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Matt Harvey The Wimbledon Poet

“Bounce bounce bounce bounce/ thwackety wackety zingety ping/ hittety backety pingety zang/ wack, thwok, thwack, pok.” Wimbledon has created a buzz with the latest grueling…

T-World: Sesame Street

T-WORLD: THE JOURNAL OF T-SHIRT CULTURE is already on issue six. The pricey magazine features a variant cover of four classic Sesame Street characters. If…

New Green Hornet

The campy Green Hornet is back. Seth Rogen sheds a new comedic dimension to the 60’s popular second banana series to the Batman iconic TV…

Plastic in the Atlantic Ocean

I am reminded of the Police’s song Message in the Bottle where hundred billion bottles wash up on the shore. The Atlantic as much as…

Celebrating the Summer Solstice

It’s all downhill from today as we celebrate the longest day of sunlight of the year . The summer solstice is upon us. Good cheer…

Guns and Comic Books

Guns and comic books at one time went hand in hand. Daisy BB guns were plastered on the inside and back of comic books encouraging…

Blue Note Album Covers

Blue Note Jazz albums had an air of coolness to them. They don’t make albums like they used to. The art came at you unlike…

Good Grief Charlie Brown Graffiti

Graffiti cannot be good grief for any building owner if it is not wanted. Here found in Ottawa is a tribute to Charlie Brown ‘s…

New Smurf Movie

The official trailer for the Smurf movie hit the net and the reactions are very negative for the Americanized version of the Peyo classic. The…

Summer Reading

Summer reading is the best under a tree with a nice breeze close to the shore. What great books are coming out this summer? The…

Vintage School Supplies

School is barely over and Staples already has school supplies ready for next year. Buying supplies was not that hard in the old days. It…

Dandy the New York Yankees Mascot

The New York Yankees as an organization seem to do everything right. There is a mind-wipe of sorts when it comes to Dandy. Dandy was…

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

Google Books online has a generous sampling of “Kids Say the Darndest Things!” A recent reprint of the original 1957 book which had a great…

Extreme Poodles

When the well is dry in the summer time, the silly season takes over as networks try to hit the bull’s-eye such as the latest…

Vuvuzela World Cup Ban

“What’s plastic, a meter long, brightly colored and sounds like an elephant? It’s the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South Africa football fans, and it’s…

Microsoft Kinect: Xbox360

Is the gaming industry about to do another 360 with the introduction of Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360? There is great promise that the…

Google Street View Captures Kiss

How has a simple kiss captured by Google’s street-mapping car caught the attention of the world? When you mind wipe it out completely. One second…

Star Trek: Space Seed

Mondo has partnered with CBS to create a new line new poster series featuring the universe of STAR TREK. CBS have practically given Mondo carte…

Blacklight Posters

Blacklight posters were the rage in many head shops in the '70s but were around in the '60s. Still, you will find some gracing the walls of many teens. A rite of passage for many expressing their counter-culture stance.

Calvin Minus Hobbes

You know if it worked for Garfield then why not try it out for Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin Minus Hobbes is an attempt to duplicate past success like Garfield Minus Garfield. Will Bill Watterson be will either amused or send a cease and desist letter. On many levels Calvin Minus Hobbes works better, you could easily say Calvin must be medicated or something and is in touch with reality a bit more. Jeff Ocean the white-out guy behind this new strip is the architect of Calvin Minus Hobbes.

The Upside of Irrationality

Dan Ariely is an Israeli professor living in a constant world of pain. Surviving third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental…

Sugaring the Lie

“Kids eat and drink more things made with sugar than anybody. But how many fat kids do you see?” If you ever wondered why kids…

Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

England have the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Canada gave the world Rush. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage is an in-depth look into Canada’s biggest…