This Week in Advertising: Get Your Ripoff On [18 Jul 2009|08:10pm] urbaniak Operation Grand Theft Pomo is in the motherfucking house! I've enjoyed many a Jamba Juice so I was disappointed to learn that their current marketing campaign features a blatant ripoff of David Rees's detournement classic Get Your War On. Rees, of course, is appropriating free stock images but the Jamba Juice campaign is not doing the same thing. They are appropriating what Rees does with those images, right down to the way he renders his word balloons. I have no idea how the case would hold up in intellectual property court and Rees says on his website he's not interested in legal action (only a boycott). But it's plain as day: Jamba Juice ripped him off. Through the miracle of modern googling I learned that the marketing agency behind the Jamba Juice "Summer Bliss is Back" campaign is an LA shop called Neighbor. Their unintentionally hilarious website positions themselves as paragons of crunchy, earthy, green, do-gooder, one-world decency. According to their manifesto: "You get conscious, inspired, ethical, engaged, genuine, positive and purpose-driven work that grows your business and your people all the while making the world a better place." Ad man, heal thyself. 23 comments|post comment

It's a groovy time for a movie time!! [18 Jul 2009|12:14pm] ninjaguydan I present the 1980 SEX PISTOLS film, The Great Rock N Roll Swindle! Made after the band broke up, Johnny Rotten wanted no part of this movie, so you only see him in archival footage. The rest of the band uses the oppurtunity to get more face time on screen. Here is a complete bullshit recollection (through the lies of Malcolm McClaren) of the 1970's punk explosion... ( BOLLOCKS! ) post comment

NINJAGUYDAN LIVE!! [18 Jul 2009|12:00pm] ninjaguydan My live show happens at Churchill's tonight, I'm in the band ARMADA!. Show starts around 9pm-ish!! I'm opening the show in the smoking lounge...Bring the kids, providing they are over 18 years of age! post comment

Amusing Ourselves to Death.. [18 Jul 2009|11:40am] ninjaguydan ( Huxley vs Orwell ) 4 comments|post comment

And that's the way it is... [17 Jul 2009|11:20pm] ninjaguydan [ music | Discotrax-Ladytron ] WALTER CRONKITE 1916-2009 3 comments|post comment

Capricorn One (Peter Hyams 1978) [17 Jul 2009|11:10pm] ninjaguydan [ music | Fabulous Muscles-Kid 606 ] ( The movie NASA doesn't want you to see! ) post comment

FlashBack Fridays! [17 Jul 2009|03:58pm] ninjaguydan [ music | The Promise-When in rome ] Originally Posted August 2nd 2003... post comment

The Verdict On.. [17 Jul 2009|03:36pm] ninjaguydan [ music | Take It Off-The Donnas ] HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE --Welcome back to the another year of the most dangerous school east of Detroit. It's another semester at Hogwarts and Voldemoort is on the loose, this time he's amassing an army to take on the whole world. And once again, some poor English schoolkids are the only thing stopping the lord of evil from taking over the world. This edition of the movie was from the book that inspired 2006's spoiler of the year, so the ending was no surprise for anyone in the know. If you didn't know and you brought your kids then you might have to hire a grief counselor after the movie, if the kid wasn't bored to tears by it. This movie is probably the least kid friendly in the bunch, it's way dark and somber in tone. The only saving grace (since Gary Oldman was killed in the last movie) to the weak link of a sequel was Jim Broadbent making an appearance as Professor Drinky. That's not his character's name in the movie, just my own term of endearment. He stumbles through the movie having a nice drink with all the kids. A friendly and personable man with a dark secret. The kids are older now, Malfoy has grown into an awkward weasel of a character and Jennie Weasley busts down her ho closet and turns into quite the horny little vixen. This edition also has a headache of love polygons going around all about. All the kids are now at the age where they're screwing each other with casual frequency. A little duller than the other movies, hopefully this is just a lull in the storm before The Deathly Hallows Fucktacular comes out in a couple of years. THE VERDICT--FOR DIE-HARDS ONLY, YOU'RE GONNA BE LOST IN A DECADE OF SUBTEXT IF YOU"RE JUST JOINING IN. post comment

