Future Events Such as These Will Affect You in the Future

A 1967 vision of 1999. Email! Internet shopping! Multiple flatscreens! Husband paying wife's bills!

Snopes has some info:

The video clip shown above - an excerpt from a 1967 Philco-Ford production entitled "Year 1999 A.D.," starring a young Wink Martindale - did a fairly good job of anticipating some ways (if not the specific forms) in which technology might be used in daily life more than three decades in the future. Concepts such as "fingertip shopping," an "electronic correspondence machine," and others envisioned in this video anticipate several innovations that became commonplace within a few years of 1999: e-commerce, webcams, online bill payment and tax filing, electronic funds transfers (EFT), home-based laser printers, and e-mail.

Via a commenter on this article on the AV Club.

Photo 161? Here I am!

I am high

Gugino Pinup

What did I tell you? Via Ain't It Cool and others, here's James Jean's Vargas-style pinup of Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter (as seen in the Watchmen trailer).

You know, if someone would have told me back in the late '80s that one day Carla Gugino would star in a film adaptation of my then-favorite graphic novel, I would have said, "Wow! Who's Carla Gugino? And why make a film out of Watchmen? What a silly idea."

Aronofsky on RoboCop IV

Here's something: Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (also co-screenwriter of the submarine thriller Below, which I watched a while ago but probably haven't gotten around to reviewing in a DVD 2008 post yet) will direct a new RoboCop movie.

The original film, released in 1987, was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, who both went on to do pretty much nothing of interest. (Okay, so Neumeier wrote the Starship Troopers adaptation, also directed by Verhoeven, but that's pretty much it.) The sequels were written by Freaky Frank Miller, which is fitting considering I re-watched all the movies recently and realized that the first one seems very influenced by Miller's 1986 Batman graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns (and some other stuff, like Judge Dredd. Here's a picture of the Judge and a friend:

). Nevertheless, the first sequel sucked hard, and the next one even harder, and Miller swore off Hollywood until Robert Rodriguez tricked him into making Sin City. Sin City is, of course, most famous as a film Carla Gugino appeared in. My next SUPERBLOG!! post will be about Carla Gugino.

Yeah, that's what I had to say about RoboCop. The image at the top is from the comics adaptation of Miller's original screenplay. It's not very good either, but at least it's better than the movies.

Tariff Reform Law

Oh noes! Unky Sammy has gone on hiatus! However will I cope all on my own?! Here is a photograph of Sambo and his dog and some child he's trying to feed to the dog:

Hiatus !

I'll go up north to visit my inner self for a week or so and I am not so sure if I'll be able to blog as much as I'm used to. Bear with me. I'll be back before you know it. Come come a la!!!

Jeff is Better Than You

I had to go away for a bit and then I visited one of my worst enemies for a few days and then I've been busy with important stuff but soon my Deadly Summer Vacation will end and SUPERBLOG!! will be back, better than ever and with 150-175 percent more Goldblum. And if I'm just full of shit and it isn't, well, who the fuck cares?

Ma, I feel the old mischief creeping upon me awful strong. You'd better give me a licking.
- Buster Fucking Brown

When Jeff Taps, He's Happy

Enjoy the smell of Simply Jeff Goldblum. From The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, which was a television program of wildly varying quality, I seem to remember. But I'm old now, and it's getting harder to remember stuff. (Link via Abhay Khosla, who writes like an angel sings.)

SUPERBLOG!!: Just Another Crappy Link Blog Nowadays, Apparently.

Fun #13: Daring Thief

Good evening. Here's a story from your local newspaper about a daring thief who stuffed a pair of live lobsters in his pants. He learned that crime doesn't pay when the frisky creatures gave him a vasectomy.

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Fun: Every single day from now until I grow bored of it, I post a picture that will make you laugh. If it doesn't make you laugh, you will get your money back. If you don't get your money back, I will post a new picture the following day. Such is the SUPERBLOG!! QUALITY WARRANTY.

Little Lake