January 09, 2004

• "The first expedition to Mars would have been in 1965."
• Wow, those are amazing. They reminded me of one of my childhood loves - an old 60's comic book called the Trigan Empire that my dad used to collect when he was a child. It was full of spaceships like that, with that funky, glowing, muscular style of art that was popular back then. And lo! Here's the entire thing, uploaded onto the internet for all to enjoy!
• BBF- Soooopercoooolicioiusness! King Zorth rules. I was not aware of this stuff at all, but I'm sincerely dipping into it now, Thanks! (Ain't Mofi wonderful?,,,)
• Hey! Hey! look! You used the same title twice! Double post! Doub... Something. single po... one-and-a-half pos... shit.
• This is symptomatic of poptart addiction.
• This is not double posting. It's posting with style... Jim Loy is proud of you Dizzy. And he's still waiting for you with the poptarts at the old mill.
• 1) Triple Pop-Tart Bonus Points to anyone who can tell me the name of the early eighties group whose first release title I ripped off to get that phrase. 2) BBF is right.Yet it was less an issue of questionable ettiquette for my laziness than mad props to his Eagle Eye for spotting it. I'm honored he was paying such close attention! 3) Bees and Ze-- You are very kind and made me feel special. 4) Guess # 1!
• The answer? (Google makes cheating easy)
• WE HAVE A WINNER. (not your fault that Google exists, dng.) Jim Loy is pressing his pants and gassing up his Secret Hydrofoil as I type this. Pop Tarts to arrive ASAP.
• What you guys clearly need to do is download the trailer for "Man Conquers Space"!
• Rich-- an excellent site (the final image of the footprint with that solid g chord always get me misty sand I'm not kidding) and one discussed back in December, if I remember correctly. The archives are still jiggy, but try keywording "Man Conquers Space" or at least "Spaceships"...
• Oh well, I'm always the last with everything...
• William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum
• Ah, the Mars Conquers Space links were wonderful.
• How about the past-as-future seen through the technology of the present? Here a cartoonist has reinterpreted what the prophet Ezekiel described 2600 years ago as an interstellar space craft. And it looks a lot like a NASA engineer's own interpretation.