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In lieu of content... [16 Jul 2009|11:17pm] ninjaguydan A screencap of some works-in-progress... post comment

Comic-Con Advice Sought! [16 Jul 2009|05:33pm] urbaniak Believe it or not, next week will be my first time ever at San Diego Comic-Con. Have you been there? Do you have advice or thoughts about navigating the event, eateries, local transit or anything else? I welcome your input! Venture Brothers panel Saturday the 25th at 6 pm, Room 6DE. 35 comments|post comment

the Bible; Hosea [16 Jul 2009|01:53pm] tmcm [ music | Kiss Me Like You Mean It - The Magnetic Fields ] Here's Hosea, a book of the Bible, by Mark Russell dreadful_blog and sample cartoon. This is one of those cases where I'm going to spend hours redrawing it three million times to try and get the energy of the rough that I did in 3 seconds. I think the reduction of content to cartoon is perfect - and the text and illo work in nice compliment. Just the illo that's going to be a pain in the ass. I'd have been fine with it if I didn't like the rough so much. And the final - which doesn't quite work... 28. Hosea Hosea was a prophet whose wife was always cheating on him. He’d be preaching in the town square, but his words were lost on the crowd because the whole time people would be snickering behind his back because they knew that his wife was off getting boned by some other guy. When he got home from preaching to find an empty house, Hosea would wander the streets, track down his wayward wife, and drag her back home, much to the amusement of the townspeople. Sometimes she’d just disappear with a new lover, often for months at a time, but then she’d invariably come crawling back to Hosea. And like a chump, he always took her back. One time, the guy she ran off with decided to enslave her and Hosea ended up having to pay her lover in order to get his cheating wife back. People couldn’t believe that Hosea still wanted to have her around after all the times she’d cheated on him. One day, Hosea was out in the town square, preaching as always, when someone finally worked up the nerve to ask him why he didn’t simply throw his wife out on her ass. Hosea shrugged and replied by saying that his relationship with his wife was like God’s relationship with us. We are always cheating on God, leaving him for some shiny new idea or temporary pleasure, but for some reason, he’s always willing to swallow his pride and take us back. And the people finally understood what he’d been preaching about all that time. 5 comments|post comment

