DONE!

88. SE7EN
89. American History X
90. Reservoir Dogs
91. Elephant Man
92. The Usual Suspects
93. A Christmas Story
94. Idiocracy
95. Fight Club
96. Freaks
97. Green Pastures
98. Lifeboat
99. The Gods Must Be Crazy
100. Team America
101. Ghostbusters
102. Spongebob Squarepants Movie
103. The Incredibles
104. 40 Year Old Virgin
105. The Long Riders
I could go on and on!

The folks at Sordid D'Zine inform me that issue one is now complete and you can get the complete whole thing here.

Tomorrow: ART!

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MOVIES cont'd
80. Throw Momma From the Train (thanks for reminding me, Molly!)
81. The Miracle Worker (original version)
82. Shawn of the Dead
83. Cast Away
84. Steel Magnolias
85. Men In Black
86. Big Trouble in Little China
87. Deliverance

cont'd and stuff

First, here's another piece from the project that is preventing me from drawing Everything Pinups. But it won't be an Everything Fill-in, so it's like a secret extra jabberees-only Everything! Aren't we naughty!

This is the Open Market in Lllanidloes Wales. It is rarely used as a real functioning Open Market now that they have department stores and McDonald's over there just like the rest of us. But it's still there and it's still a neat thing to have in the center of town.
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eaGle eYe eeTeeD contacted me to point out that the Birdseye ad was drawn by Dik Browne, artist of Hi and Lois and Hagar the Horrible and creator of the Birdseye Bird and the Chiquita Banana. He's dead now, so we can't ask him about that "but good" typo.
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So far, nobody can prove the Karl Rove thing. I'm waiting until Friday, and then I will update in Mr. Bissette's comments section. So come on, people! Everybody says Rove did it! Can't somebody out there prove it?
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MORE MOVIES and a bit of explanation -

I have the bad habit of expressing my opinion about most movies (or songs, or TV shows, or books...) and my opinion is that they suck most of the time. Because they do! Over the years this has inspired Busy Timmy to dub me Hatey Smurf, caused multiple people to suggest that I write a syndicated column titled "It Sux! by Mark Martin" (Hi Dobbs! Hi Jim R! Hi Kathi!) and induced dangerously severe eye-rolling among my long-suffering friends and associates.

Recently one of these dear friends (Hi Molly!) suggested it would be easier if I just made a list of movies that DON'T suck. Which is really not an original thought, many have suggested the same thing. And I always protest that there are TONS of great movies worth watching, and I always say "I could easily name a hundred!"

So I am finally doing it. That is what this list is. It's just proof that there are indeed at least 100 movies that I have enjoyed very much. I can't argue about the greatness of Marx Brothers movies (because they suck) or the lameness of Citizen Kane (because it's great!). I just know what I like. I like TONS of cool stuff. I really do! Don't even get me started on music. There are a million jillion great songs out there under the radar.

48. CANNERY ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another tip o' the hat to eeTeeD! Who sent me a copy of this out-of-print movie after I whined for one here on jabberous a couple of years ago! You people are the greatest! Now somebody send me that Karl Rove proof!

49. In Bruges
50. Evil Dead 2
51. The Lathe of Heaven (1980 version)
52. Coal Miner's Daughter
53. Election
54. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
55. Return to Oz
56. Rain Man
57. Looking For Mr Goodbar
58. Austin Powers (first one ONLY!)
59. The 6th Sense
60. Coneheads
61. Magnolia
62. Pinocchio (Disney)
63. Time Bandits
64. Slaughterhouse Five
65. CRASH
66. Million Dollar Baby
67. Knocked Up
68. Talladega Nights (so sue me!)
69. Dumb and Dumber (sue me again!)
70. In Her Shoes (bring it on!)
71. Casino
72. King of Comedy
73. Sleeper
74. Network
75. Spartacus
76. Millers Crossing
77. Disco Avenging Godfather (re-released as Disco godfather, but it will always be Disco AVENGING Godfather to me, you rat-soup muthafukka!)
78. Dog Day Afternoon
79. Serpico
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more movies

(started in yesterday's post, at the bottom...)

25. Fargo
26. Citizen Kane
27. The Corn Is Green
28. Wait Until Dark
29. Midnight Cowboy
30. Taxi Driver
31. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
33. Misery
34. Cujo
35. Terminator (1)
36. Terminator (2)
37. Predator
38. Pulp Fiction
39. Frankenstein (1931 version)
40. Bride of Frankenstein
41. Young Frankenstein
42. Delicatessan
43. Catch Me If You Can
44. The Odd Couple
45. Animal House
46. Big
47. Beetlejuice

back to work...

let us talk of many things

Let us start with how that book title has always sounded icky to me.

I like this one much better!

Next, let us talk of Karl Rove. SKIP THIS RED TEXT if you hate politics and journalism.

I want to read the definitive proof that Rove initiated and approved the infamous 2000 election year smear campaign about John McCain's illegitimate black child. I don't want articles that say he did, I know there are hundreds. I want the one that proves it.

