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09.28.08 by Widge @ 3:05 pm  Stephen King is featured in a new ESPN SportsCenter commercial. Which makes perfect sense seeing as how he liked the Red Sox enough to co-write a book about the 2004 season. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.28.08 by Widge @ 4:34 am Seriously. Watch this first: Direct link for the feedreaders. Now...watch the next video below the break. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.24.08 by Widge @ 8:56 pm  Some of you have been around for a bit might recall the exchange from QI in which Alan Davies related an amusing story about Peter Cushing's place of residence plus a song that was written in Cushing's honor. If you need a refresher, they do have a snippet at the beginning of this vid, but the full thing about Peter Cushing buying vegetables is here. If you're duly prepared, then proceed. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.24.08 by Cosette @ 12:34 am  What yummy looking cupcakes Moogieland made! Aw, look at the cute sharks and the tasty molded chocolate dismembered bloody hands and feet.... I'd just like to point out that shark cupcakes have a terrible reputation for attacking other cupcakes, but there just isn't a lot of documented evidence to that. It's a very rare occurrence. Just don't go into the kitchen looking like a seal cupcake. You've been warned. Found via Craftzine Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.22.08 by Widge @ 11:26 pm  A small snippet from 1982 that brings a shocking look at behind the scenes life at The Price is Right. What's scary is that it's probably around this time I was actually actively watching the show during the summer. I enjoyed it so much, I kept, for a while anyway, a tally of all the stuff I would have won had I been on the show like I was playing along at home. Doing the Showcase Showdown at home, though? That was the real bitch. Answer me this, though: why is Richard Crenna the showrunner? Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.22.08 by Widge @ 6:05 pm There needs to be a way to get the young people of today excited about space exploration. After all, we here at Needcoffee take the official position of Larry Niven: that unless we learn from the dinosaurs, who had no space program, we too will eventually fill the automobiles of the creatures who come after us. In fact, I don't know about you, but at today's gas prices, I'm worth more as biofuel than I am sitting here typing to you. Christ. Anyway, I think the following video (which is new to us, therefore content gold) can translate to young people today the sheer wonderment that was actually felt by the Apollo astronauts and ground crew, even if they couldn't come right out and say it. NSFW audio, BTW. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.20.08 by Widge @ 11:29 pm  Golden Age Comic Book Stories has posted some cover art and interior work by Howard V. Brown, who illustrated At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time when they appeared in Astounding Stories back in 1936. While the architecture that Brown drew is fantastic, I can't help but think that the creatures were designed by Henson. More testament to the fact that Lovecraft should be read and not seen, for the most part. Not to say they're not classic bits of horror art. In fact, Brown has prints and posters and such available at Amazon. Of course, my first Lovecraft books (sounds like something from Sony: My First Lovecraft!) had the Michael Whelan covers. And they are badass. I have to be careful about Whelan, though. He has led me astray on occasion. For example, it was Whelan's cover art which tricked me into buying Tad Williams' Otherland. And that was a huge chunk of my reading life I'll never get back. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.20.08 by Widge @ 3:54 pm  Dale Mathis makes badass mechano-sculpture art pieces, and they look like some clockpunk version of the Techno-organic virus from Marvel Comics infected an art gallery. Which is all well and good, but you know, you can glue a bunch of gears onto something and it might look cool, but it doesn't make it badass. Mathis' works, though, work. The gears inside the desk itself actually turn, which could either really inspire you to get to work, or make you spend hours staring at it in your office, transfixed. Either way, it's sweet. Check out Mathis' site for videos of it and his other works. I found this in Playboy. Which I honestly do read for the articles. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.19.08 by Widge @ 2:38 am Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day! So weblubbers everywhere, we present you a slew of fonts and such (found via Matt Cutts) and we also give you quite possibly the best worst pirate of them all. Categorized as: Stimuli
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09.19.08 by Widge @ 1:18 am  Here's the commercial that set me off this time. It's just such an odd combo. Pete Rose playing a baseball game I understand. Don Knotts in prison, though? "Who should we get to playing the paddle in Breakout?" "Um...how about Don Knotts?" Okay, sure. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via Classic Television Showbiz. Categorized as: Stimuli
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