[16 Jul 2009|03:36pm] ninjaguydan I BELONG TO THE WANK GENERATION!! Local high school girls showing off their only asset... (askmen.com Guyswithiphones.com)-Men -- and when I say "men" I mean our target demographic of males in their late 20s/early 30s -- we got sexually gypped. We were born too late and too early: Too late for the Free Love Generation; too early for the current Slut Generation. Before someone takes offense to naming this entire generation of young females after a "dirty, sexually promiscuous" term, know that young girls now embrace the term. It’s like how black men have made the "N-word" their own. When girls call themselves sluts, it reflects the definition outlined in the non-fiction book, The Ethical Slut: “a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.” Born into the late '70s and early '80s, our generation only heard vague echoes of Free Love. AIDS put a sudden and scary end to that. We may as well have been the AIDS Generation. It was everywhere in media, making it seem a penis and vagina could spontaneously combust into HIV. Even a man made of Magic could get it (Earvin Johnson). Combine that overwhelming fear with the sexless air of Reagan conservatism that pervaded our culture and it’s no wonder getting laid was so hard. Even when the bone-dog Bill Clinton took office, he just ushered in the Lewinsky scandal. She became a media home-wrecker and punch line, not an example of sexual liberation. Our pop culture growing up reflected that. What sexually liberated stars did girls have to look up to? Madonna and… that’s it. Cyndi Lauper sang about girls just wanting to have fun, but she meant the sterile “fun in the sun” fun (sort of, it's actually about living without oppression). Now girls have Pink, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Lily Allen -- the list goes on. The Pussycat Dolls can’t even sing; their main function seems to be gyrating their pelvises provocatively. Only Beyonce is telling girls to “Put A Ring On It.” Her contemporaries like Rihanna and Cassie have topless pictures on the internet. Rather than apologize for the misguided pics, Cassie said: “Now stop acting like you haven’t seen a titty before.” Rihanna, in turn, threatened to leak nude photos of Chris Brown. After all, her biggest album is Good Girl Gone Bad. Celebrities are one thing, but it's the teens you see on a daily basis loitering around the mall or corner store who are really bringing sex out into the open. Take for example the "sex bracelet" rumor that's still possibly true (and we're quite sure every teenage boy will tell you it's true), in which teen girls sport colored jelly bracelets, which upon being broken by said over-excited and eager teenage boys, means those girls perform specific sexual services based on what color bracelet is broken. What? I'm sorry, when did it become OK for teens to solicit sex in high school hallways? Better yet, why didn't we get to experience such liberation in the halls? We were lucky enough to rub up against the head cheerleader by accident before being called a perve/creep/dweeb or some other derogatory term before we had to slink away and console ourselves with our Atari games. When did sex become the "cool thing" to do? And why aren't more parents cracking down on their offspring's overactive libidos? Are they simply living vicariously through their children because they never had the chance when they were young? I mention all of this not to sound like a stodgy old man complaining about the youngin's, but to prove it’s no wonder teens are getting laid as often as they do. Even when they do something irresponsible and get pregnant, they become “responsible” mothers like Jamie-Lynn Spears or Bristol Palin. Or responsibly give it up for adoption like Juno. We got screwed by AIDS and Reagan, and they were not gentle lovers. Our parents got to have nameless sex in vans while listening to Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane. Our nephews get laid and videotape the whole thing with their iPhones while listening to "Waking Up in Vegas" by Katy Perry. We just got to masturbate to a poster of Madonna in ripped whitewash jeans, while listening to Motley Crue brag about how many “Girls, Girls, Girls” they got. 24 comments|post comment

The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges 1960) [16 Jul 2009|12:43am] ninjaguydan ( Let sleeping Coburns lie... ) post comment

Chicken and God [15 Jul 2009|09:14pm] tmcm [ music | chicken shit farmer - Southern Culture on the Skids ] Last couple of days are a fog. I'm still feeling mopey and bummed out. Was it a fight or a break-up? I'm still not sure. Tonight I"m sitting around thinking about going out and having a beer. Because there's nothing like depressants to help with depression. The chicken coop is done. Mostly. I still need to get in there and double staple all the chicken wire so the hungry raccoons don't slip in for a chicken fiesta. Still - looks pretty good if I say so myself. The handles are so that I can port it about the back yard and fertilize various potential gardening spots. The two little ones (Cajun and L'Orange) came and sat with me. Just sat. Weirdest thing. I still can't draw them well at all. Mark Russell wrote the Superman Stories (which I republished in the later issues of the Too Much Coffee Man magazine) is now working on re-writing the Bible. He's reducing each book to three paragraphs. I offered to do some cartoons. The project is rolling along nicely. I'll post some teasers in the upcoming weeks. This is Moses from Exodus. I know Crumb is doing a massive bible-tomb (how do you spell tomb anyway?) that's taken him 10 years and will be a work of genius and all that. I'm hoping to spend about a month doing some silly cartoons. Mark's writing is funny as hell and I'm finally learning about the most influential book ever. As a sworn God-Fearing-Atheist It's a blast. I asked Gary Groth to be my friend on facebook. We'll see if he's man enough. 29 comments|post comment

In lieu of content... [15 Jul 2009|09:25pm] ninjaguydan [ mood | Dancing around drunk in my smoky room ] [ music | I Want Your Sex-George Michael ] A screencap of some works in progress we'll see here on next week's show... 1 comment|post comment

With Benicio Del Toro as Doctor Who! [15 Jul 2009|08:27pm] ninjaguydan This is the song playing in my head when I envision my Mexican Doctor Who! post comment