I don't want to argue about what a slimeball Rove is. That's not the issue. It's a journalism issue that I am interested in. I would just like to see the proof behind this one "fact", that Rove was behind this particular smear. I concede that it could be true, and that it could be proved. But all I can find is articles that reference other articles where it was concluded that bla bla bla.

Anybody got the smoking gun? A fact-filled article or report that proves it to you?

Since I sneeringly posted two bizarre ads from the October 31 1949 LIFE Magazine, I'd now like to give it a pat on the back for this ad art that is just plain handsome. It is VERY HARD to do that kind of cross-hatching and make it look good. A cold snowy night that actually looks cold and snowy - damn near impossible! It's really a dying art. Who does it now? Berni Wrightson's Frankenstein is what immediately comes to mind.

I just love this ad...



The following is purely selfish.

I am going to use the "tags" here to hel;p me accomplish a personal goal. I need to create a list of 100 great movies, to prove to someone there are actually 100 movies that I think are great. There are actually many many movies that I think are great, but I can't just rattle off a hundred. My mind does not work that way.

I started a list, but I keep misplacing it. So I am going to use the "tags" feature in blogger to gather all my movies once I get them all thought up and typed in here.

This is a list of great movies that tell a story. So documentaries like Vernon, Florida, which is totally great, do not count. Monty Python's Meaning of Life won't make the list, but Holy Grail will. Milestones like The Great Train Robbery may be historically important, but they do not cut the mustard. I'm talking about movies that tell one long story, and are practically perfect.

These are not in order of greatness. They are just listed as they occur to me.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Alien (1)
3. Aliens (2)
4. John Carpenter's "The Thing"
5. Term of Endearment
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Runaway Train
8. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
9. Blade Runner
10. The Aviator
11. Boogie Nights
12. Iron Giant
13. Slingblade
14. Monsters Inc
15. Holy Grail
16. Peggy Sue Got Married
17. Planes Trains and Automobiles
18. Oh Brother Where Art Thou
19. Hudsucker Proxy
20. Nothing to Lose
21. The Jerk
22. Hoosiers
23. Little Miss Sunshine
24. Dirty Harry

All for now, back to work...

©1978???

Lordy! Next year Spartacock will be THIRTY YEARS OLD!

Spartacock was created way back when I was a strapping lad of 22 and Benny - yes, THAT Benny - needed an illustration for an article about cockfighting. Is that correct, Benny, was it an article about cockfighting? I think it was an article about cockfighting.

If you've ever seen Spartacus, there's a scene at the end where Kirk Douglas as the gladiator Spartacus is hanging crucified after going up against the Man. His wife goes by with some other peasants who are fleeing the oppressive regime and she shows him his son, secretively, so the Man won't kill the kid for being the son of Spartacus. Something like that. Bissette can probably remember every single word of dialog, but my brain does not retain so much detail.

Hey, look at that sissy signature! Ha ha! What a fruity artisty signature! Thank God I finally just settled on the plain block printing.
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Speaking of oppressive regimes, good ol' blogger is still frustrating people's attempts to post comments on jabberous. Sorry about that folks. I have no power to improve on that ridiculous situation. All I can do is welcome you to send comments directly to me. My address is lasagnalagna at yahoo dot com.

Here's one Sculptor Rick sent via yahoo:

I'd like to add my praise for Eeteed's comic. I enjoyed The Henbanes. It has a real charm. Thanks for sharing your comic.

Oh and about the google searching, watch out if you type in "cream pie". I found that out when I was doing some research for a Fairly Odd Parents piece. Of course the results are determined by the preference settings you set in Google.

16 years ago

Here's an original that Voice of Reason just dug out of the pile. I told him he could pick out a piece for a free (and very very late) wedding gift, and he picked THIS! Go figure.

This is from my loosey-goosey markers-n-pencils period. It's almost JED-LIKE in its wavey-graveyness!

Speaking of original art - Here's your chance to own ORIGINAL ME AND MARC ARSENAULT ARTWORK for $9.99, AND donate to a friend in need. Well, actually, I never met the guy, but still, it's a good thing to do. Read about where the money goes if you click the link and look at the art. There's just one catch - it's a filthy disgusting porn gag. Starring ROSS PEROT, no less! If you are brave enough to own it, go get it.

There's also a link to a Lasagna Lagna mini at the bottom of the page. If you can snag it for a few books - well, I can honestly say I'd buy one if it was not by me and I did not already own it.
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eeTeeD asked me to reveal the dirty laundry about my dealings with DC.

There ain't none. I have only worked with DC maybe 3 times in my life. On very small projects, a page here or there. No news there.
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Well, I saw Children of Men after hearing how great it is from so many people. I hated it. Tedious confusing plot, huge logic gaps, mumbling dialogue, impossible coincidences, stupid attempts at humor - it was bloody awful.

It stank, and on top of that was the moronic two-dimensional politics of the thing.

What a mess!
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