Monday, December 15, 2008

Tukes and the E-dubbetes

So I've been debating on buying a bass guitar to try and relearn my music skills. Instead I ended up buying this.



That's right - I ended up buying Guitar Hero: World Tour with the complete instrument set. Which brings up the debate of kids playing this instead of learning actual instruments. Coming from my POV, I did learn bass before this ever came out and I gotta say that this is still *%^@-ing awesome. I mean, this is still cheaper than buying a damn Gibson Les Paul with lessons (but who would actually buy a Gibson and then have to take lessons?) Plus, South Park heavily influenced my decision.




Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Tonight Show with Manny Pacquiao?

Well by now you know that Jay Leno is staying with NBC and moved to an earlier timeslot with Conan taking over the Tonight Show. We also know that Manny Pacquiao is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Now what would happen if the two collided? Well in this article I read in examiner.com what would happened if Late Night and Pac-man joined forces.

Here's and insert of the week's lineup if Manny hosted the show
just imagine, each weeknight could feature Pacquiao in a different format.

On Mondays, Pacquiao could host "Boxing with the Stars," in which each week a Hollywood celebrity gets the tar beat out of him or her by an emerging male or female pugilist who wants national attention.

On Tuesdays, Pacquiao could host "Who Wants to be a Sports Millionaire," in which each week he asks sports trivia questions of eager fans who think they know everything there is to know about winning athletes, ranging from Max Baer to Jackie Robinson, from Olga Korbut to Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

On Wednesdays, Pacquiao could host "Whose Punchline is It, Anyway," in which each week rising young comics join old comedy pros live on stage to trade unrehearsed verbal jabs.

On Thursdays, Pacquiao could host "Olympic Sports Idol," in which aspiring athletes in every field of Olympic sports compete each week for audience votes with the winner joining the next Olympics team.

On Fridays, he could host "The Manny Pacquiao Show," a high-quality variety show, you know, the live show that NBC should have produced last week instead of the bomb it dropped with Rosie O'Donnell.

Why not? American television is ready for Manny Pacquiao... but this is a good article to generate ideas off of. It a good source of inspiration.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Bugs Bunny as Queer as a Three Dollar Bill?

It's been a pretty damn long time since I posted, with the semester ending and turning papers in and taking test, I've finally had time to express myself about something I read about awhile back.

Looney Tunes cartoons, we've all grown up on them, with Bugs Bunny being our primary protagonist. But did you ever consider Bugs being the symbol in the 1950s and 60s are a queer icon? Well in a essay I read entitled "Bugs Bunny as Queer as a Three Dollar Bill" by Sartin, it explains how Bugs Bunny is an avid crossdresser. And after viewing a few Bugs Bunny cartoons on youtube, I would have to agree that Bugs likes to dress in drag. The funny thing is when Elmer Fudd or whoever is after Bugs they always falls for Bugs dressed as a woman, then something happens that compromises Bugs costume and Elmer Fudd or whoever is super pissed that he isn't a woman. I decided to post one of the more famous Looney Tunes cartoons entitled What's Opera, Doc?


Now the essay goes on, that the Production Code, which was like the MPAA of the 1940s didn't allow any sexual suggestive material in any films, but cartoons were left alone and the code was rarely enforced for cartoons, letting animators do anything they want. So they could get away with such suggestive material. Nowadays these cartoons seem more or less harmless and still funny as they were 50 years ago. But now I can't help but have my image of Bugs Bunny tarnished after reading this essay.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Fly me to the moon.

How the hell did I miss this? I need to start stargazing more.

Venus (left) Jupiter (right) Frank Sinatra Song Theme (middle)


Monday, December 1, 2008

...and the Procrastinating Student.

I dislike turning this blog into a forum of how I frequently go on youtube, but this did catch my eye (and ear). Also, I promised a comic strip with two characters soon - might not happen until this hell week of exams is over. But stay tuned and you might see something funny!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

mickey R&B

Look at this Ne-Yo wannabe.

Friday, November 21, 2008

T.G.I.F.

With all jokes aside on Family Matters, Full House, and Step-by-Step, I am very glad its the weekend. Even though I will have a shitload of work to do by Monday, at least it can be done in the comfort of my home and in pajamas.

I have been meaning to post lately (Please stay tuned for the first two CHARACTERS! In a comic strip spoof maybe?), but work and school do seem to suck the life out of you. And since it's also so close to Thanksgiving, getting ready for my family's annual trip to Jersey (Bloomfield in the hiizzzzouse!) to visit the other TuKay's is making all of us a little antsy.

But even in this gloom of the work week, there are certain things that can't help to make me laugh. NBC's Thursday lineup of the comedy heavy hitters, Boston's asswhooping of Detroit on TNT last night, and the below:





That Martin Lawrence. Talagang funny Pare.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

PaRappa Big Pooh

Daytona 500 - Ghostface Killah f/ Raekwon - Props as always to Mike Rizzy for the video scoop.