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Yo V.I.P, Let's kick it! [14 Jul 2009|10:10pm] ninjaguydan A music video director was once given this job. Make a music video for Queen/David Bowie's "Under Pressure". The only problem, no one wants to be in the video and the record company will only give you a budget of 2000$. Here's a brilliant example of pulling something out of your ass in a hurry and pocketing the change. 2 comments|post comment

Duck Soup (Leo McCarey 1933) [14 Jul 2009|09:49pm] ninjaguydan [ music | Kill the U.S. Government-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ] ( Hail Freedonia! ) 2 comments|post comment

Viewer Poll! [14 Jul 2009|06:19pm] ninjaguydan Poll #1429895 SUMMER TORRENT MARATHON Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All Which show should I start watching? I feel like indulging in 1 new show this summer.. View Answers True Blood 9 (37.5%) Weeds 4 (16.7%) The Tudors 4 (16.7%) Hung 2 (8.3%) Torchwood 5 (20.8%) Feel free to argue "Why I should?" in the comments section... 15 comments|post comment

Hey Fox! You're Racism is Showing! [14 Jul 2009|04:25pm] ninjaguydan Apparently the Fins and Swedes are pure, and I'm a member of another species.. 7 comments|post comment

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[13 Jul 2009|05:52pm] ninjaguydan My Dog, Tobi. 3 comments|post comment

Your moment of complete vanity... [13 Jul 2009|05:52pm] ninjaguydan A current visual record of what I currently look like... 10 comments|post comment

The view out my window... [13 Jul 2009|05:50pm] ninjaguydan post comment

[13 Jul 2009|04:24pm] ninjaguydan Here's some animation by Keith Haring...think of it as an animated exhibit.. post comment

cartoon, bitching when I shouldn't, the bible, book covers [13 Jul 2009|12:10pm] tmcm [ music | November 1st - Berkeley Breathed - Live Wire! ] I'm banging away on cartoons to prep for my San Diego trip. Here's the latest. There are a couple others that will go up on my website soon. I'm feeling down. I just need to focus on work and push through. It does make it easier to write the 'I'm depressed' cartoons. I shouldn't be down. Everything is good except for my relationships and my finances. On other fronts, the New Yorker seems to be going well. Another professional cartoonist who has submitted 2000 cartoons and hasn't sold a single one. It made me feel better - then I felt crappy for feeling better. He's done some great cartoons too. http://roydelgadoblog.blogspot.com/ It's always cool to get a plug on other comics. mister_punchy does some great stuff. Check it out. http://mister-punchy.livejournal.com/534448.html Mark Russell reducing each book of the bible to 3 paragraphs and I'm doing a cartoon header. I'm also trying to get going on the old Grandpa Won't Wake Up book. This is from the Book of Joel. Tonight... it's all about the Too Much Coffee Man book collection. I'm going to finish that damn thing... I'll post covers and I have them. Here are a couple covers under the cut: ( Here are the covers under the cut ) 16 comments|post comment

Your Moment of Random Cuteness... [13 Jul 2009|09:08am] ninjaguydan 5 comments|post comment

eerie! [13 Jul 2009|08:41am] ninjaguydan Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test... David Lynch Your film will be 37% romantic, 44% comedy, 45% complex plot, and a $ 36 million budget. We apologize now. Future generations will view your life story by David Lynch and not know what the hell just happened. A lot of events occur around you, but you seem to be involved in all the wrong ways. Even you probably think your life is WEIRD. And if not you, everyone else thnks so and tries to tell you but you won't listen. In your movie: Why does that bald lady insist on sitting on that basketball she carries inside that milk crate? Robert Blake will play your grandfather, and Kyle MacLachlan will play your dad. Go rent Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., and INLAND EMPIRE. Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy 3 comments|post comment

Rough Draft Mondays [13 Jul 2009|08:27am] ninjaguydan Random Page from a sketchboook... 2 comments|post comment

Random Sunday MP3 mix! [12 Jul 2009|01:45pm] ninjaguydan 1- Kodachrome-Paul Simon 2-Bamboo Banger-M.I.A. 3-Don't Ask Why-My Bloody Valentine 4-Who wants to live forever?-Queen 5-Dark Night-The Blasters post comment

