Oh Tim Curry… Oh… so wonderful and yet… so… very… well see for yourselves.

Remember when you read comics as a kid and you would see those ads for Hostess Fruit Pies? You know, those wonderful strange things that came in colored waxy paper and purported to be real fruit pies, single serve? These:

So anyway, they used to run these ads in comics where the bad guy would be robbing a bank or whatever and then the hero would throw some Hostess fucking Fruit Pies at them. The bad guy would be so distracted by the delicious damned pie that they would get easily caught.

But you know that was never really the end of it. I mean you have to figure: in order to throw handfuls of these pies to villains all over town the heroes had to have millions of them. Hideouts filled to the brim with waxy colored paper and chemical pies. A veritable pie-valanche waiting to happen.

And what do you think happened at home? Spider-Man, home late from fighting crime, forgot to make dinner. He sees a closet full of pie. What do you think he does? He has some pie.

Batman and Robin get back to the Batcave really late and Alfred is asleep. They can’t be bothered to make tea and crumpets. They grab a handful of waxy papered pie and chow down.

And so what?

I’ll tell you what! Eventually those fruit pies take their toll. Batman doesn’t swing quite as gracefully. Robin looks a bit embarrassed to wear short pants… oh hell just look:

Beware too many Hostess Fruit Pies. I’m just saying. Be careful out there. Robin agrees with me.

Damn it, somehow I missed the Masters of the Universe POWER TOUR which was really: He-Man on Ice. It happened back in 1987.

And here’s the TV Ad for it:

Yes originally this was going to be published on the 30th or 31st. But this is the 29th and here it is. Whatever.
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Welcome to the first and only Talking Heads Presidential debate. I’m William Shatner and I will be your host for the evening. Both candidates have agreed to answer questions from the audience. I will moderate and keep them in line. I have a phaser. It’s on Stun.

But for now let me introduce the candidates!

Let me, Bill!

Feldman! You aren’t involved in this.

Am now. Can I, please?

Sure.
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So looking at the pics yesterday… well I posted it in a thread somewhere but here it is by itself:

(via NASDAQ) HERSHEY, Pa. (AFP)–Republican presidential candidate John McCain was forced to cancel an outdoor rally in the hotly contested state of Pennsylvania Tuesday because of a drenching rain, an aide said.

“The weather was a wet, wintry mix,” a campaign official said. A separate indoor event was set to go on as scheduled.

One week before election day, both McCain and Democratic opponent Barack Obama were in Pennsylvania, battling for the state that voted for the Democrat John Kerry four years ago but is seen as key to any path to victory for McCain.

A rally with Obama, who leads in polls nationally and in Pennsylvania, went ahead in rainy Chester, Pa., later Tuesday.

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Rainy Chester, PA. They were not kidding. There are a ton of photos here and they are all amazing pictures but one of them stands out to me.

Now THAT is a Presidential image. Seriously.

So yeah. McCain scrapped plans due to rain. Obama – didn’t.

From the Flickr set Robocop on a Unicorn comes the best thing ever, today, FIGHTING CRIME AND KICKING ASS:

Overheard on the way home:

Man 1: My birthday is Halloween!

Man 2: I don’t believe that.

Man 1: October 29th, 1959!

Man 2: Halloween is on October 31st.

Man 1: October only got 29 days.

Man 2: That’s February!

Man 1: Halloween ain’t in February, shit.

JEM! I’m gonna live forever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! HIGH!

I feel it coming together! People will see me and cry! JEM!

That’s not how that…

It’s my theme song all right, Brucie?

No, it’s the lyrics to Fame, by Irene Cara, except you seem to just replace “Fame” with your name.
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