Graphically (even way back in 1990) this game wasn’t much to behold, but holy fuck was it the most fun game ever. The storyline alone was strong enough to carry this game. Now if only there was a Sega Genesis emulator for Macs that isn’t buggy.

Keeping on the video game theme, Revenge of Shinobi is another one of my all time favorites! This game had the craziest shit ever: Suicide ninja magic, battling the Terminator, Spider-Man (who cocoons up and lets Batman crawl out of him once defeated) and then Godzilla. What was not to love?

…and finally, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. This is my all time favorite game and the graphics are surprisingly still awesome almost two decades after it was released.

Notice how these are all Sega Genesis games? Best system ever!

Amazing new colorways of the Blobpus! Blobpus Toxic-P series!

Thanks to Toybot Studios!

So one picture of a cute puppy doesn’t matter. My girl and I got a baby Boston Terrier two weeks ago and she’s the greatest little dog.

Growing up without cable or rather MTV for most of my life, I grew pretty fond and dependent on Friday Night Videos on NBC. Since I have absolutely nothing better to post right now, I’m just going to post… you guessed it, videos!! No rhyme, no reason, just straight-up Beavis & Butt-head style.

KMFDM – A Drug Against War

Pavement – Gold Soundz

Nine – Whutcha Want?

Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies

Helmet – Unsung

Some of you may have seen a glimpse of my Scrooge McDuck tattoo on our blog. Sure I’m a huge Ducktales fan, but in addition to my obsession with the penny-pinching geriatric duck, I’m also a huge Ninja Turtles fan. I’m talking MAJOR. Anyhow, I was killin’ time on craigslist the other day and came across what appears to be a totally bitchin’ TMNT Subterranean Sewer Hockey set. DON’T BE FOOLED!!! I happened to receive this wonderful piece of Turtles merchandise for Christmas when I was younger, and while I will never be able to thank my parents enough for their overall generosity, this was one of the worst toys I’ve ever received.

Do you remember the quote from Blade where he says “Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill?” Well, he must’ve just finished playing Whistler at a friendly round of Sewer Hockey. The manufacturers of this (Remco?!?) thought it was a good idea to form the rink out of a hollow plastic shell, which left the “ice” looking like a washboard. The mechanics were similar to foosball, but the uneven surface made basic player mobility a chore if you were lucky enough not to break or bend the control sticks. Unfortunately, what should’ve been a dope idea (ex. Casey Jones and Shredder as goalies) ended up stinking worse than a turtle head. If you owned this growing up, you probably know what I mean, and if not be thankful. Now get ready for hockey season!

(Despite this thing being over a decade old, it looked exactly like this out of the box.)

And just ’cause I can…

Sadly my Super Powers collection has dwindled down to just Martian Manhunter and Firestorm. Man, I used to love these toys! They were the perfect compromise between excellent molding and playability.

Look at this list, I forgot how obscure they got with the figures. Is that a John Stewart Green Lantern with an afro at #43? The Creeper!?

Thanks to Google Earth, the U.S. Navy has finally been pressured into altering the construction of one of their barracks in Coronado, California. The barracks have been like this since the late 60s, so many a fine officer has gotten warm and cozy inside the heart of a swastika! This was all cool with the US Navy for decades since you couldn’t tell the shape from ground view, but now thanks to all those pesky satellite-view websites, the Navy must now cover their shameful Nazi past. Ha!

Italian Disco superstar (?) Pino D’Angio laying back in the cut, smoking a cigarette while singing his 1982 hit song, “Ma Quale Idea” on some Italian television show. Notice the uber relaxed look on Senior D’Angio’s face that comes with that easy European lifestyle, while he croons. In other news, word has it that in his next blog posting, The Shark will be translating the captivating lyrics of this song for us all.

As a nerdy and angst-ridden young woman, the most influential artist to my preteen years was Tori Amos, so I’ll spare you my musical reminiscing, break the current theme for a sec, and post some science shit.

Like many at the time, Soviet scientists of the 50′s and 60′s were totally down with vivisection, even if it was just to mess around with stuff and see what stuffs they could do. Consequently, commie dogs were shot into space, dead dogs revived, and dogs’ heads were kept alive independently of their bodies. In experiments that were running concurrently, the scientist Vladimir Demikhov thought, “I am a big fan of Sir Didymus and his canine steed from Labyrinth, yet wouldn’t it be awesome if I could create a creature like this that was one singular beast?” So he chopped puppies in half at the torso and attached them on the backs of other dogs, and made sure to take these false Cerberuses out for walksies and drinks of milk (which promptly rolled out of the puppies’ open esophaguses and down the dogs’ backs). (Please note that the link is fine, but don’t watch the video on the page if you love dogs.)

I’m not naive enough to think that worse things have never been done in the name of science, but as soon as I realized that the big dog wasn’t just wearing a little doggie hat in this picture, I stopped giggling and started pondering the profound cruelty of human nature. Apparently these experiments were done to explore the viability of organ transplants, but one wonders why Demikhov couldn’t have just swapped hearts between the dogs and saved them some humiliation? Would humans really be in the market, ever, for surgically-implanted Kuatos? (You might think yes, but FYI, the longest lived dog-dog only lasted a month.) You can read about this experiment and more scientific weirdness on Museum of Hoaxes and in the new book Elephants on Acid.

In other (less grotesque) animal news, Mystery hamster in epic voyage is the best (non-NYPost) headline I’ve ever read. It’s also, maybe, a movie that I would like to see.

So after reading My Pal the Crook’s Saw IV post and the recent nostalgic posts regarding 90′s hip hop [big ups on the NINE cd!], I started thinking about influential artists of my time. One of which has to be Trent Reznor. Along with Maynard of TOOL, Trent’s band Nine Inch Nails has always been a favorite of mine.

I remember buying a shotty VHS copy of a video entitled “Broken” – thinking it was a live concert, I immediately put it in the VCR and watched it with my friends.

What we saw was the most disturbing piece of media I had ever witnessed.

You can thank me later…