The Weekly Wrap Up [12 Jul 2009|12:16am] ninjaguydan [ mood | Very Very Drunk ] [ music | Don't Ask Why-My Bloody Valentine ] Prepare the Armada!...Been practicing this week with wearedna and life_of_brian for our live show at Churchill's on next Saturday. We've rehearsed 5 songs, you've probably heard the first song on this show already. I think we've nailed down a solid 15 minute show for the folks who want to get high at the back of the club. I'll have video posted on this show the day after our live show. *** Simpsons Snub...The result are in from The Myspace Simpsons Couch Gag Video Contest (that the crew and I entered) and we did not win. Sorry, that's just the way shit rolls down the hill. Our entry was probably deemed too creepy and we will not indulge in a Simpons press junket in LA. Oh, well, Win some. Lose some. *** In Haampshur!...My current partner-in-crime wearedna has left town to visit relatives in New England. I'm wrapping up page 14 of our comic, The Common Era:1977, thus ending the first story in this pilot episode of the comic. After this is an 8 page action/adventure story that seems separate now, but it does ties into the whole mythology of the comic. I finally get to draw some gore and action instead a dazzling walkthrough of a decrepit landscape. More Fartsy, less Artsy *** Good Evening, I'll be your waiter this evening...gearing up for the new stint of employment at an undisclosed restaraunt. I have practiced my professional duplicity so I may gain extra tip money as your most devious servant. I don't mind it too much, plus the tips at this place are way better than the pittance I made at the Starbucks. Average tips range between the 200-300 dollar range (per week), since this location is in a ritzier part of town. I'm going into this with a positive attitude, lord knows unemployment sucks! I'll see if I can afford one of those social lives my friends are raving about. *** Satan woke up with frostbite this morning...I told a girl I'd give up pot (and all illegal drugs) for her. In fact, I told her I'd give up the whole whoremongering state of mind. The scariest part of this is that I mean it 100%! She's a nice girl, but I don't want to fuck it up with my werewolf-like behavior. I'm afraid I must admit that my whole "make-a-beast-of-himself-as-to-not-feel-the-pain-of-a-man" Routine is wearing thin on me. I'm kind of envisioning of future for myself where I'm not such a nihilistic monster. It's kind of like the end of FIGHT CLUB, I think I found a Marla and I want to watch shit blow up with her. It's strange to find a girl who reciprocates the same feelings I have for her, instead of sending a large male to beat me up. By the way, Identity kept hidden to protect the innocent and to not jinx it for me...and if you're one of my real life friends who know, then shut up! I'm looking right in your direction wearedna! I'm sure this whole thing will blow up in my face, but that never stopped a happily nihilistic son-of-a-bitch like me. On with the body count!! 6 comments|post comment

WestWorld (Michael Chrichton 1973) [11 Jul 2009|11:41pm] ninjaguydan [ music | Don't Believe The Hype-Public Enemy ] ( WestWorld Park is Frightening in the Dark, All the Brinner-Bots are Running Wild! ) post comment

The DaVinci Code (Ron Howard 2006) [11 Jul 2009|08:46pm] ninjaguydan [ music | The Fear (Venetian Snares Remix)-u-ziq ] ( So dark the con of man ) post comment

The future? [11 Jul 2009|01:45pm] ninjaguydan 1 comment|post comment

The Last Calvin & Hobbes... [11 Jul 2009|12:59pm] ninjaguydan All things need an ending. This one, I can relate too.. 5 comments|post comment

What the hell.. [10 Jul 2009|09:23pm] ninjaguydan Let's watch an episode of THE MIGHTY BOOSH. tonight the boys get marooned on a desert Island that could be a metaphor for the internets. Anyways here are two guys going crazy talking to coconuts... 5 comments|post comment

Flashback Fridays... [10 Jul 2009|12:44pm] ninjaguydan Originally Posted August 1st 2003 2 comments|post comment

[10 Jul 2009|11:26am] ninjaguydan Here's an 8 year old kid playing "Come Together".. 2 comments|post comment

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