Popsicles and Botanus!
26Aug2009 Filed under: Home Author: VandalAugust 26 is National Cherry Popsicle Day, so go on out and satiate your thirst & hunger with a big red ‘un!
RIP Ted Kennedy, Domenick Dunne, and Ellie Greenwich.
Actor Mitsuo Ando was born on this day in 1928. Ando is best known for his memorable role as The Gargoyle Gang’s Dr. Botanus on the 1967 Japanese TV series Jaianto Robo. Jaianto Robo was brilliantly repackaged for the U.S. TV market by K. Gordon Murray under the name “Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot.” The episodes were also spliced into one big TV movie under the title “Voyage Into Space.”
“Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot” has an almost unexplainable charm amongst the “boy befriends robot” genre. The special effects are non-existent, the sets horrible, and the English dubbing is done incompetently (there are even moments that Murray and Co neglected to dub, leaving you with some English lines phasing into Japanese mid-sentence).
Yet there is something irresistible about this adventure series. It has a charm all its own, and Giant Robot is one of the coolest looking robots ever dreamed up. The vast contrasts between The Unicorn Gang (the babyfaces) and The Gargoyle Gang (the heels) are so one dimensional it makes the characters in Hawaii Five-0 look like in depth Antonioni studies.
Mitsuo Ando passed away in 1997, and leaves behind an astounding body of work in roles like Professor Monster in Supaidaman, Professor Gill in Android Kikaider, and Fuehrer Geisel in Inazuman Flash.
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Steve Sims
August 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am
It seem the interest in ZOMBIES is growing each day in 2009 - and among the literary intellegentsia of the American press.
There is a story in the September 2009 issue of the venerable ATLANTIC magazine titled “Inbred Jed;” the link iteself will tell you what it’s all about:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/zombies
As Zombie walks and Zombie movies like Zombieland return to favor, we see the following, as compiled by the Atlantic Wires at http://atlanticwire.theatlantic.com/read-more.php?id=755:
Stay in Your Homes, writes Tim Cavanaugh in REASON Magazine. “Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I think the experts are wrong. A zombie outbreak would result in a lopsided victory for the living, for purely tactical reasons.” Cavanaugh explains. “1) Their initial recruiting pool — the already dead — is about as substandard as you can get, and thanks to cremation and other popular mortuary effects, it is not numerous enough for critical mass.”
There Are Signs of Impending Doom Everywhere, says India Lenon at THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. “The frequent showings of the ‘Thriller’ video amongst the Michael Jackson tributes of the last few weeks have ensured that zombies have received extensive air time, doubtless raising their confidence.”
Then Again, writes Brian Merchant at TREEHUGGER, this may not be so funny after all. “So with SARS, so with swine flu—so with an incoming zombie attack.” He says the study, “may sound humorous when you’re picturing a squad of ragtag human survivors crouched in an abandoned warehouse readying themselves to battle lumbering zombies, but there are actually real-life insights on infectious diseases to be taken away from the findings.”
Meanwhile, Daniel Drezner in FOREIGN POLICY magazine contemplates what zombies might mean for the world’s politics. “To its credit,” he writes, “the neoconservatives would recognize the zombie threat as an existential threat to the human way of life.”
However, the price de resistance is a fine little video at the Atlantic site, called Zombies and Drag Queens: http://podcasts.theatlantic.com/2009/08/zombies.php
Methinks the initial drag queen shown has been keeptign up to date on his/her Pimpinela Escarlata fashion tips
Meanwhile, the latest Peste Negra masterpiece can be found at: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E6VY33HB. Enjoy Los Apestosos before they too shuffle off this mortal coil.
DrLuchaJr
August 27th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
A great show, episode 10. I tried calling in near the end. Sytem issues.
Not to be missed: REC 2 LA VENGANZA DE LOS ZOMBIES Y UN TRAPIADOR at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWOZ6NcuXyc