“Bikini girls, dune buggies, daredevil surfers! Ordinarily this beach would be swarming with them, but not today, oh, no. They’ve all been cleared out to make way for painstaking sand preparation.” – TV Announcer A Briton named Martin Artman took to the beach and made some remarkably precise sand drawings of Homer, Marge and Bart: Click over to his Flickr page for higher resolution images of Bart and equally detailed sand drawings of Marge and Homer. Awesome. (found via)
Day: August 24, 2009
Zombie Simpsons In the Land of TV Tropes
The basic position of this blog is that Zombie Simpsons is just like regular television whereas The Simpsons was in a league of its own. One is not like the other. Current TV recently added segment to its InfoMania show called “That’s Gay” on which the host, Bryan Safi, takes a critical, and often very funny, look at how homosexuality is used and abused in modern culture. Last Wednesday he was making fun of the the way teevee shows routinely use chicks kissing as a throw away plot point that often mysteriously coincides with sweeps: The Simpsons relevant part starts at…
Quote of the Day
“What the hell is that?” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson “Why it’s a Death Ray, my good man. Behold.” – Prof. Frink “Hey, feels warm, kinda nice.” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson “Well, it is just a prototype. With proper funding I’m confident this little baby could destroy an area the size of New York City!” – Prof. Frink “But I want to help people, not kill ‘em!” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson “Oh. Well, to be honest, the ray only has evil applications. You know my wife will be happy, she’s hated this whole Death Ray thing from day one.” – Prof.…