July
'... the cover images and stories of the craziest comic books ever published...' promises long-term comic fan and subject-matter professional, Scott Shaw.
Scott's Oddball Comics is relatively new, featuring 50/60/70's ephemera and background of weird comic stuff.
Having worked as a cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera and Disney amongst others, Scott is the self-avowed living proof of journalist Hunter S. Thompson's statement: 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.' Excellent quote.
Seems like there's weird, and then there's weirder still. Someone somewhere is making a living - and good on 'em - from supplying the worldwide market demand for creative tops to wedding cakes.
In a double triumph for consumer choice and common liberalism, you can select from multiple themes. Options include the elegantly gothic Corpse Bride shown - to mixed-race or pregnant brides. Have a look for these as well as traditional icons such as Elvis.
With
the wedding cake under control, how about taking the first waltz under
a genuine disco mirror ball, with optional revolving motor!?Or just pimp up your back room.
Verify your ball size and check out the options from $99.
If you dug a hole directly through the centre of the earth, where you would surface?
Thanks to graduate Luis Felipe and Google Maps, you can now find out. Seems if you started a tunnel here in Melbourne, you'd pop out a long way from anywhere. Here's hoping for the Gulf Stream and a Portuguese beach holiday. Let me know how it was for you.
Observant readers may have spotted a postcard fixation hereabouts.
Years ago I used to email postcards/do ecards before falling victim to the hordes of e-address harvesters, frenzied pop-ups and generally suspect sites.
Now, a new and tidy ecard application has been created by Charles Coxhead from Auckland: Delivr. It accesses any of the 700,000 images loaded onto Flickr, including any with your tags.
For the record, I used the app to highlight to overseas pals the soccer World Cup fever, June's coming-of-age phenomenom in Australia. The photo, shot about 2 hours before winter daybreak, shows about 8000 Socceroo fans assembled in Melbourne's Federation Square to watch a qualifier.
