Chick: Man, you need to stop sucking dick. And a haircut.

–34th & 7th

An indie band has a music video about what happened to all the E.T. cartridges for Atari.