Draw Tyrantis fanart for TyrantisTerror on deviantart.

You have fanart. Not terrific fanart, not the best fanart I'd like to give you, but I hope the thought suffices.

Ever heard of those ultra-realistic, ultra-detailed Papo dinosaurs that look almost exactly like the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park movies? Well, I have just bought the T. Rex for $20 at the local Thinker toys, and it's the coolest model dinosaur I've ever purchased. It looks just like this:



OK, so the hands aren't articulated correctly, and the forearms might be just a little too long, but otherwise it would make the perfect drawing aid.

mood: geeky tags: dinosaurs

I haven't watched Cartoon Network in at least 4 years, so upon returning to the States, I decided to reunite with this old flame of mine, and now I'm flabberghasted at how little resemblance it bears to the Cartoon Network I remember. Virtually none of the Cartoon Cartoons that I watched as a kid are present: no Dexter's Laboratory, no Powerpuff Girls, no Johnny Bravo, no Cow & Chicken, no Courage the Cowardly Dog, no Samurai Jack---hell, I haven't even seen The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy or Kids Next Door. Instead, I've seen a revamped version of George of the Jungle, some show about a skunk and ninja monkeys, totally random shit like Chowder or Flapjack, and something called Johnny Test---except possibly for George of the Jungle, none of these are very good. The only shows I do recognize are all on Adult Swim

Cartoon Network has jumped the shark.

Stan Winston, an Oscar-winning visual effects artist, has died at age 62.

Winston died at his Malibu home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio.

"Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family," a spokeswoman said.

Winston won four  visual effects Oscars and earned multiple nominations. His first Oscar was for James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986). Winston later won two Oscars for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1992) (visual effects and makeup) and 1993's "Jurassic Park." (See Stan Winston's Creature Features, by LAT's Patrick Kevin Day.)

Phil Tippett, who shared a visual effects Oscar with Winston on "Jurassic Park," noted that Winston was one of the best in the business.

"Stan contributed to some of the greatest -- fantastic movie characters in motion picture history," Tippett said. "His loss is a great one and he will be missed."

We will always remember you, Stan. You made the coolest-looking dinosaurs I've ever seen. Will the world ever see such genius in the future?

While the mainstream conservatives make cheap ad hominem attacks about Obama's mythical Muslim identity as well as his old pastor, their more extreme brethren, the white suprem---oops, I mean, white nationalists, are big fans of his campaign, but for all the wrong reasons:

It’s not that the assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country’s radical right have suddenly discovered that a man should be judged based on the content of his character, not his skin. On the contrary. A growing number of white supremacists, and even some of those who pass for intellectual leaders of their movement, think that a black man in the Oval Office would shock white America, possibly drive millions to their cause, and perhaps even set off a race war that, they hope, would ultimately end in Aryan victory.

“He will make things so bad for white people that hopefully they will finally realize how stupid they were for admiring these jigaboos all these years,” “Darthvader” wrote on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network web forum. “I believe in the motto ‘Worse is Better’ and Obama certainly fits that description.” Just last week, Ron Doggett, a Virginian who has been a key activist in the Klan, the paramilitary White People’s Party and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, chimed in with this: “I hope Obama wins because in four years, white people just might be pissed off enough to actually do something. … White people aren’t going to do a thing until their toys are taken away from them. So things have to be worse for things to be better.”

“Oh man,” enthused “Centimanus” on the white nationalist Stormfront website. “I am gleefully, sadistically looking forward to Obama as president. … It will be a beautiful day when the masses look at the paper and truly realize they have lost their own country. Added “Fulimnata”: “To the average white man and woman, they could look at Obama and see plain as day that whites are not in control.” Another message, from “TheLastOfMyKind,” agreed: “Could it be that the nomination of Obama finally sparks a sense of unity in white voters? I would propose that this threat of black, muslim [sic] rule may very well be the thing that finally scares some sense back into complacent whites throughout the nation.” “Actually,” said another poster, “if Obama were to win, it would be the best thing that ever happened to the Klan. They would have massive growth.” And “TeutonicLegion” said that “a whole bunch of people will join us and find these boards” if Obama becomes president.

This brings up the question, what if Obama succeeds? Are they going to assassinate him? Uh, on second thought, forget I said that.

mood: shocked tags: politix