“That’s right, Dick. You know this year everyone’s abuzz about one thing, the absence of Mark Rodkin . . . oh wait, there he is.” – TV Announcer Awhile ago we found a guy who’d done elaborate sand renderings of the Simpson family. Now, at a sand sculpting competition in Portugal someone drew the entire family on the couch (via): You can see a few more images at this gallery link for the 2008 festival (when the theme was Hollywood). Awesome.
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DHS Book Review: The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
“Marge, I’m bored.” – Homer Simpson “Why don’t you read something?” – Marge Simpson “Because I’m trying to reduce my boredom.” – Homer Simpson In countless discussions with other Simpsons fans over the years the one question that always seems to come up is “Why?”, as in “Why did the show get so bad?” I’ve heard a lot of different theories which always seem to boil down to something overly simple, ‘this guy left’, ‘that guy took over as show runner’, ‘they just ran out of topics/ideas’. The reality, as John Ortved documents exhaustively in his new book “The Simpsons:…
Simpsons Drawn in Sand
“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)
Quote of the Day
“Can we get rid of this Ayatollah t-shirt? Khomeini died years ago.” – Marge Simpson “But Marge, it works on any Ayatollah! Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi, even as we speak Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.” – Homer Simpson