Phil Meadows: October 2007 Archives

A friend of mine just sent me the link to the RetroCrush Halloween Costumes Gallery.  The highlights are of course the Superheroes (including a Green Lantern Mask gracing both the Aquaman and Mr. Fantastic costumes for some reason), and the Worst Costumes gallery is hilarious.  "Oh, Daddy I want to go as Asteroids!"


Hey... they have a Rocketeer costume!  How cool is that!

XM Radio is (as we speak) playing every top 40 hit ever on their various "decade" stations.  They've been doing it for a couple of weeks already, but They're currently in the fall of '68 so the good music is just about to start.

Interspersed between the music are newsclips and other pop culture tidbits.  They just played a campaign jingle for Nixon while I was writing the above.  It's a boon for guys like me, who have an interest in modern history and like to get a feel for the zeitgeist of a given era.  For instance, when you think of November '68, the height of the civil rights movement and the unrest over Vietnam, protest songs automatically spring to mind—but Andy Williams also had a hit with the Battle Hymn of the Republic.  That was also the dawn of disco and glam rock, two forms that most people equate with the late '70s. 

I tend to equate my geek status with the music I like.  Namely for me, Progressive Rock and New Wave.  All the stuff they don't play on the "classic rock" stations anymore.  So I eagerly await the next two weeks, The '70s and '80s.

If you don't have and XM subscription, you can still listen online at AOL.  It's FREE!  How about that, AOL is still good for something...

...a remote control K9 from ThinkGeek.  Dr. Who's trusted companion is accurately detailed and the blurb on the website calls him "lush".  I don't quite know what they're referring to there, as he looks more in the "stainless" area when it comes to adjectives.  That's my opinion.  Unless they're saying he's "A lush", as in, "an alchoholic".  I'm not a fan of Dr. Who, so maybe Hutch can correct me there.

Anyway, he's cute as a button, and at ¼ scale he won't take up as much space as the real deal.  He's more of a toy K9.  that's somewhere between a miniature and a teacup.

But he's not a "toy".

One of my internet haunts, TechEBlog, scours the internet for gadgets and interesting tech news.  This morning they had a YouTube video produced by Neal Adams, showing a bit of his theory on how the Earth formed.

Neal has been promoting his theory for some years now but no one seems to care because he doesn't have a bunch of initials after his name.  It probably doesn't help that he worked in comics, either.  But all theories are equally valid if you think about it, kind of like opinions.  And I kinda like what Neal proposes.

You can find more segments of his video on YouTube as well.

I spend a lot of time alone in my office so I like listening to podcasts.  My favorites usually star former castmembers of the long-gone TechTV show The ScreenSavers.  But I also look to expand my horizons and try out all kinds of podcasts.  I've listened to archived radio shows, stand-up comedians, even the odd celebrity news podcast (in a weak moment).  But the holy-grail geek podcast is what I am always looking for.  Admittedly, any podcast will have a geek of one sort or another involved, just by its very nature.  But it's the content that defines its worth in my opinion.  Whoops, 'scuse me—I mean IMO.