“Oh my God! This is a disaster!” – NASA Administrator “Gotta go!” – James Taylor Plenty of entertaining flotsam washed up on the shores of the internet this week. We’ve got weird YouTube, excellent usage, a voice actor map, and a Simpsons reference from the Stanley Cup finals. Enjoy. “Deep Space Homer” by Mark Englert – Dark Ink – It’s beautiful, it’s the most awe inspiring sight I have ever seen… Sadly, they are already sold out. But the same site has some pretty cool images in a similar vein from Futurama and the like. Simpsonwave is the chill new aesthetic that…
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Reading Digest: Azaria Graduates Edition
“Now, come and get your catskins, uh, I mean sheepskins.” – Krusty the Klown Short reading digest again this week, but we’ve got a couple of great links, including a guy who truly hates Zombie Simpsons, and an amusing YouTube video from Azaria. Enjoy. Hank Azaria gives graduates advice as characters from ‘The Simpsons’ during commencement speech – Azaria is a crowd pleaser, “When in doubt, always pull out the Simpsons voices”: I don’t know if he wrote these or had one of the writers do it, but there are some pretty good ones in here. I particularly liked Apu: “Remember…
Reading Digest: Cake and Stupidity Edition
“See? You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a first class wedding reception.” – Homer Simpson Zombie Simpsons had a gimmick last Sunday, which was Castellaneta taking live calls while very little happened on screen. It was novel but pointless, so as far as the desperation of their publicity stunts go, this ranks somewhere in the middle. Marketing and pageview desperation being what they are, plenty of people on the internet wrote it up. There’s a couple links below, though none of it is really all that interesting. The tl;dr version is that they used thinking…
Reading Digest: Hardcore Fans Edition
“I’ll field this one. Let me ask you a question: Why would a man whose shirt says ‘Genius at Work’ spend all of his time watching a children’s cartoon show?” “I withdraw my question.” – Fat Nerd Mark Kirkland had the above experience more or less exactly on Reddit this week. It’s funny, but probably not for the reasons the Redditors think. In other news, we have a grotesque Bart mask, cheese eating, transparent Zombie Simpsons agitprop, and more. Enjoy. How Homer Simpson, 64 slices of American cheese and a stomach of steel led to #Cheesefest – Smooth Charlie’s Link of…
Reading Digest: Link Patrol Blows It
“Food patrol, we’re all starved! Let’s see what you’ve got. That’s it? What happened to all the lobsters, mangoes, and chewy chewy cocoa beans?” – Bart Simpson It’s a seriously short Reading Digest this week, which means either not much is going on or my link finding skills have atrophied. We do have some more of those FXX promo things and a pretty good review of “Raging Abe Simpson”, so it’s not like there’s nothing. Also, Dave yelled at me for not linking more TV stuff here, so if any of you want to see me praise something with the same fervor…
Reading Digest: Prince Non-Prince Edition
“And tonight, the following celebrities have been arrested.” – Kent Brockman If you’re binging on Prince-internet right now, there is one link for you below and that’s it. Other than that we’ve got sexy Simpsons quotes, a neat animation that I think was for FXX, and the central hub of Simpsons merchandise in China. Enjoy. Remembering The Prince-Themed ‘Simpsons’ Episode That Never Was ♫ theMusic.com.au – It probably would’ve been hilarious. Then again, the odds against “Stark Raving Dad” actually working once were pretty astronomical, to get that a second time… The Simpsons ‘Stretch’ by Laundry – I don’t get FXX, so…
Reading Digest: French Middle School Kids Edition
“Bonjour, you cheese eating surrender monkeys.” – Groundskeeper Willie I may still try to get these up on Thursdays, but that didn’t even come close to happening yesterday. On the plus side, we’ve got a ton of crappy (and creepy) old merchandise, a look behind the scenes at Universal Studios, French children, and an erudite if weak sauce look at one of the many reasons Zombie Simpsons sucks. Enjoy. Petition · EA Games: Develop a sequel to “The Simpsons Hit & Run” – Got this in an email from reader Hassaan M., who shares a love of Hit & Run with…
Reading Digest: [Yawn] What Time Is It?
