Really. It’s It. A schlocky space movie review (the movie, not the review). You should always start your day with Lileks.
[Afternoon update]
I have to say (via Lileks’ commenters) that this is the kind of space future that I was really looking forward to back in the seventies. (Wow. Is there some kind of anti-gravity device holding those things on?)
What? Of course I’m talking about the interplanetary robot dogs. What else would I be talking about?
[Bumped]
[Evening update]
OK, someone points out in comments that there is a spaghetti strap going on there.
Looking closer, I see it now. I guess I was distracted by the…errrmmm…robot dogs…from seeing that strap.
Yeah, that’s it. I mean, they look great, don’t they?
The robot dogs, I mean.
I’d love to be able to play with a pair like that.
That’ll do the trick…shooting off a bazooka in a space ship. It would be like shooting a .45 in a car. Everyone would be deaf for life. Not to mention an inconvenient hole in the ship.
Worse than deaf, actually. The backblast can be very uncomfortable to the point of death if you’re in the wrong place.
Heh. Cause of death: “fatal discomfort owing to large hole through chest.”
Lileks has great writer tools and is superb when he really goes after something meaningful. Unfortunately, the majority of his targets are out of date pop culture in one form or another. The result is both trivial, snide and not particularly humorous.
Jean Shepard, OTOH, not only made you laugh, but also made you nostalgic for the past, even if you never experienced it. Lileks is no Jean Shepard.
Wow. The only thing more fun than firing a bazooka inside a small spaceship cabin is firing a bazooka in a small spaceship cabin filled with pure oxygen.
If you look carefully, there IS a spaghetti strap holding the cups in place.
Odd that everyone else is commenting on the other type of bazookae.
I hadn’t posted that link when they were commenting.
Heh. Thanks for that link, best laugh I’ve had all day. 🙂
For the way the future should to look, I _love_ this site: http://shop.webomator.com/retropolis.shtml
If rockets like that WORKED I’d be ssssoooooo happy.
K., Lileks doesn’t “go after” his “targets” — he pokes gentle, nostalgic fun. So he’s no Jean Shepard — Maybe that’s because Jean Shepard was Jean Shepard. I’m not Mohandas Gandhi either, but I’ve managed to live with that fact.
Anyway, some of us like reading about “out of date pop culture in one form or another.” I guess we’re just not as serious about Important World Issues as you are.
Aleta: WANT. All of it. Dang. Especially the mugs…
Andrea: I have one of the Space Cadet mugs, a Space Cadet bag (lives in the airplane) and we get the Retro calendar every year for the shop. Yeah, I agree: Want. It. All. I’m also thinking about putting the Celtic knot ceramic tiles around the back splash in the kitchen. LOVE this guy’s style!
I don’t know. i remember the robot dog on the original BSG. not sure i want the real thing.
>>> I’d love to be able to play with a pair like that.
The word is “frolic”. I’d love to be able to frolic with a pair like that.
The fun thing is that very often pulp cover artists would draw from life, so the girl was probably real (albeit 90 years old now).
Less focus on bazooka, more focus on warheads.