Hip-hop is always going to be top 3 in my favorite music genres - Classic Rock being one (damn you Guitar Hero 2!) and R&B (who can deny Tevin Campbell's "I'm Ready?" = mood setter ). Anyways, listening to 92.1 this morning they played "Can I Get A..." as a BACK IN THE DAY JAM. Depressing cause I still remember it in the first Rush Hour movie. But hearing it also jogged my memory on a site I found a while back where someone used a whole bunch of charts/graphs to represent hip hop lyrics. After diving into my IM convos, I finally found it again.

Click and enjoy!


p.s. Picture 12 from the top was the LINE of summer 98.


p.p.s Almost forgot my idea - since there would be an anime show on the TV set where ever these characters live, how about having a hip-hop type sesame street where children are taught simple things? minus the stereotypes but with "play on words" on real artists - i.e. tribe called REST (about the value of sleep)? ranting at work does spark my imagination.

Monday, November 3, 2008

All my peoples in Osaka, Tokyo, Fu-koko, all of that!



I was home this weekend and as always, my sister is constantly knitting in her spare time. But what really caught my eye this time was a scarf she was working on that had Domo's face on it. For those of you who don't know, Domo is the mascot of NHK, Japan's public broadcaster (you might have also noticed him in the Halloween Target commercials). Intrigued by what I saw, I ended up googling (my new all-time favorite hobby when I am clueless about something) it and found their effing awesome site. Everytime you click on a character, the scene changes. Usaji's home is the shiznit too.

So on a side note - how about some Japanese anime/giant robot/crazy fantastical epilepsy causing shows that a certain charcter loves (nerd/dork type kind of guy/girl)? I even think I got a name for one of them -- Boy Run Kick Go!

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Darkest of the Dark

Well it is Halloween and I decided to post some thematic pics in the light of this spooky day.

Batman "The Dark Knight"

Ozzy Osbourne "The Prince of Darkness"



The Undertaker "The Lord of Darkness"



Darth Vader "The Dark Lord of the Sith"








The Comic Book Guy "The Nerd Who is Afraid of the Dark"
who is currently checking online if my "dark" references are correct and bashing my errors on his nerd blog


Hope you guys enjoy your Halloween

Friday, October 24, 2008

where am I again?

A very interesting article on CNN on Friday featured some insights on forgetfulness. Some highlights that I liked:


  • There was Colliding-Planets Syndrome, which occurs when you fail to grasp, until too late, that you've scheduled a child's orthodontist appointment in the suburbs for the same hour as a business meeting in the city.

  • Quick-Who-Is-She Dysfunction surfaces when you are face-to-face with someone whose name stubbornly refuses to come to mind.

  • What-Am-I-Doing-Here Paranoia leaves you standing empty-handed in a doorway, trying to figure out what you've come for.

  • The Damn-It-They-Were-Just-in-My-Hand Affliction leads to panicky moments spent looking for your favorite new sunglasses, when all the while they're on top of your head.

  • And Wrong-Vessel Disorder results in placing the ice cream in the pantry rather than the freezer.
So, the idea I had was the absent-minded ward of a nursing home with these traits. Thoughts?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

a threesome of sorts

I work at this software company where most of the staff is out of the office until next Monday for a trade show. So I've had a lot of time on my hands to do what I want. So I decided to make this awesome traffic light from this Illustrator tutorial I was trying out.



But then I got to thinking, what if this traffic light actually had three different personalities? So, I decided to add a couple of mouths and some words of what I think they would say.






And that's how I passed the time today at work.

Have you heard the word?

Watching TV the other night Family Guy was on, a good show I must say. But this one episode I was watching particularly got pretty annoying as it went on. It involved Peter singing and dancing throughout the episode to Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen. Now it was funny this first couple times he did it, but the joke was dragged probably on purpose.


Now Family Guy isn't the only show guilty of the one joke episode. South Park recently did an episode about Indiana Jones getting raped. And there one joke claim to fame is that you shouldn't shoot a guy in the dick as seen by Butters multiple times in the episode.




Now after analyzing these two successful cartoons that have been on the air for years now. There formula is quite simple, take one or two jokes build it around a narrative and stretch it to 22 mins.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

i'll tell you where you can put that football lucy....


My friend and I were talking about Halloween costumes and the subject of Peanuts came up. While both of us were goo-ga-googling for costume ideas, he stumbled upon this picture. Who would've thought that Charlie could look Shaolin?

Welcome to Goodburger, home of the goodburger, can I take your order?

Well finally launching this starship off the ground. Enough procrastination and actually trying to make this dream into reality. I want to start off by determining where we should start off. I was sitting in class last night and both of my classes had a common theme of "genre." Now I know that comedy is what we are aiming for, but sitting in class made me ponder about what specifically should we write about? Something that we've seen before like family sitcoms like Family Guy and Simpsons, or maybe a buddy cop thing like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour? Or should we come up with something original like a sci-fi western or some type of mixing of genres? I was personally thinking of having a film noir type of show, which is completely the opposite of comedy, but satirizing or spoofing noir elements it could possibly work... maybe.

Monday, October 20, 2008

up, up, and atem!

First post. Nate and Joel are finally starting up a shared lifelong dream: to start a cartoon series. What will follow (hopefully) are some mock-ups of characters, little scripts, and etc. A timeline of wasting time or of creative genius? You decide.

Just remember that we're still going to do it regardless if you like it or not.

p.s. nostalgia for comic nerds? effing aye!