“Just resting my eyes!” – Homer Simpson “Ah, well done, a rested employee is a vigilant employee.” – C.M. Burns “Monitoring station unmanned.” – Nuclear Inspector And we are back. I missed you all during my uneventful absence. I’m tentatively planning to do doing Reading Digest on Thursdays now, but we’ll see. Links, ahoy: Kamp Krusty – A great new fan site with a ton of Simpsons images and memes you can download. The creator was nice enough to email this in last month, and I’m just getting to it now. (If you’ve sent an e-mail to the deadhomersociety gmail account in the…
Reading Digest: In Denial About Season 27 Edition
“Homer, I want you to look at this drawing Bart did.” – Marge Simpson “Oh, it’s beautiful! Oh, let’s put Bart’s beautiful drawing up on the fridge-” – Homer Simpson “Homer, stop! Would you please look at the drawing?” – Marge Simpson “Oh, alright . . . Ahh! Burn it! Send it to hell!” – Homer Simpson “I think we’re going to have to get Bart some help.” – Marge Simpson “Get it away.” – Homer Simpson Very short Reading Digest this week as pretty much everything tagged “Simpsons” on the internet was linked to FOX’s big marketing push for…
Reading Digest: Arty Milhouse Edition
“Ever since I became a movie star I’ve been miserable. I had to get up at 5am just for makeup. I like the way the blush brings out my cheekbones, but it’s not worth it.” – Milhouse van Houten There’s a simple and very creative Lego Milhouse picture this week that headlines a collection of cool fan art in the mediums of Lego, ink, cross-stitch and more. We’ve also got a bunch of lists, more Season 2, Burns memories, a couple of pieces of great usage, and more. Enjoy. May-August developments in new works… – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the week…
Reading Digest: So Short It Barely Exists Edition
“Well, it was a good ride while it lasted. Come on, kids, let’s go home.” – Homer Simpson “We are home.” – Bart Simpson “That was fast.” – Homer Simpson It’s a holiday weekend and I’m very pressed for time as I am going away from the internet for a few days, so this is a very short Reading Digest, but we do have an alternate reality Simpsons, some fan art, plenty of Season 2 recaps, some great usage, and moar Lego stuff. Enjoy. NOTE: I am aware via e-mail and such that the comments section has gone to hell…
Reading Digest: What Do You Want, It’s August Edition
“Lisa, don’t sit in front of that telly like a fly stuck in a toffee. It’s a great big world out there!” – Shary Bobbins “Been there, done it.” – Lisa Simpson Very short Reading Digest this week on account of the fact that there’s always a lull at this time of year because people with more sense than me are outside and away from their keyboards. We do have some love for Season 2, some extremely crappy merchandise, some excellent usage, some more Bart art, and an Icelandic Homer, so it’s not all bad. Enjoy. The Dark Past Of…
Reading Digest: Marriage Through Simpsons Edition
“There certainly are a lot of stains on the ceiling.” – Marge Bouvier “Marge, I’m sorry. I wish I could afford a better place.” – Homer Simpson “Homer, I’d be lying if I said that this is how I pictured my wedding day. But you are how I pictured my husband.” – Marge Bouvier “I am?” – Homer Simpson “Well, you may not look like Ted Bessell, but you’re just as nice.” – Marge Simpson A cultural touchstone as broadly known and deeply loved as The Simpsons is bound to bring people together, and someone wearing small pigs for cufflinks at…
Reading Digest: Global Calls for Cancellation Edition
“First of all, his accuser is a very shady character. That waiter, Mr. LaCoste, not only wasn’t born in Springfield, he wasn’t even born in this country!” – Blue Haired Lawyer “From now on, you tell me everything!” – Lionel Hutz This week we’ve got two different foreigners calling for the show to be sent to a farm upstate, and both are agreeably brutal towards Zombie Simpsons. In addition to that, we’ve got reports from that LA art show, the play has expanded its reach again, there’s some excellent fan art, another person’s going to try and watch them all, and…
Reading Digest: Bands! Edition
“You got Poison to play at our wedding?” – Becky “We’re Cyanide, a loving tribute to Poison.” – Cyanide Singer “We need a ride home!” – Cyanide Drummer This week we might have a link of the month instead of a link of the week. From Australia comes a list of bands with names from the show from all over the globe. I’ve linked maybe three or four of them on here, and I had no idea just how many there really were. It needs to be seen to be believed, and it’s hard to conceive of another show offering…
Reading Digest: Fan Made Crossovers Are Better Edition
“But first, move over Baltimore! Springfield has stolen your idea!” – Kent Brockman Some internet genius put together a version of the opening credits of the third season of The Wire, including the song, but with clips from only Season 3 of the show, and it works. Meanwhile, out in Los Angeles, someone’s putting together an art show that’s just about Bart and the various bootleg incarnations he spawned in the early 90s, all of which are more creative than, say, cramming the Simpsons into a Family Guy or Futurama episode. In addition to that, we’ve got lots of .gifs, Azaria talkin’ softball, Bart…
Reading Digest: Contradictory Beer Edition
“Here you go, Red Tick Beer.” – Moe “Hmm, bold, refreshing, and something I can’t quite put my finger on.” – Homer Simpson “Needs more dog.” – Red Tick Brewmaster This week FOX announced that Chile would be getting a real life Duff variant, apparently prompted by unlicensed (and, one assumes highly popular) versions that were already on sale. This is amusing in a “merchandising rules everything around me, get the money, dolla dolla bill ya’ll” kind of way, but it seems awfully contradictory. Duff is supposed to be crappy beer that only a swine would drink, but presumably if…
Reading Digest: Pancakes Edition
“This is gonna be the best birthday breakfast Mom ever had.” – Lisa Simpson “Hey, Lis, you think that’s enough for her?” – Bart Simpson “Maybe one more.” – Lisa Simpson Since the Fourth falls on a Saturday this year, making tomorrow a de facto holiday, here’s Reading Digest a day early. The holiday mean that it’s shorter than usual, but we’ve got several excellent pieces of fan art, an unofficial Lego house, and pancakes, pancakes, pancakes! Enjoy. The Big Lebowski vs. The Pin Pals: Who Wins a Fictional Bowling Game? – He had to exclude Otto and Burns to make the…
Reading Digest: Moaning Lisa Has Aged Very Well Edition
“Just take mine. A simple cupcake will bring me no pleasure.” – Lisa Simpson This week we’ve got two links hearkening back to Season 1’s melancholy masterpiece “Moaning Lisa”, and two different fond remembrances of the first time someone ever watched the show. Season 1 often gets overlooked for the very understandable reasons that it both looks and sounds quite different than it would even in Season 2, but those episodes still resonate with people, and that’s astonishing. In addition to that, we’ve got a great Spider-Man put down, new old bootleg Bart, some .gifs, and a horrifying soccer mascot.…
Reading Digest: Why Yes, It Is Time for Zombie Simpsons To End Edition
“Homey, I know you love me. We don’t need to get married again.” – Marge Simpson “Yes we do! I got us a divorce this afternoon!” – Homer Simpson The internet was still digesting the fact that Homer and Marge are not getting divorced for part of this week as the news slowly filtered down to small town paper blogs and other low traffic sites that aren’t very swift on the uptake. We do have a couple of links from people taking the story as a starting point to advocate for the show finally being sent to a farm upstate,…